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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1888
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text hints at a dated reflection on past deeds and enduring themes. The garbled lines evoke a sense of fortune, struggle, and memory, mentioning a southward dream and a possible date reference, with several unclear personal names.
In Naples, Corll Dacry and Cecil Dacre scheme to trick MacTaggart with a fake doctor and a staged bath. MacTaggart undergoes a costly “Bokhara bath” while Dacre and accomplices edit his clothes and spectators revel. The ruse collapses when Flora MacTaggart exposes the hoax, sending the trio to Rome to avoid consequences.
A scattered column mixes a literary correspondent’s mock dialogue about Nineveh and Turks with homegrown notes on brickwork mortar colors and the “Proper English Walk.” It interlaces Georgian-era quips, a primer on mortar tinting, and a caricature of Benson’s English strolling trend in New York society.
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