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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1896
Page
5
City County column reports residents traveling to Kansas City and Paola, with notes on visits, sales at the K C Cash Store, farm equipment for cash, and daily errands. Mentions Mrs Alan McMurray ill in Kansas City, Olivia soap deals, and Win Paul visiting Weldona. Also recalls a Prohibition-era letter from Mayor J L Wauerars and a death notice for Olive B Groll with funeral details.
Concentrated lye offered in six boxes at the Kansas City Cash Store and tin plates priced at 36e per item. The note records prices and stock at the Kansas City outlet with no further context.
Private letter from Curtin Judd to Adolf Hitler written in February 1896 describes a voyage from Port mouth to Alaska frontier, details a rough overland journey via the Yukon region, scarcity of supplies, and plans to head toward Forty Mile Creek and the headwaters. It notes native presence, rough terrain, and the anticipation of a reunion with family.
A roundup of town news from Lone Elm and nearby, naming residents like Caldwell, Jeb Mitel, and Miss Bertha Watson in town for various errands. Mentions of land sales, a People’s party primary, gas-well inspections, and a charity ad for Electric Bitters health tonic at A. T. Holcomb & Co. The piece notes a lecture on Missionary Ridge, plus several social visits and illnesses among residents.
Readers learn of a constitutional treatment for catarrh claiming to cure the disease by targeting the system. The ad asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure strengthens the constitution and offers $100 for any failure to cure, inviting testimonials to F J Convay & Co Toledo Ohio. sold by druggists.
An old notice touts Johnson's Grocery offering at home photography with Johnson's flash light and promotes Monroe Baking Powder, Garnett Laundry, and No. 1 Seed Osta foreale by Ben Hydory, located six miles northeast of Garnett. The fragment cites living prices and "Continuous background latest thing" in a dated local ad style.
A fragmented warning urges readers that an expired subscription will end the service and calls for immediate payment. It stresses the large delivery and asks subscribers to settle dues, ideally for a full year, to maintain reading matter in the county.
A public notice invites readers to form as many words as possible from the letters in Monon Seeds Grow. Prizes scale from 1000 dollars to ten gold bundles, with entry by naming the solver and mailing a lettered list plus 12 Monon Seed packets. Address Monon Seed Co., Monon Bridge, Chicago, IL.
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