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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
2
A Kansas column mocks politicians and headlines at length. It taxonomizes figures like Mrs. Lease and her husband, cites a Charleston cigar purchase, hints at Alaska gold and coal, notes a missive from Yaxco City about Flora Rowney, and ends with a wry remark on the perils of gold seekers and dandelions in bloom.
The new Russian port at Novorostrik, at the end of a railway line, concentrates grain trade from southern districts and remains ice free through winter while Odessa and Azov ports close. it is equipped with an electric elevator and other facilities to boost export.
Mins Dickerson of Mexico Missouri ran away last week and wed Ernest Crown. The bride wore a pink muslin gown to the knee. A bizarre coincidence followed when Thomas Dickerson, also of Mexico, recalled his 12 year old daughter had not brought dolls to a neighbor but was the bride.
A single firm funds a vast employee and family outing with sixteen special trains, hotel and restaurant charters, pleasure steamers, bathing machines, and bands. The plan spans ten thousand participants and promises improved morale and gratitude as a direct result of the generous investment.
The Agriculturist notes western and eastern U S interest rates differ by four to eight percent while Canada’s range is only one to two percent. It credits Canada’s banking network with over five hundred branches in three hundred towns by 1896 for rapid farmer loans, linking surplus east with expanding west, and easing red tape. The piece lauds Canada’s branch system as a model though acknowledges Canadian method flaws.
A century ago Horace Walpole warned that small nations cling to independence they cannot sustain while great powers may cast off the yoke. The piece notes 180,000 immigrants arriving in New York last year earned an average of little more than $4 in money, yet some still begin life in a strange land and prosper.
A lengthy account details the eight hour movement in London with confrontations between the Employers Federation of Engineering Associations and the men’s unions. It covers meetings at Carliste and Manchester, strike notices, lockouts, and coordinated actions across multiple firms, with about 10,000 to 11,000 workers affected and 25 percent of allied union members involved in simultaneous stoppages. The piece notes robust funding and organization on both sides and predicts a stubborn, protracted dispute as strikes and lockouts spread.
A Hartford Courant excerpt argues wage-earner misery in Brockton and nearby shoe towns. It cites meager earnings for finishers and edge-trimmers, urging stronger worker action while noting limits of unions. It calls for broader reforms, including restricting monopolies if Congress fails to act.
The London Labour Gazette notes the July strike by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers over an eight hour day with no pay cut. By June 12, ninety five engineering firms in London had adopted the system, while many principal firms refused the reduction of hours, fueling the dispute.
The piece argues that the unemployed man is worse off than a hunter in the jungle who freely provides for himself. It condemns civilization’s constraints, urging giving the unemployed a chance and work, as voiced in Machinists' Journal.
Reports cover strikes won by boiler makers and shipbuilders in Troy and New York, a Spokage Washington factory discharging female workers for Chinese hires, New Jersey wage standards for county and city work, child labor starting at 11 in Indiana, and general life expectancy figures. It notes glassmaking innovations in Attica that may replace four tenths of workers, wage-scale settlements aiding the glass trade, retirement land aims by typographical unions, and Japan’s 1896 foreign trade totals with import and export shares for Britain Germany and the United States.
Milas Gertrude Dwyer of San Antonio, crowned Texas Queen of Beauty, travels through Monterrey Guanajuato Guadalajara and Mexico City with a grand tour in July. She receives receptions, bullfight honors, theater visits, and a formal meeting with President Diaz, ending with praise for Texas and Mexican relations.
A girl posing as a hotel guest at a big uptown hotel signs as Miss Mary McClonky and asks for a room with bath after claiming to have a chambermaid job. Clerks watch curiously as she feigns embarrassment, insisting she needs nothing for payment. The incident in the hotel lobby unfolds as she seeks a room with a bath.
A city story describes a tenant living in cramped apartments where wallpaper remains dingy. The landlord repeatedly refuses replacements, forcing the tenant to consider drastic steps to improve the living conditions. The tale touches on housing friction and the burdens of urban living.
In eastern North Carolina the village of Hartford on the Perquimans River claims the world’s sole airlifted whisky barrel bridge. The structure, a half century old idea by an early resident, stands as a local monument to his ingenuity.
Miss Dwyer receives a car gift and a set of framed photographs with a verse, then departs for Tampico. Gav Gutierres and aides escort her through Tampico and Calientes, with a train farewell and honors noted. Conversations touch on death as habit and the fate of Cyrus Teed.
A deed recorded 31 years late transfers 800 acres in Carroll County for 91000. The land now valued between 640000 and 100000, indicating a large increase since the original transaction.
The excerpt notes that estimates suggest larger quantities of gold and silver lie submerged at sea than are currently in circulation on earth, implying vast wealth lost or sunken beneath the waves.
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