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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1904
Page
8
In a humorous verse from Harold Melbourne, May Lippincott, Reginald Van Buren buys a hatpin for his wife. Her desire to match every purchase leads to a chain of gifts and a transformed home. The tale ends with the wife’s illness and death, a cautionary moral about spousal spending.
A list of timeless homemaking guidelines urging harmony and quality. Focus on cheerful, well managed homes with balance between formality and hospitality. Emphasizes budgeting, thoughtful conversation, broad interests, and making the home central to all who share it.
A helpful note recommends salts and additives to prevent color fading when washing fabrics. Salt helps set blue, alkali liquors prevent green from fading, ox gall preserves gray or brown tones, and bay water from boiling bay is suggested for tan or brown hues.
Mrs Nobh Prentice, hostess of the Kansas building at Topwhs, vows to make visitors feel at home. She aims for education and civic improvement, stressing hospitality as the core purpose of the fair and promising the best resting place with comfortable chairs.
Instructions describe mixing sulphur precipitate with Syrian me lisses to create a blood purifier. Dose involves two tablespoontils in a glass, then one teaspoonful before breakfast and bedtime for nine days with days off in between. Promotes the mixture as a spring medicine and a beauty aid.
A reader shares how to can rhubarb like fresh and pairs rhubarb with strawberries. Instructions cover washing, sugar, water, scalding, and sealing jars, plus a cherry salad recipe and a note praising the value of a home newspaper for all households.
A readable fragment presents a heartfelt request to honor a father through poetry. It contrasts a mother’s devotion with a father’s hard work, urging careful, respectful lines that praise paternal care. The piece centers on familial love and the earth as backdrop.
City council debated extending a local telephone franchise as officials reported a near drowning incident. Master John Wideman escaped a creekside peril with Holy Jones aiding, while Grintner’s letter campaign and other regional notes filled a turbulent week.
A garbled local item outlines Westphalia plans for a complete telephone system and notes Miss Helen J. Bell, newly honored, will teach science at St Charles High School. It records Peter Ketter’s death at 52 after a long illness, and a June 1904 golden wedding anniversary for Mrs. and Mr. Streigel, with many descendants and guests attending the celebration.
Miss Mary Blemny was granted a dolonga hy by the Main City pers. the state honed of pharmace and a regulustye registered what quayint. Judge Lewin was in Lown town Tucsoay, yearning oo slaw hat do Jofty that we stroll eats fer safe only after Udi the podiled with Dodd Struthers onner sods.
The Hill Oil and Gas Co of Garsenn formed June 14 1104 to operate near Cherryvale in a tin mining district. Officers include Coleman president C LU Rice vice president Le Mt Barnest secretary O B Parks treasurer. directors listed. Interested parties may apply at Conway ferehall where books will be kept.
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