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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1904
Page
7
Jim and I have a silent row with Jin and yet no one spoke a word. I cannot see what’s up between us and I am unsure if I will mend things. If he speaks out, I might come halfway, but for now I’m without my old chum Jin.
A rustic speaker voices faith in the Bible while commenting on modern life. He jokes about Jonah and the ark and notes how trolleys run by a conductor hint at a broader, curious plan beyond human understanding. He hopes for divine explanation at death.
A historical health column offers nourishing recipes for invalid diets. It covers boiled rice with egg, beef broth with sage, and cream soups using white stock and cream. Instructions detail soaking barley or tapioca, simmering times, and serving with toast.
The article offers home care tips for invalids focusing on comfort and sleep. It covers washing, hair care, and keeping warm with shawls, gentle night routines, and avoiding disturbing news. It includes recipes for clear soups, chicken jelly, and veal broth to aid nourishment and rest.
The fragment outlines a daily routine plea and restorer for the body and a recipe called Orange Whip. It instructs using one quart of thick cream with six oranges, whipping until very sweet, and layering whipped cream with orange pulp in a glass dish. Macaroon crumbs top the final layer.
A long description of the newspaper's targeted content for women, highlighting fashion columns, home economy tips, Mme Qui Vive’s Beauty column, Meal Plans with menus and recipes, a serial installment, Stories of the Day, humorous features, Sunday school lessons, reviews, and extensive fashion pages including How to be Healthy and Beautiful and a Home Dressmaker section with full colored fashion plates.
A description touts a new four harness loom, claimed as the only one in Anderson county, capable of weaving rag carpet up to seven feet wide at 1000 yards monthly. It offers to process old carpets into rag carpets or Brussels carpet under B S Macut on North Oak Street.
Riley Spriggs, in a critical condition, is at his brother Scott’s home. A. J. Coppage came from Garnett to lime plaster Jere Urton’s new residence. Coppage is a skilled mechanic whose work is praised. While working on a scaffold at Urton’s house, the scaffold gave way and Er. Winn fell about fourteen feet, sustaining a severe gash on the forehead and bruises. He spent Monday evening in pain but is improving.
In Greeley, John Morriw and Jake Hurst were dows from Garnett on Saturday on business. Will Smith traveled to Denver on Wednesday to seek employment. Frank Ohmes weighed a prize last Saturday tipping the bean at 365 pounds. The well at Lloyd Reef farm north of town was abandoned at about 900 feet. The drilling rig will move to a new site for another bore. Topeka Herald reports Kansas frogs in green jackets to mark the anniversary of the aunt who drove them from Ireland to Kansas.
Missouri Pacific will sell one way colonist tickets to San Francisco SacramentoLos Angeles and other California ports at twenty five dollars. The same rate applies to Portland Tacoma Seattle and other Oregon Washington points. On the first and third Tuesdays round trip tickets to western Kansas are offered at one and two plus for the date of sale Feb 15 to 17 Topeka round trip one and one third in ne.
The article notes cotton cultivation expanding to Egypt Jamaica and other regions with government push and private investment. It cites experts attributing high prices to supply gaps versus potential new cotton belts, mentions boll weevil impact in Texas and shifting seed choices, and highlights related farm commerce from barter to real estate and machinery amid broader agricultural news.
J Dunsaire of Scotland argues in Mitchell that the horse for the farmer is the draft bred type. A good colt program on a farm yields profit when farmers raise strong horses with low cost and effort, while poor horses waste resources.
The Twice a week Republic of St Louis claims status as a leading home paper for the West and Southwest. It touts inform, instruct, and entertain aims, highlights campaign year coverage, world’s fair notes, the Farmer supplement, fiction, home topics, fashion, and household tips, offered at $1 per year through the St Louis office or local newsdealer.
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