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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1901
Page
3
A fragmented lyric from Tilt OMeek titled The Firat Kive recounts late hour reflections and misunderstood romance. The speaker recalls past thrills and questions love while pondering a path toward paradise, amid foggy memories and doubts.
Miss Cairns fights gossip about her love life as neighbors meddle, recalling old flames from the village and describing suitors who sought wealth, status, or companionship. A mill machinist and other suitors appear, while Miss Nancy stirs talk and Miss Cairns weighs romance against scandal.
In a Scottish village tale, Jeanie declines a powerful suitor Ike until she discovers love, while Nancy stirs gossip about a secret engagement. Miss Nancy faces social pressure as a wedding unfolds with a colorful farewell and villagers showering the couple with rice and shoes at the station.
The capitalization of the railway of the United States is 11 billion dollars. Those railways employ more than 875000 men and for the fiscal year ending June 20, 1895 they paid to their employees as compensation for services more than 45000000 dollars.
An expose criticizes the creation of the United States Steel Company as a 'gigantic com bing' that would control half the nation’s money. It lambasts J Pierpont Morgan for backing the deal, warns of public and stockholder harm, denounces New Jersey incorporation fees, and asserts the capitalization aims to dwarf national money with a few speculators wielding vast influence.
The piece accuses Republican leaders, led by Congressman Babcock, of introducing a tariff repeal to deter steel trusts and claims the move is a fraudulent, political stunt designed to claim progress while protecting campaign funds from trusts. It argues the party rejects any remedial law benefiting the people.
A fragment argues Admiral Sampson blocks advancing common sailors to higher ranks citing social rank concerns. It claims the idea offends social order, would force mingling with plebeians, and questions whether new ensigns lack natural advantages. It notes John Paul Jones had early advantages but succeeded anyway.
A polemical piece praising naval heroism while condemning attempts to elevate officers above merit. It contrasts Sampson with figures like Paul Jones Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln, accusing Sampson of trying to create aristocracy in the navy and of moral failings.
An account of Glasgow’s municipal holdings covering water, gas, electric light, street railways and the planned telephone exchange. It notes private versus public provision, price trends from coal costs, and the impact on fares and service, with details on water supply, gas rates, electric lighting ownership, streetcars, and the tentative municipal telephone system.
A report claims administrations plan to buy three Danish West Indies islands. Critics oppose, noting high costs and little strategic value. They warn such a purchase would drain funds, benefit only retiring politicians, and serve no clear purpose.
Senator Hale of Maine warned that within five years every soldier sent to the Philippines will be on the pension rolls. He noted more than 100,000 men have been sent abroad and 66,000 more are being recruited, asserting pensions will grow longer and cost millions in the next decades. He argued liberal pensions are deserved but opposed a war with lifelong pension burdens.
A fragment notes that on six masted ships the first three masts are fore main and mizzen while the fourth fifth and sixth are called the inner mast the fishing mast and the driver mast in an unclear historical reference to sailing terminology.
A Memphis hotel scene unfolds as a seasoned con man posing as a commercial traveler targets a marksman. A humorous clash occurs when a kindly hayseed, identified as Bill Smith, plays along, exposing the scam and drawing laughter from the lobby crowd. The case centers on a $10 loan and missed payment.
A scene unfolds when a confidence man bets a rival 50 that Billy Smith will not appear with the money he borrowed. Rube bets his own funds on Smith’s honesty as the con artist plots, but Smith arrives, repays the loan, and Rube claims the wager. The Memphis shark is left to absorb the loss and tips others to try the ruse.
William A. Newell recalls in a March issue his 1849 life saving service proposal to fund aid for mariners in peril. He recounts John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln engaging with the resolution, Adams expressing cautious support and Lincoln offering personal praise and a promise to help.
A St. Louis paper notes women in a nearby city mobilizing to influence local policy through moral suasion. They target street cleanliness, tree planting, and abolition of fences and dogs. The piece argues organized female action can build support for ordinances and public improvement, more effectively than ads or ballots.
A Boston paper reports a inventor making a rubber lined cotton undergarment meant to be warm and waterproof but it melts to the wearer. An Indian tramp falls into a molasses vat from a barn loft, climbs out coated in syrupy glop and surrenders to police for a change of clothes.
A southern paper recounts a Chattanooga merchant who installs a telephone at his shop door and answers a call from inside. A North Georgia farmer unfamiliar with telephones bursts in asking if he wants to buy algae, prompting comic mishearings. The farmer’s loud query finally unsettles the shop, provoking a savage retort about eggs and a sly remark about hearing with a belt.
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