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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1888
Page
8
A Boston store advertises women s clothing at reduced prices with jerseys vests 24 cents and lace trimmed gamze vests 19 cents. Also featured are ladies S button kid gloves stitched backs priced around 40 cents.
Today offers 90 for 2 dozen fancy metal dress buttons and 18e for 2 dozen fancy ivory dress items. Fancy metal buttons priced at 25e a dozen. Women’s shoes at 1.99. Millinery and men’s fancy flannel over shirts 45c. Gents 4 ply linen collars 10c.
A fragment notes pricing for full size colored border handkerchiefs at 25c, ladies Berlin gloves at 10c for colors, and three ladies linen embroidered handkerchiefs priced at 25c each. The text lists small daily textile items with single prices.
An OCR filled page lists a Wichita Kansas stockholders meeting for Bayti or Bavti Loan and other business notices. It includes names, addresses, and notices from Morton Watlmnen 0 and legal notices of sale and drainage and advertising for various businesses in Wichita.
The text lists garment prices: white laundried shirts at $1.00, fancy percale shirts at $1.25, and blue balbrigan shirts at 75 cents. Also notes 73 cents and 38 cents for related items. The figures reflect historical clothing pricing and fabric types.
Five Ge for gentlemen balbrigan shirts, French balbrigan at 49 cents, fancy undershirts 25 cents, salmon undershirts four cents. Quality essentials advertised with simple prices for men.
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