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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1904
Page
6
A distorted verse from a New England magazine fragment evokes the sea and cosmic pulses. The speaker links tides and God to the world’s veins, noting wrinkled lands, scars, and the soul beneath the stars.
Leonard Cawthorn returns to Nethercote farm in Canada, faces his brother Mark who lashed at Thirza Loveday. Leonard repays a loan, Thirza denies marriage to Mark, and a tense secret about the money unfolds as Leonard questions why she stayed. Thirza reveals her family’s ruin and need to work while Mark guards hidden motives.
In a rustic scene under a harvest moon, Thirza reveals a pursed past where a rough suitor threatened to ruin her and Leonard’s name. Leonard offers to share the burden and the ownership of the name itself, as Thirza chooses fidelity and quiet resolve.
Uncle Joe, a widowed Black farmer near Chesapeake City, asks a white man to obtain a marriage license for him. The clerk misreads Mandy Jones as the bride, causing a mix up with Liz Allen. The white man suggests getting another license, noting the first one was two dollars wasted.
A poem by Su Tooker depicts a crew fighting a wild voyage. The speaker clings to the wheel as green water pounds the hull and the storm rages. He longs for home, imagining Fire Island and the great city lights welcoming the voyage’s end.
A middle aged woman testifies as a minor witness and refuses to state her age. When asked by defense counsel to reveal her age she replies that she only knows it by hearing and that evidence is never taken in court.
The passage describes dogs used as pack animals on Bonanza Valley trails in the Klondike. Dogs travel faster than donkeys, carry freight in bags on their backs, and are larger than sled dogs. Miners yield to dogs on the trail, and dogs seemingly understand trail etiquette as well as men, earning respect akin to that given to sacred animals.
The Missouri State Board of Agriculture reports annual production exceeding 100000 gallons of wine and more than 13000000 pounds of grapes grown. The data cover shipped products, but no record exists for a substantial domestic output.
Long stood Gallows Hill in Salem as a grim symbol of the 1692 witchcraft executions. The piece argues the site should be transformed into homes, urging memory to fade and the area to be reimagined beyond superstition. It notes victims like Rebecca Nurse and Giles Corey, and references Rev. Samuel Parris and Harvard’s Increase Mather amid the tragedy.
A string of reader anecdotes warns poultry keepers about dangers from lax coop construction and neglect. Cat and mink raids, broken panes inviting roup, and overgreased chicks cost losses. proper wire netting, secure doors, prompt repairs, and careful care emerge as key lessons for preventing disasters in flocks.
Cooper Curtice of the Rhode Island Agricultural College explains how chicks thrive when fed a mix mirroring natural forage. He notes spring and summer foods include small seeds insects and green matter and shares methods such as lettuce heads on the brooder, sieved grains, millet seeds, broken rice and oats, boiled eggs ground with bran, and later meat scraps and liver as chicks age.
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