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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1896
Page
2
A jumble of notes and anecdotes from Kansas and beyond, including dubious election bets in Hoglish Indiana, a balloon voyage postponed by Mr Andree, a costly porous plaster lawsuit, a wild long island tale, and a critical eye on Spanish naval spending. Names include Hall Hatlon Frog Teg Andree Henry Wilkieson and Li Hung Chang.
England defeated the sultan of Zanzibar and established English possession of the island with a four to two British to Zabazan government. Zanzibar covers 625 square miles with about 126000 inhabitants mostly Mohammedans and exports valued around 5400000. An agreement grants a regular government. mainland sultan territories were partly sold to Germany and partly leased to the British East Africa Company for sixty years. Also notes a crime trend where a thief robs female physicians at night, with Dr Anna B Smith of Montclair, NJ, resisting and injuring the attacker.
A grim charge cites labor agitation and the bine label movement while detailing convict labor in 1895. It argues unions educate workers, condemns convict labor as a theft from honest toil, and calls for abolition. Strong entities include Carroll Wright and various states.
Washington reports that proposed amendments to the eight hour workday law are so broad they would push nearly all industries to the eight hour standard. The Granite Cutters Journal says Congress must modify them to prevent impractical application after thirty years of debate.
The National War and Museum Company plans to reconstruct the Lincoln cabin from 1836 at a Washington site. Preservationists detail exacting restoration of timber bricks nails and plaster to mirror the original room where Lincoln slept and studied.
A report recounts plans to place Lincoln’s log cabin and the McLean house at Appomattox in a Washington museum. Relics include the cabin built by Lincoln and his father and items from the McLean home, with funds and donors named, and photographic records made before dismantling.
A testimonial from Barthol Warner of Gemmin descent near Nurburne Mo alleges recovery from rheumatism after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The letter credits a neighbor, Wagner, and notes the pills' wide availability through doctors and pharmacies at sixes and twos of a dollar, urging others with rheumatic issues to seek the remedy.
A jumble of brief items touches on women suffrage in San Francisco, London cab costs, a Russian breakfast party before battle, plant water uptake, Natal anniversary plans, English public defenders, a chancery case in England, and repairs to old London Bridge. Also notes Helena court debt limits, a New Orleans car rider, a cat and a dog, Albania customs, and India rubber water proofing experiments.
Fragmentary OCR chatter references sly talk on relationships and authority. A window into social dynamics shows a sheriff, a young man in a blazer, and plans around court or arrest, with names and places only faintly readable, capturing a hazy slice of local life.
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