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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1902
Page
7
A fragmentary verse contrasts princely wealth with the simple life of a herdman in quiet Ife. It extols plain dealing and honesty over costly living, praising a frugal, contented, untroubled existence under summer skies. The attribution to William Byrd is likely erroneous or incomplete.
The Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paper Hangers traces its rise from 1886 ore settlement with the AFL. After two factions merged in 1900 their strength expanded to 735 local unions and nearly 40 000 members by July 1902 with wage gains and shorter hours across 150 cities in the US and Canada. The union promotes conciliation arbitration and annual employer conferences and aims for an eight hour day nationwide.
Article notes labor leaders’ relief at Atlanta convention clearing P. J. McGuire of a ten thousand dollar embezzlement charge. It reports the headquarters shift from Philadelphia to Indianapolis, making the city home to the world’s two largest unions, carpenters and miners, and criticizes a carpenters’ Monroe doctrine resolution as antiquated but highlights hopes for world labor unity.
The 1894 Pullman strike and A R U conflict led to a long fight over arbitration. A quiet labor movement since then has united workers across departments. A Chicago Federation of Labor member says about three quarters of Pullman employees are now union members.
James McCarrick, longtime Kansas City Kansas Boilermakers Union leader, was fined 1500 by coworkers for not walking out during a Union Pacific strike call. The penalty, largest against a recalcitrant, followed other ex-members fined about 200 each. McCarrick cited family duty over union duty as his defense.
A recent agreement between Chicago wholesale grocers and their employees mandates that unions incorporate under state law. Some union members oppose the change, which employers favored. The pact sets a ten hour day, pays for holidays, and runs to February 1, 1904, with wages: specialty $15 weekly, foremen $14, expert porters $11.50, probationers $10, and second-class workers $10.00.
In chronic bronchitis and bronchial ailments the combination of Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea and St. Jacobs Oil is urged. The oils effect adhesive bronchial strains from the outside while the tea soothes and clears the chest, aiding expectoration and easing coughing. Use together for asthma, croup, whooping cough, enlarged tonsils, and bronchial afflictions.
The article notes a new irrigation lake in Egypt covering 223 square miles and mentions a prospective dam across the Missouri River that would double the size. The plans indicate a substantial expansion of water resources and regional impact.
A copy of the first sermon preached in New England by Robert Cushman, delivered at Plymouth, Mass on December 12, 1631, is found in the late Dr. Claudius B. Webster of Concord collection. The text cites Let no man seek his own but every man another's wealth. Five Generations of One Family in Pillow, Dauphin County, Pa. Mrs. Henry Feagley, 91, her daughter Mrs. Jacob Leuker, 69, the daughter's daughter Mrs. Frank Snyder, 44, and her son Russell, 3 months old, all reside together. A would-be poet at a club is teased when told he will not publish poems until after his death as friends toast long life.
A Kansas City Star excerpt features a turkey father scolding his greedy son at a corn feast. The father warns the bird is eating himself to death ahead of Thanksgiving.
Ireland’s Vice Chancellor Rt Hon Hedges Eyre Chatterton aged eighty three has just married. He has held office since 1867 and, amid retirement talk due to age, appears in a new wig for each report.
A jumbled mix of product pitches and stray lines promising Defiance Starch boosts, Roona remedies, and Burdock benefits. It touts mail order scale, fashion tips, and local notices, mentioning Philadelphia stairways, New York medical college plans, and Kansas City commerce. The piece reads as disjointed clippings and advertising copy.
A letter from Oregon Governor W M Lord praises Pe-ru-na as a universal catarrh remedy. The text claims widespread endorsements from coast to coast and urges households to stock the cure to prevent colds and related winter illnesses, with an offer of Dr Hartman’s free book Winter Catare.
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