03 Feb 1899
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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1899
Page
1
City market listing shows butter per pound lard per pound potatoes per bushel spring chickens and hens prices per pound old roosters turkeys corn and stovewood per ton prices amid corrected ad text. The page notes weekly updates and financial figures with general market entries and figures for various commodities.
A cluttered page lists items for sale including wagons and rooms, names of locals such as Charley Mellon and James Keal, and snippets about visitors, church revival efforts by Rev. J A Young, and social updates. The notes mention a cow herd addition, personages like Mabel Ingham and Elmer Alexander, and routine city business briefs.
Fragments show a local notices page with商务ads for stock and harness, flour, shoes, hardware, lamps, and farm goods. Names include Charley Wekal, W N Kennison, T. Saerie AND, WN Graham, Coughlin, and Coughling. Items include horses, harness, shoes, flour, and hardware. also a note of a January start for a fair or sale event. The text is garbled with multiple product listings and names, typical of a 19th century classified page.
The new UNION elevated L Goops station opens directly on Wart Buren Street in front of Chicago. The development marks a transit improvement in the area with likely increased pedestrian and rail access. Local officials noted the opening as a milestone for neighborhood mobility.
Rock Island and Pacific Station advertises five cent rides on the new Union Elevated Loop with trains stopping every minute at Rock Island station. A bird’s eye map of Chicago and the loop offers view of downtown access and eye-catching colors. requests a 2 cent stamp for postage to mail the map.
A jumble of old classified items announces The Kansas Girl Cigars sale and agent changes for Brean paint, with offers to buy surgical stock, a notice about Advocate partnering with Farm and Home for 10 per year, and an ad promoting a 24-cent book on free silver offered at 10 cents per copy. The text mixes auction notices, subscriptions, and price promotions without a clear single focus.
An advertising blurb extols a new elementary and instructive book on the monetary question. It highlights an easy to understand style and appealing presentation by a named author and editor. The notice promises the work along with the Advocat in a one year subscription offer, urging timely purchase.
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