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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1888
Page
1
An advertisement promotes low priced textiles at 123 and 125 Main Street. Harmony Beetled Print Lateens at 9 cents and Cashmere 46 inch fabrics at 48 cents are highlighted as quality goods offered cheaply. The copy asserts honest prices without false boasts and promises good value.
A terse sales listing notes novelty velvets at 25 cents, colored grosgrain silks at 56 cents, sateens in two cases, and yard goods like 74 cent per yard. Ladies gauze garments and corset covers are reduced, with cottons and children's items marked down from higher prices to 17 to 25 cents and 45 cents respectively.
The House hears Mr Mills of Texas argue for the tariff bill and unmask what he calls heavy wartime taxes as unconstitutional. He cites higher import duties, internal revenue, and wealth taxes, contending labor gains do not come from tariffs while Democrats push reduction to aid workers.
A daring burglary in an Italian resident's home netted over seventy thousand dollars in valuables with silver left untouched. A porter was flagged, questioned, and believed involved as an accomplice. In Alabama, eighteen year old William Dawid killed LC Trumble and another miner after a saloon dispute, triggering a townwide manhunt. Louisiana polling violence erupted between a Young Men's Democratic association officer and a regular force sergeant, with a wounded man hospitalized. An Apache Indian and his son killed a policeman during a camp disturbance in New Mexico. A strike conflict near Akron, Illinois left a Burlington engineer wounded. Daniel BrasseI, a Chicago watchman, died amid mob tensions. Trials and robberies across Barri Cenes Michigan and other places color a violent period.
A fragmentary news item reports that children were badly burned when a fire destroyed a home in St. Low Massachusetts on April 7. The tragedy is linked to A Hotness and Jack ee Macy, with mention of several injured children and a broader call for aid.
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