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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1889
Page
5
The family of ELE Blood at 18 South Emporis Avenue welcomed a baby boy. Mother and child are reported well. A Missouri Pacific freight car incident left a worker with two fingers injured during coupling. Two traveling salesmen and a city official named Carpenter are noted in local notices.
Edward T Brown, a Wichita real estate man and gun club figure, vanished after leaving his Arkansas avenue home Saturday. A bloodstained hat and a possible murder weapon were found. a suspicious wagon was seen nearby. Police, citizens, and experts swarmed the area. theories ranged from foul play for jewelry to abduction, while investigators probed Brown’s financial affairs and examined blood evidence, with a reward offered for his body’s discovery.
A chilling eyewitness account describes hog slaughtering in stark detail at a large packing plant. The writer notes vast facilities, multiple workers, and the gruesome process from stuns and disassembly to butchery, while contrasting slow clerks and austere conditions with the scale of the operation. Also referenced are a Quaker revival at Cleveland avenue and a Wichita ministerial association meeting with nominations.
The report covers a tram accident injuring a horse and a worker, a Spokane veteran remembering General Harrison, and tributes to TE Spoor's father. It notes nursing fund needs, a hospital charity plea, and a hotel naming mix up. Also reports on the Wichita board of trade stance on Oklahoma settlement and local social notes including a despedite poem fragment.
Advert says there are many white soaps and urges buyers to demand Ivory Soap. The note emphasizes authentic quality and discourages imitation products amid a crowded market. Copyright 180 by Prone & Garsbie.
A readable fragment notes Nectarne and Miss Virgalinn performing an Angel's Serenade in Seine. Steinher Suaxeid is mentioned as banter closes to a Boely reeieret peo ray, with context unclear yet indicating a social or musical event in a small locale.
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