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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
7
A courtroom dialogue portrays a judge questioning a witness about supporting “leeches” in society. The witness condemns able bodied dependents while admitting he must share his produce, and references radical terms and reformist ideas. The exchange ends with the sheriff ejecting the witness as a populist and socialist.
A reflective poem by Ernest Crosby in Life questions the meaning of the battle cry Cuba Libre used during the Cuba campaign. It imagines asking presidents McKinley and Hay to explain the phrase while lamenting fading memories of its significance.
A contemporary critic denounces the land sale system that funded the State University. Sales of 82 sections yielded 135000, far short of the 510000 needed. Leasing lands could have produced 524000, avoiding a 14000 surplus loss and boosting city and county revenues well beyond taxes.
A Chicago inventor develops a water based lubricant praised by several railroads as cheapest and safest. The Standard Oil Company blocks its market by threatening to boycott lines that use it, arguing government takings would free distribution from such coercion. The East Oregonian notes the clash of innovation against monopoly power.
A not populist mayor proposes to buy the Cleveland Terminal and Valley railroad for 2 340 000 at a auditors meeting. J H Wadsworth representing the Valley road delays, while the mayor extols the deal and plans a 40 percent premium. The exchange ends with a ready acceptance but no immediate sale.
A Smolengk Russia landowner dies and heirs fail to find a will. A son records a supposed Ruslan song on a graphophone cylinder and hears the missing will instead. Lawyers consider whether such a cylinder recording is admissible, now before the Supreme Court of St Petersburg.
Poem asserts true strength lies in patience and learning, not boastful might as Montrose in Morea and a call for progress. Newspaper notes report looming 1,100 mills strikes denied by owners and workers amid 12 hour shifts and Sundays closed debates. Union actions support families of cigarmakers in Denver and coal prospects near Menai Strait spark regional curiosity. Industrial mood in Europe sours with Russia strikes Germany layoffs France and Heli.
Building crafts report the most active season in Chicago since the World’s Past year with full employment across trades. Permits range from 3 to 5 million dollars monthly and demolition to clear sites for pricier structures is common. Yearly completed buildings and public works total between 30 and 40 million dollars.
In Radleugh Bridge between Newcastle and Galax head a new bridge was built in the exact position of the old one while traffic continued. Piers surrounded the old, a roadway placed above then lowered into position. The 1600 ton weight was moved using hydraulic jacks at 1500 psi. Little Tuat Dey Helston holds spring Furry festival with dances and a playful warning against work.
A vast coal supply remains largely untapped in Australia with about one million tons produced to date, most of it from New South Wales. The article notes the enormous potential and current limited extraction as the resource stays underdeveloped.
Native workers on the Philippines only railroad struck after demanding higher wages. Captain Cunningham, in charge during the strike, notes locals earned 25 dollars a month while the strikers were replaced by discharged American soldiers paid 125 dollars monthly in gold. In Germany at Wellburg near Wiesbaden, mine workers have seized machinery and coal stock and plan a public sale to payout themselves.
A Missouri farmer near Dawa discovers a three foot coal vein just feet from a natural gas well found during water boring. The discovery follows an earlier natural gas strike, signaling unexpected wealth beneath the claimant’s land.
A digest of labor topics cites that one-tenth of U S workers are organized while nine-tenths reap gains from union activity. Winnipeg bakers offer prizes for labels cut from union bread. New Hampshire reports average industrial wages at 354 42 annually for 73 845 workers. Cincinnati brewery firemen win a case over A F of I control. Connecticut attorney general questions eight hour laws as unconstitutional. Pennsylvania Grit notes Manufacturers Information Bureau spies on unions. Omaha judge fines a laundry proprietor 120 for violating Nebraska female labor law. Central Labor Union pushes case as warning.
Latert Ped of Critica argues in The latest fact of critica that the New York Prem ways rebel against names of months. He contends Europeans and Americans should not dedicate a fifth of the year to Julius Caesar and Augustus, condemn heathen gods, and expose months with dubious nomenclature while four months are misnamed by numbers, noting September is not seventh.
Instructions describe placing two quarts strawberries in a stone jar with one quart aged vinegar, covering two days, then draining without mashing. Repeat with fresh fruit, strain through muslin, then add one pound sugar per pint, roll slowly, skim, simmer fifteen minutes, and bottle.
A vintage ad promises Allen's Foot Bane and a powder that tightens new shoes, cures swollen hot feet and ingrown nails. It touts mail order and local druggists in Le Roy New York, with claims of time proving all things and a note about Red Cross Ball Blue.
In informal gatherings near New York this summer, sighs grow that tighter styles for men will be tolerated or encouraged. Yacht clubs and outdoor clubs hosting evening entertainments at their clubhouses welcome shirtwaists as a practical solution to dress concerns, hoping for popularity among attendees.
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