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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1896
Page
5
Local items report visitors from Kansas City and Lawrence, death notices for Garnett elders, a mayoral visit, and community updates. Drownings near Lincoln township, a candidate visiting Colony, a bankruptcy of news about a circus, and weather damage recounts across Anderson county. A funeral, marriages, and a student commencement list also appear alongside small business notes and a new daily paper in Neodensa.
The county graduates of Lincoln township will meet in the Bush City school room on June 1. Exercises begin at 8 pm. All are cordially invited to meet with us. W. W. Shuwent, Co. Sup't.
A benefit note advertises Electric Bittern as a permanent remedy for severe headaches and habitual constipation. The text urges sufferers to try the medicine, priced fifty cents to one dollar, sold at A. T Molcomb & Co's drag store.
A Garnetta harness dealer, unfamiliar with bicycles, attempted to ride a wheel shipped from St. Louis to Kansas City using various train stints called blind baggage. He was kicked off at Scipio, Richmond, and Ottawa, later rode a brake beam to Ottawa and was finally expelled near Leona. The tale ends with the harness man returning home, refusing to reveal how.
Seyral residents stranded by floods near Lone Elm and county capital. Reports note sick list at Mealpine and McAlpine’s continued illness, Luln Mitchell visiting relatives, and Roy Chambers missing due to high waters. Decoration Day address by A. Wardrip. public schools closed with midday dinner and exercises. Hardware store break in, a baby ill, and town improvements from depot to Little’s corner.
A Beaversville Tl druggist reports Dr King’s New Discovery saved a life after a patient, once given up as doomed, used three bottles and rapidly recovered. The store advertises the remedy as invaluable. Grand opera attendance followed a late afternoon program with many speakers.
Prohibitionist gold-bug faction secures victory at national convention with Joshua Levering named as presidential nominee.
Huckion's Azulea Natye claims a universal salve for skin eruptions with guaranteed results or money back. Mor aale by A. T. Holcomb & Co. Prices beatable on cultivators and breaking plows, W. Chick of Welda notes. Foreclosure relief and potential home save offered to distressed farm owners through W TL Melgen in Garnett Ras.
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