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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1891
Page
2
The Oregon hop crop will be short by about 10 000 bales due to conditions at the hop house. growers report reduced yields and tight supply impacting local markets and brewers nationwide.
Diaz, aged 61, was celebrated in Tinaday with a grand military review. The Mexican general appeared in a major general's uniform as troops paraded impressively. In St Louis, the two largest leather driving belts for an electric power station are under manufacture, each 75 inches wide and 150 feet long, weighing about 1,400 pounds with around 200 hides. C H Buelock of Northfield, Minnesota, reported 1120 bushels of potatoes from one acre, far exceeding typical yields of about 300 bushels, an assertion vouched for by local residents.
The Washington based Professor Henry C Spencer was lauded as the finest penman in the United States at age 12. Flo, one of five brothers, hailed from a family whose father authored the Spencerian System. At 25 he became superintendent of penmanship in business colleges nationwide, guiding the establishment of several institutions.
Professor Bigelow has developed the auroralectinometer to study the aurora. He reports that a universal law underpins electricity and magnetism also drives solar activity. The instrument will be sent to Alaska for use in ideal conditions to study the aurora.
At a meeting of the French society of Hypnology in Paris Dr Ton disputed the link between hysteria and hypnosis. He argued most children can be hypnotized except those deemed idiotic or hysterical while another physician claimed to have hypnotized sixty nine of seventy patients under his care, cautioning against assuming widespread hysteria.
Indiana census reports reveal a population increase of over four percent, with urban areas expanding at the expense of rural regions. The bulletin notes 1880 population at 1,978,301 and 1890 at 2,192,401, indicating stronger urban growth across the state.
A circular urges alliance farmers to hold wheat for better prices with 61.00 or 82.00 per bushel quotings. The report lists numerous national items from court decisions, political events, and notable arrests, including Judge Beatty ruling on Chinese landings, appraisers in Philadelphia, and a series of political and social notes across the nation.
The report notes famine in Russia's Volga province and mentions the New Russian loan. Returns about the Romanian queen's illness improving and Henry M. Stanley planning Congo expeditions. It cites a UK trade union demand, an ultimatum to China, and violence in Santiago. A naval picnic sparks a European war scare, two ships collide near Gibraltar with 65 deaths. Dockers in London resist unloading grain from the Lydian Monarch. Weasels and Danube cadet learning references appear amid broader European tensions.
Washington Sept 22 At the farmers alliance headquarters it is stated the alliance will have fifty five men who will vote with how all measures that may come before the next congress. In the senate the party claims four senators Potter Kyle Irby and Vance. A tax bill introduced last congress will not reappear. a similar bill may be pushed. A Stanford and loan bill will not be touched. a bill bearing the same subject will be introduced. The alliance will demand a free coinage bill and will introduce other measures.
A list of recently added names includes Wesley Murray Charles John M Carlton Willam Chadborn Joshua Richardeon Noah Burinen Arpernon O Plage Juin Dur jam Walter Minurk Lenne N Pisher James Inanes Daniel Van Wicklon Thomas Holliday among others. Miles Kate Field travels to St Louis for a national art congress then to Sioux City to share her domperance story.
The New York Democratic convention at Saratoga nominated Roswell P. Flower for governor with a first ballot win amid support for Gov Hill and opposition to the tariff and silver measures. Other nominees included Campbell for comptroller and Sheehan for secretary of state with full party platform statements and a pledge to uphold free ballot and tax reform.
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