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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1889
Page
10
Fragmentary verse lamenting nature’s beauty and human sorrow. The speaker contemplates earth’s splendor, time’s brevity, and the ache of unfulfilled joy, weaving imagery of cloudy winds, shadow fires, and distant hopes through a charged, rhythmic meditation.
A narrative recalls a new clerk skilled in double entry and a meticulous, observant worker. It details a mysterious cipher telegram discovered beside a stolen paper, leading to a police trap that captures burglars via a staged office raid and a house across town.
A historical recount of Joshua Slocum and family aboard La Libertad, detailing the 1855 to 1595 voyage from Paranaguá to Santos and beyond. It covers the vessel’s small size, crew, frail hull, and harrowing experiences including cholera, quarantine refusals, mutiny rumors, shipwreck, and the remarkable return voyage aided by a new crew and salvaged materials.
A boy fearing illness asks his father for help and a tense scene ends with the father shooting a rattlesnake that had curled near the boy. The piece also recounts General Custer’s old scout Sergeant Charles C Wagner’s survival and a note on five women studying law at Michigan University, including a Sandwich Islands granddaughter and her married classmates.
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