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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1888
Page
2
A speech extols Wichita growth amid national economic tests and vows a standing army of businessmen to drive trade. Letters from financiers praise local enterprise while urging rapid dedication of the board’s new building and trade initiatives to secure prosperity.
Butler county grand jury sessions fail to indict. references to Topeka week and state historical society secretary Jude Jen Aditi. mentions of Hon. J. R. Hines ex senator from Mississippi in Topeka. railway anecdote about a Santa Barbara locomotive and smokestack misadventure. questions about Tasco and Tascoat and a page of puzzling, fragmentary clues needing a clairvoyant to resolve.
The Senate agriculture committee heard Prof. Wiley describe microscopic tests on lard samples. Armour Co brands showed cotton seed oil or stearin. Fairbanks products mostly did, except prime refined lard. Whitaker Sons offered adulterated samples, Fowler & Bro of California flagged high water content. other firms showed varying percentages of water, revealing adulteration nuances.
March 17 report notes Senator Ingalls will not offer a new speech but will answer Col. Fluky Anderson in a published letter. The piece highlights calls for retraction and apology over remarks about the president and memory of McClellan. It also references his stance on Cleveland and current political rhetoric. A separate notice covers a Washington hearing on school liquor traffic commissions.
A long, irregular report discusses an Interior Department decision on residence requirements for homestead entries. It covers a claimant who built, left seasons to work his land, and deposited earnings to improve his property valued at $6000. The document argues his good faith and intent while noting remote location and substantial effort.
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