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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1901
Page
6
A Victorian verse fragment by Emily Bronte laments lingering youth and forbidden love. The speaker begs forgiveness for forgetting a beloved as life bears forward, admitting remorse yet choosing restraint and memory’s ache over worldly distractions.
Hollister, a young lawyer, supervises a dozen Marechal Niel roses sent to a woman torn between wealth and love. Croesus, a rich broker, funds the gift and uses the note to imply a choice. The heroine, raised by gold, weighs society’s expectations against a secret longing for true affection.
In a social whirl a woman accepts Hollister’s bold invitation, wearing his colors and a pair of roses. Their dance leads to a moonlit confession about a past romance, while Croesus watches, realizing the dream world may be the only real one for her. The scene ends with her rejection of Croesus and a rueful note on changing fortunes.
The New York Sun notes a rising trend where women convert a room into a home office. Desks and office furniture organize household accounts, orders to cooks, and correspondence. This space, while not for social duties, embodies businesslike efficiency in domestic life.
Boston society ladies plan a public appearance at a horse show to ride astride, signaling a fad in local riding schools. The move aims to slim figures and improve bearing and confidence, provoking varied reactions in the community.
Cleveland home gardening association promotes child flower cultivation. Last spring it distributed 50 000 penny seed packages with soil preparation and planting instructions. Teachers supplemented with talks. Fall school exhibitions show about 16 percent success in efforts.
St Paul and Minneapolis are noted for the lowest death rates among U S cities. St Paul with 163 632 residents shows a rate of 10 79 per thousand and Minneapolis with 202 718 residents reports 11 08 per thousand in habitants.
The Cleveland program encourages children to grow flowers at home with soil prep, planting, and watering guidance. Teachers supplemented lessons with talks. Exhibitions showed about 75 percent of the children’s efforts succeeded in spring 40,000 penny packages distributed.
A recent folder issued by a southern railway shows that at the end of 1900 there were 496 textile mills along its system, up 94 mills during the year with 22,185 looms and 4,127,590 spindles. Georgia had 66 mills, Alabama 33, North Carolina 159, South Carolina 102, others in Tennessee Missouri Kentucky and Virginia.
Mayor Tom Taggart held a tense talk with Carrie Nation in the state capital. Nation pressed for prohibition measures while Taggart warned saloon keepers would face a $400 yearly license and police enforcement, signaling no tolerance for Nation's methods in Indianapolis.
Notes on Edmond Rostand forbidding Jucent and Leoncavallo from basing a Cyrano de Bergerac opera on his play. Verdi used Victor Hugo's Le Roi Amuse for Rigoletto despite Hugo's resistance, and Hugo’s work is now mainly linked with Verdi's melodies.
The longest horse railway in the world links Buenos Ayres to San Martin in the Argentine Republic, a distance about Atty uilles with a thirteen hour trip. Trains leave Buenos Ayres hourly by day and twice at night. Each morning and evening express trains carry only baggage.
A Springfield Massachusetts publishing company renowned for supplying more mall matter than the rest of the city was awarded a four-year contract to carry mail to and from the post office and the railroad depot. Several automobiles are being built to handle the work.
End of the school year marks retirement for two long serving Minneapolis Public Schools educators. Miss Anna M. Browne completes twenty eight years with the district after eighteen years as principal. Mrs Martha M. Burdick retires after twenty six years, having served as principal for twenty years.
There are over 100 million people in China involved in the tea industry, with many wealthy yet focused on cultivation and sale. A number of these tea raisers and merchants are members of secret societies within the empire.
Char Payne of Wichita Kansas buys all kinds of live game and game birds for scientific propagation purposes. Anyone with such stock is asked to write to him at Wichita Kan for prompt reply.
Wolves in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are said to be killing as many deer as the animals hunted during the open season. The piece suggests a $25 bounty per head to curb the deaths, arguing the bounty would turn hunting into a business and hasten the species' practical extinction in Michigan.
New Becks Down south notes progress in business as 127 banks commenced operations in the past six months across southern states. Texas leads with 34 national banks and 5 state banks, followed by Virginia and Georgia with 12 banks each. Numerous loan and trust companies have formed, drawing local capital into these enterprises.
Ausient Quarries supply stone for the Nile dam at Assuania while Philae temples, believed to have supplied the blocks for ancient structures, face submersion as the project progresses. Granite from the new quarry bears wedge marks dating back 30 centuries.
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