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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1899
Page
6
A collage of home life guidance and fashion commentary from women’s magazines. The piece discusses gowns, corsetry, and etiquette, with excerpts urging modesty and practicality, and profiles a typical ordinary girl who becomes cherished through virtue and helpful deeds.
The page blends household cleaning advice with a long critique of gold standard prices for crops. It discusses soda solutions for glass, ammonia wash, dusting methods, and a humorous vegetable paste. It includes a detailed table tracing wheat corn hogs and cattle prices from 1884 to 1899 and ends with a parable about nut trees and working squirrels.
A dated recipe for pickling tomatoes onions peppers and spices. Instructions cover chopping, packing in jars, boiling, sealing, and curing with salt water, vinegar, mustard seeds, turmeric, and cinnamon amid numerous misspellings.
The aged Marseilles quilt reappears with a new panel and embroidered border. Featuring floral sprays and band embroidery, the items command prices from 2.50 to 25 dollars, with hand embroidery after a 10 dollar threshold. Imported from England, the goods are produced by country women near town in light shades of white pink blue and yellow.
A dated home canning note lists ingredients for pickling vegetables including cucumbers, cauliflower, peppers, and tomatoes with vinegar, mustard, sugar, flour, turmeric, salt, and water. Vegetables are soaked overnight, then cooked to tenderness except the large cucumbers before being combined with the vinegar and spices.
Instructions describe pickling cucumbers by placing 200 of 300 on a surface for eight or nine hours, draining, then arranging in four jars with boiling vinegar poured over. Keep near the fire, covered with vine leaves, and repeat with fresh leaves until the cucumbers turn green.
A reader reports trying a dry anit bath described as a magical tonic for energy and complexion. A lady states it relieved fatigue that weighed on her summer days after a physician advised avoiding tonics and strict remedies.
A fragmented recipe instructs on canning peaches and related items. It advises gathering bottles and utensils, filling jars with peaches and sugar, boiling vinegar, and sealing jars. The text emphasizes proper preparation and storage for long keeping.
A prosperity story notes farmers face seasonal help shortages each year though demand for farm hands rises during harvest. Workers are plentiful if guaranteed steady employment, yet neighborhoods report work seekers lingering near employment bureaus, while overall scarcity appears temporary and limited to farm laborers.
A fragment describes visionary squirrels gathering and storing nuts for winter. It suggests equal freedom but notes the creatures are not practical and would be if they were.
A stark poem portrays workers ground down from dawn to dusk, toiling for others while their own homes and fires burn. It laments plunderers and the rigged economy, urging action as the disinherited endure rent, toil, and uncertainty.
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