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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
5
A damaged OCR style catalog entry lists many fabrics and prices including Zephyrs Ginghams Percales and Glencoe Zephyrs. Items reference yard widths, piece counts, and low cent prices but details are partial and unclear due to garbled text.
A listing of various black and colored fabrics including Black Peau De Sole 36 inches wide priced around 1.00 to 1.50, Black Taffetta 36 inches, 30 inches and 28 inches widths, plus 6 to 8 pieces of Fancy Dress Silks and China Silk Zephyrs with prices largely near one dollar, detailing widths and quantities.
Wool dress goods offered includes panamas batistes and Melba stripes mobling saltings and London checks. Single dress patterns eight yard lengths priced around twelve dollars. Also single dress patterns yard lengths valued at nineteen dollars. Sale price ten dollars.
Fragmentary listing shows various fabrics including Checks and Plaids, Indian Linen and Persian Lawn pieces. Prices listed per yard or piece range from 8 1 2 to 50 cents, with several quantities noted and seedbed or seeded terms unclear.
Fragmentary price list mentions bleached sheetings and cottons with quantities and prices. Entries include 4-4 Bleached Cotton in various qualities, linen finished suitings in multiple lots, bleached sheets and linen finished pieces with scattered unit costs such as 10c and 20c, plus several incomplete figures.
A fragmented ad lists various carpets and rugs for sale. Items include wool carpets in sets of one and three pieces, Brussels carpets and Brussels rugs, remnants valued at 50 and 164 units, Brussels rugs priced around 12.50, and velvet rugs at about 20.00 for multiple pieces.
A garbled ledger shows multiple transfers including Sarah E Boulier to Thomas Ainsworth for a lot at 100, Margaret A Elmore to Bank of Higginsville for several lots at 375, Fred C Figge to Gista Prerk ing for a lot at 75, and other buyers like Julius W Dryer, Geo Duensing, Chase McDowell, Mary Piper, Maud Caldwell, Lynn Gordon, Leila Gordon, Edwin Grimes, Stephen Wilson, Henry Droge, Martin Wellmann, Chas Welborn, and several more with varied sums. The text is fragmented with many OCR errors but lists numerous parcels and sums from $34,000 down to $75, including city lots in Odessa and Mayview areas.
A readable ad for a $1.50 round trip excursion to Kansas City on Saturday June 27, 1908. It mentions attractions and a ticket agent in Vermillion Missouri with vague notes about a te? show and “Unrequited Genius.” The text references a famed idea about butter on bread and the Epicure, implying a humorous or promotional angle.
The article discusses the Webster's International Dictionary receiving a grand prize for its scope and usefulness. It notes the dictionary’s broad claims and the publisher's sustained arguments about meeting user needs. Also mentioned are various items of historical note and a segment on Pearls in Australian waters and a blind beneficiary in New York.
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