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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1888
Page
5
The readable fragment outlines a city advertisement notice about advertising rates and area limits, mentioning a weekly schedule and a general call to place ads. It lacks clear event or person details and cannot form a coherent factual summary.
A Kansas city page records revival meetings led by Mr Wilson critiquing tobacco and alcohol, with conversions and altar calls. Local civic items include hospital work progress, theater and hotel activity, street improvements, and a public notice on bonds with discussion of premium pricing and tax impact.
A cluttered notice mentions an advertisement in another column seeking teams and tailors for Cold packing convert. It also notes a funeral service for Mrs George L Pratt, a prisoner capture report in Fredonia, and several local business changes and social events including a church outing and a trade directory meeting.
Excavation for the pecking hots commenced yesterday with sixty tears and thirty mentees employed. The site on Topeka avenue north of Twenty-tinst street hosts a packing house area. The north Topeka avenue extension from Seventeenth street to the packing house received work, then plans to consult the play factory's locality. Several new buildings began in the city’s north part, including a two-story brick on Eighteenth steel and Topeka avenue. Burton car works advances with a large force. College of Music at Gayfield University, Wichita Kan, hosts first quarterly concert with pupils across Mend, pane, vivals and voice, featuring Miss Virginie Errr and Miss Mande Terrill, violin, piano, and ensemble pieces.
Thomas W Keene prepares a grand production of Richard the Third in Kansas City after illness. He promises a house stage and lavish scenery with a strong company. advance seats indicate a large house. A phonograph exhibit and a seven instrument prodigy feature in the program, with the Gypsy Baron receiving strong audience praise on the second night. A Wichita wedding adds to the social notes, as court and local notices follow with court actions and community events.
The Unity Club met at Stra Cash Henluron's with Misses Hays leading an opening program. Mr Charles Elyrondo presented a paper on gavel study and Hugo's Les Miserables, praised as a deep analysis of evil and humanity, amid detailed, careful remarks by Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Cash Heaikersia, though the text appears garbled in parts.
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