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Newspaper
Fort Smith Elevator
Location
Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1884
Page
1
Trade ad lists a Boston store offering reduced prices on assorted goods including Standard-Windsor prints, domestic textiles, blankets, heavy twined flax, yard-length fabrics, and Canton flags. Reads as a bumper ad with numerous item names and price references.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions varied items including a political figure in Carolina Wise, deaths from an explosion near Shawokin Pa, and references to local officials and families. The text includes names like Henson, Bowen, Vinsburg, and Me. It references towns, elections, and possible crime or tragedy but remains incoherent with many errors.
A garbled text fragment mentions cakes and a long stream of disjoint words. It references MENA, tides, a trial of ointments, and outdated medical work terms, with scattered names and nonsensical phrases. The readable portions do not form a coherent event or narrative.
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