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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1890
Page
8
A garbled excerpt from a Western Sehuet Journal issue hints at editor McDonald and Superintendent Pencwa, mentioning examination and treason themes. The legible parts reference distant places and a keystone question about better authority, with an odd address line for KP Men HR Manager Emin ee.
William Bross was a teacher editor and long time political figure. The tribute recalls his Illinois lieutenant governorship from 1848 to 1850 and his role shaping The Tribune into a major anti slavery and Union paper. It covers his Chicago years, editorial partnership with John J. Serpillo, his abolition stance, and his later public influence including campaigns with Schuyler Colfax and Sam Howes.
A New Yorker famed in the World’s Fair excitement, Senator Platt, divides time between Fifth Avenue and a proposed Shinnemunk mountain summer home. He keeps a busy schedule with politics, theater, and family while his public role ensures constant visitors and calls at his hotel offices. The piece details his habit of managing privacy and the lure of country life versus city demands, including a lengthy note on access to his rooms and the invasions of his personal space.
Walter Sheridan a famed con artist of the United States, who lived a lifetime of crime across Missouri Illinois New Orleans New York and Europe, died in jail in Montreal at 46. He never killed, but swindled hundreds of thousands through safe blowing forgery and fraud, later facing charges in North Carolina and various cities. His life spanned multiple continents ending in exile and imprisonment.
A fragmentary diary style item reviews a legal docket booklet titled The Lawyers Vade Mocurs. It lists endorsements from judges and attorneys across states, praising its completeness and usefulness for practicing lawyers. Mentions dates and names loosely, with scattered quotes and coy references.
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