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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1888
Page
1
A local store advertises anti humbug prices with a large stock of low and medium priced goods. It touts quality and extreme bargains on novelty velvets, silks, satins, gauze, cambric, lace, and underwear with prices ranging from 25 cents a yard to 45 cents a pair, urging value without fooling customers.
The Senate committee reported favorably on a bill for a governmental building to be erected in Wichita Kansas with an appropriation of 100000. The report also covers Mississippi river system figures and river and harbor estimates and discusses South Dakota admission and related territorial matters.
April notes from Toresa recount a case where Jowse Moreland of Cherokee County, initially sentenced for mane bisiaze, is reevaluated as legally married to JoAnne Green, with the court suggesting the governor may act on pardons. The piece also covers Chicago University land litigation involving Stephen A. Domule and several parties, and reports a Pacific steamship quarantine involving the Parthia near Vancouver.
A garbled 19th century style wire service batch describes willful murder in a prairie town with Potter and Reynolds involved, a fatal shooting near a church, a separate killing south of Tate Bock Arkansas, a creamery explosion at Harleton Kansas, and a dynamite incident. The text lists victims, alleged perpetrators, and authorities, but details are fragmentary and unclear.
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