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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1904
Page
7
A southerner in old style attire asks a Chicago grocer for credit on tobacco and offers his Bible as pledge. After a brief exchange he is paid with a tobacco package and the Bible is returned. The piece ends with a toffee recipe including moist sugar butter lemon essence and water boiled two hours.
The late Thomas Brackett Reed recounted a summer incident in a New England fishing village. A young man, advised to take Ken baths, bought buckets from a netsmender and later boasted on the beach about the business done last night.
Lewis Godlove proclaims a non alcoholic summer drink he invented combining iced tea sugar and claret in a three to one ratio. He claims the beverage cools and quenches thirst without intoxication and asserts no market drink surpasses it for thirst relief. The interview cites the St Louis Globe Democrat as the source.
Fragments mingle with a distorted poem about rooms and shadows then shift to anecdotes of Yankee identity abroad. Quoted lines from Horace Keller and a New York Times anecdote recount a hotel keeper remarking on how Yankees vary with distance from home.
Charles L. Pendleton of Providence has donated his extensive art collection to the Rhode Island School of Design. The collection features eighteenth century English and colonial furniture, pictures, exquisite Chinese porcelains, Chinese china from the eighteenth century, early English pottery, antique rugs, and sixteenth century textiles.
The origin of veils is uncertain with guesses of Egypt as the first vogue. Greek brides wore chaplets rather than veils, plucking wild thyme myrtle evergreen and rose wreaths for luck. Roman brides wore yellow veils crowned with verbena wreaths.
A central office in Boston offers information on all nearby trolley trips. The proprietor conducts one to three day tours focusing on points within easy reach, traveling exclusively by trolley.
In Val di Rosa Italy snakes inspire fear yet a rite of the snake honors Ascension day. A priest sinks a water snake in a vast ancient basin dug from Monte Bruno. Mountaineers believe the ceremony causes all other snakes in the region to perish.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway unveils a sleeping car innovation on the Southwest Limited between Chicago and Kansas City. White counterpanes replace heavy wool blankets, with blankets kept for cool nights. The change aims to boost passenger comfort and appeal to travelers who prefer inviting beds.
The note recalls gray squirrels eating meat and raiding nests. It mentions grocers not keeping Defiance Starch due to unsold stock of 12 on brands. A whimsical aside claims eyes see best when no men are present, reflecting dated humor.
The ad touts Defiance Starch as more flexible and lasting than rivals, claiming it prevents blowouts or sharing out. It promises one third more product for the same money and hints at enhanced whiteness, urging customers to see how love at first sight could be achieved through superior starch performance.
A vivid description recalls young Disreeli on a Corfu holiday wearing a blood-red shirt with silver buttons and a broad blue-striped jacket, pistols and daggers, red cap, red slippers, and a crimson and gold Marme Luke dress worn by his servant with a long white turban and a glittering rainbow-like aba.
A fragmented advertisement page mentions Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for children, nibbling poetry, a provincial anecdote about a mule and a boy, a claim for a cure all with various claims, and odd notes about a long river crossing by bicycle. The piece blends medical, whimsy, and sensational snippets without a single coherent narrative or date.
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