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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1889
Page
8
Local Wheeling items report brisk holiday buying with rising retail activity. News notes say stores hire more clerks, shipments arrive, and advertising spreads through papers to draw shoppers. Community events, concerts, church activities, and legal notices appear alongside economic optimism and promotions.
Many department store items advertised including All Wool Henrietta Cloth at 79 per yard, All Wool Serges at 75c, 10-inch All Wool Prints at 50c, 16-inch All Wool Serges at 50c, 40-inch All Wool Cashmeres at 37 1/4c, Folwell Melange at 15c. Includes travel notes for Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad and sale of shoes, watches, and jewelry. Excursions to Pittsburg via B&O. Promotions for optician services and piano store curios. Also clothing and cloak discounts, and transit schedule changes for the Ohio River railbed.
A parade by trades groups will precede the unveiling of a monument in Allegheny Parks honoring Thomas A. Armstrong. Excursion tickets to Pittsburg from Wheeling and Bridgeport via Pennsylvania Lines sell for 2.00 and 2.15 with return by November 29. Half Rate Harvest Excursions depart Chicago and Milwaukee for several western states on several dates in 1949, with 30 day return. For rates and maps, contact A. V. Peter, Milwaukee. Henry Jacobs offers 30 and 50 cent blankets and features a chiropodist, Mlle Hannzey, at 1008 Main St Wheeling with free consultation.
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