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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1888
Page
8
Kansas lawyers receive notice of a new guide, Kansas Pleading and Practice in Civil Cases by Irwin Taylor, with forms, offered postpaid. Local items report a spree of arrests and cases, store breaks, street changes, and society happenings around Wichita including yard sales, missing items, and police activity.
A flood of board of trade figures, investors and merchants discuss a Wichita expansion scheme moving south bank property to an upper Main Street depot area, with plans to relocate homes and factories. The talks include Chicago and Missouri Pacific interests, estimates on tearing down and reassembling houses, and the anticipated economic boom for Wichita, Hutchinson and nearby towns as a coordinated regional growth unfolds. The piece notes a formal endorsement from the Wichita board of trade president and city investors while detailing property sites, transportation, and construction timelines.
Forest City Pressed Brick signs a three million brick contract with Jacob Doki to deliver forty thousand daily, with current stock near one million and production at four thousand per hour. A main buildings project starts, machinery placements underway, and stables and exhibit grounds for the 1358 fair are planned, plus anticipated railway and expo preparations in Santa Fe and Wichita.
The Woman's Benevolent Home and Hospital has added a medical staff to improve patient care at its quarters on 725 South Market Street. The board of directors, working with city physicians, appointed consulting and general practice doctors, obstetrical and gynecological specialists, and others, with Dr F Keats named chair and FR Everett secretary. The institution, started on a small scale three years ago, relies on public donations and now operates a two story building with eighteen patient rooms, of which nine remain unfurnished, while community groups and individuals pledge furnishings and support for the hospital’s expanded mission.
The Lewis Academy audience praised Miss Andre’s department for a varied program honoring American poets Longfellow. The chapel hosted guitar pieces, recitations, and vocal and instrumental numbers by students led by Chas Angles, with strong community attendance and plans for further student recitals at Garfield University and local events.
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