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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1889
Page
8
The section mixes theater notices with a long list of real estate transfers and names. It references operatic works including Il Trovatore, various concert arrangements, and stage settings, followed by numerous property conveyances with street and avenue addresses and assorted names. A stray obituary-like note mentions a five year old boy in distress with medical remedies referenced.
A chaotic summary recounts several labor items: metal workers, carpenters, and painters push for eight or nine hour days with varied wage scales from two fifty to larger monthly figures. Union activity spreads through Minneapolis Illinois Jersey City and Pittsburgh while coal, glass, and iron industries discuss shifts and plant plans. A separate marriage advice piece warns young couples about boarding house life and the dangers of rushed unions.
PSK offers 100 pieces of 33 inch Sateens in over 50 patterns at 20 cents, now reduced to 12 1 2 cents. Fifty pieces of Fine Sheer India Linen, previously 15 cents, selling at 8 1 2 cents.
Boston Store owner George Wright relays a tale from the Caroline Islands of Carl Benjamin, a shipwreck survivor who has become ruler of a 10 by 20 mile island named after himself. Benjamin, American of German or Jewish descent, has nineteen wives and fifty or more children, teaches English to natives, and lives in Ki village with four chiefs acting as his cabinet. The island lies about 600 miles west of the Marshall group, with a population around six to seven hundred, and Benjamin advocates civilization including clothing.
An elderly Sanfordville woman Julia Ann Houghtaling, ninety plus, lives in a coal shed and bathes daily in brine. She long defends her eccentric family lineage from Moses Talmacey, promotes salt baths as life prolonging, and has resisted rents and aid, living in a shed with faint daily routines and a steadfast belief in brine’s preserving powers.
See our matchless bargains on sale this week. Fifty pieces White Dot Swiss and Chambray sold elsewhere, our prices far lower. Zephyr and White Cloth lawns offered in rare shades at drastic discounts. Sashes, undergarments, and dozens of suits for men priced at a fraction of factory cost.
An old OCR filled notice promotes the Chicago Kansas and Nebraska Railway as a fast comfortable west line with Pullman cars from Wichita to St Louis and connections to Boston New York and other cities. It praises the Frisco line as shortest between Wichita and St Louis with minimal changes and urges travelers to inquire at Wichita offices for rates maps and schedules. It also advertises the Sunny Hour winter travel to southern states with low excursion rates and lists multiple rail routes and agents in Wichita Kansas.
A fragmentary OCR reading mentions an engraved and printed card from a railway context tied to a location described as Wickite Kaci avenue. The garbled text references a person named Chet and a regional note about margins or minutes in a historical setting.
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