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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1889
Page
4
A sprawling column reviews disasters and debates from across the nation. It mentions a Buffalo Bill benefit, Chicago freight discrimination, new Los Angeles cable cars, and political fights over railroad rates. It notes rail and labor tensions, Stanley and Emin Pasha, and lingering Wichita issues with Kansas City. The piece mixes editorials, economic data, and sensational snippets.
A theatrical mind reader conducts a staged experiment using a copper wire stretched from the Bijou stage to a telegraph office. The test participant, Professor Cromwell, concentrates to produce the number 742, while a trusted committee witnesses the feat. The event sparks fresh debate on necromancy and mind reading among local figures and reporters.
The article notes rapid expansion of cultivated land in newer states and territories, with four main crops corn wheat oats and cotton expanding from 128,000,14 acres to about 150,00,000 in nine years. It claims this growth rivals large regional land areas and boosts total improved farmland to about 554 million acres, a vast increase from 25 million in 1571, reflecting widespread agricultural development across the era.
Mr William E Curtis denounces post office subsidies across rivers and ports in a speech to the Spanish American Commercial Union in Evansville Indiana. He cites figures for mail translation and freight costs on rivers in Arkansas and Washington territory, Florida to Central and South America, and lines on Ohio River routes. A citizen comments on the need for a welcoming gathering free of conspiratorial influence.
A collage of odd items from a New York Tribune page includes military desertion debates, local topeka topics, school notes, odd arrests, and scattered gossip. References touch on railings of public policy, newspaper quarrels, and curious local anecdotes across Kansas and New England.
The message highlights the originality of its desks and the completeness of its many departments, emphasizing very low prices on wares to entice buyers. It appeals to value-minded shoppers and stresses that purchasing there is worthwhile.
Choice dress fabrics are advertised with satins silks and French serges in a wide range of colors and patterns. The ad markets striped plaids and novelty designs with a focus on summer outfits and refined finishes, noting quality and fashionably styled textiles for dressmaking.
A long account centers on a Wellington preacher who resists pressure to preach a firebrand sermon in a crowded pulpit. The report sketches social and political tensions, citing references to Lie Oneawn and broader debates about faith, governance, and national identity within a bustling urban setting.
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