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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
2
A Kansas community elects its first woman mayor and a fully female city council, with prohibition enforcement cited as a key issue. The piece also notes national headlines on Russian policy, crime trials, and vivid anecdotes from current events and society.
In Woman's Corner fashion column surveys gowns with big sleeves and varied cuffs. Discusses children's summer dresses, lace and ribbon trims, rosettes, and styles like puff sleeves and accordion plaits, noting Norfolk jackets and linen gowns with embroidery.
In a tense hideout tale near the Potomac Captain Cox exploits a foster-brother to ferry spies and runners. Booth suffers a leg injury as plans unfold to move horses into Zekiah Swamp, while a distant cavalry pursuit edges closer, threatening capture.
Rev John Griffiths notes that journalists and preachers diverge on religious and social questions. He observes preachers seek broad scope while editors must be economical to fit a newspaper's public mission, publicity, and reach.
A Spring Fold millinery shop was looted the other night. Old styles survived while all new arrivals were stolen, suggesting an insider or unusual motive. Suspected wrongdoing points to a possible decisive action in the shop’s cages.
Practical household advice on removing putty with heat and cleaning methods. Covers softening old putty, reviving lace, cleaning mirrors, improving piano tone, preserving gowns with beeswax, removing sewing machine oil stains, carpet care, brightening dark fabrics with kerosene, and cleaning jewelry in soap and ammonia. Also contrasts tub and sponge baths with nightly warm baths.
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