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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
2
A brief compendium touching Uruguayan peace terms, alleged fraud in presidential election, and the global context of colonial landholding. It notes insurrection end, President Borda's assassination in August, and reflects on international events including Irish and British landlord interests and local clerical supply notes.
A Minneapolis letter to the Times condemns a proposed tax on unmarried men, claiming it would drive bachelors to alms houses and provoke bloodshed, arguing no reform method is offered and urging calm while warning of a danger greater than any war.
An English journal critiques U S navy and army as limited and ill prepared, while noting potential rival strength of Japan and Spain. It discusses a wheat report showing a large U S deficit to fill with imports, and contrasts college exploits with frail health claims, urging caution in judging national progress.
Fragmentary poem like piece critiques labor oppression and industrial misery. It evokes workers charged with toil and the promise of equality, contrasting hardship with visions of liberty and divine aid as labor struggles continue.
A historical article argues that monopolies threaten competition and that organized labor through the Million Trade unions can raise wages and living standards. It outlines proposed weekly benefits, member gains, and broader social impacts from sustained wage growth and collective bargaining.
The piece argues unions plus added workers could raise wages, lower interest, and create a partnership between capital and labor, guiding policy toward mass interests. It highlights Walter Carmody’s role in public works disputes, cites eight hour work debates, and endorses municipal ownership as a path to cheaper, better services while warning against excessive franchise royalties.
The Lewistown area reports the death of Charles Swain known as Charley the hermit of Trout Run. At 87 he amassed wealth once valued at 140000, largely from Lehigh canal boating. A romantic incident with a woman named Kopheinia ended his hopes of marriage. He wandered house to house, admired a shepherd dog Sophrania, and fell into poverty after backing Clay in 1844. Relatives in Steuben County urged him to return, but he refused.
A two year old child in Wyoming was carried away by a mountain lion near Casper Mountain. Herders and miners search day and night with only bare foot prints and a lion den located. no trace of the child is found and hopes of survival are gone.
A dime museum manager offered to buy a tree used for lynching but the owner refused claiming the vigilance committee is not finished with it yet. The tale recounts local lore of vigilante justice and a notorious tree.
Fragmentary report notes a Philadelphia school authority test on a pile of cowl at a school house. It cites an unlucky number thirteen and references railway stalletia, a Font Boa, and a mysterious exchange with a person named Marie. The text is garbled with misread names and partial phrases.
A long awaited marriage reunion unfolds as G M McDowell of Madison County Missouri and the former belle of Yancey County renew their vows forty years after a blood written decree blocked their union. The release was signed 40 years ago and now with the decree void the couple remarries living their youth again.
William McCalet Kite Hix Wite killed his wife Annie with a sharp pointed paper knife then died by his own hand in their fourth floor room at a Wells Street lodging house run by Mrs. Fonnie Blaine. Neighbors found a brutal scene with blood and shattered furniture. The couple had lived there three weeks, were described as midlife and well dressed, and had a tense quarrel the day before the fatal struggle. The circumstances remain cloaked in mystery. The Blaines had no knowledge of the pair beyond their short residence and a distant connection to James G. Blake. McCaleb earlier worked at Chicago Hotel Cabinet Company and claimed past work as a freighter agent.
Taos professor Hyederivck Starr of the University of Chicago issued an advertisement seeking information about six fingered individuals. Responses flooded in from many quarters claiming over supply of Angers or toes, reaching a total of 155. Most replies cite six fingers on one hand or six toes on nine feet, with a few noting twelve fingers or twelve toes.
The fragment shows a dialogue about engagement, a belief in germ theory, and kissing as dangerous. A mention of an auntie and a scientist contrasts personal life with scientific views, but the text is incomplete.
Fragmented medical reklam text touts a universal cure for deafness by constitutional remedies. It cites an inflamed Eustachian tube as the cause and urges sale of a treatment, with a $1,000 reward claim and dubious Hall's Compound favoring marketing pills as the best remedy.
A fragment describes a wife’s pride in her husband’s love as he falls sick and delirious and refuses to let anyone but her near him. It also mentions a cold remedy, Quinine Tablets, and endorsements for Star Tobacco as a leading world brand amid casual social commentary.
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