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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1917
Page
6
Fanny Ranger weighs two suitors Bert Farrar and Robert Sule as Gus Ranger counsels the affair. Bert rises in municipal ranks while Robert shows steadier progress, and Fanny struggles to choose between romance and responsibility as family ties complicate the love triangle.
The text argues that economy touches production distribution and consumption and concerns all people not just politics. It urges learning through observation and experience, accepting reverses, and emphasizes grit and sound judgment as the path to progress and benefits despite losses.
The practice of swearing by a sacred text began with established Christian courts and spread to Canada with European settlement. Oaths existed before Christian eras, with Hebrews swearing on the Pentateuch and ending with a sacred plea. Mohammedans swear by the Koran.
The Petunia Pal ladium scribe recalls rare subscriber threats toward editors while noting most do not act on them. A wry judge’s cornered cougar remark punctuates the quip about reader hostility and editorial response.
Moscow, ancient capital and central Russian hub, anchors a vast 18-government region of 480000 square miles with over 1.6 million residents. The city dominates supply and demand for a largely agricultural economy, channels Siberian trade through merchants, and hosts a powerful manufacturing sector while German goods fill its stores. Moscow's fur trade and lower-priced, wide-ranging goods appeal to peasants and rural towns, contrasting Petrograd's higher-class offerings.
The piece describes Moscow shaping tariff policy and driving industrial finance across textiles and iron and steel, with Moscow initiating cotton farming in the Caucasus and Adin. It notes Moscow’s business climate attracts Westerners, its patriotism and decisiveness, and a shift in fur trade toward local finishing and direct relations with London and New York. It mentions Moscow’s aim to reduce dependence on Leipzig and to expand fur finishing locally.
A comic critique contrasts open fireplaces as flimsy, ill performing showpieces versus practical stoves that heat well. The piece laments unreliable chimneys, praising sturdy box stoves that burn long and glow brightly, making food warmth and comfort amid a suburban setting.
The article outlines a pull-through cord method with a weighted end and loops to clean rifle barrels, and describes two mercury-based techniques for muzzle-loaders and breech-loaders. It claims quicksilver and lead amalgam cleans the barrel, leaving it like new, with repeated use through leather filtration.
The celebrated Marshal Joffre and his wife Mme Joffre are praised for harmony at their Passy mansion on Rue Michel Ange. The Bookmann notes her radiating kindness keeps the couple in regularity rest and joy, while she shuns notoriety and seeks peaceful family seclusion. They dream of buying a motorhouseboat after the war to float France’s rivers away from fame.
A field naturalist and anglers note that quiet, motionless behavior reveals animal life in fields and woods. Animals hide from humans, fearing everything larger, until they deem it harmless or escape safely. The text emphasizes careful, nonintrusive study of wildlife.
The Washington postmaster started a form-to-table effort two years ago to connect farmers with residents, cut middleman costs, and reduce prices. Bulletins list hundreds of farmers in Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and West Virginia with items for sale including eggs poultry butter and a wide range of farm goods. Farmers can join by notifying the postmaster to add their name and offerings to future lists circulated in the city.
Two girls in garish outfits wander along a city street with gum forgotten amid gossip about mothers and money. A passing observer notes a flash of loyalty in the black bow girl’s eyes as a woman nearby looks on.
The Council of National Defense reports a vast expansion of Washingtons communication system for war. Long distance lines and private wires have doubled, with plans for an underground cable from Washington to New York and 51M long distance wires radiating from the capital to connect war departments with military posts and key centers nationwide.
In Washington the sight of uniforms becomes a daily spectacle as soldiers sailors and marines fill the streets. Cavalry battalions march along Pennsylvania Avenue while infantry move over Fifteenth Street and toward Virginia. The war department glows at night as the city adapts to a new era of military presence and purpose.
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