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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1904
Page
2
A jumble of satirical notes and brief items spans Paris theater chatter London curiosities and New York gossip. It cites rail mergers girds of fashion at Ascot and a Rome Hamburg mix of news with polarizing observations on figures from Kitchener to Washington and Margherita.
Visitor recounts a Berlin dinner with a renowned physician, noting flexible dining hours, social norms, and German hospitality. Describes table customs, dishes, coffee and tea culture, regional desserts like walnuts, and the typical Berlin home in the Fried richtstadt near Thiergarten.
The German luncheon features a cold buffet praised for variety delicacy and flavor. Foreigner observers note the appeal of numerous sausages and the handsome Berlin house exteriors with elaborate carvings, friezes, reliefs and mosaics reflecting German history.
A collage of labor struggles and court actions. Wallace Irwin faces murder charges with bonds posted. unions contest emblems and seek legal limits on work conditions. Reports cover eight hour efforts, wage disputes, and a pivotal umpire ruling in coal mining payroll practices affecting 16,000 miners in Scranton.
The American Labor Union moved headquarters from Butte Montana to Chicago. A Maine state federation formed in Augusta. Porto Rico reports fifty unions since becoming U S possession. Gompers to give Labor Day address at Utica N Y. Cleveland workers plan merger. New York die cutters form union and seek AFL charter. West Virginia sues UMWA to bar organizing. Bruner named to fill McMahon vacancy. NJ Labor Federation set Aug 16 convention in Trenton. UMWA chartered first Canadian union. Fernie BC miners form union. Phillip Murphy wins world beef contest in Springfield. Navy yard workers to receive half days this July–Sept. Maryland barber law tightens requirements. Two new labor publications appear. Socialist Labor party fields ticket. Corrigan for president Cox for VP. Kanawha coal operators form union coalition. Nockola cites big delegate train to Colorado troubles meeting. Cigarmakers push pension plan. Moyer released from custody.
Scientist Dr. Gottfried Merzbucker, after two years on a science fire expedition in the Thianshan mountains in Central Asia, has returned to Munich with numerous specimens of geological paleontological zoological and botanical interest.
Defiance Starch Co offers 25 ladies and a round trip to the St Louis Exposition. Five winners from each of Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri will win tickets for sending in the most Defiance trade marks from a ten cent package. Mail by September 1st to Omaha Neb. Tickets mailed September 6th. Starch sold by dealers.
One Cripple Creek Colorado gold mine has more than twenty one miles of underground development and is growing by about four miles each year. Inspecting half its tunnels would take a week of walking, riding, and climbing.
Persons may observe Venus shadow by pointing a long blackened box toward the planet, closed with ground glass plates. The object casting the shadow is placed at the far end, producing a clearly projected shadow on the ground screen.
A quotation extols reading as a gentle but powerful influence on character and conduct. Sir John Herschel argues that regular, well directed reading shapes behavior subtly, becoming the last thing a person suspects as shaping them.
In Middlesex New York Mrs Betsey A Clawson claims she was cured of inflammatory rheumatism after years of invalidism by Todd s Kidney Pills She describes severe pain and disability ending within two weeks of taking two boxes and credits the pills with removing uric acid from her blood by improving kidney function
In 1865 Durham, a tiny village of a dozen houses, saw soldiers plunder it and seize tobacco. Local enterprising men expanded the opportunity, and Durham tobacco salesmen began shipping their product globally. The ad-like passage also promotes travel on the Colorado Midland Railway with low summer round trip rates, urging inquiries to G H Speers, Denver.
A survey of 1000 marriages notes 139 men and 861 first-time brides. among 2000 individuals in the union, 287 had worn or bought wedding rings prior. A second brief remark praises deities for kindness, then recounts a creation myth with Ixanagi Tean ami on a bridge of rice grains and a spear forming the earth.
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