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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1889
Page
5
Inhens Manufacturing and Importing Company advertises a clearance of china wares including plates cups and saucers 6 to 14 inch sizes with list prices and trade values. Also featured are nappies bakers flat dishes pitchers and basins plus library lamps chandeliers and glassware with discount quotes aimed at bulk buyers.
A prison tale recounts Des Armoises and his mistress using a text cipher to correspondence. The key is found, the book is burned by Mme Loriot, and the documents are destroyed. The narrator laments the loss of the enigmatic manuscript and its clues.
In Dijon I befriended Eustache Loriot a deputy judge with a libertine taste for bric a brac. His wife a lively brunette and his friend Frederic Simonnet the Dijon bar head borrow his rare volumes, while a Daphnis and Chloe copy reveals pages marked by red and blue dots hinting at a hidden meaning.
Olive Harper recounts meeting a woman who made a dark gray flannel gown with black braid for only 2.60 dollars. The cloth and trim were cheap yet stylish, and the dresser noted many all wool fabrics available for 12 to 25 cents per yard for dresses and suits.
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