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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1901
Page
6
Levi P. Morton, former governor and vice president, aged 77, seeks gradual release from business cares to spend time abroad. He asks the Surrogate to relieve him of several large New York estate trusts while stepping back from his duties.
Exclusive extended motorless journey with private coaches in the park includes Pullman sleeping and dining cars. Limited to members of the American Tourist Association Beau Campbell manager Chicago details Tickets include all expenses traveling from Chicago via Milwaukee St Paul Ry on Tuesday July 9 at 10 p m.
An Active Prayerite whose son dueled another boy to a draw, celebrated when his son won but the other boy’s father later beat the preacher and prompted a court appeal. The item underscores human inconsistency in a St. Louis Post Dispatch context.
Missouri Pacific Railway now operates double daily through schedules from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and the Pacific coast with through sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trains depart St. Louis at 9 am and 10 10 pm and Kansas City at 6 pm and 10 pm. Excursion tickets available. for details contact H O Townsend G P T A St Louis. James J Mints and James J Hill noted as early river steamboat figures linked to Milwaukee development. The Kansas City Daily Times emphasizes broad local and national coverage and offers subscription rates. Pie crust tip describes lining shells with flour to prevent leakage in boiled fillings and using browned flour for gravies.
The German Emperor has allocated the sum of 100000 marks collected by Hast Prusslang during Prussia's bicentenary to a fund for educating boys no longer under parental care. The setup aims to provide schooling for youths in need.
Painter Thomas Sidney Cooper, now said to be the oldest working pure artist, is 98 years old and has, since 1820, earned a living as a theatrical scene painter. He has exhibited 230 pictures at the Royal Academy in England.
A Georgia paper recounts a lively literary dinner ending with a wrestling match to crown the town's top literary figure. Matt Tompkins threw Luke Sanders five times and was later declared head writer and literary president.
Fragmentary OCR shows Tom L Johnson at home on Euclid Avenue Cleveland, declaring he never thinks of position or business beyond his doorway and that he is very healthy, though text is garbled and uncertain.
Miss Morris is named lieutenant colonel on the staff of Guy Candler of Georgia and serves as secretary of the Georgia Society of Chattanooga. She is described as an accomplished horseback rider, Nogulst and musician.
A German professor argues that a poor man in a hospital fares better than a rich patient at home and hopes this view will reduce prejudice against hospitals. He contends hospital care offers essential support regardless of wealth.
In Rockbridge Missouri the Rockbridge A ctf No. 435 A. F. & A.M. celebrates the recovery of Ambrose McKay a respected citizen and Mason. After years of diabetes rheumatism and kidney trouble he used Dodd's Kidney Pills and quickly improved. His pain faded and he regained health, with praise for the remedy and its cost.
The French are credited with the most efficient artillery in Europe using shrapnel around 17.64 pounds with a velocity near 1700 feet per second and over thirty rounds a minute with fixed ammunition. The gunner sits on the carriage to steady the piece during firing.
Over twenty years railway mileage in the south more than doubled and nearly tripled. In 1880 track totaled 19,170 miles, rising to 49,627 by 1900. Iron output also climbed from 279,200 tons in 1880 to over 3,000,000 tons in 1900.
Melvin G. Dodge, a Hamilton College graduate of 1890 and longtime librarian, has been appointed librarian of Leland Stanford University in California. He previously served as librarian at Hamilton College for several years.
A featured tale portrays a kindly old gentleman who always gives up his end seat on streetcars. His habitual politeness clashes with a bold act when he tries to brush a bug from a young woman, only to discover it is a bead from her hair. The incident sparks embarrassment and humor among passengers.
A narrated humorous sketch from a cat voice, detailing mischief and mayhem at a household. The speaker jokes about cats rights, dog encounters, and comic boasts of wrongdoings from stealing a canary to wearing a dress at a cake walk.
A sensational parliamentary style exchange features TaMold Kutt defending his status while asserting steady study of conditions. Uncle Allen Sparks weighs in on the Herron matter claiming Mrs Herron stands to gain fifty to sixty thousand dollars for a husband deemed far less valuable.
Diggs questions truth in saying he has a genius to live with a genius. Biggs responds he never considered his wife a genius, framing their view on intellect and partnership.
Horr Thick and Horr Thin converse in clipped dialogue about spreading rumors and denying involvement. The fragment hints at a confrontational exchange over truth and accountability in a sparse street scene. Names, places, or dates are not provided in readable form.
Analysis notes the challenges Sharp faced as a lawyer, acknowledging his remarkable success despite ongoing obstacles. It questions the extent of adversity and implies a defense of Sharp's achievements amid difficulties.
A quirky collage of dialogue and panels from a vintage page features Meandering Mike cautioning against pride and overbearing wealth, Plodding Pete's curiosity, and humorous exchanges about feeding the poor and credit. It blends whimsical fables with a critique of journalism blunders and a note on radium discovery.
A jumble of verse and prose notes on a masque performed by servants and unions. Reports mention five young women delegates to the Central Labor Union at the federal bureau, the government printing tie to the women’s binder union, and a New Jersey forestry plan aiming to reserve two million acres for sustained revenue and state entry reservations.
The piece recalls ex-commissioner Le Duc who argued tea could be grown in the United States and cites experiments in North Carolina showing possible yields. It notes a firm planning land purchases, a labor challenge in finding pickers, and predicts northern tobacco may rival Cuban quality. It concludes that U S agriculture has untapped potential.
A London Daily Mail report notes blind workers use a Braille based typewriter with a tape system to record shorthand and produce verbatim reports. Capable operators type at about forty words a minute, finding employment in offices staffing shorthand and copying tasks.
There is every indication that women will ere long be powerful in the labor unions of this country as many of the organizations are admitting.
Representatives from the International Union of Steam Engineers and the Coal Hoisting Engineers Association agreed in Chicago to amalgamate. The pact awaits ratification at upcoming conventions and would recognize each union’s working cards pending final adoption. Danville’s Mack Taylor and Thomas Jenking led the coal union, while Boston’s Monahan, Peoria’s McKee, and Chicago’s H. J. Phillips represented the steam engineers.
Fell River cotton industry dominates U S textile output with about one fifth of national cottons, more than twice as many mills as any other center. It produces 90,000 yards of cloth annually and over 1,500 miles of cloth daily, an amount exceeding two miles woven per minute.
Women are filling an increasing share of federal clerk positions in Washington. Of 7,637 clerks hired, more than one third are women. Estimates put women at around 49 percent of Washington clerkships. If trends continue for two generations, male employees may vanish except in top roles. Women first gained government office eligibility in 1862 when Salmon P. Chase appointed six female clerks.
Twenty miles of steel cable once valued at 15000 dollars are cut into four-foot sections and sold to junk dealers for about 800 dollars. Pennsylvania mills routinely seek such large rope, and the Broadway Cable Inc auction attracted bids as the old system’s run ended Saturday night in New York.
The text argues that American sailors receive better pay and treatment than Europeans serving other navies. It claims small pay but superior care, suggesting this factor helps draw a large share of foreign mariners into the U S national navy.
At the Buffalo exposition a tiny steam railway was displayed. The rails span a foot, with ten cars each carrying two passengers. The line runs one mile long and the engineer rides on the tender, as there is barely space for him.
Oakland expands its electric grid by tapping a distant 150 mile transmission line. The project demonstrates that long distance power transmission can be successful in multiple respects.
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