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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1888
Page
3
A garbled OCR style fragment presents scattered phrases and lines resembling a poem or verse page. Names, places, and coherent events are largely indecipherable, with several broken lines and nonsensical word groupings across the text.
A demoralized "dog corps" tale unfolds with wild, garbled scenes of siege and siegecraft centered on Beies fortress in Praboe. The narrative traces struggles of men to maintain order, capture, and punishment, with odd passages about travels, trials, and a chaotic cast of named figures, ending in reflections on leadership and fate.
The piece portrays Sunday markets in Mexico with mules and pulque vendors, pack animals, and crowds. It details scenes of buyers and sellers, including women with produce, livestock such as pigs and cows, and a variety of goods from raw foods to crafts, while noting the lively bustle and social dynamics along market streets.
A New York corresp discusses Delmonico’s private upstair dinners, noting four or five parties nightly in winter with plates from $6 to $90, averaging about $5 including wine and cigars. It describes lavish arrangements, glassware mishaps, and rivalries among Delmonico’s, Hoffmann House, and Hotel Brunswick for elite dinners.
An article recounts doctors and students using human skin as leather for footwear and cases of grotesque artifacts. It notes a physician who wears shoes made from African skin, insisting on durability, while describing other macabre items such as instrument cases and slippers fashioned from cadaver skin. The piece also touches on societal reactions and broader obsessions with dissection-derived objets d art.
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