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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1887
Page
4
A catalog listing white and cream f ish fancy items priced from 5¢ up. Ladies collars and cuffs 10¢, matching sets 30¢. Children s gauze vests from 19¢. Jerseys all wool 95¢, silk embroidered 1.25. Embroidered robes 2.50 up to 5. Better velvet 55 and 85¢. Silk gros grain 1.00. Fancy colored gros grains 95¢. Muslins 5¢ up.
The Abilene Reflector notes Apting press breakthrough enabling blind persons to print raised letters. it’s now widely adopted. It discusses other era items including Queen Olga’s marble pond at Athens and humorous anecdotes about Sam Jones and a bachelor.
Long delay in filling the city postmaster position ends as A G Buchanan is named by President Cleveland. Buchanan, a life long Democrat and veteran, is praised as a first class officer and comes with party support. Hodge retires with good wishes, while Reflector endorses Buchanan and notes shifts tied to new administration. Meanwhile, notices advertise remedies and a mortgage suit in Dickinson county court.
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