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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1903
Page
8
Local notes recount business trips to Kansas City, visits from Chanute and Montrose, and multiple social calls. Residents like N L Bowman, Mrs Jolson, Miss Pauline Egger, and Bert Berry appear in brief greetings, travel notices, and school plans amid community gossip and obituaries.
A curious tale follows Johnnie Simpkins at thirteen as he challenges his mother’s old fashioned ways Mrs Simpkins clings to Puritan traditions like homemade soap and soda crackers Johnnie introduces modern Uneeda Biscuits and prompts a playful household reform culminating in new tastes and habits led by the progressive boy.
Greeley items report visitors Mrs Walter Latimer and son Wendel returning to Kansas City from Mrs Latimer’s parents in Greeley. James Hunter sought drilling machines in Chanute. Garnett Plain dealer notes rumors of an ice and cold storage plant on the streets. John MccPadden’s runaway team damaged his carriage near Joli Morgan’s after a Lane trip. John Cunningham home hosted a picnic for Alex Harcinson and Bev Spencer of Indiana with many relatives enjoying food and games.
Ninety five acre farm for sale in Union township northeast of Garnett Kansas. Frame house a story and a half, good stable for horses, a spring and three wells, sheds, good orchard, grapevines. Call or write for further particulars Bex Hyvors Garnett Kas.
Selma items report a surprise party at Charles Heywond's home Tuesday, Otte Lowman's team frightened by a freight train at Vance Friday injuring Otte's finger, and a cistern gas strike on land owned by Wm Harvey north of Main Street. Fred Manley descended into the cistern and lit his pipe from the blaze, boasting he first used Selma gas as land values jumped.
Mia Miller of Morgan Texas suffered six years of severe diarrhoea with repeated relapses and high medical costs. She found relief after trying Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, noted in an advertisement, and was cured by one inexpensive bottle bought through R P Briggs.
Trustworthy Indy or gentleman to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for reputed house with solid standing. $20 salary plus expenses paid Mondays by check from headquarters. Expense money advanced. position permanent. address Manager 510 Monon Bldg Chicago Mia. Mollie Allen of South Park Kentucky touts Chamberlain's Tablets for cholera morbus and indigestion. tablets cleanse the stomach and ward off attacks. Forsale by Bega & Bros.
The Chicago Record-Herald highlights its humor featured on the first page with Ralph Wilder's cartoon and a humorous small story in the editorial page. It notes the Alternating Currents column by S B Kiser as a popular humor writer and mentions the Sunday comic section guaranteed to amuse readers.
An old allegorical image shows a girl startled by a grasshopper while stepping on a snake. It contrasts a man who spends on a luxury cellar yet neglects to supply his family with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, a trusted remedy for bowel complaints. Briggs & Brother sell it.
The note mentions pricing for a goon job printing service with a fixed date slogan. It notes Wednesday night as a time reference and uses informal language about value. No clear individuals organizations or locations are provided in readable text.
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