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Newspaper
Fort Smith Elevator
Location
Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1887
Page
3
The city page features cattle stables on Knox and another on fini Vette, a surge in real estate listings with rising prices, and court clerk activity recording deeds. It notes Mess. Boligs estate stand on the Avenue next to Ballman Co furniture, and mentions Athata Ga. visitors and locals discussing goods, meals, and farm news.
The notice praises our business and compares success to Williams Bros over about a decade. It claims greater profits and announces a new advertisement expanding space, with the ad to be found in this issue.
A garbled report notes a Saturday track event on the Frivoo extension with Gere scoring 47 tallies in the Iblortan Nation. It mentions Livers tunnel return and Hackett Ity branch work, a two and a quarter mile distance, and morning start.
AE and W J Letterfield relocate stock to PL Berman's Building at Howard street and Garrison Avenue. They plan to close out remaining groceries to make room for a large wholesale and retail stock of hanks and volems at a new sample room. They offer three hundred bushels of extra long staple cotton at $2.00 per bushel with strong local demand.
A lengthy report details multiple killings tied to Indian Territory residents, raids, and a pursuit by U.S. Marshals. It mentions Deputy Marshal Willard Ayers, the Cherokees, Choctaw Nation, and a wave of violence across towns, with arrests, trials, and references to other homicides and a collapsed bridge under Looman & Howard contract.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Joby Philips arrives from the Clee nation with a Creeks boy in custody, accused of murdering Philips’ three guards near Eufaula. The scene at the camp reveals brutal wounds on Seabron, Smith, Kirkendall, and Laith, with a pistol missing and the suspect’s motives under scrutiny.
D D Haynie of Illinois promotes Dr Bosanke's Cough and Lung Syrup for family use praising its soothing effects. Sold by Caldwell and Weems in Fort Smith Arkansas.
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