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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1888
Page
5
A jumble of clipped notices and social notes from a local paper recounts chatter on business, racing, and community events. Mentions include city figures, merchants, and social plans, with scattered references to trains, markets, and local personalities in a midwestern town.
Struggling over a dog licensing law and a telephone company proposal, the Wichita city council debated tax, fines, and street work all session. A plan to grant city printing to the Beacon passed with eight votes for, while other ordinances lingered or were referred for further action.
The Wichita and Waller Center motor line directors met in Hieserman and Finber's office. They approved routine business and arranged to bond the road for several hundred thousand dollars. Buildings are nearly complete and machinery is being installed promptly. the plant should be ready soon.
The Women’s Benevolent Home and Hospital directors thank supporters for furnishing rooms and comfort items. The Entre Nous club, Knights of Pythias, Oud Fellows, and Mrs. Wallenstein contributed beds lamps and decor. Mr Cash Henderson funded rug carpet and curtains. The home invites public view of its new quarters and outlines patient admission procedures.
A garbled OCR page recalls a memorial note for H F Loog, a street altercation, a sturgeon catch, a Crystal Ice plant ammonia accident, a trade directory meeting, serenade anecdotes, a medical society schedule, a city ordinance on street entrances, a school curriculum revision under a new superintendent, and court docket entries with several arrests and trials.
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