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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
2
A collage of misc. notices and brief items covers topics from clocks in Germany and a Turkish army ban to a Boston pastor declining a hefty salary rise. It notes Algerian grotto discoveries, railways aiding Galveston refugees, a pig adopted by a hen, and a forthcoming Michigan bee lawsuit. Also mentioned are charity officials in Russia, a West Virginia auction of antique curios, and a Hartford divorce ruling over lodge attendance.
A New York Pros account describes the Children’s Aid Society’s transport service that moves cripples children from tenements to a school on East Eighty eighth Street. The program serves poor families, shelters neglected youths, provides braces and individualized teaching, and seeks funds for a rubber tired vehicle to ease the painful, jolting rides.
LQ Paulouse proposes using the upper 50 by 50 foot space above the Chicago Board of Trade trading hall as a pigeon coop. The plan envisions a glass ceiling space between two roofs, currently dirty with sawdust, protected by iron grating, with rental terms to be set by the board.
The text contrasts livers and leans among people and notes a workers strike over wage increases from 4.2 to 40 dollars per day. It also describes plaster of Paris and stan for fresco work. It highlights George A. R. McNeil, first president of the Columbia Typographical Union in Washington, his long service, birthplace Annapolis, and chairing roles, praised as a refined presiding officer.
The article describes Shansi province linked to ancient China history with a capital once located there. It details cliffs along the western Shanai Chin frontier, promising wild scenery and ledges once deemed ideal for cliffside towns. An illustration shows one quaint village perched among these cliffs.
Dutch diamond polishers, about 10,000 strong, protest wages they deem too low. They argue deductions for bench hire, wheel maintenance, verstellers, and supplier costs erode earnings, leaving workers with little or nothing after a year of idle work due to wartime rough-stone supply cuts.
The Coming Nation notes the Ruskin experiment’s end, but Georgia Austin near Waycross now hosts a new latte colony. About 250 members, 180 minors, pay $500 to join, receive a house and maintenance, with a wood shop, broommaking, leather belt factory, and broad national mix.
Report from Buffalo states the ornamental plasterers working on Pan American exposition buildings are earning four dollars daily, the highest wages ever paid in Buffalo for this trade, reflecting a recovery in the construction sector and optimism for the exposition's progress.
Trade and industrial unions in New Zealand are recognized and legalized by the state under the 1894 act. Unions must comply with business safeguards, register to act in industrial disputes, and face penalties for breaches. Maximum penalties reach £600 per union and up to £10 per member for certain breaches or award recoveries.
Copperplate printers and engravers at Tiffanys Union Square shop who joined a strike applied for reinstatement saying they regretted striking. The firm promised consideration and no discharge of competent new hires, while agitators who caused the strike would not be readmitted. Some strikers earned up to 100 a week, with none earning less than 50.
German brokers promoted an industrial company offering 5 percent returns the first year and higher gains later. Public interest grew but dividends never materialized. Investors sued, won a compromise verdict, appealed, and a higher court ordered return of their money on surrender of the stock.
Herman Justi notes the Illinois Coal Operators Association supports forming a commission to handle issues between employees and employers. The plan aims to prevent friction and labor strikes by referring questions to the body, seen as practical and humane. The association backs the step as a set mechanism for industrial relations.
The British Museum shows an artwork room with sun baked clay baby bottles. The authors catalogue finished after twenty years of labor, costing $200,000, comprising 400 volumes and 70 supplements.
Experts warn Monon gabola river water is ruinous for drinking and irrigation due to a hazardous dilution ratio of sixteen grains of sulphuric acid to one gallon. This proportion only appears in drought seasons, and even when diluted the river remains unsafe for household use.
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