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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1888
Page
2
The $50,000 Futurity Stakes winner was Tater the Wire by Troctor Knott, beating Selvator by a neck in 1:16 12. Thirteen starters competed as a large crowd of 44,000 watched the event, with details of runners and pacing noted throughout.
A late night melee erupts as anarchists clash with police in Vierefiaid and Tekthdye streets. Officers face attacks while a municipal committee forms and then fractures amid violence. A Canadian absconder and a frost in Wisconsin headlines.
A heated senate dispute centers on the China US treaty and a proposed bill altering Chinese labor terms. Senators Butler Sherman Teller Mitchell and others clash over whether repealing or abrogating the treaty violates constitutional and diplomatic commitments. The debate touches presidential politics and Pacific policy as leaders press for or against passage ahead of the election.
An egg of the extinct great auk sold for 1200 dollars after a contest among ornithologists. The egg, five by three inches, was prized as the world’s highest price for such an egg, with histories of previous sales noted from London and Paris. The auk, once common in the north Atlantic, laid a single egg and could not fly.
In Central Africa a white explorer named Deane fled along the Stanley Falls river frontier after a failed hunt. Surrounded by Arabs and hostile tribes, he traveled for weeks with only Haussa attendants, living on ants and caterpillars to survive. Reaching the Bakumy tribe provided scarce provisions, while Bengal stations burned and Deane's fate remained unclear as a search along the river resumed.
The advertisement touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a thorough remedy for diseases from intermittent fever to bilious remittent fevers. It claims the tonic not only relieves symptoms but eradicates ailments of the liver kidney and other organs, promising comprehensive health restoration.
The article surveys four leaf clover superstitions across Europe and America, noting Trinity symbolism of the three leaf clover and various myths linking the four leaf variety to luck, invisibility, love, and protection. It cites German sources and a Werther-like caution against superstition while recounting folk beliefs tied to St. John’s Eve and magical omens.
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