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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1888
Page
9
Fragmented OCR mentions Wichita Market and related trade terms, with garbled names and figures. Key readable items include references to market activity, date-like marks, and partial client notes. The text remains obscure but centers on a market listing and local commerce updates.
Markets by Telegraph lists cattle and stock prices with mixed details from Kansas City and Chicago. It notes cattle shipments and market values, with references to traders and exchanges, reflecting a broad snapshot of late day price activity and commodities.
Fragmentary text mentions offices in Wichita and surrounding towns, with scattered names and locations. The legible items include notices about sales and abstracts, mentioning office locations and agents, but many words are garbled, providing no clear event, date, or principal entity.
An excerpt urges travelers to choose Missouri Pacific for better service and modern cars including reclining chairs and Pullman sleeping coaches. It touts routes to Fort Scott, Colorado, California, and Washington Territory, with offices at 157 North Main Street Wichita. It promotes elegant equipment, first-class comfort, and extensive network coverage along with special California excursions and winter routes, urging tickets through Wichita agents.
An elderly traveler argues with a porter aboard a long-distance train about supper time, arrival in Buffalo, and connections to Cleveland. The dialogue reveals delays, exact times, a question on the next train, and the man’s growing frustration as the scene shifts through a sleeping car like a comic travelogue.
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