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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1889
Page
5
A crowded Wichita page lists assorted notices and items from December. Mentions city happenings, theater plans, visits by agents, and upcoming performances with names of venues and organizations. Readers are warned of a building noise complaint and possible changes at Crawford Grove.
A sweeping, fragmentary item list reports on diverse topics from a jailed Chinese dairy worker in Frejo to a volcanic tremor in Tobases. It covers population estimates, stock and rail investments, city street counts, leprosy in British India, Texas school funds, and Indian campaigns. It notes the Brooklyn Bridge traffic in a year, a Paris dentist crime, Roman lighting, sea urchins, and deaf church consecration in Philadelphia. It mentions Etshowe deserters, Cuban fireflies aiding photo science, and a rash of assorted discoveries and urban oddities. It closes with assorted odds and ends about bridges, diving accidents, and railway bridge material shifts.
A fragmented OCR passage references a formal dinner at five and eight thirty, mentions tea in the drawing room and napkins at breakfast, and notes about toilet and grace. also describes luridly a back-page tube material and clock dials with metal joining, hinting at manufacturing comments.
An OCR battered summary of scattered items includes a Michigan ink spring, Scottish tortoise walk experiment, Mrs. Polk of White Hall, and various oddities. It mentions Washington Territory, Sioux City poetry, a political bust, a French affair, and bizarre anecdotes about tar and feathers. The tone mirrors a miscellany page with garbled names and places.
A garbled 19th century style rewrite mentions Cornett fan 2.33 and FoUtyE Woes Queen Fspashed amid steel, with references to Miss Lucile Blstin and Shaw. Mentions of captains of reels and New York harbor hint at maritime or society contests, with scattered names like Marie Rose and the Dechee ¢'Ueex. The fragmentary text suggests a readers’ column on shipping, social figures, and coastal towns, but lacks clear events or dates.
Fragmentary OCR text lists terms like Cheerios and cakes with scattered proper nouns and incomplete phrases. The readable content mentions names and places in a garbled string, offering no clear event or report to summarize.
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