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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1891
Page
1
The text notes a historic rush in all departments with emphasis on cloak rooms, claiming the store has the largest stock of goods. It highlights customer awareness of finding the best and prettiest assortments and suggests a strong weekly shopping pattern.
The store promotes a wide cloak department with ladies misses and children's garments at low prices. It highlights all wool dress fabrics, fur capes, monkey capes, astrakan, and fur trimmings, urging customers to buy now for best value and quality. It mentions new stock from Newland, a premium book collection, and Universalist Society comfortables made in house.
The note says the writer will be in New York to bring Christmas and holiday goods, pretty items and dress trimmings. It promises new arrivals by express, aims to attract customers with a larger display, and notes staff will hold things steady during the superintendent’s absence. Everything is billed as lovely with bargains at the same old stand.
A fragmented poem reminiscent of Southern summers opens the page, followed by a prose scene in New York where Mr. Pendexter contemplates his relationship with his future mother-in-law and a chance encounter with Mrs. Miller, a widow he once knew. He fears her influence in his marriage while hints of rekindled attraction surface.
Pendexter and Mrs Miller attend an opera in New York and share a moonlit promenade. His wife Camilla discovers a telegram and an awkward confession. Camilla’s mother inflames memories of a San Francisco flirtation as Pendexter wrestles guilt and fantasies.
A fragment from the Free Press describes skirt designs for dancers using light silk and bloomers with multiple ruffles and knife plaits. It notes coverage to avoid exposure, regardless of leg movement, and ends with a brief, somber exchange about a woman named J. and a muted discussion of a difficult life.
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