Store Promises Bigger Stock This Year
A local retailer touts a wider selection this year with a bold claim that the store always carries a big stock and now offers even more items for customers seeking variety and value.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1896
Page
7
New Dress Goods Offerings from Hine Imported Fabrics
A catalog of dress goods showcases greater variety and superb quality at popular prices. Yard wide all wool cloths, bourette, bouce serges, black French silks, broadcloths, and novelty woolens are offered from 50c to $3.00 per yard with low cutting waste and sample catalogs available free upon request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uypro
WS Horne & Co Sale Promises Bargains And Silks
A garbled ad for WS Horne & Co promotes clearance on silks velvets and stylish coats. It touts dollar a yard silks, bargain velvet goods at two dollars, and jackets for daughters or wives while inviting readers to visit and compare prices.
Gown Fashion Talk on Embroidered Sleeves and Trims
New York Ladies' Journal notes long embroidered sleeves, braided cuffs and wings, velvet and satin details, and heavy braiding. Paris designs influence US maids and matrons who will imitate intricate trims, with netted waists and elaborate sleeves drawing focus as fashion shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Maida
Wiisis
Railroads expand and robbers seize cash on moving train
The article notes new hats on Paris to Saint Germain routes and planned wide rail upgrades, while a bold train robbery on the Paris Toulouse express yields 16 98,000 in cash as two assailants flee. one woman dies on the track and another suspect is arrested. It also reports New England railroads showing stronger business and Germany's Ostend to Saint Petersburg service highlighting high speeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Saint Germain
Maris Toulouse
Toungl
Toungl Lady Het
New England
Boston & Maine
Theig
Funny Things and a Weighty Bluff in Narrow Gait?
In a clipped Pittsburgh chronicle style, villagers recount a curious exchange about weight, innocence, and a joke told within a tense scene. Mr Bloomfield, wrapped in cold weather attire, carries his wife’s thoughts aloud as the pair ponder a humorous misinterpretation involving a cow and a baby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avery
Mr. Bloomfield
Pittsburgh
Wheel Talk and a Cannibal Island Rallying Bicycle Racers
Fragmentary notes describe Wheel Talk and a cannibal island readying to patronize bicycle racers. It mentions skating and speed, a California woman riding Mount St Helena 14 miles, with erratic OCR errors and unclear details but hints at athletic crossovers and bold feats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iti
Vegetable Compound Promises Quick Backache Relief
An old advertisement touts a vegetable remedy for backache and related nervous and bodily symptoms. It features testimonials claiming rapid relief and restoration to health, praising Mrs Pinkham and the product Ledin EB Finkhas’s Vegetable Compound as the cure after years of suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyatin BK
Naina
Ancient letters and church notes fill scattered pages
OCR fragments recount alphabet origins with single letters and phonetics, then note St. Baviour's church restoration in Southwark and a royal commission on Ireland Britain relations. London omnibuses carried millions of passengers, profits and miles, while a renewal of Haniel’s organ at the London Foundling Hospital is described amid short snippets on cigarettes and squirrel hunting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egistyar
Gatland
St. Baviour’s Church
Southwark
John Tarmrd
Irelem
Great Britain
London
Ireland
Tlandels
London Foundling Hospital
Haniel
Entletpen
Inventions and odd devices from Gratz to London
A Gratz Austria mechanic creates a portable folding bicycle and a grasshopper baiting device while a London telegraph evolves with a pneumatic underground mail car. Early glow lamps, street corner indicators, automatic trains, and a battery of curious contraptions from deterring dogs to safe animal handling are noted, reflecting a flood of speculative tech and oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gratz
Austrna
Lenny Crow
Garden City
Wall
Mainz
Fragmentary notes on gems, bells, and historical remarks
Scraps discuss rose buds and value, opal, the first machine made in the United States at Roxturg, mentions the Liberty Bell and its London birth and 1755 recast, notes John Marshall death, and cites Frances Tribou and a Mohawk Indian conference remark regarding reading Elias's India Bible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Roxturg
Mase
Philadelphia
John Marshall
Supreme Court of
Yee United States
London
Aliss Frances TI
Tribou
Boston Transcript
Chaplin Siikon
Elias
Zien’ Dlerald
Istd
Hishop Whipple
Lee Ye Ojibwinys
Minnesota
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Huey
Ure Daugster
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