Hosiery Sale Highlights 7 Dozen French Ribbed Hose
A fragment notes a sale offering seven dozen French ribbed hose with cleared seams, in solid colors. Each pair originally worth 20 cents, offered at a reduced price of nine cents per pair.
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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1888
Page
8
A fragment notes a sale offering seven dozen French ribbed hose with cleared seams, in solid colors. Each pair originally worth 20 cents, offered at a reduced price of nine cents per pair.
A large sale offers 5 000 yards mill length remnant laces at 23 cents on the dollar. Ladies Brazilian Kid Shoes priced at 1.99, cannot be duplicated for 2.50. Also a large lot of children's French Kid Slippers with flexible buttonhole work, valued at 75e, now 48e.
A promotional line proclaims the weekly contains more state and general news and eastern dispatches than any paper in the Southwest. The ad notes one year and six months, suggesting a subscription duration or offer period.
Fragmented OCR text describes buses or trains with cautions to passengers about platform safety, routes to Wichita and Topeka, street and avenue references, and mentions of officials and contractors. The passage is garbled with unclear names and dates, but conveys transportation and safety notices from a municipal or trustee context.
A dramatic newspaper notice promotes "Now and Now Only" bargains with claims of prices plunging below bankruptcy and fire sale levels. It touts 1,000 popular novels at 0 cents per copy and heavily discounted classics and histories, asserting the books will sell themselves with no salesman needed.
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