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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1888
Page
1
This week offers 302 ladies fashions from an importer with many high cost items. Goods were bought at 25 cents on the dollar and will be sold at a small advance. Colored dress silks at 97 cents, guaranteed black silk at 1 piece price, 8c Piques at 5c, 15c Piques at 10c, and French sateens at 22c a yard.
Mr E B Haymond will conduct a small summer school at 121 Oak for ten to twelve pupils. The session began Monday June 4 and will continue eight weeks. Terms are fifteen dollars for the session. Mention is made of Rev Gamptalh br J O Davieng Be sampt J O ison Mr L Douglass Col M Stewart Mr E G dress.
Washington news reports the Mills bill drama with party splits in the Ways and Means Committee, amendments, and expected floor action. It notes rising marble duties, steel and glass rates, and open questions on salt and cotton schedules as Democratic caucuses wrestle over final passage. Vice Presidential speculation centers on Morrison, Black, and Stevenson with factions forming in Illinois Kentucky and New England.
California, May 9. Senator Stunfhind discusses the goals of the Stanford University project. He advocates temperance education, practical farming skills, equal opportunities for women in employment, merit scholarships, a machine shop, and industrial encouragement while prohibiting sectarianism. He emphasizes broader access to higher education and the county’s productive strength.
Secretary Fairchild voiced a positive view on removals in the New York City appraisers division amid sugar classification fraud probes. He said investigations began under Manning, continued after his retirement, and targeted actions under his direction to purify and improve the trade, insisting there was no political motive and describing the effort as essential reform.
The weekly weather crop bulletin reports cooler than normal temperatures across most regions with sparse frost, favorable to crop growth in the Mississippi Valley, and widespread rainfall excess in the South and Midwest. It notes drought relief areas and continuing risks from frost in northern states while storm activity limits field work in several regions.
Reports from Missouri Illinois and Indiana describe a historic storm with heavy rain and wind. The White River rose sixteen feet in forty minutes washing out bridges and inundating farms. Cattle losses and widespread property damage are feared with trains and roads disrupted. The storm also touched Arkansas and Nebraska with sporadic fatalities feared and extensive crop destruction.
A garbled coast reporting wrecks near Alaska mentions The American Part June A Ford and Julia Yord, with salmon cargo at Marluk’s. Notes cargo handling, rescue efforts, and dangers of the voyage with uncertain details.
A body recovered from Lake Michigan near Milwaukee is thought not to be Tascott. A reporter notes no faith in a linking letter or description. Authorities doubt the identification and ongoing inquiries follow. Separate Chicago Irish remarks discuss Catholic unity and politics in spring events.
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