Stores lure shoppers with post Christmas discounts
Retailers push deep discounts after Christmas to lift sagging holiday sales. Shoppers report budget concerns as inventories remain high, with prices cut up to fifty percent at major chains like J.C. Penney Bloomingdale's Macy's and Lord & Taylor.
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New York
Sears
Macy's
Kurt Barnard
Barnard
Amanda Metzger
Cottonwood
Albuquerque
Duncan Muir
J.C. Penney
Bloomingdale's
Lord & Taylor
Mark Downs
Di's Death Tops 97 News With Princess Diana Tragedy
The 1997 year end AP poll ranks the Paris tunnel crash as the top story, noting Diana Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, and driver died. Other major items include McVeigh’s conviction, Mother Teresa’s death, Heaven's Gate notes, and Dolly the sheep's birth in Scotland.
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New York
Tunnel
Paris
Diana
Associated Press
Timothy McVeigh
Oklahoma City
Obituary notices listed for several residents in Aiken area
Obituary notices on page 2B list deaths including Jack Framer auxen Prank Rikard of Leesville Paul Rivers of Brooklyn NY John H Anderson Belvedere Matthew D Adams Graniteville Edward F Sheldon Aiken Sand Elizabeth Corley Far Rockaway NY Barbara H Craig Aiken Judge E Palmer Aiken and John C Heaton North Augusta listed with dates and services planned or held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Framer
Auxen
Prank N. Rikard
Leesville
Paul Rivers
Brooklyn
N.Y
John H. Anderson
Belvedere
Matthew D. Adams
Graniteville
Edward F Sheldon
Aiken
Elizabeth Corley
Far Rockaway
Barbara H. Craig
E. Palmer
John C. Heaton
North Augusta
Thursday's Winning Run Across Unclear Play
OCR fragment notes a Thursday winning run with numbers 69 7 4 72 8 but lacks context and clear entities or events to identify. Unable to determine people, teams, dates, or places from the text provided.
Christmas Bird Count Aiken Augusta Audubon Society reports rainy day tally
Field trip leader Calvin Zippler led 13 observers at Aiken State Park for the 96th annual Christmas Bird Count amid wind and rain. Last year yields reached 99 species and 41 863 individual birds with counts across SRS Hitchcock Woods and nearby locales.
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Scott Webster
Calvin Zippler
An State Park
Calvin Zippier
Aiken
Augusta Audubon Society
Zippler
Aiken State Park
Hitchcock Woods
Audubon Society
Central and
South America
Bermuda
West Indies
Pacific Islands
Savannah River
SRS
Aiken-Augusta Audubon Society
Aiken teens set for Pro Bowl halftime dance in Hawaii
Nicole Trezza and Ashley Johnson, both 15 and 16, from Burns Dance Studio in Aiken, will dance with a large group at the NFL Pro Bowl in Hawaii. A talent agent spotted them at Dance Caravan in Myrtle Beach last July, and their trip costs about 32000 dollars.
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Aiken
Hawaii
Nicole Trezza
Ashley Johnson
Burns Dance Studio
Myrtle Beach
Corey Burns
Nicole
Ashley
Tom and
Judy Johnson
Sharon Taylor
Honolulu
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kwanzaa
Maulana Karena
California University
Aiken County
Aiken Conference Center
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Georgetown
Bernice Sanders
Zeta Phi Beta
Africa
Sanders
CSRA
Augusta
Regency Mall
Bridge
Abby
Aah
Ash
Antay
Robert
Chris Trezza
Broadway
Burns
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