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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1897
Page
7
A through sleeping car to Colorado Springs and Pueblo via Denver runs on the Burton Route, daily train leaving Chicago at 10 30 p m, bound for Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Offes, 2 Clark Street. The Henl Katterer.
Level culture for potatoes yields the largest crop by keeping soil flat and weed free with shallow cultivation. It suppresses perennial weeds like quack grass Canada thistle and central weeds. promotes uniform growth and easier weed control. It mentions Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a household remedy and references broad uses in Europe and the Americas.
A quirky rural note discusses crop yields per acre with math like one bushel per 30 hills for potatoes and one bushel per 481 hills for corn. It references homestead folklore and names unclear figures amid a stream of garbled phrases about nurses and old aunts.
A baffling exchange questions why Smitherton faces a bicycle fare he does not ride himself. Smythe explains the unusual purchase of three bicycles for his family, prompting local chatter about municipal or event pricing and the rationale behind the policy.
On a spring morning at Mount Nelson signals stir Hobart Town as the Dart sails in from Cork carrying Dora Callan and Bridget Ryan among the passengers. Dora dies at sea after naming Michael Callan as guardian of her child, and Bridget selflessly safeguards the infant in the wreck finding renewed purpose and later support from Michael Callan and the colony.
A silk balloon with a car as life support and generators is prepared for a North Pole voyage from Sweden to Spitzbergen. Three scientists, including Dr Nangon and Mr Andree, plan a four to five week journey using favorable winds and care in season. Contingencies cover propulsion and gas loss for ongoing travel.
A vivid, chaotic scene unfolds as a night terror erupts with wild shrieks and a deafening roar. The neighborhood wakes to a surreal soundscape, crockery and bootjacks hurled as the originator of the racket departs into the dark.
A blushing young man jokes about resemblance to a baby, with his aunt saying the baby looks like him and his wife admitting the possibility of a likeness. The Indianapolis Journal reports the light exchange as a brief social remark.
A collage of antique facts notes jewels valued at £2,000,000 and royal gifts from czars, early uses of Mulla by doctors, Bible printing totals, and luxury items. It mentions Queen Victoria’s present, large Bible editions, a gold receptacle with many diamonds and emeralds, and a Paris daily circulation exceeding 1,100,000. Also cites doctors’ alcohol cautions, New Zealand Madris selections, heavy livestock, New York bank withdrawals, camel acclimation in Poland, and a long firing distance record.
An extended advertisement blends warnings about beauty myths with medical claims. It asserts beauty depends on pure blood and proper digestion, then promotes Cascarets as a quick cure. The piece includes a hype for Charles Candy Cathartle and lists multiple drugstores and cities for purchase.
William George Jordan writes in The Greatest Nie lson of Earth that sun shines on parts of the empire at all times. He posits a central meridian around Eastport Maine and places a latitude longitude mark near the Pacific Ocean west of San Francisco.
A garbled excerpt references Boube Jugo and a shore New York Journal. It mentions railways carrying over 40 million weekly travelers and a quote about Dr Kay's Renovator. It also notes 1,400 puckopes of flowers weighing eleven tons dispatched from the Isles of Selby for London. Describes Baker's Lich Destroyer and a claimed product for saving chickens. Manufacturing by Dr Oe P Baker of Exeter Nebraska. Mentions locomotive accuracy and watch precision in a fragmentary way.
A garbled collage of names, places, dates, and claims about medicines, railways, and examinations. The readable parts reference Woodstool Vermont near a Bridgewater line, Hose Hoxton rail mileage, Pisoes Cure for Consumption, and Royal College of Music exam results, but many items are fragmentary and uncertain.
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