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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
6
Disjointed lines of a handwritten script mix names and phrases as if captured from a sheet. The text references individuals and places in a fragmented, loosely poetic form with unclear sequence. The result resembles a garbled excerpt rather than a coherent narrative.
Edith Wentworth faces a moral test as pastor Elijah Strong courts her amid family pressure. Edith battles attraction to Strong while Dick Haskins pursues her, culminating in a defiant pledge of marriage and a reconciled tea scene with Mrs. Wentworth. Strong declares love and Edith accepts, sealing a quiet reforming romance in a small town parlor.
In New York Zoological Park curator Ditmars led a field surgery on Nalgina the 10 foot king cobra. An abscess near a fang threatened death. a snake pill was used to lure the animal, jaw forced open, and the abscess removed with pincers, saving the prized reptile for the collection.
London gossip centers on James McNeill Whistler, a famed artist. A model owed him shillings for sittings and told another artist of a £10 bribe for a painting from Whistler’s studio. The artist recounts Whistler’s fury at the suggestion and the model’s dramatic entry into the tale.
The text contrasts English and French workingmen through anecdotes about Dickens and Mirabeau. One tale recalls a late hour at a inn after Dickens’s death, with a humorous Walter’s remark about Dickensiana. Another line cites a Walter’s reply on Mirabeau’s death, noting a fine day and the occasion.
The narrative describes Lisbon as the Portuguese capital built atop hills with extensive open electric streetcars and parks. It recalls Olisipo, historic sieges, the 1765 earthquake, and the plague, noting the quirky beds, the heavy coin money tale, and travel to Madrid via Badajoz. Cintra is praised as a summer resort, Dona Maria Palace, Moorish traces, and quotes Escorial visits with guide touts. The piece ends noting the German emperor buying Damm-Muehle estate for a hunting castle.
A fragmented column blends verses on heroic soldiers and writers with satirical takes on courtship across cultures. It shifts to light verse about love songs and seasonal imagery, ending with nostalgic vows and intimate longing.
In Washington laboratory testing free seed samples sent by farmers reveals seed germination failures common. A pound of cloverseed contained 27,700 weed ponds, illustrating widespread contamination and harm to crop quality.
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