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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1888
Page
1
Fragmented ad text details a forthcoming sale of cloths, pruning, wool crusts, and hats. It touts dramatic price markdowns including wholesale and half off, urging readers to visit for elegant styles and a liquidation of stock across dry goods and millinery.
Fragmentary OCR notes list Oliver Bros lumber dealers in Wichita Kansas and partial references to Attica Arkansas City and eye ear and surgical institutes with unclear entries. The readable items suggest local business notices or listings without coherent events or dates.
Fragmented report cites Noemie Teas and Mike Melneirevm amid a Perry Township incident where a child’s outcry and scene prompted aid. A drowning river discovery follows, with coroner notes and a riverbank inquest. A paymaster in Michigan faces a theft during a Milwaukee line trip, with a missing funds inquiry and quiet investigation.
Reports from Was ratseton show Senator Ingalls ready to reply to Voorhees on Tuesday as the Senate resumes work on the railroad land forfeiture bill and a 22,000 added appropriation for Wichita public building. The House plans an evening tariff debate after a long committee session.
In Jefferson street area of Cand, Mrs Moltie Howard dies suddenly at 42, amid a troubled tale of her husband George Card, once sentenced in Buffalo to a year in prison. She had visited him daily at the jail, spent money to seek a pardon, and grew despondent as his fate and reports of his parole moved through the town. The letter carrier postmarked from the penitentiary and the sorrow of her neighbors frame a somber scene.
In Tomlinson hall Indiana Democrats convened with 500 present. Courtland C. Matson nominated for governor and William K. Meyers for lieutenant governor. The platform praised President Cleveland's administration and urged tariff reform, civil service honesty, labor protections, and protection of private property while opposing excess corporate power and broad land grants. The party favored sobriety, merit in public service, and restraint on governmental interference with rights.
A chaotic report from Maine shows delegates present at a state gathering as factional lines form over supporting or opposing national party aims. South Carolina delegates and state leaders discuss anticipated contest for the presidential nomination and the path to the national convention.
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