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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1899
Page
7
A garbled promotional piece touts Red Cross Starch by J C Hubinger with coupons for free large packs and Shakespeare pictures or a calendar. It also mentions Port Arthur excursion lines and a medical testimonial blurb, all in a noisy, ad heavy format.
The article blends a cultural plea for humane industry with a church state stance. It cites a Eureka Illinois Christian church convention urging clergy to invite labor representatives to pulits and plan major labor discussions next year. It discusses labor capital tensions, pension funds like Pennsylvania Railroad, and the need for worker protection amid industrial progress.
The report recounts a ship off Brat coast hearing bells from the Cathedral of San Salvador at a distance exceeding one hundred miles aided by a steady breeze. It notes sounds travel farther with wind, giving distances for human voice, musket, brass band, drum, and cannon.
A Hindu custom places a gold jewel on the bride’s neck signifying marriage. The jewel’s position is described as the most important aspect of the ceremony, reflecting the woman’s new state.
The fourth week of August 1899 on the Chicago Great Western Ry line reports earnings of 228 378 04, up 38 721 47 from last year. August monthly total 578 062 02 up 55 007 67. year to date 1 060 152 76 up 150 981 44.
Philadelphia reader James Murray, 1204 Moore Street, died in the Pennsylvania Hospital after five days with a broken neck from falling off Augustine prey near Newcastle. Doctors deemed the case hopeless and did not operate. The spinal column was held at tension with a halter. A brace was used in hopes of bone union, but no signs of healing appeared before his death.
Experiments at the royal arsenal tested clay plugs fired to perforate an iron plate on inch tek. Capt. Cooper Key of the Britten army supervised with a special fin and pressed cylindrical clay samples three inches long and two inches in diameter used in the trials.
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