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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1897
Page
4
The Oregon and Washington Cash Buyers' Union, a 30-member group, reports purchasing over one million dollars in spring goods at a 20 percent saving. The notice lists jackets, capes, cloaks, dresses, furs, and fabrics from Chicago manufacturers, urging readers to inspect the fall assortment and prices.
The advertisement touts a large fall stock of all wool suits and separates for men, boys, and women, claiming top value and expert fit. It highlights many fabrics and price points, urges inspection before buying, and promises wide assortments and steady stock updates.
A dense list of textiles including white and colored flannels, Canton flannels, skirting flannels, and outing fabrics with per yard prices. Describes woolen and novelty fabrics, patterns in stripes and checks, and special lines from Amoskeag and San Fils with varied weights and uses. Mentions infant garments fabrics and fleece blends, with multiple color options and finishes.
Readable fragments reference Hod and Velvet wigs with unclear context. The text presents fashion items or costume notes but lacks coherent events or identities to establish a full report.
The ad touts five new serge skirt patterns with quality lining and workmanship. It highlights Isa nue Diack brocaded sulk skirts and feather collars in high fashion, urging purchase at the stockist with prices around 45 to 75 cents and children’s cloaks offered at $1 to $1.25.
An advertisement touts taf fetta moire satin ribbons in black and colors, satin baby ribbons, silk braids, and trims. Sash ribbons priced per yard from 25 to 50 cents, 50 spools of heavy satin, and many colored lace options offered with low prices to attract shoppers.
An array of men's wear including collars, shirts, cuffs, jumpers, jackets, and neckwear. Items span linen collars from Berlin to Rockaway styles, fancy bosom shirts, muslin shirts, laundered whites, and New York mills fabrics. Also offered are engineer jackets, Windsor ties, silk band bows, silk scarves, and four in hand patterns. Prices range from affordable 50c to higher-end dress options.
The Geographical Journal notes about 1000 domesticated elephants in Siam and over 2500 in Lao country. Elephants breed in captivity as many spend time in jungle holidays. Mahouts leave idle elephants in forest with a rattan hobble and wooden bell to locate them for monthly banana feedings.
A Chinese newspaper advert in a district with many English residents lists ponies and gear for private sale. The notice describes 44 ponies Cavendish Tag Sally and a white Griffin. the first 38 are hacks that will carry a lady and a Dinzhy with mast sails and oars complete.
Tent pins are mainly white oak and built to withstand hard knocks. They come in 16 and 24 inch lengths and, despite toughness, can break or be lost. Even in peacetime there is heavy consumption, with manufacturers stocking thousands. In war, demand soars, and production centers are near western forests.
A defense counsel pleads with earnest eloquence for a pocket picker on trial. The jurors are touched, the accused wipes his eyes, and the moment turns comic as the barrister notices his own handkerchief is missing, exclaimed as the rascal used it. The piece then shifts to a note on how the Chinese divide the day into twelve two hour segments and how Italians count twenty four hours.
The document lists per yard prices for Glendale Hanover Cabot and other fabrics including bleached muslin cambric twills and unbleached sheeting. It references brands like Fruit of the Loom Forrest-dale Pepperell and Great Falls with notes on quality and weights and mentions tents and awnings fabric duck.
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