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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1895
Page
9
An aggressive sales pitch touts a bustling Wheeling shop offering lots of goods at low prices. The ad highlights up-to-date business practices and cash purchases for items, inviting new customers to visit to see the store’s large selection and wholesale-like margins.
The readable text contains garbled phrases about prices, goods, and weekly news items. It mentions names like Hepquers Chothy Prem and Gilbert’s Stanek, touches on prices, telety to be updated, and a sense of market chatter with unclear dates or places.
Local vendors advertise silks and velvets in a sale offering wide ranges for garments and decor. Items include various silks and velvets, with prices around $4 to $5 and names such as Sir Valour Veivris and Gee Taink. The copy promotes low-cost fabrics and mentions multiple shades, urging quick purchases.
Department ad touts Wilton carpets discounted up to 25 percent, listing yard prices from 25 to 68 cents and large stock of 75 Wilton carpets. It promotes superior rug quality, new styles, and window displays, claiming substantial savings versus furniture-store pricing.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a creator at 9235 Cireve Streeter and reference worship work at FL19. The readable text suggests a local art piece or project titled Curtain Stretchers with ties to a residence and a wall work. Names and clear facts are incomplete.
The article announces a cloak sale featuring new fall and winter wraps from top makers. Prices range from 2.50 to 10.07 with many jackets and capes in Boucle, Melton, Teaver, and Velvet, offered at low one price points. Hundreds have sold recently with dozens of styles available in plush and velvet options.
Describes a wide range of capes and cloaks including an 80 inch Plush Cape with heavy lining priced at 9.85, expected $15.00 elsewhere. Also lists capes from 4.65 up to 92.75 and children’s Eiderdawn cloaks fur trimmed from 0.98 to 1. The store boasts hundreds of garments for selection.
Heavy cloth jackets for children with oversized sleeves priced 1.08 and 2.48 ranging sizes 6 to 14 years plus Misses jackets from 1.98 to 15.90. Visit the Cloak Department for clear plain figure pricing. No urging to buy for customers.
Argyle's edition of 12 months all good titles Alpine Bulletin at top 16 months Handy Volume Clasates at sale price unknown and unclear in the fragmentary note.
Advertises 104 grey blankets 49 cents per pair crib blankets 25 cents per pound white blankets 98 cents per pair all wool white blankets 32.48 per pair all wool scarlet blankets 2.48 per pair country barred blankets 2.48 per pair full line of Bel Comforts 7 cents 93 cents one dollar ninety seven cents and up to finest featherdown products
Local printer announces ongoing acceptance of engraved card orders at the same price this week. Offer includes monograms wedding invitations street dies business cards and estimates furnished with all work guaranteed.
Readable snippets show Alaska wool flannels advertised in old time catalog style. Offers include men and women wool flannel by the yard at varying prices, noting heavy all wool varieties and wide width fabrics. Imperfect OCR fragments mention regular prices and discounted rates across multiple listings.
Embroidered Flannels dominated the ATC competition, with Hematitehed and Ensemdrree Flannels achieving top placements. Although details are garbled, the record highlights winners and high finishers among teams or entrants in a track or apparel themed event.
Fragmentary ad style text promotes cosmetics and soaps with various brands and prices. Mentions Pozzoni's powders, Orzon's lotion, Michelson's rum, Colgate Palm Soap, Camphor Soap, and Florida Water. Descriptions are garbled but indicate a bustling retail pitch with multiple items and old-fashioned pricing.
In a famed restaurant a couple pretend to wait for six while the wife secretly eats a roll and clams. The husband returns, scolds the delay, yet she insists they endure longer. The real guests finally arrive as the scene ends with polite small talk and a sharp memory of appetite.
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