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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1903
Page
3
Fragmentary text speaks of time as king over earth and power fading. A speaker laments earthly glory, warning that even mighty towers and temples built by mortals will crumble while time remains sovereign and inevitable.
The Labor Field column reports on the International Seamen's Union meeting in New York on November 23, miners at Holmanville resuming work after a strike over a dismissed worker, AFL's stance on the Carpenters label, coke workers organizing in Connellsville, and wage talks and strikes across multiple trades including blacksmiths, mine engineers, pattern makers, and railroad workers. It notes union leadership moves, police actions, and plant disputes affecting open shops and wage scales.
A report on Balloonnet’s voyage from France to England notes it as the seventh successful crossing of the English Channel from the Continent to England. Count De Is Vault’s Paris to Hull balloon attempt is described as a flat effort. Colonel Fred Burnaby remains noted for a reverse English to France crossing.
In Poolesville Montgomery County Maryland residents were pranked with a supposed new plant seed. A woman who failed to grow it was given a small plant believed to be from the seed. She cultivated it as a pet until it flourished into the Jimson weed revealing the hoax. The incident ends with a biting remark about the joker.
A Virginia plover makes a migratory feat by flying from North America to Brazil in a single unbroken 15 hour flight. It travels 8,200 miles at about four miles per minute along an Atlantic route 400 to 600 miles east of Bermuda.
A battleship's electric searchlight cast a bright beam into a harbor area one night. A citizen, in a nightrobe, was about to retire and was reaching for a nightcap when the light suddenly swept past his window. The incident caused amusement in the locality.
William J Bodwell of Augusta Maine reports a single quash seed planted last spring yielded 97 pounds with seven fruits ranging from eight to seventeen pounds. Traffic on electric roads notes that U S electric roads carried last year three amen the population of the earth and maintained 253 rural parks nearly come for every day in the year.
The authentic signature of the recently chosen head of the Catholic church is presented. The item notes the significance of the papal autographs and identifies the figure as the newly elected pope.
AL RL Panput of White River Junction Vermont recently exhibited putats described as reemable and burning with a thumb and three oddery while the intestinal item was closed.
A revived ancient rite called Beating the Hounde was staged at Great Berkhamsted after decades. Parish officials, councilors, townsmen, and twenty Bothraé schoolboys roamed the countryside with willow wands perambulating boundaries. Strangers found were chased, bumped, or run through obstacles as the procession traversed about twenty two miles.
A dog leaps to the eaves to retrieve a stick tossed for him. The flag is owned by Mrs. A. V. Pineo of Kentville, N. S.
An ancient 1725 plantephere clock, a gift in the late pope's collection, was presented to the Spanish queen consort by mathematician Bardado Facini. It displays hours and minutes in Spanish Italian style, day length, seasons, and astronomical data, yet its wheel movement remains inexplicable and repair is unknown.
A stage manager tells Frohman that a member of the Three Little Maids company has left his wife to run off with a chorus girl in a variety show. Probing question asks if any other actors have abandoned legitimate theater for vaudeville.
Sardine lovers face a fall in harvest as London firms report signicant consignments drying up. A single house had received several thousand pounds weekly but now no tins arrive and the catches have failed.
A fragmented paragraph notes Swies Chocolate Bwisa exports chocolate to nearly every nation, despite the fact that all furraw me fertilA and sugar are well never ported.
A bull terrier on a city street works with laborers digging a cellar. As the noon whistle blows, the dog jumps up and walks to its master, signaling it is time to eat. The dog appears to understand the whistle and its meaning, a daily routine observed by the workers.
In anthrasite coal regions visitors buy carved cups formed from blocks of coal as local souvenirs.
Paris underground road excavations uncover mammoth remains at Place de l Opera and Montmartre chalk beds plus bones of rhinoceros tapir and a giant bird. sharks teeth and barnacles found in silex suggest ancient marine life. geologists hopeful of human traces from later periods. Other items include a broken collar bone case in New London and a beehive in a chimney in Assonet.
A quirky pastiche presents snippets of dialogue and jokes involving figures like Avaunt and a meek reporter, with lines about fate, courting, and social foibles. The ancient jest tone blends with a reporter’s bemused catalog of characters and wry remarks.
A jumble of brief, humorous exchanges and quips from a likely column. Snippets include a caterer’s delivery with a mistaken husband, a jokey money exchange, and fleeting lines about aging, kissing babies, and oddball bets. The tone is light and fragmentary, resembling a humorous digression page.
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