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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1903
Page
7
Helena Rath recalls how a poor household fight with a stubborn skin disease afflicted her infant Charlie. After a teething rash worsened, she tried medicines without relief until a neighbor advised Cuticura remedies, which gradually cleared the lesions and brought peace to mother and child.
A dense passage laments war and calls for pity and unity while a political tilt toward antiwar sentiment appears. The text urges reconciliation, condemns violence, and imagines a peaceful future. It reflects a somber, exhortative tone about shared humanity amid conflict.
President Schardt of the Chicago Federation of Labor is urged to form a suppression committee to silence long speeches that hinder central body work. The piece criticizes micromanaging rhetoric and calls for restraint when speakers have nothing to say.
City firemen form a union, prompting anxious talk among city aldermen about possible strikes. Officials say union organization does not guarantee action and urge calm as the issue unfolds.
The text notes a Sweden lumber trust forming, a coal discovery of 1 000 acres on Vancouver Island, and coffee yields in Honduras. Bremen rises as a major European cotton market after Liverpool. Cuban sugar crop prices, Saccharine controversy in France, and U.S. export trends for 1902 highlight declines in iron steel and mineral oils, with copper manufacture leading gains at twelve million dollars.
A compilation of testimonials and ad blurbs touts Doane's Kidney Pills and Down's Kidney Pills curing back pain and urinary issues, with various names and locations provided. Also promotes Defiance Starch, Allen's Foot-Base, and a 1903 Kansas City Southern Railway Almanac, reflecting early 20th century marketing culture.
Train service updates announce the Alton line restoring fast St Louis connections with Kansas City gateway options. Passengers bound east may use the Kansas City route to catch the 9 p.m. departure, reaching St Louis at 7 08 p m with chair cars and compartment sleeping cars. Contact L D Cooper for best rates. The text also notes a college student marriage as a separate aside from Portland Oregonian.
Summer travel promo highlights very low fares for Eastern conventions and outings. Dates include La German Bap Ohio in May, Ancient Nobles in Saratoga in June, National Educational Association in Boston in June, Epworth League in Detroit in July, RB. P.O. B. in Baltimore in August, Fraternal Order of Eagles in New York City in September. Wabash Line offers reduced rates from Kansas City St. Louis Chicago to Buffalo via Detroit Niagara Falls. Write L. & McClellan W P A 908 Main St Kansas City Mo Bellefontaine for rates.
Report highlights Indian Nursing Service nurses serving mounted roles with social standing, three years training, and thirty rupees monthly allowance plus free conveyance for their animals. Includes a village anecdote about gambling tales and news of De Glenn becoming Peabody Agent, succeeding Dr Carry.
Over the past year 861 people were cremated in Germany, an increase of more than 200 from the year before, signaling a notable shift in burial practices and cultural attitudes toward cremation.
The Flosario gold mine in Central America reportedly produced about 1 million dollars worth of gold last year. The operation marks a major output for the region containing significant ore and regional employment.
The term Marconigram has long led the way but Ethergram gains praise as a concise label for Marconi’s epoch making ether message. Scientists and even Marconi himself reportedly approve the word for the wireless project, emphasizing its plain link to a message written by ether.
An American woman in Jape b bought a can of mushrooms and found the directions translated into English. The note reads that several people may eat it in that manner and they will feel satisfied with nutri Yon and sweetness, or it can be put into hot water for half an hour before removing the lid. It should be proper to eat and could supply with pubidity for several years.
During the Dutch tulip mania of 1636 and 1637 a single Viceroy bulb was traded for four tons of wheat eight tons of rye four fat oxen eight pies twelve sheep two hogsheads of wine four barrels of beer two barrels of butter a thousand pounds of cheese a bundle of clothes and a silver pitcher.
A Lee Massachusetts man reports severe nervous disease and rheumatism after hospital discharge in 1900. After starting Grape-Nuts he claims weight returned from 125 to 105 and says he has felt much improved for fifteen months, though doctors had offered little help.
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