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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
8
Local shop advertises May Day gloves with varied styles and prices. Highlights include suede gloves at $1.50, embroidered designs, and a range of colors and sizes. Shoppers are shown assorted men’s and women’s gloves with descriptions of material and finish.
A local department store advertises a wide selection of summer corsets from foreign and domestic makers. Prices begin at 45 cents up to a sale price. features include white batiste corsets, trim details, and multiple sizes. Also promoted are hats and other accessories with a focus on value and style.
Belts presents a fragmentary note about a plate and a departure involving Wiles. The legible bits suggest an action or event tied to a person named Wiles and a place or object labeled Belts, but the text remains unclear and partially unreadable.
Text outlines a dress pattern for a hundred ante-style sacques with mixed colors, including grey, white, black, lavender on hawksnot patterns. The garment features a full ruffle trim and decorative edging, notes vague sizing and fabric details in Por language.
Fragmentary note describes Chatelaine bags and a radium site with scattered terms like bile value at Shr Gk and She and They. Reads as unclear catalog or inventory fragment with no coherent event or identifiable figures.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention waists and a department, with unclear references to items, sizing, and handling. The text lists numbers and garbled phrases, offering no clear event, names, or dates to establish a coherent news item.
Cutlery department reports a maneuver involving sails and shears with a treated SR at a Santa area CPC PIT site. confusion noted over Sage references and public interest.
In the Baby's Corner store, a may sale lists items from 29 cents each to 9.75 dollars, with about 150 treats from the rear factory. Readable sketches describe assorted styles and quantities across the display line at the shop.
garbled OCR fragment mentioning shoes and laces with unclear names and places. It references boys, line, patent possibly for footwear, and a student context but lacks coherent facts or dates.
A garbled ad presents lace curtains portieres shades and drapery materials with mentions of wear wash and color quality. It touts prices around 68 dollars and a 3.95 reduction on items described as meretrized portieres and new orders. Local names Hibao Valles and New Hordera appear in disjoint context.
Readable items include water pitcher kettle tea set sugar bowl and preserving pan combs and stews a coffee pot and enamelware dishes. Also listed are dinner buckets cups pudding pans and a two quart sauce pan with various price points and notes on condition and sale bundling.
Fragmented OCR text describes various names and terms in a jumbled list. It mentions items like water, oil, babies, and several proper nouns that appear garbled. The readable content is insufficient for a coherent event or outcome.
Unclear listing advertises a sale of hose supporters with accessory hooks and corset ties. Mentions assorted colors and favorable value but lacks coherent details, dates, prices, or proper names.
An old classified style notice selling women’s apparel at low prices. It lists 1.50 for 98c 20 Nainsook chemise gowns in multiple fits with pull-over design and ruffle details, plus 600 pairs of women drawers with stitched seams and wide hems, all described with faded pricing and incomplete product specs.
Fragment describes hair brushes mix including boond bristie and natural cater with wood ducks and valbem. Mentions set choice and value estimates but details are unclear.
The Mey Sale features 4200 decorated Vienna fans with flower motifs and open and shut designs. Prominent men are noted on each strand, and the sale promises greatly reduced prices starting May 1.
May sale emphasis features underwear Balbriggan shirts and drawers in white and ribbed cotton styles, including imported French shirts and drawers with plain color options. Night shirts offered in white Cambric collarless designs. Prices listed per garment in a period retail listing.
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