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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1904
Page
2
A Kansas Agitator column riffs on public opinion, aviation, boxing, royal scandals, Lipton and Munroe, and misused terms. It lampoons language, journalism, and social pretensions while noting trials, prizes, and future plans with a satirical tone.
Theodore Edison, six, son of the inventor, keeps five baby alligators from Florida as pets. Guests at the Edison home react with mixed amusement as the young boy tries to introduce them to his reptiles. His favored pet is a gray rabbit named Star, whom he values deeply alongside the unusual alligators.
Police Captain Burdine extols magnesia water as a convenient deadly alternative to a pistol noting it is not a concealed weapon. A late night incident saw a bottle hurled at a would be attacker causing acid burns. a bystander reported a dynamite attack by "Bi the Brute."
Rumor says the Rothschilds plan to spend 10,000,000 francs to build wage earner dwellings in Paris with very low rents and no profit for owners. Similar projects exist in Peabody London and other major cities. The Whitehall War Offer building in London, costing £650,000, covers three and three-quarter acres and will be completed in about two years. It features Italian renaissance styling, with nine miles of chimney flues, 26,500,000 bricks, and 26,000 tons of Martland stone for seven doors and 670 rooms.
A Good Housekeeping summary notes Japanese baby celebrations with gifts offered before birth and on birth, including outfits under grandmother supervision, visiting guests bringing dried fruit and eggs, a seventh day christening, red bean rice for happiness, and chosen names like Matsy or Mume. The boy’s kimono will feature the family crest, and the child enters temple rites on day thirty.
Chicago speaker Mrs. S N Van Vilet defends the child’s right to be heard at home challenging the old idea that children should be seen and not heard. She argues suppression harms mental development and stifles thinking, speech, and self-reliance essential to adulthood.
London Daily Mail recounts a visitor’s staggered scene at Monte Carlo as elderly ladies gamble on faith and charity. A lone Englishwoman, once thriving, now loses fortunes while the hotel manager drains her jewels. The narrator notes cool rooms, blue sea, and crowded roulette rooms with early morning activity.
In East Baltimore a veteran colored washerwoman explains wealth by a neighbor’s doorbell. She tells the householder that the next door neighbor is rich because she has a doorbell, a quick, humorous illustration of class perception. The anecdote highlights how possession of small luxuries shapes judgments of wealth.
An extended verse extols the enduring power of hands in shaping stone and art. It contrasts hollow words with the lasting structures born of labor, praising chisels, hammers, and the monumental works that endure beyond life. The piece notes toil links nations through shared craft and memory.
The Labor World compiles reports on the Chicago Federation of Labor canceling its Victor California convention, growing credentials for Journeymen Barbers, and widespread engineering union activity. It notes Mexican labor migration, border pressures, and Western cotton field hiring shifts, plus calls for Illinois and Dinots state federation conventions to boost organized labor.
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