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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1902
Page
3
A lively column surveys social trends from pingpong rumors to female labor, art tours, and dress reform. It notes engagements broken over games, calls for Christian education to solve domestic service tensions, and features sketches of European travel, fashion critique, and a New York rural celebrity visit to the Waldorf.
The article recalls King Edward’s visit to Arran off Scotland and the heiress who owns most of Arran after a long Hamilton dukedom lineage. It notes her eighteenth birthday and Arran as a scenic, largely undeveloped spot, once linked to Jack the Painter and a major 1776 dockyard scare. Also mentions foreign buyers of American horseflesh.
The Raven Inn at Hook near Basingstoke, an eighteenth century hostelry built in 1668, advertises for sale. The historic half timbered house features overhanging gables and small windows and gained notoriety in the late eighteenth century during the American War of Independence as a residence.
American horseflesh gains favor in foreign markets with Britain spending 25 million dollars on U S horses in six years. Last year at least 75,000 horses were shipped to England. Export grew since 1896, with Britain not alone in recognizing American horse quality. Other nations also purchased hot sea stock abroad.
German doctor reports trials using lemon juice to treat rheumatism. Patients progressed from one to twenty five lemons daily with varied outcomes. one cured after twenty five lemons, ten months without an attack, another regained use of limbs, and a third with ankylosis showed nearby recovery after prolonged use.
The Volcano Record lists a series of earthquakes eruptions and related phenomena from early summer through September 1902. Notable events include Mont Pelee at Martinique with massive loss of life, La Soufriere on St Vincent, Vesuvius in Italy and Taal Mindanao activity, and strong shocks felt in Jamaica Ecuador and Greece. Scientists warn the end is not yet certain and the calendar shows ongoing terrestrial disturbances.
A summer workshop for boys featured manual training and mock medical drills with the nearby girls teaching first aid. Boys acted as wounded heroes and were treated by amateur nurses, providing lively demonstrations that made ordinary classroom work seem dull by comparison.
A Harlem household faces etiquette challenges as a stout guest, masquerading as an islander, is ushered into the drawing room. The mistress rebukes the servant John for admitting unauthorised visitors, highlighting the tensions of decorum and the “tropics” in high society.
The general statistics of Methodism show totals by region and denomination. United States figures include the Methodist Episcopal Church and its southern branch with African and Colored Methodist churches noted. worldwide totals list ministers lay preachers and large Sunday school participation across many conferences and unions.
Instructions describe selecting ripe peaches, washing, peeling, pitting, packing into wide mouth bottles with stoppered tops, sealing with wax or cork, and processing in a water bath for about two hours. After cooling the bottles should be dried and stored in a cool dry place to keep until next season.
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