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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
2
A collage of satirical notes cites European events and U S power. It mocks trusts and monopolies including meat packers and bottled beer, mentions Kipling, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Edison, and Kipling. It reports on riots, theft, and a burglary arrest, plus a corn stalk wreck in Kansas and juvenile justice.
A physician helps poor children on a country weeklong trip and a lilting moment reveals a boy’s ache for maternal care. A child notes his mother never holds him, explaining she works. The piece urges mothers and sociologists to hear the quiet cry for nurturing in the evening hours.
The Chicago crowd followed Captain Howard Blackburn the owner master and crew of the sloop Great Republic. Blackburn has crossed the Atlantic twice and voyaged on the Great Lakes. He was wrecked in open yawl twenty years ago losing his companion to exposure and later lost fingers and toes to frostbite. He survived and rebuilt his career becoming the first to organize a Cape Horn Yukon river expedition. He began Atlantic crossings in 1899 and plans a Mississippi voyage in a boat suited for river navigation.
Miss Elsie Crescy of Chicago sues publisher M A Donohue for 50 000 damages claiming his sensational love story uses her photograph without permission. Her father Richard Crescy joins the suit alleging pirating and reputational harm worth about 60 000. Donohue says the portrait was taken from a dramatic magazine and published accidentally as uncopyrighted public property.
A well dressed New York man asked the health commissioner for permission to send hisTB stricken wife to the smallpox hospital. He claimed no smallpox but hoped smallpox exposure could spur TB recovery. Dr Lederle refused the request.
A futurist predicts that in thirty years nearly all railways will abandon steam locomotives for electric motors and that electric cars will largely replace horse traffic, arguing that current science holds as yet unknown facts that could alter such forecasts.
A two year old rooster aboard the United States battleship Kearsarge at New London Connecticut became a ship mascot after a cooking mishap in Manila Bay produced a growling chick. The steward hatched the chick from a cracked egg and raised it into a crowing, revered pet aboard the ship.
A New York Sun item notes a Fifth Avenue motor car with an unusual feature a fishing basket hung on its side. The observer links the basket to a familiar habit, suggesting occupants had been fishing or planned a trip to the stream, making the auto seem more normal yet memorable.
Sir Robert Bond, premier and colonial secretary of Newfoundland, travels to America to ratify a free trade Bond-Blaine treaty. Bond, a notable North American statesman from the landed gentry, was educated at Queen's College and began his parliamentary career years ago.
Pennsylvania man William StiMer gained 379% acres of unseated land in Logan township valued at $160,000. In 1793 David Lewis obtained patent rights, then vanished. Land passed to the state for taxes, but Stifler claimed it after learning the facts, securing title with a small payment. The tract holds two years of coal.
Attorney General Knox sails for Europe to settle outstanding Panama Canal inquiries. Russell, in France, reports items warranting Knox personal attention though he withholds details. A rumor that Solicitor General Richards plans to resign to join Abner McKinley is denied by Knox.
Keeper Mullen describes a quirky hyena at the Monhouse Zoo as highly intelligent and trainable, noting her coquettish behavior and playful reactions. He recalls a near-attack when she was housed with other hyenas and predicts she will spend her days there, seeking interaction and offering a paw each morning and evening.
A veteran horse trader mismatches a feeble horse with a sly horse sense. The deacon trades fifty dollars and his own horse for the sport beast, then rides it through a stream and discovers the animal only reacts to birds and rabbits. The punchline ends with the trader remarking the horse is a sport through and through.
In a New Jersey suburb a young woman, weary from hosting, sits with tea. A guest arrives from New York to speak for his brother who could not attend. The hostess notes the brother’s regret and the pair discuss who should have come, ending with a light, quirky exchange.
An editor, seeking change, asks a coworker for a quarter. The coworker gives him a dollar, which the editor pockets. He then asks another writer for a quarter, but notices the man who lent the dollar to Brown as he recalls the exchange, joking that he only learned Brown lacked a quarter. The incident stains the editor’s reputation in the office.
A brief description explains cashmere shawls are woven from cashmere goat wool from the Cashmere valley Thibet and Tartary. Only summer wool is used and bleached with a rice flour preparation. Each colored thread requires a different needle and the process is slow with inches finished per stage.
An Anglo Austrian mission aims to scale Godwin Austes and Dapaang this year, then Everest if successful. Sir Martin Conway holds the Himalaya record. German cooperative societies total over 17 000 local groups with more than 1 million peasants. Census shows 18 236 publications in 1900 with 8.17 billion copies. Edwin Abbey, A R A, painted a coronation scene but faced illness during sketches.
Lenox Missouri September first Mr W H Brown credits a friend's advice with relieving his twelve month backache and pain after using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He praises the remedy for restoring his health. An orchid expert warns amateurs err by overcareful attention and neglecting natural conditions.
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