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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1888
Page
3
A New York Graphic report reprints a chaotic essay on hand painted works and alleged street trades. It catalogs curious views on illicit art forms, wages, and labor, noting public concern over deceptive craft and social tensions.
A garbled European travel scene unfolds with tourists and locals debating cider and champagnes amid blurred dialogue. The text references New York and Philadelphia as sources, with intermittent mentions of actors, a ship exhibit, and a wry remark about tasting wine.
A long, mixed batch of essays and anecdotes contrasts a fashionable hotel crowd described as a supposed aristocracy with sharp humor about race and class. It includes reminiscences from a New York observer on Abraham Lincoln's office days, trials in Illinois courtrooms, and social scenes, plus brief notes on a Demerara diet study and a Bridgeport blood based buttons industry.
A colonial era notice describes dropping sulfur on hot coals to fumigate rooms with diphtheria. It notes doors and windows may be opened briefly if fumes are too strong and mentions use of other disinfectants as alternatives. A decoy cow incident is briefly reported, noting a farmer near New Inckinnon, Takbay.
The Museum Pueille Railway Company operates a popular line connecting Kansas City St Louis Chicago Pi Gotana Now Sinane Tot Florida and southeastern points, offering extensive rail service to numerous regions.
The Shortest Route to St Louis along with trains to Colorado, California, and Pacific Coast points is promoted. It highlights free reclining chair cars on all trains to Kansas City and daily cars to St Louis on the morning train.
For sale near the city at special prices. Tracts suitable for cake dividing and plating. Buyers urged to call and inspect the list before purchasing elsewhere. Excursion tickets to call and examine. San Diego, Lee and Sano and Pom Via, the great Southern route with six months stopover privileges.
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