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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1904
Page
2
A collage of humor and commentary from a Kansan page notes sneers and arguments as in Hartford Times quotes. It jokes about dentists, philanthropy, pop songs, and celebrity fortunes while reflecting on culture, fashion, and current events with wry tone. It humorously examines divorce, markets, and quirks of public life across cities and nations.
The writer praises the Riviera as winter and summer fused, noting shops reopen after a long pause, hotels regain activity, and transport returns to lively motion. He contrasts climate, food, and scenery with Paris and London, marveling at olive trees, orange blossoms, and the scent from kitchens as the land awakens to bustling life.
A dancing master laments declining grace in society noting hostesses fill drawing rooms with guests lacking style. He recalls a past standard where invitation depended on deportment as well as character. He observes private dances now attract crowds with inadequate manners.
The passage wanders through fragmented images of ships in green harbor waters and distant mountains, then shifts to local life noting new roads and a bustling press. It recalls a girl curtseying, contrasts past masculine grace with present behavior, and ends with observational commentary on contemporary social manners.
An assorted labor news digest reports on Perth Amboy damages ruling against a walking delegate, union arbitration in Othographers, and industry-wide strikes. It covers rail, trucking, and machinist disputes, Belgian fisher schools, cooperative farming in Brantford, wage and rent debates, and AFL Federationist president Gompers warning of potential industrial stagnation.
Cigar makers in Boston form a cooperative factory while the United Garment Workers International expands from 3,100 to 60,000 in 12 years. The Sheet Metal Workers plan their Buffalo convention in June and Louisville’s employers push open shop and trade schools. A proposed World Labor Congress at St Louis during the World’s Fair is under Milwaukee central body discussion. Picketing in Chicago is addressed by Midge Kavanagh. miners and operators in Beaver Valley resume work as a new scale is considered. Taylorville Illinois mine strikers return to work. 3,000 idle after Quincy workers join. Griffith plant at Waynesburg closes. education officials report teachers average 49 dollars for men and 40 for women monthly. Lawrence mills cut production to four days a week. 1,500 workers affected. Indiana miners vote against a two-year contract with wage reductions. California bakers report unemployment. The Sheet Iron, Steel and Tin Workers accept an 18 percent cut. The 18 percent cut extends to June. 1,070 new members joined the Railway Telegraphers in June. Broom production disputed in Minnesota prisons. Burling ton rivals see ascendant leadership of B L Winchell. An American steam thrashing marine reaches Damascus. the voyage tests a broken bridge route. Draper Machine Co faces worker resistance over proposed terms.
Warns of kidney disease symptoms like backache and urinary trouble, promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure. Frank D. Overbaugh of Catstill New York testifies doctors said Bright's Disease years ago, pills cured him and he’s well since. Free trial offered by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo with 60 cent price.
An American physician argues that the blues are a form of aplanchate neurasthenia caused by intra abdominal venous congestion. He warns that patients may worsen into hyperpyrexia or epithelial metaplasia if misinterpreted.
The spaniel gets its name from Spain as the original breed arrived in England with Spanish dogs, explaining the link between the dog type and its Iberian roots.
The Defiance Starch Co offers twenty five round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition. Five winners from each state Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri will receive travel. Send in ten cent Defiance starch trade marks to Omaha Nebraska by September 1 2004. Promotions note October and November best for visiting the Exposition.
The text notes that in Siam no elder woman is seen as old and that a woman's highest status comes with motherhood. It explains that the chief wife is the first wife and cannot be sold, but divorce can be demanded by the husband under law.
A London man gave up his seat to a woman on a tram. He was later arrested by a constable for aiding and abetting the conductor to overcrowd the car. He was fined 38 and told to go away and sin no more.
Beziers in southern France venerates a camel as sacred for sixteen centuries. Saint Aphrodise is said to have evangelized the city atop a camel. A local museum displays a papier-mache memory artifact connected to this legend.
Mrs Lille Tweaks of Mount Hor ky suffered six years bedridden with kidney trouble and breathlessness. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills she recovered completely, regained strength, and now performs housework and gardening. A local recounts her full relief and renewed vitality.
A fragment notes a woman in a drygoods store near burrs with unclear ownership or event. The readable text provides no definite names, dates, or places, making specifics indeterminate.
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