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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1888
Page
6
A garbled OCR style page contains scattered names such as Rabiner, Pontes, Mabey, and Teresa. It references months, locations, and numbers in a chaotic sequence, with stray words like gasoline, lights, and map interspersed among random capitalized strings.
A long document recounts a former gambler’s suspicions and an undercover visit to a covert manufacturing site for gambling devices. It describes trick boxes, marked decks, a double deal box, and other implements used in cheating at faro, poker, and keno. The piece includes a firsthand interview with an ex-gambler who explains how such devices enable players to gain an unfair edge and notes the dangers and allure of gambling culture.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a bull fight scene with a rider entering the arena and a struggling bull. The readable elements mention a description result and a ceremonial spectacle, with unclear names or dates. The fragment lacks coherent names or places to anchor a precise report.
A travelogue describes a day at a bullring with colored cloaks and live blood, noting the brutal combat as bulls and horses die and a rider is injured. The author notes progress toward outlawing the sport, now banned in most Mexican states except four, and concludes with a medical anecdote about a thermometer swallowed by a German patient and later expelled.
The report profiles a 20 year old lifeguard known as OM Rider near the Rockaway bathing pavilion at Tiemen avenue. He describes precise rescue methods and the peril of saving others, noting he has saved over fifty lives and earned seven medals. He explains the danger of drowners grabbing him and his tactics to prevent being pulled under.
The late Emperor Frederick granted $700 to Frederick Froebel’s widow. Froebel founded kindergarten study methods and influenced global education. The text praises his work and notes contemporaries who shared similar aims in education.
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