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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1889
Page
4
A sprawling assemblage of Kansas political chatter references Windom and the treasury post, a Sioux county judge ruling on neighborly prayer, and mixed reports from Washington about President-elect Harrison, Vice President Morton, and cabinet chatter. The piece also covers Kansas rail commissioner talk, asphalt pavement plans, and wartime memory versus modern party shifts, with notes on divorce statistics and Stanley mission updates.
The Wichita district protests the removal of the land office calling it an unjust political act. Officials estimate large volumes of unsettled and contested land cases including 225 030 acres awaiting adjustment, with 50 000 acres in contest and 20 000 acres in further dispute.
A plea in The Gazette supports placing a commemorative obelisk near Lawrence Kansas to honor the Revolutionary era heroes and Kansas martyrs. The piece urges citizen involvement, a committee, and funding, highlighting the city as a fitting site with local pride.
An article urges deep, heavy plowing to improve yields and moisture in dry seasons, sharing methods and costs. It also discusses practical sugar plant economics, sorghum hay value, and region cotton viability, citing studies and local reports from Cowley and Cedarvale to illustrate profitable farming options.
Column items recall 1792 colonels as a small band, praise Kansas sugar beet prospects, and mock misread names. Mentions include Carthage sugar struggles, West Point cadet Grasshopper Smith, a burned county poor house, river deaths, and local political quips about land offers and road bonds.
A garbled OCR snippet reports on veteran casualties, crop terms, and marriages with scattered figures. It mentions a Denver divorce, Paris American counts, and quotes a songwriter, all within a mosaic of misread numbers and names.
Readable fragments describe a long exchange involving a Cleveland dealer, a mysterious woman, and a coded letter. The text hints at surveillance, a test of a physiognomy, and references to a grand locale, with mentions of a magnetite, a brave test, and a dramatic confrontation between parties.
A garbled OCR passage describes political turmoil and factional upheaval centered on a party factional fight. Mentions a figure named Dew and a march toward a major city with references to clanships and economic exchanges, but many words are unreadable, leaving the core events unclear.
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