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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1897
Page
2
A Kansas item cites varied writings on reform, including Zuni witch trials and lynching punishment in Mexico, plus US and British metric system moves, Cuban affairs, and a humorous obituary quip about a St Louis funeral banjo music. It mixes editorials, international issues, and local commentary with several named figures and places.
A reflective, verse-like scene describes Howawoot with altar frost and sons gathering with wives. The old-time board is blessed, tea poured, children laughing as the turkey arrives. The poet recalls seasons of home and kin, lifting hearts on Thanksgiving Day.
John Meredith returns home for Thanksgiving as Mary, daughter of Jim McKenzie, becomes president of the Woman's Emancipation Circle. Her letters reveal desire for equality, while Mary’s father resists, forcing a clash over women's rights. The narrator, a boastful guest, witnesses Mary assert, then humorously defer to male roles during the holiday gathering.
Pleasant Thanksgiving amusement traditions for all ages are described with word transposition parlor games and rhyming challenges. Forsyth humor in Mr C H Messenger style shows dancing etiquette, followed by a note on wildlife laws in North Dakota barring quail beagle and pheasant hunting until 1900 and otter trapping until 1903.
Section men on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad’s Breakville division uncovered rails cast in 1863. Investigations show the rails were part of a batch bought in England during the war at a cost of 125 dollars per ton in gold. The rails remain in fair condition and could last ten more years for light motive power.
An advertisement page touts Santa Fe daily excursions to California with comfy Pullman cars and porters. It highlights picturesque routes avoiding extreme heat or cold, urges readers to request descriptive literature from Goo W. Hagenbuch, Kansas City. Readers are urged to read ads for bargains and reliable merchants, and mentions Cascarate candy as a constipation remedy.
A fragment discusses feeding weeds with hay, noting weeds lack hay’s nutrition and can be injurious. It mentions weed refuse entering manure piles and concerns over weed management in feed. The text shifts to a 19th century note about Purposes for cough remedies and a reference to a religiously charged use of stiffening frills around necks once seen as improper.
A Kansas City mother devises a plan to get her daughters home at a satisfactory hour at night, requiring the last neon to amuse and prepare the family breakfast.
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