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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1883
Page
5
Names visitations and moves across Abilene Kansas including Mrs Hazlett Mrs Elliott of Deadwood Major Wise Mr Fretz and others. Locals depart visit Kansas City Toronto Titusville St Louis Cincinnati and Pittsburgh while several travelers plan returns. Local band parade and merchants advertise goods and sales with notices for fairs and hardware and jewelry shops.
Mrs Levi showcases a new photograph over Rothschild's store. The display highlights her studio with modern appliances while offering bargains in clothing at Simon T Rothschild's Palace Clothing Store.
Two prosperous years in succession promised a time to fulfill wives and children with Sewring Machines and Organs. Sewell can supply the best at the lowest prices and fully guaranteed by a man who is available when needed.
L Deming and family depart today for their future home in Bentonville Ark via Ohio. The REFLECTOR notes Dickinson loses a valuable citizen while Los Angeles gains one as John Leuzinger and family relocate to Florence Los Angeles County California. Capt John Reagan Pat Sheenan and P J Byrne were call ers at the REFLECTOR Office last Friday praising the paper. The item also mentions social calls from Armstrong Johnson of Round Grove to Abilene and Dickinson County and a Pennsylvania visit by Mrs A Gish and daughter returning to Kansas. Amusements report the Comley Comedy Company at Bonebrake's Opera House with mixed reviews and previews Blind Boone at Bonebrakes.
A long town notice lists new stock and groceries at Store & Brown with a move to 3d street, plus fall and winter clothing from multiple shops. It promotes various items, prices and sales at Nelson's, Sewell's, McInerney's, and Chapman Fair dates, with other ads for spectacles, shoes, maple syrup, and coal from M Nicolay.
J. S. Kelley offers watches clocks and jewelry at rock bottom prices claiming to beat any house in America in cost designed as a value appeal to shoppers seeking affordable timepieces and adornments.
Readers are told of book orders and subscriber counts, local house building, a premium awarded to a sheriff’s daughter for cake, a mad dog shot on Broadway, and county commission meetings. The issue notes a Blind Boone concert, a caustic joke about Dana, church and Sunday School events, a big tax on school supplies, and various marriages, moves, and business notices across Abilene and surrounding areas.
A local display features crayon portraits by F. A. Dryer and Miss Pettingil, with watercolors by Miss Litts and Miss Grace Bonebrake. Elab orate needlework and decorative art by Mrs. Lebold, Mrs. Herbst, and Miss Stella Ball are praised alongside antique velvet paintings loaned by Mr. Hamaker.
Local ads promote fall and winter millinery from Mrs. Como & Co and Hazlett & Co, toutting direct imports from St. Louis and Chicago. Berry Bros. lauded as clothing headquarters with large, up-to-date stock. Irion & Armitese advertise complete home furnishings. a dissolution notice for Becker & Cooper finalizes.
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