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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1900
Page
7
The passage blends grand Ottoman monarch epithets for Abdul Hamid II with a fanciful note on Queen Margherita's bicycle. It touches on majestic reign, divine sanction, and royal urban centers, shifting to a gleaming bicycle described as gold wheels and jewel inlays.
A senator explains preferring a Missouri home for vacations, noting past travels from Florida to Alaska. He says there is no place like home for a good rent and cites comfort and practicality as key factors in choosing a stay-at-home holiday.
A reader questionnaire from Troy Ohio dates August 6 1899 and September 10 1890 reports long standing kidney and menstrual trouble with relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials claim backache leucorrhea irregular menses and general weakness improved and blooded by the remedy.
The Ogdensburg Journal describes Lee Way and his cousin Ah Foon visiting Ogdensburg. They recount Chinese schooling with English instruction, long study days, corporal punishment, and a large role for teachers. They note no women teachers in China until recently and describe vacation during harvest with kite flying and games.
Living at Cambridge England two of the century s most noted women travelers and scholars Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Mrs Margaret Gibson twin daughters of the late John Smith lawyer and biblical scholar have spent years in the Holy Land they added rare manuscripts to biblical history Mrs Lewis is famed for Syriac studies her latest find the Syriac Palimpsest dating to the fifth century Scholars award her a doctor of philosophy honorary from Halle University noting four reasons for the honor finding the Palimpsest completing the translation discovering the Palestinian Syriac Lectionary and editing the Lectionary with her sister
The article lists European royal weights with Queen Margaret of Italy at about 175 pounds as the heaviest. Spain’s queen weighs 167 pounds, the Netherlands queen 140 pounds, Belgian queen slightly lighter, German empress 184 pounds after weight loss, and the lightest is the 126-pound exirtaa with the tallest princess the Crown Princess of Denmark at over six feet.
Mme. Duperron, a noted Paris figure, writes newspapers at her exposition. She speaks English as her mother tongue, with English patrons including Lord Henry Seymour and the Marquis of Dufferin among the audience at her stall.
A pair of Louie XV Sevies porcelain table candlesticks from Sir Charles Welby’s art treasures sold in London for 12075 dollars. It appears to be the highest price ever paid for such articles, indicating strong demand for rare porcelain.
Monsignore Favier, a Roman Catholic bishop of Pekin, holds the local rank of mandarin equal to a provincial governor by virtue of an imperial decree.
Blooded Knickerbocker, famed member of a prominent New York family, earned the nickname best friend of bad boys. He maintained a correspondence with about 2000 boys deemed troublesome. Wendell helped place most of these youths in good homes on western farms or villages.
Report notes the town claiming the nation’s highest elevation at 12 000 feet above sea level. A justice of the peace fines a disorderly character ten dollars and, upon appeal, a puzzled prisoner asks what appeal. the court retorts that the highest court in the United States cannot be appealed from.
Remarkable claim for Ray's Eureka Ointment remedies many ailments by local application. Warns of use for colds croup burns and other accidents. Product retails at perbox. Ray & Co. Eureka Springs Arkansas seek agents.
The worst famines of modern Ames include the 1846 47 Ireland famine that killed about one million people the 1866 Indian famine with around 1 45 million victims the 1877 Indian famine with about 600 000 deaths and the 1878 China famine causing roughly 9 6 million deaths.
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The Smithsonian invites Ed Hofer, famed Yellowstone hunter, to Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska to pursue a polar bear, weighing 2500 to 5000 pounds, never before captured alive. The news item also notes honors for Frederick McMonnies at the Paris exposition and assorted impractical product ads from the era.
Congress authorizes Kiowa Coman motion and related land acts as shown in a chaotic listing. The item references a 1.00 price, a Sectional Map, and notices in The Kiowa Chief about land information, agents, and addresses in Perry while lamenting the era’s hardships.
Over the past five years the fish commission hatched and planted more than 600 million young lobsters in New England waters. The cost to hatch and plant 100 million lobsters runs about ten thousand dollars.
The fragment suggests a radical expansion vision with Fort Orental Chinen in Chicago, aiming to annex Manila and Havana, and to convert Hawaiian islands into a park, as noted in the Portland Oregonian.
The notice advertises reduced round trip fares to points via the Missouri acro Byy and Iron Mountain routes with $2 surcharges, sale dates in September to December 1900, and inquiries directed to agents or H C Townsend G P T Agent in St. Louis Missouri. It also mentions Harriet Fay escorting eight young Mexican women researching schools and Vera Cruz funding, with travel to major cities listed. A traveling salesman position is advertised in southern states offering $600 monthly. Also notes a long history of cast steel manufacture in India and a massive ancient wrought iron pillar near Delhi weighing ten tons.
The passage explains that every horse in the English army is numbered and branded for identification. The near hind foot bears the thousands, while the off hind foot carries units, tens, and hundreds, creating a full 5 digit code per horse.
The article notes Great Britain's conservative government marking its fifth anniversary on July 2 and mentions its century of administrations, highlighting Lord Liverpool's 1812 to 1827 tenure. It also references various other items including a medical cure claim and a personal testimonial from Morwishy NY in 1900.
A Manila newspaper advocates locating a leper colony in a suitable inland area. The piece urges selecting a member of the local group to lead the isolation effort and establish a secluded site away from populated areas.
The article extols tincture of myrrh as an excellent dentifrice that cleanses the mouth freshens breath and hardens the gums. It suggests using it three times a week for best results.
A passenger engine on first class roads will average about 5000 miles a year or 100 miles a day and it will consume about seventy pounds of coal to a mile. The life of an engine is about sixteen years.
Julian Ralph of the London Daily Mail reports from a recovering leave that his injuries are not likely permanent. He plans to return to America in the early fall to deliver a course of lectures.
Ever since the thirteenth century Deypt has had a single hospital for the insane. Patients have grown from 300 to 500, and the institution has been described as an abomination to the human race.
The Rajab of Matilon owns the largest reliable diamond weighing 367 karats with a peculiar dented knob at the smaller end. A horse can live twenty two days with only water, a bear six months, a viper ten months, and a serpent in confinement twenty one months without food.
Pipe Pearls rank among the most important industries of it Babania Wjands. The region is the only place in the world where they are found. Perfect Dink pearls fetch very high prices from £10 to £1,000.
The article describes the house of George Dewey being born on December 20 1287 and its ownership through the Dewey and related families up to the present. It mentions visits by Gordon and Mr Genoa, along with a letter praising Peruna Medicine Co of Columbus Ohio for curing a chronic throat ailment, with an offer of a free book on catarrh.
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