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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1902
Page
3
An excerpt blends a ballad of a pursuing posse and a mysterious hunt with a scientific note on sound. It contrasts a convictive chase on shore with a balloon experiment showing how sounds fade or travel differently. The text also mentions animal behavior and fishing details amid the narrative.
An Altoona alderman court trial on assault and battery was interrupted when two fighting steers charged through the front door. Lawyers and witnesses fled as the animals battled in the courtroom, one exiting via the back to the lot, the other back to the street. Trial resumed shortly after the steers departed.
An official from the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad describes mountains as moving. He cites maintenance costs for tunnels bridges and tracks in Colorado near Glenwood Springs showing stakes shift over months. The mountains are slowly settling toward sea level through continual movement.
M. J. King of Char don Ohio, a retired farmer, believes fish can reason and be hypnotized. He built a pond five years ago stocked with mountain trout from a government hatchery. The pond holds over 1,000 trout, some weighing two and a half pounds, and King claims to exert influence over some of the fish.
A stock company led by J. D. McBride, Cass County sheriff, plans to own and hire bloodhounds to locate criminals across Nebraska. The idea follows successful uses by the state penitentiary, Chief Detective James Malone, and Dr. Fulton, with police and private interests already employing packs for pursuit.
Douglass Dunn and his younger brother waded into the Delaware near Merchantsville New Jersey to rescue a large gray eagle struggling in the current. The bird was wounded with a broken wing but the boys captured it and dragged it ashore tying its leg and head before hauling the prize home.
In Alsace a four year old girl became ill after a period of voracious eating yet lost weight. Doctors could not explain the change until a serpent about twenty inches long emerged from the child's mouth. The serpent was killed and sent to the University of Strasburg, after which the child recovered fully. It is believed the child swallowed the creature while drinking contaminated water.
Convicted in Norfolk county Virginia of murdering his wife William Treadwell refuses a new trial and asks for immediate execution. He says he bought the pistol to kill himself and has no wish to live. The case is described as one of Virginia’s strangest trials after he first shot his wife then attempted suicide and spent weeks recovering.
Fashion notes describe an essential early fall collar shifting toward bold bertha like neckpieces. Details include braids double width forming squares, heavy basket weave brights, and edge braids with corded loops. The Directoire Eton front coat style appears open or closed, with satin finished cloth for a versatile seasonal look.
Tea and house gowns in show rooms feature a range of materials from heavy to transparent. Empire styles predominate with a few tight fitting waists in cashmere or henrietta cloth. Maire in black white and delicate shades with rich trims including lace embroidery cording braid rose ruchings chiffon mousseline de soie and insertions. Ribbon seen in satin or velvet forms. Three chiffon shades white green and rose pink used as a three tone foundation. Fluffy ruffles trim the bottom of gowns prominently.
The piece describes voluminous yellow and black silk collars with lace and embroidery, black taffeta edged collars, and mohair and serge outfits for cool September days. It highlights covert coats, Shepard’s check skirts with body coats, and a fashion note on the poised afternoon surprise social fad among fashionable circles.
A fragmentary fashion note describes white mousnoline banishing green veils from smart hats. It mentions fall cuttings of silky napike velvet and a peacon's hat making parasols seem mere accessories. An imported gown signals a shift to shorter gowns and petticoats with pique and lislets outperforming linens and crashes.
The readable text combines product pitches and general spruced lines for starch brands, foot care powders, elixirs, and other household items. It includes ad lines for Defiance Starch and Red Cross Ball Blue, plus various snippets about fashion, remedies, and moral maxims from the era.
Dr Dusen praises German medical rigor and cites Dr Bergmann as a model. Bergmann, aged 60, begins work at six and maintains a long day in the clinic, operating and seeing over 200 patients daily.
An elderly patient recounts years of ovarian and womb inflammation eased by using Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with nearly complete pain relief within four weeks, fewer headaches, steadier nerves, and a cure in three months avoiding surgery. She endorses sharing symptoms with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Massachusetts.
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