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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1888
Page
8
A long readable advertisement and society sketch recounts visitors at the Wichita fair and railway offices. It notes ticket offices, travel offers, and a chaotic crowd including a Chinese visitor described with outsider humor and local host reactions. It references trains, rates, and local commerce amid a bustling midwestern event.
Odd miscellany reports bizarre curiosities from crime to quirks. A Finlander wills property to the devil. a Washington Georgia man guards his own coat. a Massachusetts damper tale and a sight miracle headline a jumble of letters and poems showing the era's curious, fragmented miscellany.
A New York Sun item surveys poetic forms and verse devices such as the virelal, the pantoum, the rondeau, and the rondel, explaining their rules and historical origins. It offers examples and notes on how poets like Austin Dobson influenced technique and on a discussion of Scottish Highland life and poverty observed during travel.
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