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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1896
Page
8
A long OCR list of grocery items with prices, from sugar at 1.00 a pound to ham at 20c per pound, plus cereals, canned goods, coffee, tobaccos, and baking supplies. The fragment shows numerous brands, weights, and discounts, reflecting a bustling late 19th or early 20th century shop advertisement.
Advertisement lists various canned goods and produce with prices in cents per pound or per can. Items include Bonsters ham per Ib nine cents, gum drops at 25c, cream chocolates 25c per 2 lbs, cinnamons impreators 25c, currants per pkg, citron per lb, apple butter per lb, peaches, blackberries, raisins, dates, large raisins 25c, California table produce at 25–26c, table strawberries and raspberries at 25–26c, sardines 25c, corn beef 25c, and mustard sardines among others.
Hardware Bargains advertises skates with prices far below value, including 50 and 60 pair lots and single pairs, plus reduced knives forks sets, complete paint and heater deals, copper bottom wash boilers, razors, and other hardware items. Deals emphasize closeouts and significant savings.
Hauled from a department store sale several items show extreme discounts on women’s jackets. Prices range from thirteen fifty to twenty eight dollars with styles in wool boucle chinchilla and kersey fabrics. many jackets fully lined and featuring ripple black tar storm collars and single to three button designs.
Shoe department showcases Wonderful Low Prices with a wide range of sizes and widths. Ladies options include opera slippers, durable Deng batten square tips, patent tips, and Dong styles in multiple toe shapes. Men's work shoes and Congress styles offered in narrow cap toe or plain, with satin calf and value lines. Prices prominently advertised, highlighting bargains across all categories.
Very heavy over half wool blankets 10-4 size per pair 1.25. Thambs wool blankets 10-4 size grey or red per pair 1.76. Extra figure wool blankets 10-4 size per pair 2.25. High quality pure wool blankets 11-4 size per pair 3.00. Very heavy large size bed comforters each 60 pair heavy blankets per pair 450.
Millinery department announces reduced prices on ladies trimmed hats from 3.00 to 1.40 and 2.25 to 99c, with children's hats at 68c. English and French felts listed at 80c to 5c, plus a line of fancy feathers and birds half price. Ostrich tips cut from 98c and 1.25 to 68c and 10c, and half plumes valued at 1.50 for 60c.
Local retailer showcases heavy discounts on fabrics and accessories. All wool Henriettas 27c, silk and wool novelties 83c, wool plaids 20 and 33c, ladies suitings 45c, 4 inch broadcloths in colors, 45c. Heavy wool novelty suitings 50c, prints and ginghams at low prices. Towels, handkerchiefs, and silk scarves offered in bulk, with substantial markdowns on dozens of pieces and assorted vests and combination suits priced to clear.
Advertises a wide range of sewing and clothing notions with unit prices. Items include pins, needles, stockings, belts, whalebone, corset steels, envelopes, laces, hooks and eyes, rubber goods, threads, buttons, hair ornaments, brushes, soap, stockings, coin purses, pocket books, and leather goods. Prices shown per paper, per yard, per dozen, or per item, with a focus on affordable domestic essentials.
The store advertises deep discounts on Young Men's, Boys and Children's clothing with Ulsters and Suites priced far below manufacture cost. Featured items include ages 5 to 19 Ulster sets, suits for ages 5 to 16, knee pants, and a range of men’s trousers from two to five dollars, with refunds offered if unsatisfactory.
Catalog itemizing multiple soap products with bulk pricing and box quantities. Includes 1500 cakes toilet soap at per cake price, 150 boxes laundry soap at per bar 2 cents, 300 boxes Kirk's White Russian soap at 9 bars for 25 cents, 60 boxes Clairette soap at 9 for 25 cents, 50 boxes Silk soap at 9 for 25 cents, 40 boxes Lenox soap at 9 for 25 cents, 200 boxes Fairbank's brown soap at 9 for 25 cents, and 600 boxes Kingford's Silver Glass starch at 61b box 38c.
Advertises men’s mufflers silk full size in white with polka dots, dress shirts perfect fitting regular value 75c, imported kids gloves fully pique stitched with warranted quality, cashmere half hose in black and gray, and men’s underwear and overwear in various styles with regular prices around 75c.
Hand crafted Rochester banquet lamps with silk shade and genuine Rochester burner priced at 2.68. Techie lamp, full size with shade chimney gold finish, genuine Rochester burner, value 250, priced at 1.23.
Underwear department offers a general winter weight clearance with low prices to move stock. Ladies hose and heavy ribbed Oxford gray at 25 cents. children's all wool hosiery up to size 10. boys shirts and extra heavy Jersey ribbed drawers. ladies vests and pants in natural wear. union suits at 85 cents.
An old newspaper ad promotes genuine St Louis Stamping Co granite ware and enamel ware. It lists assorted items with special prices, including coffee pots, rice boilers, kettles, tea pots, jelly cake pans, muffin pans, water pails, dippers, cuspidors, and preserving kettles. Each item claims reduced sale pricing versus regular market prices.
A list of suppliers and place names is recorded including Seeseee Lutke in Michigan CA Gower in Pennsylvania George A Wallace in Ohio W G Edwards in Nebraska Joan A Dempster Jows John A Miller in Missouri and D D Barrow.
January 14 reports from Barriuons that Prof Richard L Garner writes his Africa mission succeeded. He aims to prove monkeys converse, under the African Research Society of Chicago. In New Jersey, a program forms 500 boy soldiers from public schools for Decoration Day parade at a new schoolhouse with New York coal readers expected.
Ladies wear and infant knits offered at deep discounts including wool fascinators, shoulder shawls, square shawls, biderdown cloaks with Thibet trimming, and children's hoods toques and bootees priced affordably.
A report predicts that on January 17 ex queen Liliuokalani will have her parole end and a full pardon granted. President Dole reportedly told a correspondent the government hopes to pardon her soon. The ex-queen is often seen driving about Honolulu and is said to be in good health after years of ill health.
Surrogate Fitzgerald signed an order after appraiser David McClure valued Jay Gould’s estate at 78.6 million dollars. Tax on legacies will net the state about 600 thousand dollars after three years of litigation. Also reports on Santa Fe receivership show final settlement and interest calculations reveal large post-decree balances. Knights and Ladies of Security hold a national meeting in Kansas with talks on a graduated assessment for new members and local delegates listed.
The Walter Wilmot case returns a not guilty verdict for Chicago players charged in the Sunday baseball arrest. The jury clears the Chicago club of breach of the peace, ending the summer as Sunday games face a legal setback and fines are not warranted.
Caiceco January 14 The city council passed an amendment to the building ordinance raising the height limit from 130 to 155 feet and permitting 11 story structures. The change ends the era of nine story limits and revives steel construction.
A dated bottle message from N J reports the vessel Charles Stewart struck by gale three days earlier. It mentions rigging torn, a broken ladder, and a crew led by Mate Gra Stout. The boat is a 33 foot schooner from Galveston.
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