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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1889
Page
4
Disjointed OCR prose covers elections politics rail rates farm grain trusts and public notices with scattered names and places. mentions Kansas City Texas deep harbors and teachers unions. Contains fragments about canal plans and congressional figures while railing at policy, media, and reform efforts.
A New York dispatch notes partial subscriptions for a Congo railway from the lower Congo to Stanley Pool, with Southern Pacific president Huntington contributing 30000 and Calvin Ice endorsing the project. Reports detail a 200 mile line, gauge of 75 centimeters, and annual operating costs around 1,200,000 francs, suggesting solid potential profitability amid vast, untapped African commerce.
A garbled Kansas era column reports scattered notes on towns, officials, weather, and locals. It mentions Osage City, Atchison, Leavenworth, Topeka, and Salina with stray references to postmasters, public notices, and curious quotes about crops, wind, and taxes. The piece blends social chatter with incomplete anecdotes and sensational phrases.
A garbled OCR fragment describes a chaotic scene with references to Elvis and a distant mission. Names and places are unclear, but the text conveys confusion and a disrupted sequence of events and observations from a night scene.
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