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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1888
Page
7
A mixed page features verses on the hills and a tale of the Scottish thistle emblem adopted after Queen Scotia’s victory. It includes mining fortunes in California and Denver, a Bull Run anecdote, plus Ghosts of criminals in East Asian lore and a baker’s profit sketch, ending with tenement air and ritualistic instruction notes.
A long, mixed excerpt discusses Niagara Falls eroding its edge toward Goat Island, predicting major shifts over millennia including Grand Island and a divided cataract. It then shifts to paleontological notes on human antiquity, geology, and the age of man, contrasting older estimates with newer calculations. A final block weaves in colonial-era curiosities on Mongol prophecy and speculative theories about living in the far past.
A jumbled OCR page mixes patent medicine claims for teething relief with railway excursion notices and public notices. It references Hor ne Adrien, a New York address for free remedies, marriage controversy letters in The London Daily Telegraph, and various travel routes to Boston and California. The fragment also mentions railway passenger tickets, steamer routes, and seasonal travel advisories across multiple states.
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