Diversified News Bits From The Kansas Agitator
A Nebraska state warden bans poison use to kill stanshoppers and insect costs. An entomologist says not one mosquito in four hundred bites humans. Jacob H. Rogers leaves eight million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an art purchase fund. Frederick Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen and will vote, undecided. A Pennsylvania coal mine company fences the pump house with barbed wire and supplies high electricity to deter non unionists. Aspiring poets warned to note Dobson earned a living in fisheries and harbor work at the Board of Trade, now resigning after decades. Near Boston, camps for consumptives to be pitched with ten tent circle layouts and a duck wall, each camp a consumptive home despite cold weather.
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Jacob H. Rogers
Wilder
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Museum
Boston
Philadelphia man escapes dramatic car crash into tree
Arthur Asker of Philadelphia lost steering and veered off a road near Baltimore at seventy five mph. The auto leaped a fence, struck a leaning tree, and wedged forty five feet up the trunk. He was unhurt and walked to a nearby farm to arrange a ride home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Asker
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Mr. Fasker
Old-fashioned bedstead rouses labor tale and memory
In a Courier item the narrator recalls a tall old bedstead from Grandfather’s house. The piece weaves labor and industry themes with humorous nostalgia as the antique furniture looms like a mountain, prompting reflections on work life and longing. The vivid fantasy of ascent contrasts with practical toil.
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Mange
Ston Courier
LAHOR AND THE LAW: Labor and capital face two equal decisions
Two recent court actions address labor and management rights. Illinois Circuit Court found no ground for damages from a can-painter placed on a blacklist after a strike, ruling refusal to employ or to work are mutual rights. New York Appellate Division upheld a union’s refusal to work with a non-white machinist, confirming legal bounds of concerted action. The cases signal broadening liberty for both sides in modern industrial conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Buffalo
Supreme Court
Appellate Division
Wmteh
Yon Companion
Despicable pharma swindle vexes Brooklyn pharmacists
A Medical Record style report details a con where a man buys a drug mix from a rug store, returns with a supposed poisoning claim, and presses for damages. The swindler, claiming a doctor and New Zealand tests support poison, pressures at a settlement, with typical asks ranging from fifty to two hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Cald
Sewing-woman wages spark legal protection in New Zealand
The piece notes that wage cuts force sewing workers into harsher conditions while New Zealand law forms a protective circle. Employers must justify pay reductions before an industrial court and may be required to show their books, as workers endure continued, better lit factory conditions during proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Hood
Sonmatresa
America
New Zealand
Industry arbitration spreads in New Zealand
Proceiving full pay to the case is decided. In all industries experiments in the interest of labor began in New Zealand seven years ago and have proven successful with no violent labor disputes since adoption. The main argument against federation with Australia was the loss of voluntary arbitration benefits.
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New Zealand
Australia
Textile production far south leads U S gains in spindles
The article reports Rhode Island and South Carolina as leaders in spindle counts with Rhode Island at 4,090,148 and South Carolina at 2,449,709, noting overall U S gains of 1,678,089 spindles and 4,084 rooms. South Carolina produced about 40 percent of U S room growth and about 48 percent of Southern increases. It discusses mill expansion, new water power on the Catawba river, and labor conditions including local labor and race issues in Columbia and Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caro Hind Nastek
Mane Orhusetes
Rhode Island
Rhode Isand
South Carolina
North Carolina
New Hampshire
North Caroling
Georgia
Connecticut
United States
South
Catawba
Carolinas
Milix
Teanemee
Columbia
Charleston
Observations on Wealth and Ignorance by Herbert Cason
Herbert Cason argues that many wealthy people are ignorant of the suffering behind their purchases. He cites workers harmed by factories, sweatshops, and unsafe conditions, including a stenographer whose mother dies of consumption and laborers in mills, glassmaking, and match industries.
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Herbert Cason
Colorado
Molyoke
New York
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Bread Trust Talk Sparks Corporate Formation in Trenton
The National Bread Company is incorporated in Trenton with eight million dollars in capital to acquire Newark and Jersey City bakeries and later New York. Rumors imply a national bread trust. a new kneading machine promises 30 percent larger loaves per batch with less handling and labor savings could cut about five thousand jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bread Company
Trenton
Newark
Jersey City
New York
Specter of the New South mirrors England’s past crisis
A fragmented item links industrial era tragedy to modern reform. It cites the New York Shipbuilding Company expanding into Camden New Jersey to build worker homes. It notes a nearly unanimous Central Federation union vote barring family members of Yamnititie Fraa Hog and mentions Norway's daily flaking as the primary livelihood for about 40,000 people, alongside farming.
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England
New South
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camdet
N. J
New York City Central Federated Union
Norway
Slaves Under Flag in the Philippines Debate
A critical report on slavery in the Philippine islands questions U S policy. Major Sweet cites ongoing slave trade and slave ownership among Moros, arguing abolition by war or purchase is unfeasible and that freedom could be brief without decisive action by the United States government. The piece accuses Congress and McKinley of inaction while slavery persists under imperial rule and Taft era governance.
