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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1888
Page
7
Reading fragments laments the loss of vivid speech and sacred memory as the mind aches for the past, asking if transformed fare and rapture can return. The lines invoke Angela and a crystal pathway, portraying a world of muted voices and fading clarity amid reverent silence.
A historical note describes a civilizing effort by Capt Glass in Sitka to compel Indigenous children to attend school. Native houses were numbered for easy truancy tracking, with a tin tag worn by each child and police enforcing attendance. Early attempts included fines or imprisonment for parents of absentees, aimed at overcoming resistance to education. The program waned after a formal government establishment in 1854, as schooling gained acceptance and parents cooperated.
Two American men, Charlie Brown the wholesale grocer and an Obie friend, attended a royal performance in London in odd period attire to gain entry. They were initially barred for improper dress, improvised with tailcoats sewn back and old fashioned knee breeches, then admitted after a comic display of their costumes to the amusement of the audience including the Prince of Wales.
Curiosities of the Government Collection feature rifles and bullets from Civil War battlefields. Notes detail a Spottsylvania wound that split a ball, a nose bone fracture, a pistol shot through the neck, and a veteran’s preserved arm from Gettysburg. Indian papooses, a Little Bear squaw skull, and an Araucanian skull are also shown.
A Chattanooga grocer weighed twenty one sticky fly paper sheets and found seven pounds, then four pounds four ounces on fresh sheets, leaving two pounds twelve ounces for the twenty one sheets. The calculation estimates flies per square inch and total weight, alongside a New York critique of dyspepsia in dietary reform.
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