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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1887
Page
2
A local judicial committee meeting chaired by El Tayeon addressed the day’s agenda on Saturday. Details remain unclear due to fragmented text but the session was organized by the committee and its chair.
The piece critiques cranks who force rigid doctrines across social religious and moral life. It warns such cranks harm progress and liberty, fueling hatred and disasters, while noting power figures may exploit crank rhetoric for political ends and harm municipalities and civic virtue.
A critical examination argues civil service reform was a political rallying cry before and after Cleveland's election. It contends Democrats failed to expose GOP corruption and that changes to personnel were gradual, aimed at efficiency, yet driven by party loyalty rather than immediate sweeping purges. It frames government as a business, stressing accountability and integrity.
Superintendent Walker announces the next term at the state institution for the education of the deaf and dumb in Olathe will begin Wednesday September 14. About 290 students from Kansas are expected as a $50,000 addition rises. Trades and domestic work are taught, with a fifteen member literary staff and four in the Industrial department. The institution, under the Board of State Charitable Institutions, invites inquiries for admission from parents of deaf children.
An extended travel letter from Aug 3 1887 recounts an overland journey from Brussels through Germany to Cologne and Heidelberg. The writer notes Cologne cathedral relics and towers, river scenery from the Rhine, Cologne water fame, and stops at Frankfurt and Darmstadt, with reflections on travel life and local sights.
A Kansas frontier chronicle reports a coal vein found 1090 feet deep near Larned, with Pawnee county Republicans nominating DeMoss for sheriff after a two hour balloting. Other notes mention bank growth in Meade Center, a fire at El Dorado, a deadly mad dog incident in Halstead, storm damages in Atchison and Walnut township, and various regional misfortunes and civic notices.
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