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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1888
Page
5
A sprawling, fragmentary report details local notices, meetings, crimes, legal actions, and social events in a midwestern city. It mentions jail bids, a county building decision, club entertainments, theater programs, and various residents and visitors with scattered place names and dates.
The joint committee to supervise reception for the Republican convention will meet today at 4 p m in Senator Kelis’s office located in the Sene week Block. Several committees prepared to report new questions for the intermember, urging full attendance and timely dispatch of reminders to members.
An Ashland observer reports a brief cyclone causing damage to two Dugan stalls, a Divens stable, several vacant houses, and crops not harmed. The incident prompted a surge to cellars and a rain shower followed, while the town continued with local notices, births, and court actions including a stove theft case and a police pursuit on North Market.
The Uns Police Court reports a busy session with numerous drunks fined and costs imposed. Several defendants paid, others remanded or sentenced to work on the stone pile. civil cases and hearings of minor offenses filled the docket, including a shoplifting arrest and a few disorderly acts.
A jail escapee tied to a burglary in South Lawrence Avenue eluded pursuit after escaping Thursday night. Police report several youths involved, with at least one captured. others still at large. A Kansas move follows as families relocate and community notices occur, including a sermon by Mrs. Wella Tata, Louisiana W C T U president.
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