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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1895
Page
3
An overwhelmed sale at R C Farra North Side features deep discounts on dry goods clothing and notions. The store warns all customers prices will be low with everything going and invites patrons to reserve goods before prices rise.
A garbled ad touts a four page calendar pamphlet sold for fifty cents. It claims color plates and monthly calendars, promises free calendar gifts and a trial period with various names and locations. The piece mentions funeral services and a broad list of products, with many jumbled misread items and marketing lines.
An early 20th century ad style notice offering one hundred dollars for a cure of a condition labeled as Catareh. Mentions Hall's Cataech Cure and J Cheney & Co Toledo, with references to wholesale druggists and internal remedies. The fragmentary text is unclear and contains many OCR errors.
Winter brings ice and snow as small burglaries occur at A C G Shockey and D V Stoll stores. $3.60 plus mittens and twenty-two cents taken. Public schools show progress. Friday entertainment drew a good crowd and funded a library. Ky Reeve laid a stone walk from Ft. Seat to the new store area. Mamie Babcock visited relatives, and several strangers are in town. Mrs Vintoll suffered quinsy.
A local notice advertises undertaker services by J. W. Paxsie and partners, with Free hearse furnishing by Hannom, and announces a public sale of morgue and estate items. The sale, under an execution from Franklin County Court, is set for December 28, 1896 at 2 p.m. at Garnett courthouse, listing parcel descriptions in Potawatomie Creek and surrounding townships in Anderson County Kansas.
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