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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1899
Page
8
Columbus Ohio buyers offer a Challenge Sale from a vast stock with minimal damaged goods. The sale features textiles, denim, linings, collars, and accessories at prices below typical retail, promising aggressive discounts to deter competitors and highlight quality and freshness across multiple item types.
Challenge Sale offers excess double sale hosiery including 0 gauge fine tights, 40 gauge fine stockings, and imported sheer hose. Includes Misses and Ladies varieties with colors described as latest, boxed presentation, and prices ranging from 19c to 35c per pair, plus other leaders in Ladies and Children's hosiery.
The advertisement proclaims a Challenge Sale of spring dress goods with cotton and worsted checks, brocade novelties, imported plaids, and govert’s whip cards all offered at substantial discounts. It promises 25 percent below rivals on selected items and features free extras with each purchase while inviting customers to compare and return goods if not satisfied.
Look out for a great big spread of bargains next week over $10000 worth to arrive embracing the grandest line of washable fabrics ladies' blouses waist dresses skirts infants coats and more Dont buy until you have investigated this remarkable stock of up to date merchandise.
New York officials cite a proposed eight block Exposition Center covering over 2,000,000 square feet with a permanent, open show of American manufactured goods. The bill to incorporate the Industrial and Commercial Exposition company of New York has been introduced by Assemblyman Samuel Scottslater with backing from leading businessmen and Merchants' associations. If the project advances, engineering work begins after incorporation, and the venue would eventually be handed to the city.
A long price list offers flour, coffee, syrups, preserves and canned goods with per sack or package rates. Items include Golden Red Flour, Lion and Levering Coffee, Fancy Table Syrup, Jetty oil pail, Best Sugar Cured Ham, Dry Salt Meat, Good White Fat, Grandpa's Wonder Soap, Ivory Soap, Royal Baking Powder and more. The ad invites orders by phone or in person and claims consistently low prices.
Texarkana Arkansas March 24. Over the past forty eight hours an escalating white mob vengeance has killed at least seven negroes in Litt River county with bodies left hanging from trees and one man dumped in a creek. The county sits in tense alarm as armed mobs patrol and blacks flee the region amid charges of a planned race war by a group of twenty three conspirators.
A torn ledger of mob violence reports white rioters stringing up alleged black conspirators across Bowie and Little River counties. Negroes flee as executions follow a race war plot, with names and locations including Duckett Stockton Goodwin Joe King Moses Jones and New Boston across the Red River. Wagons cross toward Texarkana as lawlessness grips the area.
Wichita, Kan. March 24. W H Russell, a day laborer, survived a 2700 volt electric shock on March 9 with little injury but developed severe pain a week later. Foot tissue deteriorated and doctors pulled and found the Achilles tendon broken into pieces. Physicians show great interest in the case.
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