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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1888
Page
7
Sedgwick County evaluates county, senatorial, and district Republican tickets at the top of the column. The piece praises O. A. Vanes for county work, notes shifts in candidate prominence, and references editorial sentiment, local agitation, and national figures while touching on farm and sugar industry concerns and recent political commentary.
A garbled OCR style jumble mentions candidates like Wy and Uarrisons with scattered names Fagle Huse and others at conventions. It references Sitkin Sunday meditation, a prohibition feature, and mentions Blumbock, Cloweland, and a U.S. political context with Cleveland, Kerby, and New England dynamics. The text mixes Italian newspaper notes with American political chatter and party contention.
A chronicling of monetary strains outlines how currency in circulation has shrunk by about 5 percent, eroding property values by into the billions, while debts rise as the real value of payments declines. It notes uncertainty over the true money supply and warns of overarching economic distress across lenders and borrowers.
The clumps of text present as OCR scraps mention county officials in Kansas, costs per meal for city prisoners in Atchison, the Topeda state art school opening September tenth, and multiple stray notes on Kansas places and dates. Included are references to Leavenworth, Lawrence, Labette, Harper, Winfield, and Newton Republican chatter about sugar from sorghum.
The article recounts the shooting of Innes and Ross of Iola by a man in an ambush on a country road. The chaotic text mentions Topeka Capital references, examination dates, and a sprawling collection of local names, events, and scattered notes from Kansas towns, implying a report on violence and ensuing investigations amid a larger regional news page.
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