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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1888
Page
8
A dense jumble of notices and ads lists items for sale and services. It mentions safes for sale at cost from Mosler Safe and Lock Company, discounted household goods, clothing like ladies black hose, and various regional stores. The text reads like a merchant circular with prices and sale terms interspersed amidst incomplete phrases.
Advertisement from Los Angeles area describing a public sale of rounds of tickets priced at sixty dollars each. Sale to occur September 15, with holders entitled to sixty days’ claim period. Overs may be allowed. readers are urged to contact 127 N. Main St for Further details and to pick up tickets from the agent at the local bakery and packet office.
Local printer and publisher advertises legal blanks dockets and warrants plus car schedules between Kansas towns Wichita and Kassay. Proclaims stock of records and forms, catalog of uniforms, and a single line running between key cities. Mentions car routes, manufacturers, and public notices in a busy, fragmented OCR page.
A long list of heavily discounted items from wool suiting to damask table linen, napkins, towels, and muslin wear. Fabrics include fine check suiting, plaid goods, seersuckers, crepe, and damask. Household staples feature lace, needles, pins, purses, soaps, lip pencils, and hosiery with drastic percentage reductions. Numerous items priced per piece with emphasis on big markdowns.
Fragmented OCR text describes sale of legal docket items and related orders. Mentions addresses and various corrupted phrases about attorneys, drivers, routes, and regions including Kansas City, Chicago, and Iowa. Readable entities include Glasgow style names and distant city references.
A garbled OCR passage references a long past purchase and payments with unclear names and amounts. It hints at a royal style Beragtens tense, mentions Anson, five to seven days, and a potential exam context tied to Pittsburgh and catcher Mike Gabaf, but most details are unreadable.
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