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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1888
Page
3
A long, fragmented critique of women preachers and the impact of “good women” in society. The narrator contrasts moral expectations for wives and mothers with clever, modern women who challenge those roles. The piece mingles diary like anecdotes, social judgment, and reflections on marriage, work, and happiness.
A fragment from Coylom letters recalls a seventy four mile journey to Kandy with ancient Buddhist sites and a famed tooth relic, noting emperors, priests, and reverence from Edwin Arnold. The text also contains observations on parrot behavior and irritability in animals, reflecting casual travelogue and literary digressions.
A visitor asks to play at a parish church service and, after consent, upstages the village organist. He boasts that his modern approach will produce a better sound, measures the instrument, and shocks the congregation with a forceful display that prompts gasps and exclamations.
A rough transcript describes sewer rats in Shy living tian with estimates of length and weight. It notes their tunnel routes to homes, their preferred decayed sewers, and how they establish tail residences while evading inspection. It mentions rare tame behavior toward workers and peculiar noises observed nearby.
Fragmented poem lines praise beauty in work and character including eyes, hands, and daily duties. It contrasts inner virtue with outward grace, urging earnest labor, modesty, prayer, and service as the true beauty of life. Strong imagery links beauty to deeds, faith, and humble toil.
Grandpa narrates a rainy day tale of Harmon Page and Mercy Avery, their forbidden romance, a church discipline clash, Virginia Wake’s flirtation, and a tragic arc ending with Harmon’s ruin and Mercy’s enduring resolve, revealing a family feud that echoes into the narrator’s lineage.
Thames Stevens reports a chaotic first public exhibition on Rua with a crowd at the docks. Porters scramble to reach a bus as police, including a chief, beat and kick ragged workers. The scene portrays unrestrained brutality, with two exceptions: a passerby and Thames Stevens' account.
Photographs by Janssen reveal cloud characteristics across day phases. The Brooklyn incident and a Brooklum joke appear as misfired pranks in a separate New York report.
A fragment notes telegraph operators using signals such as 2 and 18 to convey messages and save time. It recalls Booth in Honolulu, a performer’s anecdote about posters, poi paste, and a failed bill posting, and shifts to broader musings on future Jeremie literature and pirates. The piece also touches on cigarette paper origins and health concerns from smoking tips.
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