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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1888
Page
8
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous names, places, and dates across a broad ad and legal notice page. It references railway terms, property deeds, auctions, and public sales with scattered locations like Missouri, California, and Colorado, plus multiple individuals and address snippets. The incoherent text mixes notices for sales, registrations, and events, typical of a late era newspaper legal notices section.
An extensive Wichita Kansas newspaper page promotes rail lines from Wichita to St Louis and Topeka, praising a main through route with Pullman sleepers, convenient depots, and low fares. It advertises attorney dockets, township records, and auction notices, urging bids for land and public improvements.
In Beirut a New York Post correspondent describes Ramadan fasting and the pre dusk feasts. Street cafes buzz with shoppers, bread bakers, and vendors as moslems prepare for sunset, followed by crowded cafes and lively music performances that mingle tradition with modern urban life.
A fragmented newspaper item announces a sale on fabric lines including Bom bay seersuckers stripe seersucker satines and cream batiste. It lists former prices and bold CUT SALE prices such as 71-2c for seersuckers and 12 1/2c for white Lodia tin jen s.
A fragmented ad lists a sale with striped and checked chambrys, Hamburg embroideries, lace, linen threads, towels, damask fabrics, and border linens. Prices are slashed to single digits in a dramatic clearance, referencing yardage and ends of bolts. Strong entities include Barbour's, various textile items, and numerous price points indicating steep discounts.
A historical sale note lists 68 inch red damask at 33c, red napkins 18c a dozen, Turkish tidies 15c, bustles 15c, silk mitts 16c, ladies thread hose 19c, ladies silk lisse vests 50c, and Balbriggan vests 5c to 29c, all offered for limited time with former high prices shown in a period sale context.
Great sacrifice in our muslin underwear department as well as all house departments. Early buyers get pick and choice while latecomers get what remains. Extra help will assist customers who call attention. Many more lines of goods marked down. space limits enumeration. Call and see to take advantage of this rare chance.
The article discusses ancient Egyptian notions of the soul's double living alongside the body before and after death. It explains how doubles could depart the corpse, fear of decay, and methods used to preserve them including tomb walls, statuary, and offerings. It cites Maspero and The Princeton Review for scholarly support.
A fragmented report describes renewed tensions in New York trade amid shifting export flows and regulatory scrutiny. It mentions specific firms and markets, plus volatile pricing and policy debates shaping the sea routes and commodity movements between ports and foreign buyers.
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