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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
2
Reports describe widespread floods and heavy rains across multiple Kansas locales. Cities including Chapman Solomon and Lawrence face rising waters, damaged crops, and evacuated families. Infrastructure impacts include railroad disruption, submerged bridges, and waterlogged valleys near Manhattan and Lecompton.
A reminiscence on William H. Sylvia, famed labor leader and founder of the Iron Molders' Union of North America, recounts his early life in Armagh Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, his rise as organizer, eight hour workday advocacy, and enduring influence amid labor struggles and internal Chicago tensions.
Samuel Gompers argues that across world history as well as within nations and industries, shorter daily work hours correlate with higher wages. He contends longer hours reduce stamina and ambitions, while earlier workers earn more, with economic law driving wage differences based on daily labor length.
A new pact unites the Allied Printing Trades Council and the Box Makers and Lawyers' International Union. They agree not to issue labels until both are fully trained in a shop, push joint legislation to restrict labels, and establish a dual representative board of appeals with an impartial arbitrator for unresolved jurisdiction disputes.
Dr. Louise Fiske Bryson of New York argues that twenty thousand children in New York are exploited and harmed by labor, creating stunted lives and a doomed future. She condemns greed over necessity, calling for abolition of child labor in tenements, stores, hops, mills, laundries, and streets at night to combat disease and early death.
Chicago unions push age protections in hiring arguing older workers can perform duties. The raw hardware and egg candlers unions drive demands for a national federation with AFL backing. City branches in Denver Kansas City St Louis Lincoln Terre Haute and Pittsburg show momentum toward a national egg candlers union.
The report notes 510 labor unions in Connecticut with 166 formed in 1909. Strikes and walkouts led to 10,141 workers idle, totaling 235,453 days of work lost during the year.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen voted to fund a home for aged and disabled members with a $25,000 grant. The facility is planned for the Filgh and Parl area, a suburb of Chicago.
Fragmentary English report notes the Sunderland ovacinals and municipal housing, British admiralty shifts to executive navy officers, a Vermont man’s Troy marriage attempt ends with repaid fare, Buffalo Express cites rare double luck in one day, details unreadable.
A reader recalls a police parade near St Pauls churchyard where a woman mused in a low voice about what might occur if the band began playing a humorous or provocative tune. The New York Press notes the scene as a vivid memory of public display.
A patient looking woman quotes a Washington Star line about a man at a baseball game who returns home claiming the noise of children makes him nervous. The remark reflects a humorous, observational tone on everyday behavior and stress.
Adrian resident Phillip Doyle of June Jet-Phillip Doyle reports a personal cure from kidney trouble using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He claims ten boxes cured long standing pain and says others he advised are not disappointed. Doyle emphasizes the medicine’s effectiveness and recommends it to anyone suffering kidney issues.
The article notes a mahogany tree must have a platform erected before cutting and the trunk is felled about ten feet above the ground. Heavy, thorny buttresses prevent cutting the trunk at ground level, making a ground cut nearly impossible.
The report notes cod lines extending to seven thousand fathoms or eight miles with thousands of hooks. It mentions a unique statue in Great Britain with an umbrella seen at Reading. It also reports on Dunraven selling Lord Denravens Estes Park properties to an Eastern syndicate and Ireland cancer deaths at 2.93 in 1901, 6.5 per ten thousand.
An Atchison Globe opinion note declares praise fades beside a single word in the past tense, suggesting a striking, decisive standard of merit and memory for commendation.
An expert testifies that coffee is a strong drug harming health while Postum Cereal Coffee rebuilds the body when used steadily instead of coffee. The speaker, a former heavy coffee drinker, says Postum cured his nerves and heart issues and restored health, urging others to quit coffee for Postum.
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