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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1891
Page
2
A survey of light fabrics, hats, and adornments for the season notes blue serge costumes, pale alpacas, and unbleached Bosnian linen. It highlights lace, embroidery, Swedish motifs, parasol fans, colorful mantles, and trimmed bonnets, with emphasis on modern colors, fringe, and the Heffle pattern in dress borders.
The fires raged across vast areas burning houses outbuildings and forests for days. Over 100 miles of countryside lay desolated as valuable timber areas disappeared and many poor settlers faced ruin. Never in the province has damage been so extensive.
An early morning dynamite cartridge exploded in front of the Clinchy police station in Paris. Windows in nearby structures were damaged and several people were injured as police investigate a possible plot by anarchists targeting authorities during a period of unrest.
In United States circuit court Judge Brower ordered the Morvan tile Trust case to transfer the Missouri Kansas and Texas system to the MK&T Railway on July 1. Receivers early paid large sums to the treasury and trust companies. Since November 1, 1848, 73 miles of road were built and 14 miles leased. Improvements and new equipment total about 4.5 million dollars. The reorganized system will carry 9.0 million in earnings and may gain routes to St Louis, Kansas City, Galveston, and Laredo, strengthening the line as the South West’s leading road. Officers to be elected in New York next Thursday.
Superintendent Todd of Atchison Bridge Company defends pricing, saying no harmful rate to Missouri Pacific or Rock Island. Special rates have been offered to multiple roads to attract Chicago business. Missouri Pacific once aligned with Hannibal and St. Joe to save riverfront building, securing a crossing rate on St. Joe and St. Louis traffic.
The third annual Epworth League convention for the fifth conference of the Methodist Episcopal church including Ohio and Kentucky opens in Cincinnati. Over 800 delegates attend as each represents a local chapter and the gathering will continue for three days.
Reports state Port Sheridan garrison will expand to form one of the nation’s largest posts. An extra force from the Platte department is planned. Rumors say the Missouri department HQ may move from Chicago to St Paul, prompting military reorganization discussions.
A letter from Captain A G Pareis of Malden-on-the-Hudson New York praises August Flower as the best remedy for indigestion and constipation. He notes constant household use for seven or eight years and reports his wife’s relief from dyspepsia after meals. He himself takes it as a pre meal aid and says all trouble disappears after a day or two.
Rev C B Mill pastor of East End Reformed Presbyterian church and one of the expelled members by the synod yesterday has decided to hold his church next Sunday with 150 followers. He will occupy his old pulpit and proposes to continue as pastor. A French patent medicine advertisement follows.
Washington June 11 Secretary Foster selected a site for the Kansas City building. Announcement due later today or tonight. The site is believed to lie on Grand avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets near Youth Lane from Pastin fame. The notice mentions department proposals and related details amid limited information.
The American Association officials in Minneapolis report success in securing Dees pea and dhugert short atop, and Coach Grim of the diileaukete team to join the patie association. The guest eo will mount a determined legal sight against the never aia.
An advertisement fragment touts Dr. LeDiec's Periodical Pills as a reliable remedy for women’s health issues. It mentions percentages and other vague claims about benefits, implying improvements in mood and digestion, but the text is garbled and difficult to fully interpret.
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