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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1904
Page
2
A fragmented compilation of satirical notes and brief items covers topics from international politics and measles in New York to Port Arthur, Empress Dowager imagery, and a Kansas City injunction on a father’s access. It weaves pop culture, sport, economy, and curiosities with pointed asides about leaders, embezzlement, and upcoming exhibitions.
An English observer decries Korea’s poverty and ugliness as seen at Port Fusan and Chemulpo. He mocks Japanese “civilization” in Fusan, notes unsanitary streets, crowded huts, and desolate barrens. The piece contrasts decayed palaces with wretched homes and describes Seoul rail, cemetery landscapes, and Koreans resigned to fate amid regional tensions.
The article explains how each ant species has a distinctive odor and how different colonies within a species carry different scents based on colony age and queen origin. It describes five noses on antennae for recognizing friends, foes, trails, larvae, and enemies, and notes that Seoul becomes a pivotal point in Korea. Ants born together within twelve hours become amicable across species, while after three days odors settle and ants reject outsiders.
A Mills era dialect vignette depicts Mandy and Sindy facing wartime chores and shortages. Labor shifts, meager meals, and community strain surface as Mandy begins work while Grace G. Bostwick in Lippincort's appears in the text, hinting at social context.
Grain elevators suspend operations and 200 workers lose jobs while Toronto brewery workers near 1200 join a broad strike. Governors, unions, and federations from Indiana to Iowa push for open shop rules, stronger defense funds, and arbitration. Cable talks on wages, holidays, and labor press debate. Community actions include Chicago child labor parade and talks of moving miners’ federation HQ to Butte.
A home remedy advises mixing two ounces of olive oil with camphor and one dram of additional compound. Rub well into the affected area before applying heat, using only a small amount at a time and rubbing gently on the sprained part.
Paris journals claim the United States is news paper friendly while Paris papers boast large circulations Le Petit Journal reports 800000 and Le Petit Parisien 1500000 readers shining in the market through distinctive press reach and appeal
Defiance Starch Co offers 25 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition for the 25 ladies in each of five states Hi noii Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri who send in the most Defiance starch trade marks from a 16 oz package mailed by Sept 1 1904. Tickets sent by registered mail Sept 6. Starch sold by all dealers with no rival in quality or quantity.
Missionaries operate in the walled cities of China where about 1,600 such city walls remain without missionary presence.
Wholesale textile firms in Germany adopt American methods to secure bargain sales on targeted days. A subtopic notes low wages for Japanese workers, with one thousand cigarettes produced for a Japanese factory girl earning 8 sen, about 4 cents.
Until a decade ago novel writing in Japan was not seen as a respectable profession. In Madrid, five or six murders in a day are not infrequent.
Good news from New Braunfels Texas May 23 Aromedy touted to cure kidney trouble from Brights disease to rheumatism and heart trouble A man named G C Schumann reports his wife improved greatly after using Dodd's Kidney Pills and praises the remedy Many other cases are said to show relief and cures for rheumatism diabetes and kidney ailments.
Japan leverages abundant water power to electrify rural towns, extending reach to energy and communications networks as remote communities gain access to light and telephone lines.
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