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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1888
Page
2
A vivid, mournful account describes a Roma camp breaking up at season’s end. The scene blends sorrowful goodbyes with daily life, noting fires, cooking, and the elders' reflective mood. The article contrasts gypsy life with “civilized” norms while detailing looks, dress, habitable conditions, and cultural tensions.
A distressed patient in a Benevalest hospital in At-Asta was treated with nitrogircurine after a cancer diagnosis. The report mentions prolonged survival despite organ damage and a fatal event involving an explosive tongue lacing, ending with a carried illness in New York.
A lengthy piece describes Armenian and Turkish peddlers selling gaudy jewelry and colored pictures on city streets. It contrasts varied garb from shabby American clothes to native dress and notes children and buyers forming lively street scenes. The narrative blends observations of bargaining tactics, consumer curiosity, and a digressive moralizing on habit and immigration.
A vivid portrait of street solicitors in New York shows the rise of the “puller in” who hawks goods from milliners to toothbrushes on crowded sidewalks. Each type, from fashionable to shabby, competes for pedestrians, with a ruling milliner dispute on Division Street highlighting fierce rivalries and public spectacle.
Describes the Aix les Bains bath routine with sedan chair transport and attendants bathing the guest, followed by casual leisure in town. Also includes short notes on walnut timber from Heelstoot Lake, sermon writing methods, mountain climbing notes, cemetery stories, and home remedies.
A historical note discusses Schiaparelli’s Mars canal observations from 1877 onward, detailing single and double canal appearances, their distribution across continents, and seasonal changes. It cites German and Italian observers, describes canal geometry, length, and color, and mentions related planetary-scale patterns observed during oppositions and near equinoxes.
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