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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1900
Page
8
The passage sketches romantic episodes from historical and literary figures, noting how suitors wooed Polammer, Mary, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It highlights bold schemes, dramatic betrothals, and the enduring power of devotion across marriages, duels, and courtship rituals.
Austria's emperor stands highlighted as a central figure in European royalty. Described as immensely wealthy and charitable, he is noted for a notable incident where a tear blotted a death warrant, prompting him to refuse to sign and tear up the document.
A fragmentary 1864 Knoxville wartime piece discusses conspirators and supposed science from China, claiming methods to spread contagious disease via peddlers and carriers. It cites Dr W D Filia of Canton and depicts manipulating witnesses, private residences, and even children to spread infections.
In Queen Street, Pottstown, Mrs Shellenberger aged about 16 to 18 marries Horace Shellenberger of Lower Pottgrove after elders balked at the match. The couple, who met through affection, faced parental opposition rooted in Dutch stock and an early marriage precedent.
In a French province once dubbed Armenia of the ancients, maidens fear a bewitched visage and cling to St. Guiree and St. Catharine. They perform rites on St. Guiree day November 23 by inserting needles into a wooden saint figure, believing it wards off doom. Some travel to a shrine for a second ritual, attaching needles to a pedestal and waiting for the year’s end.
The Feylon Observer editor J Ferguson shares a detailed tea recipe. He urges freed water, clean kettle, hot teapot, pouring boiled water, one spoonful per cup, five minute infusion, decant to hot pot, and using fresh water to keep fragrance strong.
In a Siberia era vignette a merchant ships fruit from Prkutek to Oleua paying 170 rubies freight plus a 120 ruby surcharge nicknamed nipping or gresging. A station official pocketed 15 rubies as the car passed through, while the same wagon was diverted and resold at another stop. Merchants now guess prices to cover theft and delays, as every shipment faces new, hidden charges.
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