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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1897
Page
6
The narrator pursues his vanished past, returns with Pearl to Brixton and his cottage, hires a private detective, and travels to Whitechapel where in a garret he discovers Mabel, who claims to be his wife and believes him dead from the Rising Sun incident. The scene sets a tense confrontation between past and present.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls generational shifts as a father argues with his defiant ten year old son over waking on a Saturday morning. The father notes how today’s youths differ from his youth and recounts how the boy quickly dressed after a parental rebuke.
The Bridger and Beach Manufacturing circular to St. Louis employees recounts a grim 1897 outlook. Georgy H Holland, VP of Bridger & Mead, warns prosperity won’t return soon, cites farmer distress, declining crop prices, and electricity replacing horses, urging prudent budgeting and debt reduction. He notes widespread mismanagement and calls for tariff and policy changes, while acknowledging funds for relief are limited.
A rousing wartime poem declares defiance against oppression. It envisions the river of freedom breaking barriers, banners raised, and the cause of freedom spreading worldwide. Refrains emphasize hope, unity, and the slogan Freedom, inviting new soldiers to join the struggle.
The piece accuses the U S patent office and the Supreme Court of corruption for extending the Bell telephone monopoly eleven years through Berliner patents The author claims the decision enables continued theft from the public amounting to about one hundred million dollars over a decade and calls for drastic action against the guilty parties It notes the Berliner patent is held by the Bell Telephone Company and was delayed in the patent office for nearly ten years to defend the Bell monopoly
A New England Magazine piece traces the creation of The Vacant Chair to Henry S Washburn of Beaton after Lt John William Grout of the Massachusetts Volunteers died in 1861. Washburn wrote the verses later set to music by George F Root, becoming a widely sold song. Washburn, a longtime business figure and former Massachusetts representative, lives in the Heaton Aberseen district and has published many poems and verses.
A North American Review excerpt discusses South Africa as a land of potential for self sufficiency through farming and mining, noting coal deposits and other minerals while cautioning that market development relies on mining activity. A separate report describes a deaf mute child who unexpectedly regained speech during a hymn, puzzling physicians.
Ingenious persons have used older inner tubes as water or ice bags. The tube is cut at the valve and filled for heat or cold with rib bonds or tapes tied around at intervals. For hot water use the described arrangement, and smaller bags can be made by sectioning and sealing ends.
A note outlines presidential birth months with counts for January two, February three, March four, April four, July one, August one, October three, November four, and December remains unclear. The list emphasizes births spread unevenly across the year.
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