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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1899
Page
2
A Kansas paper quotes a hotel clerk describing how 30 to 40 men use New Orleans hotels as offices for con games. Promoters, fakirs, and curbstone brokers lure farmers into private parlors, with ongoing schemes and unauthorized tenants, while the hotel tolerates them to avoid bad reputations.
A philosophical screed argues that a woman’s character is read from the mouth rather than spoken words. Physiognomists claim the Cupid bow lips mark intellect and generosity, while a wide straight mouth signals strength of mind. The piece notes current fashion favors slightly parted lips but suggests perseverance can yield the desired expression.
Heroes Alt Private Purvis of the Yorkshire regiment earned the Distinguished Service Medal. During hostilities with tribesmen on the northwestern frontier, Private Matthews was wounded twice while Purvis and his mates carried him to safety within British lines. Matthews died that same night.
Mrs Blank describes a persuasive agent who offered many items at Vmes and mixed a tale while showcasing perfume. The agent lost track but claimed the soap would be the finest you have ever used and would make an excellent father as she offered the bottle for sniffing.
A fragment describes a man entering a Boston restaurant and preparing to order, with odd dialogue about a shave or a slampooy. The text then shifts to a Boston Herald note claiming recent English athletics news and references to natives, ending abruptly with garbled lines.
A fragment from a 19th century prose-poem urged readers to endure hardship for higher truth. It contrasts idealized nature with human struggle, suggesting sorrow sharpens character and sanctifies effort, ending with Memphis Solm signature flourish.
The article discusses how increasing self supporting women in the middle class creates both economic and moral challenges. It argues that intellectual parity with men, coupled with moral standards, may lead to competition but overall education and cooperation benefit both genders.
A historical garment description notes a hem trimmed with three rules and Valonelentes lace, a stock collar, tucked surplice bretelles of white lawn, and a bow in the back.
In the current issue What to Eat extols the charm of a cozy home with a book filled mantel. Maid Ames describes a simple aquateron grate, a wooden shelf on iron brackets, valance, floor curtains, and two shelves with brass rod curtains, plus bric-a-brac and a net decoration.
A tinted wall arrangement uses a canopy caught on small iron rods, a black iron lantern, and ceiling or bracket placement for subtle glow. The idea favors a few quality items like bronzes porcelain a lantern candelabra a teak chair and a cushioned tea corner over clutter.
A dessert method describes chilling a mold, binding with buttered muslin, and baking three hours. It follows with Spanish Custard made from cream milk ground rice and orange flower water, boiled until stiff, shaped, cooled, and served with cream and rose petals garnish.
A collection of kitchen instructions for breakfast bean soup hot chocolate cream pudding and cod a la morte with parsley herbs and lemon notes. Includes directions for overnight beans onions milk eggs butter and a whipped egg white topping, plus notes on hot serving and pudding icing.
A fragment discusses long cuffed sleeves and a pearl tiara with five pear shaped pearls. It lists sea salt in baths as a tonic, jet buckles as smart jewelry, and metal choices between gray silver and dull gilt. It provides eye brow and eyelash growth formulas with vaseline and cantharsides, plus a sunburn ointment recipe using carbonate of lead and arrowroot.
A man sent fifty cents to an advertisement promising to reduce excess flesh without drugs. He received a reply showing a fat man image, suggesting the scheme did not work as promised. The fragment hints at consumer doubt and potential fraud.
A humorous reminiscence recalls John Grays wedding on May thirteenth. The narrator notes the superstition of thirteen, the gathering at Johns house in New Mexico, and a playful Donnybrook as old friends reunite with jokes and banter. Punch style humor threads through the piece with sketches of comic sayings and fishing quips.
A Chicago News excerpt compiles comic vignettes and brief sketches from Stray Stories, featuring a sparring window scene with Willie and two boys, a hospital quip from Mrs. Peck to her invalid husband, a remark on old age, and a Chicago Tribune fourth grade caption about birds. The pieces mix humor and domestic observation with quick moralized lines and observational witticisms.
A garbled dialogue snippet shows two speakers volleying opinions on Wagner and Pullman, with stray phrases and non sequiturs. The fragment hints at a messy exchange in a Chicago News context, featuring vague references and incomplete syntax suggesting a humorous or satirical street talk piece.
The patent firm Higdon and Bigdoot announces issued patents to Missouri Kansas and Nebraska inventors including a tasteless quinine powder a folding metallic bed a revolving sign a labeling machine an ore concentrator and a cartridge ejector. Also described is an automatic train stopper device using track levers and air brakes and a ventriloquist hoax that frees four hoboes aboard a freight car.
Vintage ad copy for Allen's Foot Ease powder claiming to ease tight shoes and cure corns bunions swollen feet and sweating feet. Promoted for 25 cents with free sample offer. Address given in Olmsted LeRoy N Y.
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