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Newspaper

Wichita Eagle

Location

Wichita, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Aug 03, 1888

Page

8

Local notices and travel ads highlight rail options and land bids

The page blends rail promos from the Chicago Kansas & Nebraska and Missouri Pacific lines with pricing to Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake, and other western destinations. It lists through car service, Pullman sleepers, and stopovers, plus real estate transfers and township official needs for records and blanks.

New Hopmar Missouri Denver Colorada Puebio Waly Tike Bere Colors Springs Tieuesen Geneneo Malentrewa Salt Lake Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway St Joseph & Iown Railroad Jensee Missouri River Pull Iin Palace Car Company Kansas Nebraska Chicago Kansas & Nebraska Railway Hook Island Jno Sebastian Td PA Topeka Kunott Missouri Pacific Railway Colorado Pueblo Colorado Springs Ogden Si Lakes Otter Leavis Wichita Jenesey Theough Mainateeet Buackiey Murdock Evry Loox Puebto Colorado Spears Caden Missouri Pacific Airway

Swamp Angel bombardment over Charleston remembered

In August 1503 the Swamp Angel battery on Morris Island fired Parrott shells toward Charleston, delivering fires and blasts that terrified residents, with shells bursting near Brown Wharf and causing mass evacuations from lower Charleston while gun crews maintained fierce, precise bombardment for years.

Charterton Charleston InteGen Giltmor Bt Michael Ateepio Gremen Abell Gillmor Moers Island Morris Polly Island Swamp Angel Morris Island Gilmore Busraing Mab Bt Michanl Orn Chariston

Theatre Lobby Tales and the Mysterious Patron

A downtown theatre lobby encounter probes social types among patrons seen by a reporter. An anxious small man in ornate dress clutching a gold cane seeks noteable observers and hints of backstage ambition. The piece sketches theatre society types and the chasm between curiosity and display.

Down Town Theatre Moon Dn Porter Bond Peaple Lushiton Mr. Bord Dds Indies Hue Ladenet & Arm Rell Meinther Mal Emery Aod

Prices Crash at The Popular Boston Store Sale

The Popular Boston Store launches a steep price cut across wash goods and apparel. Satines drop to 61-20, seersucker to 1e, batistes to 61-2e, remnants at 25e on the dollar, and many fine whites to 19c. Hosiery and undergarments deeply discounted. parasols offered at 15c. flouncings and gowns sacrificed to attract shoppers. Large display of reductions across gents furnishings and parasols.

Extracts from a cryptic theatre of lovers and concerts

Fragmentary dialogue hints at a secretive pair, a sisterly warning, and a plan to join Gwett’s concert in Jer Gould’s house. A wandering, dreamlike scene suggests a social gathering, a winter setting, and a royal or noble-titled crowd. The text reads as a fragmentary, stagebound reminiscence.

Andale Kas Antale Unoight GW Asmitnsoy Aro O. K&n Rock Island Kaas City Sh. Joseph Chicago St. Lowshae Gwett Jer Gould Rome

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