Shoes and Carpets Stock Must Be Sold at Some Price
Retail listing conveys urgency that stock must be sold and not thrown to the street. Offers imply price reductions across footwear and floor coverings without specific items or dates.
23 Feb 1891
Page 1
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Newspaper
Columbus Daily Herald
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1891
Page
1
Retail listing conveys urgency that stock must be sold and not thrown to the street. Offers imply price reductions across footwear and floor coverings without specific items or dates.
Lease ends March 45th and 350 in cash better to us than $1 in drygoods. Stock unbroken across lines, large inventory. Sale lasts 18 days with 35c on the dollar. shoes worth $5,000 to be cleared in 28 days at about 35c. Entire stock must be sold due to new business direction.
Sellers invite buyers to name the value of cloaks for future use, promising no kickback. They claim a loss may be great but insist 35 cents in cash now is worth more than a dollar in dry goods later.
A storefront advertises spring dress patterns at 3.00 with a guarantee of the full pattern and making paid, claiming the same dress would cost 9.00 more in 80 days. Shoppers are urged to come early to take advantage of the offer and promising strong inducements.
In St Louis on February 28 an immense crowd joined a military style funeral for General William Tecumseh Sherman. The procession spanned miles through the city to Calvary Cemetery where he was laid to rest with military honors beside family graves.
Cuicaneo Feb 23 John O Dicker son a 2 patient at the Emergency hospital is dying after engrafting 144 square inches of human cuticle. The operation involved 200 Knights of St Bernard and Dr Fenger but the patient cannot endure the strain and has grown weak. He cannot speak and remains conscious only faintly as his condition worsens.
A North Vernon dispatch reports near Paris Indiana a tub of boiling water toppled, killing a 9 month old girl and a 2 year old boy of Mrs Curllack while a sister was saved. In Wisconsin a Lynxville farmer’s house fire claimed the life of his 6-year-old daughter after she saved her younger sisters.
Washington February 23 The President announced five major appointments including M A Knapp of New York to succeed Interstate Commerce Commissioner Schoonmaker and Ex Governor Foster of Ohio to be Secretary of the Treasury. Knapp, a Syracuse lawyer, is about 48 and a Middletown College graduate. Foster’s background spans Ohio politics and business, including governorship and multiple terms in Congress.
Reports from Pirrisages and Cincinnati describe rising river levels along the Monongahela and Allegheny with water encroaching streets and cellars. Findlay reports the Blanchard swelling, flooding downtown areas. Columus notes widespread rain and river shifts. Indianapolis notes a water-filled Union Railway tunnel.
Reports say nine miners lost lives in recent avalanches at a Colorado mining camp. The scene follows a sequence of disasters as authorities search for survivors and assess the damage.
Wealthy stockman William McCubbin of Leigh Neb killed his wife and his hired man Frank Yots, then fatally wounded himself after a rumor of infidelity. He gave his young daughter his money and keys to live with her grandmother, then nearly cut his head from his body with a butcher knife. An hour later his corpse lay across the victims. gunfire left his wife, Yots, and himself dead.
A garbled OCR note reports a demand linked to MME. Barrundia and a cryptic phrase about Whitlow and Guatemala with unclear context and names.
The article notes a special bill passed by the Senate to terminate a sheep-kill issue, with official statistics cited including a $125,000 figure in Indiana. W. M. Sage of Rock Island Center is cited, and the act seeks to define causes and terms related to the incident.
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