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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1888
Page
3
A garbled medieval style verse fragment centers on longing and forbidden speech. The speaker laments a disbelieving beloved and a wound of love, with scattered archaic phrases and names like Henry Thayer in Homes appearing amid the distorted text.
Mary works as a pancake maker in a restaurant on Throelyay window. A young clerk from a dry goods store becomes smitten by her, visiting daily for pancakes and a gaze that lingers. Jack learns Mary’s father once failed as a drunk and insecure, prompting a haunting search through poverty to meet him.
In a Pearl Street tenement Jack and Mary aid Mary's ailing father Mr. Rogers armed with batter and an oil stove. The two young lovers cook pancakes to comfort him, sharing a hopeful reunion as he improves. The story ends with their quiet wedding and a feast of pancakes for a hungry town.
A Chicago News report quotes Dr A C Iobwnson on the danger of injuries from human teeth. He notes bitten ears or noses heal slowly, exposes blood poisoning risks, and recalls cases where knuckles teeth bite led to severe infection, sometimes avoided amputation with intensive care.
A white bearded Hindoo famed as a vendor of oriental curios is knocked down by a butcher cart in South London. Though his wrist is fractured, the shock may kill him. Mascarenhas attends, claims a sacred snake can revive the dead, and gathers a group of doctors to witness a promised resurrection.
A fragment from Emms C. Dowd in Youth's Companion presents roses and lilies as symbols of ambition, peace, work, passion, and aging. The verse juxtaposes desire and restraint with repeated refrains about the rose of the lily and questions which is best.
In a London Chronicle style tale a doctor and onlookers witness a strangling of a corpse by a serpent placed at the neck, a Hindu relative interferes, a snake is flung into a fire, an Eurasian collapses, and the dead man’s body again stiffens as events unfold. then a hospital scene shifts to a discussion about dissection and a later remark on snake experiments and a patient’s fate. Also included is a health note on keeping feet warm using curled hair pads.
An excerpted column discusses a nearly century old independent state of African descent. It traces religious and cultural influence, native practices such as child sacrifices, and critiques liberty in its origins. The piece quotes J A Froude on colonial violence and notes global views on governance.
The Missouri Pacific Railway’s FT Scott Route is the popular line to Kansas City. Through sleeping cars on all night trains and daily morning service to St Louis. Includes sweeping cars to Kansas City and connections to Chicago.
The report notes Colorado California and Oregon in the Pacific Coast race favoring the favorite route as they navigate points on the favored path.
Tickets offer travel to San Diego Los Angeles San Francisco and other routes via the Great Southern line with six months validity and stopover privileges. Includes multiple city codes and limited express services for intercity journeys.
For time tables and information write or call at City Ticket office, 127 Main St, Wichita, Kan. N. C, KEERAN, Pasa. & Ticket Agent.
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