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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1900
Page
3
The Gold Lenens Goldheaters claim hammered sheets can be made so thin that 263,000 layers equal an inch. They say a ream could fit into a single paper leaf, underscoring extraordinary fineness in gold leaf production.
The article notes Britain and Ireland collectively cover over 9 000 miles of canals in England Ireland and Scotland with a combined 16 000 000 tons of traffic. Revenue is stated at about 29 000 000 pounds for the year.
A Sturgon Missouri woman sought a soft hands remedy sending a note to an earl via an ewer and received a curious recipe to soak hands in fishwater three times daily while mother rents. Separately a report notes Hrithik Antarctic Expedition supports Captain Scott and the British Antarctic Expedition planning, with the fund reaching $200,500 as of September 1901.
An article extols Dr Kesley Hag Keeley treatment for drunkenness and morphine craving at a Kansas City Mo institute. It claims nerve reset via Keeley method ends dependency, citing years of operation, success stories, and a favorable location atop a bluff near the union depot.
The Centaur Company of New York exposed counterfeit Cantoria preparations locally in St Louis. Warrants issued for Palestine Drug Co staff, with John Bick and chemist Benjamin Chiraan arrested and later bonded. Cases to be heard by Judge Clark in Court of Criminal Correction. The firm vows to shield the public from fake goods.
A sensational ad claims a free trial bottle of 43 DROPS will cure rheumatism sciatica neuralgia and many other illnesses within days. It urges immediate reply with a cent payment for postage and selling large bottles at $1.00 prepaid by mail or express.
Robert Buchanan, now critically ill in London, gained fame with Under Tours in 1862 and Legends of Inverburn two years later. Canon Christopher marks an eightieth birthday with a scholarship plan at Wycliffe Hall and Ridley Hall, supported by Lord Kinnaird, Sir John Ken tsway and the Bishop of Liverpool. Henry Townsend, new president of the American General Passenger and Travel Agents, is a popular rail executive, praised for expanding Missouri Pacific Passenger Service and leading the association.
William Stampa Cherry of Chicago returns from four years in Africa where he aided the Fashoda expedition and helped supervise a river steamer for French interests on the Nile. He led a second Congo expedition, explored the Kitty region north of the Congo Free State, and gathered ethnographic photos and curios. Charles H McClintock accompanied him. McClintock later died of African fever.
The engagement and wedding rings are worn on the third finger of the left hand with the engagement ring removed and replaced as a guard during the ceremony. Long Nervies m4 Pastor, The Rev. Mone A, Bixby of Cranston Street Baptist church Providence has resigned after thirty-one years in the pastorate and fifty-one years as a clergyman.
A fragmented 19th century style ad listing various remedies and false claims. Mentions Hall’s Hydnis Cure, Dr Cheney & Co Toledo, Cassarets, and other patent medicines. Urges readers to beware of imitations and misleading claims while promising health benefits from internal cures and bowel treatments. Contains obvious OCR garble but preserves named products and companies.
A garbled OCR style page lists patent medicines and cures with names like GROVE and PUTNAM, mentioning Quinine, Piso’s Cure for Consumption, Beeman’s, and Panwan’s products. It includes old ad language about healing colds, nerves, and nervousness, with attributions to Maple Street Norwichty and Philadelphia.
Across the grain belt farmers seek wives with desire strongest in Kansas where large crops boost demand. Widows preferred, good cooks in demand, shop girls acceptable if willing to work. Dairy scene shifts from farm butter to creamery butter. state fair shows few individual entries versus hundreds of creameries and many cooperative plants. few new creameries or cheese factories reported.
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