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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1900
Page
2
The column surveys topics from electrified power lines and a Nashville benefaction to post office rules, Rossini lore, overeducation debates, New Zealand defense costs, Edgar Saltus, a tiny postal salary warrant, and Indiana cave finds. It also sketches Pekin siege camouflage and antique Crimean weaponry in a rapid, miscellany style.
A Chinese diplomat once well known in Washington served as minister to the United States from 1886 to 1889. Chang Yen Hoon was beheaded by order of the dowager empress for liberal views. His death occurred last July but was only recently learned. He was an antiquarian who visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and aided American scholars with Han dynasty relics. A hammered bronze Han vase from his visit remains at the Met.
Responses to the Anglo German pact on China show the United States and Russia treat it as a pledge rather than a guide for action. The U S reaffirms open door and preservation of Chinese territorial integrity while avoiding promises. The note emphasizes leadership by the contracting powers would be absurd and calls for reaffirming own views.
The article profiles Belle L Reynolds the only woman major in the Union Army detailing her Civil War service from Bird's Point to Vicksburg and her later nursing work in the Philippines. It also discusses Negro Registrar of the Treasury and Judson Lyons, noting Lyons’s role in currency and bonds, his background, and daily bond handling. A World’s Work image of Li Hung Chang-like Eski mo statue by Arctic explorer A J Stone accompanies the piece.
Locomotor ataxia or tabes dorsalis, a spinal cord disease, mainly affects ages thirty to fifty though children as young as ten may be affected. Causes include constitutional trouble and exposure to weather, overwork, and general decline in health. railroad workers and frequent travelers are noted as higher risk. Symptoms include numb feet, unstable gait, fatigue, dizziness, impaired coordination with eyes closed, waist constriction, leg pains, stomach pain, possible bowel and bladder irregularity, visual impairment, occasional deafness, joint deformities, brittle bones, and rare foot ulcers. It progresses slowly, often for years, and is not usually fatal. early treatment may cure, but otherwise treatment delays progression and relieves symptoms.
At Batesville last week Edward Brown, a respected local man, battled a 600-pound black bear raiding his cornfield. After wounding the bear, Brown was knocked down and injured, but his son intervened, shooting the beast dead to avert further catastrophe. The incident, reported by the Atlanta Constitution, highlights a dramatic encounter between a longtime bear hunter and a colossal bear in a rural field near Talla hatchle bottom.
Rev Larkin A Rockwell pastor at West Pullman M B church rose from a small salary to affluence by buying Azurite Twine Beauties and other Arizona mines. He announced he would pay the church mortgage of 2500 and resigned his salary citing adequate family income. He formerly preached at Englewood Second Methodist. Rockwell, reportedly worth 500000, is in Arizona overseeing investments and plans further charitable acts on his return.
The British Museum adds rare items to a special collection including moths with male wings on one side and female wigs on the other, butterflies lacking fore wings, and insects with abnormal numbers of antennae or legs. Also mentions plans for a new grand opera by Camille Saint-Saens and a trip to Majorca with a libretto by Victorion Sardow and M. Gheust.
For a decade the government built no new locomotives or cars and twelve trains halted recently. The core issue is a system where the state owns the rolling stock and leases it to private companies, hindering service reliability.
The largest German employers are Krupp at Engen with 44087 workers the Hamburg American Line at Hamburg with 14643 the North German Lloyd at Bremen with 11200 the Vulcan shipyards at Stettin with 7208 workers and Cheap Literature 14 Cutenge. It costs one cent to view the new directory and there is no time limit to read the book.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Oklahoma related items with unclear names and dates. It references a schedule or event, a map, a Perry area, and a Morgan’s manual. Content is largely unreadable. information is insufficient for a complete or coherent summary.
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