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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
6
Fragments invoke unnamed builders of worlds serving the right, exposing wrongs beyond glory or fame. The speaker speaks of sentries of cities and worlds standing in frontline duty, upholding truth with unwavering resolve.
Poem-like lines honor unnamed volunteers who give glory to nations through silent deeds and sacrifices. The speaker urges steadfast courage and selfless dying in the fight for the Right, praising nameless valor over fame.
Local builder P H Spader found a large copper halfpenny dated 1797 hidden in a crevice of the De Lancey mansion at Heathcote Hill Mamaroneck. The house dates to 1792 and the coin likely belonged to a De Lancey family member. The find attracts relic hunters to the hill once home to Bishop DeLancey and Archbishop Bayley.
Miss Julia Lincoln of Montclair awoke to find a rattlesnake two feet from her in Mountain View Farm near Wurtsborough. She bravely fought the snake with an alpine stock and thrust it back, then escaped as the reptile struck. The hired man later killed the serpent after it climbed the roofed wall.
A Viennese musician Kubmayer claims to have invented a new instrument named the Strelchklavier. It resembles a piano in appearance and is played with a keyboard and pedals. Each key controls a bow passing over strings to produce violin, viola, cello, and bass tones with variable dynamics.
A seaman aboard the Rhone, arriving from Dakar at Bordeaux, climbed the iron mast on Tuesday evening when a swarm of bees attacked him, he fell into the water with injuries. The mast was lowered and burned under to smoke out the bees, ending the danger.
The Nivangaard Denmark brick works, possibly the oldest in the world, marked its 200th anniversary after starting in 171 for brick and terra cotta for a castle for Queen Lonnae. Records show 350 million bricks produced in two centuries, about half in the last 25 years. Also, Ira Russell and Miss Helen Plumb nearly capsized when a large sturgeon leaped into their skiff on the St. Lawrence near Hopkins Point, Baltimore.
The oarsmen breached a hole in the skiff and it began to flood rapidly. Misa Plumb removed a shoe and balled out water while Mr. Russell paddled toward shore. They reached shallow water before the boat sank. A sturgeon nearby measured four feet six inches and weighed forty four pounds.
Lewistown report recounts Frank McNitt, a sleeping somnambulist, rising from bed and stepping from a third-story window. He fell 36 feet, yet woke uninjured with only hip and elbow dents in the ground, later recalling nothing of the event. His brother, who witnessed the act, fled to warn him but found him upright and dazed, then returned to sleep after offering water.
The Austrian steamer Zora, from Alexand retia in northern Syria, left July 3 with a cargo of hardware and general merchandise. Captain Calagrovich reports the crew is entirely Turkish women, praised as strong sailors from infancy and indistinguishable in dress from men.
An English paper traces M. Isaac de Rivaz, a Swiss inventor, driving a cart by a motor in 1804 at Sion. A second trial in 1818 at Vevey involved a ten foot cart loaded with 1400 pounds of stone and passengers. A crowd witnessed the event and a patent was granted by the French government. The document confirms de Rivaz conceived motor car ideas nearly a century before.
A 35 year old Black man was struck by a Vineville street car and had one leg amputated. He had been drinking and lay on a hill top near the tracks with his left leg across the rail. The motorman stopped the car before it passed him. Atlanta Journal.
Workers uncover human bones in deep trench near Prankenhanger Saxony. Fragments suggest unusually large skulls, with Professor Olessberg dating remains to about 2,500 years ago. Remains thought to represent three individuals each about seven feet six inches tall.
A jumble of dated witticisms and melodramatic quips about marriage, jealousy, and misfortune. A desertion tale, a blundering oculist anecdote, and a chatty toying with expectations show a magazine humor tone with named speakers and social hinge points.
A humorous exchange about kissing, conquests, and social pretensions features a sea captain and lady passenger debating why men kiss less. A conceited man earns the label of “the most adorable woman” in a Railway Deal joke, with playful jests about golf, chauffeurs, and resting on laurels.
A fragmented dialogue scene features Mrs Kidder George cautioning against poker in the drawing room and a stay-at-home traveler teased by locals. The line about suits and daily clothes hints at comic mischief as characters mock each other. A hint of stage banter ends with uncertain speech.
A fragmented, odd wartime style dialogue features a shocked speaker rejecting personal shock from serial electricity. A young physician laments career prospects while insisting on knowledge and skill, yet cannot engage in golf or ping pong or social duties to seek patients. The snippet mixes humor and medical venturing in a culturally dated voice.
A brief note on shifting identities and roles, highlighting frequent changes and the idea of constant reinvention. The piece mentions Aga and a new girl daily, illustrating a pattern of variability and uncertainty in personal presentation.
An alarmist warns monopolists will own everything, while Mr.Di Ogene s Diggs answers with his usual complacency questioning the need to own a basin for a tax levy setup. The dialogue satirizes ambition and public finance through a humorous exchange.
In a lighthearted exchange the bride vows to keep her university career from becoming a household drudge while the mother warns against letting literary pursuits dominate. The scene features wry quips about currant Jelly, current science, and a playful debate on prospects and manners.
A garbled excerpt notes no deaths this month but three births marking a positive balance. The passage includes stray dialogs and misjoined names, with references to a superintendent, Honolulu, and a stray remark about Temptation and a cat’s tail, all in a jumble of unrelated snippets.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a woman explaining to Johnne that they asked God for a MtGe baby. Soon after, Johante comments to Bla father on the size of the unborn child, noting the moment’s memorial tone.
A fragmentary excerpts from Harper's Magazine celebrate seafaring vigor and comradeship. The verse calls sailors to rise with the morning sun, brace for rough seas, and heed the call of freedom on the water.
The Illinois Board of Arbitration earns widespread praise for fairness and steady progress. Chairman Frederick W. Job, Ashley employer Chauncey H. Geiger, W. A. Mathis of Clinton, and secretary J. McCan Davis guide numerous hearings ensuring justice for both sides. Davis, noted Lincoln biographer and Illinois historian, helped craft reforms improving arbitration law.
Circulars from the Amalgamated Woodworkers International union attack the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners as deceitful. The woodworkers claim priority dating to 1873 for cabinet makers and machine wood workers and say the United Brotherhood admitted their claim in 1894. The American Federation endorses the woodworkers on machine and cabinet work and the United Brotherhood has begun placing its own label on mill products.
The American Federation of Labor executive council travels the western states to promote organizing. Enthusiastic crowds greet speakers in every city and San Francisco newspapers note progress settling disputes in the building trades. Rumors say Samuel Gompers may not seek re election at the New Orleans convention with James Duncan favored to lead, while Gompers would be reassigned as an organizer.
Baltimore American quotes Mr Maguire a Fal River Masa native who says Northern unions largely ended child labor in mills while Southern mills keep brutal conditions. He accuses owners of docking pay forcing workers to live in mill houses shop at mill stores attend mill churches and face harassment if they resist. He calls Southern mills a slave system harming thousands of children.
George Hodge of the Brick Tile and Terra Cotta Workers' Union of America argues for equal pay for equal work, bans on child labor under 15, and supports women joining organized labor to secure fair hours and opportunities, urging a true republic with equal opportunity.
Northwest labor reports say the Great Northern railway will replace its Japanese workers with European labor across western states as soon as practicable. The change is described as an experiment after Japanese crews proved unprofitable in heavier tasks. Montana and other points are arranged to host up to 200 European workers, paid sixteen cents an hour, amid long-standing union opposition to Japanese labor on the system.
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