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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
8
A newspaper ad notes a midweek hosiery sale offering 33 dozen ladies lisle thread hose priced at 30 cents per pair, with a deal of two pairs for 25 cents. The listing emphasizes value and quick sale.
A wide excerpt offers household advice on health rest and diet, moth prevention, soaps, air quality, and simple crafts. It weaves practical tips with social guidance, praising moderation and proper speech while detailing makeshift perfumes, lamp care, and grooming routines.
The sale lists Misses and Boys ribbed black hose fast black double knee sizes 6 to 12 1/2 priced at 15 cents per pair or 3 for a dollar. Heavy crash cloth 6 cents stock up 3 for 12. dress flannel offered at 16 25 cents. Claiming lower prices than any credit house in America.
An ancient farmer voice urges patient work before harvest and warns against rushing land preparation. Notes include cholera hog treatment limits, value of rich soil and good joints for horses, and careful feeding with hay and bran oats mix. Also covers crop rotation, meadow management, and hog cholera precautions with copperas sulfur and ashes box.
The notice advertises a 40 inch strictly all wool Henrietta in new spring colorings at 37 1-2 cents. It also offers double width wool filling and cashmere in all good shades at 11 1-2 cents.
Ladies hats full fashioned extra length manufacturers samples offered as the best value. Sailor hats normally 25 cents now 14 cents. Violets 3 cents a bunch Roses three for a small price. French Flowers 16 cents. Masses receive notable discounts this week with 9 cent specials amid assorted items.
The listing advertises parasols and umbrellas with lace edges and metal handles. Prices show original two dollars with sale price reduced to 1.39 dollars, and a 198 cent figure noted. item details are unclear due to fragmented OCR.
A collage of excerpts describes a two page mix of letters, personal fables, historic personages, and curiosities. It mentions Charles Sumner’s short wartime letter, Miss Marks later Mrs Ayrton, a claim of a Sainte John manuscript attributed to Richard Coeur de Lion, a Danish schooling of Little Women, Tol Japan horseflesh cuisine, and Ottoman and European cultural tidbits.
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