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Manila
Bulis
Whyery
Col
Peteth
C. P. Sweet
United States
Mores
Major Sweet
Fean
State and Stripes
Taft Commission
Home Government
Congress
McKinley
Philippines
South
Weathia
Republican Party
MeKinley
Rosatn Ie
Tia
Rusia
Republican
Disputed Signals Records Vanish Amid GOP Attacks
The Washington Times reports secret Signal Corps correspondence tied to the Spanish war has disappeared from war department files. It cites claims by critics that General Greely destroyed records to hide agents, prompting public questions about theft and falsification of government archives amid ongoing Samp son scandal fallout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Treasury
United States
Washington Times
Signal Corps
Army
War Department
Colonel Allen
Gresly
Santiago Harbor
Sampson
Schley
Department
General Greely
Secret Service
Nia
Philippings
Signal
Democrats in Cambria adopt reform platform in line with Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson
The Cambria county Democratic convention approves a platform endorsing equal rights and opportunities, opposing special privileges and corporate trusts. It calls to tax special advantages, redistribute benefits from trusts, and shift tax burden toward privileged intervals while expanding local option in taxation.
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Cambria County
Pennsylvania
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Democratic Party
Democatic Party
Jambing Through Congress The Ship Subsidy Steal Exposed
A forthcoming Republican dominated conference is planned to push a 180 million ship subsidy. Pennsylvania railroad lobbyists backers and Mark Hanna lead the effort with presidential support seen as key. Democrats claim opposition while accusing McKinley aligned legislators of being bought and pledged to pass the policy.
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Congress
Pennsylvania Railroad
Republican National Committee
Mark Hanna
Anna
McKinley
Ateal
Hanna
Political Pull Shields Thieves from Justice in Courts
The text argues that poor moonshiners face court actions and imprisonment while high political figures and large thieves evade arrest. It cites forgers pursued relentlessly, and accuses officials in New York customs and the treasury of avoiding action due to political protection, claiming it would harm the party.
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Secret Service
Neely
Rathbone
New York Customs Department
Treasury Department
Corbin and Crowninshield Lead Nab Empire Delegation
The report says the army and navy heads Corbin and Crowninshield will represent the United States at the coronation of King Edward. The piece criticizes this as unnecessary and notes Congress should halt the practice, arguing the nation is already represented by an ambassador and military attaches plus other figures connected to Hanna's Republican campaign donations.
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Army
Navy
Corbin
Crowninshield
Edward
Antica
Congress
Hanna
Chinese Servants Drowned in Amur City Disaster
Harper's Weekly recounts a grim incident in a Russian Amur city where a large group of Chinese servants perished by drowning last year. The article notes the ethnic tragedy as residents point to a future shortage of domestic workers and reflects on the broader social impact.
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Chicago
Amur
Dina Nora
Harper's Weekly
The Last of an Army in Afghan Tragedy
In 1842 a joint British and native force of about 16,000 marching from Cabul to Jellalabad was trapped in the Khyber Pass and decimated. Dr Brydone, wounded by Lady Butler’s painting in The Last of an Army, singlehandedly survives to tell the tale.
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Sligieman Q Weapen
Dr. Brydone
Lady Butler
Afghanistan
Campfaifowwra
Cabul
Jellalabad
Khyber Pass
Water as a Morning Remedy for Fatigue
A note by Derek Water suggests drinking a tumblerful of water before dressing to flush waste products from the body. He claims this reduces morning weakness and grogginess by speeding removal of wastes, leaving the tissues refreshed and prepared for daily activity.
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Derek
Professional bee hunters in Texas rivers caves
A large number of professional bee hunters operate in the war and southwest Texas. Small caves formed by shelving rock along Texan waterways serve as natural beehives, replacing hollow trees of the north. These cages are reused yearly and often found filled with honey.
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Texas
Narrow Escape At Soldiers Home Ayeres Miracle Recovery
A. E. Ayers, long familiar in Minneapolis, narrowly escaped death at Bath New York's Soldiers and Sailors Home. Doctors said he could not live four days due to Brights disease. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his life, calling them the greatest medicine to the world.
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Bath
N. Y
Hiis
A. E. Ayers
Minneapolis
Minn
Dodd
Jiboutil-Adils-Ababa Railway Ambition Sparks Rivalry
Paris Figara reports that English capital plans to back a Jiboutil-Adils-Ababa line. The move risks Abyssian market loss to French commerce and heightens tension over control, with fears that friction and bankruptcy could follow if English aims prevail.
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Jiboutil-Adils-Ababa
Paris
Hypnotized Husband Acknowledges Strained Finances
A financially distressed man unable to borrow reflects on low mood. A married man who underwent hypnosis describes the feeling as similar to when his wife resolves on a decision.
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Kansas
Garnett
Nebraska
Frederick St. George de la Tour Booth Tucker
Balvation Army
Bia
Avetin Dobson
Fisheries and Harbor Department
Board of Trade
Labor and Industry
Otis
Mattie Helen Beala
Wichita
Kan
Lawton
Oklahoma
al Reno
Alto
Aho
Lou
Wational Govarenisat
Yar East
Santiago
Admiral Bedley
Nis Laurels
St. Jacobs Oil
Abeitreena Tian Echt Abaya
Dupris
Berean
Lewaths
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