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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1904
Page
3
A nostalgic poem evokes homesickness for a simple rural town with ivy walls and thatched roofs. The speaker recalls fields, blue rivers, and nights when youth and love thrived, imagining a quiet town measured by memories rather than crowds and noise.
National Labor items report Chanute charter denial for Bullying Trades and Carbondale teamsters seeking a charter. Porto Rican labor seeks AFL amalgamation while Reynolds retires from Illinois miners. Large cuts prompt Minneapolis garment workers to quit. France’s union growth surges to 1.48 million by 1903. Pittsburgh area strikes, arbitration calls, and legal actions frame a sweeping labor scene.
Special Correspondent describes summer Jamaica as cooled by trade winds. Kingston markets showcase fresh fruits and everyday life, with vivid contrasts between upper and middle classes, and peasants in rural lanes. The piece notes architecture, shop layouts, and harbor views as night markets and moonlit landscapes unfold.
An American resident recalls tar-water’s eighteenth century surge in medical practice. Doctors praised its curative claims, including for fractures, until a surgeon noted the broken limb was actually a wooden mock. The tale highlights how fad remedies can captivate physicians before scrutiny corrects the record.
In Boston during a matinee, Al Sheehan walked with a gusty wind and slipping sand on Boylston Tremont. A man ahead cursed loudly after slipping, drawing remarks from passersby including two theatergoers who narrowly avoided a tumble. One woman paused, then mused that the swearing man might be right.
A Philadelphia judge visiting Paris attempted a French greeting to secure a pensionable lodging. He spoke a grand opening in faux classic French, only to be met with a hostess asking in fluent English what kind of lodgings he sought. The anecdote ends with the judge noting she doubted his language ability.
Victor A. Hermann presents a stark scene blending prayer and peril. A ragged coat, stained fingers in prayer, and pallid clerks evoke spiritual tension as laughter and a frightened mare flash through a lantern lit doorway. The piece hints at a divine presence amid hardship and fear.
Rev Donald Sage Mackay told a story of a quarrelling couple who slept beside a peaceful cat and dog. He challenged the couple by suggesting binding the animals together to see how their quarrel would end, illustrating a moral about vanity and harmony.
The notice outlines wireless telegraph rates: ship to ship sixpence per word plus free address and signature. Ship to shore on the American side charges $2 for ten words, then twelve cents per extra word, with no address or signature fee. On the English side a marconigram from a sineas ta ax shillings for twelve words, sixpence per extra word, with signature and address charged.
A quirky item describes Mercedes Lopes, wife of a poor San Vicente sheepherder, with an extraordinary head of hair. Her hair reportedly measures five feet, and when tied it stands tall, reaching four feet eight inches from the ground.
In a brief Times-Democrat passage, a man protests being charged with indifference, insisting the claim overlooks his willingness to live on canned goods on a desert island with his beloved. The curtness of the exchange hints at strained romantic tension.
A wealthy man’s will directs his son to place five thousand dollars from the estate into the coffin. The frugal heir writes a check for the amount and buries it with the parent, keeping the funds interred alongside the deceased.
A monumental work of reference in sixteen large volumes is being published in New York City. Not a page is numbered, whether by design or accident.
Jonas Brubaker recalls his three year old daughter’s illness beginning with Whooping cough and pneumonia then spinal meningitis and Bright’s Disease. After three and a half boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills she recovered fully and now plays normally.
Railroads have boosted outstanding bonds and stock to at least 1.15 billion dollars over three years. The increase reflects expanding capital needs and growing traffic as major lines seek funds for improvements and expansion projects nationwide.
Fragmentary notes describe two fodder plants with yields of 14 tons hay and 80 tons green fodder per season. Mentions Victoria rape and a large potential production, plus stamps and seed catalogs from John A Balzer Seo Co in La Crowe Wisconsin.
Grocers discuss not stocking De dance Starch, noting limited brands on hand and customer expectations. A shopper once praised the product and advised planning ahead without overlooking the present.
Wabash train No 9 the fast mail left St Louis at 2:09 p.m. Sunday and despite a one hour late start and twenty minute delay reached Kansas City in five hours fifty minutes, five minutes faster than any prior record. The train carried mail, combination, dining and sleeper cars with speeds up to seventy miles an hour on some stretches. Conductor J. S. Gould and engineer Charles Summerville headed the trip for the St Louis Republic.
The note lists slate marble and clay quarries with values total about 13 million dollars. It promotes California travel rates from Kansas City and midwest depots to California New Mexico and Arizona in 1904, with personally conducted excursions and Pullman sleepers. Contact W Hagenbuch, Gen Agt, Atchison Topeka Santa Fe.
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