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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1888
Page
3
A garbled reminiscence captures a coastal town scene with names like Burt, Pilarathie, Taggart, and Angela. The fragmentary diary voice recalls power lines, lights, flames, and a flood of personal recollections, hinting at a winter storm, panic, and community figures moving through wreckage and shelter.
A moonlit sea voyage frames a social group aboard a ship bound for the Cape. Mortimer's niece and a colonel listen as a sea captain’s companion recalls a shipwreck tale and a dramatic heiress aboard, hinting at peril, wealth, and distant ports.
A memoir fragment recounts a luxurious voyage beset by storm as a tall witty husband draws attention from a young bride. The governess charms the captain, while fear grips the passengers. A shipwreck follows with women and children prioritized for lifeboats. The bride refuses to leave without her husband, leaping into a loaded boat as the vessel sinks.
The Arcade Dry Goods Co a new dry goods association with partners in Wichita Chicago and New York promotes its inside on wires with Eastern houses claiming it will cut prices to win local business. The text also shifts to a serialized narrative about shipwrecks a rescued husband and a faded tale from Drake's Magazine and a Detroit winter charity surge led by H H Emmons and civic volunteers.
A fragmentary excerpt shows a husband addressing his wife with a fond remark about a discussion with Dr. Mildow on their case, revealing a private, unclear medical or personal matter amid garbled phrasing.
Local store received a large import of linen handkerchiefs, hand embroidered and hemstitched. They were destined for Wichita ten days ago but arrived late, leaving only one day to sell the entire shipment before Christmas.
A Post Dispatch correspondent describes a remote North Carolina mountain camp where a man teaches a visiting stranger and local family to eat clay as sustenance. The fatty, odorless clay is prepared into boluses and eaten with gusto, claimed to curb hunger until more food arrives.
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