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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1888
Page
7
A clipped OCR fragment presents ornate romantic imagery featuring a Florentine figure and infernal symbolism. The text references Sereno, a fire unfazed by embers, and a Florentine audience, with an authorial note mentioning A C Bowers in New Orleans Towas launch.
The piece surveys costs and methods for producing an encyclopedia. It notes $50,000 before start for the core work, $116,000 for maps and engravings, salaried editors and writers, and the chief editor Charles A. Dana setting prices. It recounts contributor pay, including occasional grants of $10 per thousand words and other small sums, and mentions the American Cyclopaedia as a major model. It ends with a vignette about a $50 counterfeit bank note incident at Union Depot and a brief digression on coolie versus labor in British colonies.
A fragment from Pall Mall Gazette recounts ether anesthesia with a masked apparatus while a surgeon conducts an operation. The narrator details entering a trance, vivid darkness, and awakening in pain, followed by cheer from the surgeon describing the procedure as over in a quarter hour.
For sale improved and unimproved city property. Lots on inside street car lines and in outside additions. Suburban lots on east Maple Grove addition. Business lots and blocks offered at special bargains. Several fine tracts near the city for sub-dividing and plating elsewhere.
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