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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1904
Page
8
A fragment from a boy’s anxious voice about punishment love and fear of death. He imagines his funeral and the remorse of his family while a mother’s soft concern and a cold linger in the room. The piece contrasts a child’s defiance with longing for maternal comfort.
A columnist advises planting cucumbers around a well barrel for rapid, tender fruit. Remove both ends of a barrel, fill with well rotted manure, water generously, plant seeds around the outside, and train vines upward to ornament the barrel. Do this in proper season for an abundance of crisp cucumbers and pickles.
A short, informal recipe fragment describes preparing codfish balls by dissolving canned fish with raw potatoes, boiling until tender, mashing with butter pepper salt and beaten egg, shaping with a spoon and frying in oil until browned.
Ottawa Independent reports a Monday night robbery attempt at the Richmond Bank owned by C. C. Hadley. The outer door of the safe was blown off and nitroglycerine leaked from the middle plate door when discovered Tuesday morning, suggesting local involvement but no clues found.
A recipe describes a nut salad using equal parts celery cut into inch pieces and either blanched almonds or English walnuts. Serve on lettuce with dressing made from egg yolks beaten light, mustard and salt, then add melted butter and vinegar, cook until thick and creamy, finish with whipped cream.
A quirky excerpt covers making egg sauces with butter and lemon, cottage pudding with a sugar butter mix, a vanilla cake using yolk leftovers, and a home sachet for moth prevention. It lists precise ingredient quantities for puddings and baked goods, then details a decorative perfume sachet using dried lavender, Cyprus powder, benzoin, and Mitcham lavender.
Step by step home recipe guidance instructs to soak a tin, prepare a cream sauce with butter flour and hot cream, then soften and drain codfish before mixing into the sauce. The passage outlines stirring until smooth and combining with fish for serving.
Westphalia items note Feather tye Decker, once a clerk in Stewart's store, departed yesterday for Florence to take a dry goods clerk post at a large general store. Jere Orton plans a 26 by 96 foot two story residence with a west kitchen in a neat town location. A.G. Skinner and wife recently moved from the farm and sold turkeys totaling $223 for last year, a notable amount for farmers turning to market.
Valentine Fixmer, born November 28 1892 in Luxemburg, died February 20 1904 in Westphalia Kansas at age 11 years 2 months 2 days. He moved to America at seventeen, married Marie Louise Kaiser in Springfield Illinois, and leaves nine children with three surviving. Funeral at UN By church led by Rev Atherton. Remains interred south of town. Keeley items note local civic respect. Other notes cover local personnel changes, gas-well drilling, and a horse accident near the bridge.
May 1904 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Kansas-Nebraska bill which created the Kansas Territory. In Topeka the Grand Army of the Republic will run Memorial Day exercises with patriotic addresses concerts pageants and electric displays. Attending are William H. Taft Secretary of War Galusha Grow author of the bill and other distinguished men. Details will be published as preparations progress under the auspices of the Topeka Commercial Club officials Alderson and Miles announce.
Mr mal Mes Hulbert hosted a fine Sunday dinner in honor of Mr and Mrs Ramsey and their family before they depart to a new home near Garnett. A bouquet of flowers was presented to Mrs Ramsey by Mr Mownaham, each bloom symbolizing love and best wishes from the givers.
A reader describes a dispute over a small town newspaper subscription. Tim Short allegedly failed to pay $5.70, prompting him to stop the paper as an economy measure. The narrative mentions a church visit, a misread phone call, and Tim singing a hymn, ending with notes about a disputed assignment of his liabilities.
Readers are advised that neglect of teeth leads to decay and infection, with pain driving care. The note cites Evans and Hosxtother as sources or examples of dental neglect and its consequences.
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