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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1903
Page
2
A collage of light anecdotes and stray political quips spans marriages divorces editors and nobility with musings on Diaz Mark Twain and Tsarist shifts. It notes Pozsible elections revolutions and satirical jabs at Russia Japan Marconi and Venus sightings while touching on society’s wallet and vanity.
A collection of home care tips and simple making ideas including Russian soda-water brush cleaning, a dainty child’s apron sewing pattern, how to hang pictures, savory potato shells with paprika and celery salt, a note on fabrics like crepe meteor, a raspberry souffle recipe, washing reminders, and guest room flourishes with practical furnishings for bookcases and curtains in burlap with red trims.
A brief note describes Sarah’s return amid fashion remarks on inexpensive slits and shirtwater silts, praising simple blouses and gowns and noting the pleasant sight of Sarah again.
Practical home remedies describe a cough sweetening mixture using licorice gum arabic paregoric and antimental wine with a water boil and dose of a teaspoonful. Also a burn treatment combining sweet oil cream and egg white in a thick cloth, to be applied until healed.
Pale and beautifully transparent quince jelly results from a short bolt. To each pound of fruit add one pint of water and 3/4 pound sugar. Do not premake the fruit but let it drain overnight. Some prefer half apples, cooked separately due to longer quince cooking time.
The passage lists ornate evening wear details such as silk crosses on gowns, iridescent spangles with purple velvet accents, and embroidered Japanese negligees. It mentions chiffon gowns with layered tucks, billowing wraps, ermine trim, and a white Persian coat with mole fur accents and satin ribbon bindings.
The article promotes the latest English term shirt waist as the indispensable garment for the season. It describes a lean, non full cut with minimal shoulder fullness and a front pocketed panel, plus another model with a box plait and studded front that tightens the fit. A scalloped yoke finishes the back after assembly, covering shoulder seams.
A belt novelty uses crushed leather with small medallions linked by chains resembling metal girdles. Ermine trims many garments with mingled fur such as mink and chinchilla. The Henri Deux hat with a pointed peak and high crown is popular. For daytime wear a fine diamond mesh net fabric is favored for becomingness.
Telegraph operations in Argentina suffer from webs spun by many spiders clogging wires. Damp weather causes the webs to sag into festoons, creating leaks and drawing off current, reducing capacity to a fraction of normal.
The passage claims Cicero saw Homer’s Iliad contained in a forest fruit shell. Believers argued it fiction, but Blabop Hual of Avranches France allegedly proved otherwise before the French Dauphin and a royal company.
A woman at West London faced magistrates over alleged removal of a goose from a poulter or shop on the Uxbridge road. She said she took it for a lark, but the magistrate doubted the bird and remanded her pending investigation. It turns out the act was a robbery after all. Judy
The fragment notes the largest ancient insect at nine apecton with two foot wingspan from the Carboniferous era. It mentions Carboniferous life, a Lisbon of oversized ancient orders, and then shifts to unrelated items including aidas about Dr. Lagorio and lemon juice for dog bites. It references the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland in 1906 and the centennial of Lewis and Clark exploration.
A satirical note on police reports hinting that the creation of influential families through criminal or ruthless means is ongoing. The piece questions social guidance and the informal tagging of legitimacy by lineage, pointing to contemporary efforts as ongoing and concerning.
In Siam smoking spans all ages while locals favor strong native tobacco. Europeans use lotus leaf wrapped tobacco to create a cigarette with a distinct flavor that stands apart and is highly regarded.
A woman testifies after eight years of using Postum Food Coffee that swapping coffee for Postum eased nervous dyspepsia and nervousness, improved brain and nerve power, and benefited her husband and family. The notice cites Postum Co. of Battle Creek and mentions the booklet The Road to Wellville.
A jumble of ads and exclamations from an early 20th century newspaper page. It touts Defiance Starch at 10 cents for 16 ounces, then touts almanacs for 1903 and 1908, railway guides, real estate and business opportunities in Southwestern Missouri and surrounding nations, plus stock phrases about collateral and borrowing trouble. The fragmentary text hints at sales pitches, home remedies, and civic notices typical of the era.
The article promotes Vaseline as superior to imitations, warning that counterfeit products lack value and may be harmful. It urges buying only genuine Chesebrough manufactured Vaseline in original bottles and mentions Defiance Starch and a light aside about book agents and happiness.
An OCR fragment promotes Defiance Starch with suspicious sales language claiming better value and satisfaction. The copy hints at returning the product to a dealer for a refund and promises a lighter stick to the front, using odd phrasing and incomplete phrases.
A lawyer questions how to prove a prisoner stole all handkerchiefs. The defense cites handkerchiefs found on the prisoner as proof, while the witness argues such proof may be inconclusive, noting more of his own handkerchiefs are missing.
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