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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1886
Page
5
Abilene labor and business bustle marked by real estate talk, new stores, and boom prospects. Farmers report corn shocks and wheat hopes as Pa. visitors arrive, weddings and social events noted, with court case verdicts and city progress updates.
The column notes numerous winter complaints from Holland Creek such as mud and frosted footing, but urges patience for eventual benefits, hints at a business wave, and mentions Emig and Deardoff relatives eyeing farms nearby. Plowing, seed corn, spelling bees, and Miss Annie McDonald leading at Bell's schoolhouse are cited, along with local residents A C Smyser excavating for a cellar and planning a new house.
A dense page of 19th century classifieds and notices offers goods and services from J. T. Curtis Druggist Abilene selling Woolfords Sanitary Lotion and farm cures, Hornaday & Co. wall papers and exclusive stock, Trallam Parker lumber and coal, and general hardware, window shades, Meerschaum pipes, barber services, tin shop by Ed Weigiard, Berry Bros. hardware prices, and more, all promoting local merchants and household needs.
Sewells Carpet shows a complete stock and ongoing additions of the latest designs in choice goods. The store proclaims the finest display of papers hangings and decorations ever seen in this region.
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