07 Dec 1889
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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1889
Page
1
A local retailer touts black silk fabrics for holiday wardrobes, urging customers to choose black gros grain faille silk or peau de soie, promising solid quality and low prices. The ad emphasizes both men and women can shop for black silks, noting a new large stock arrives and claiming fair pricing.
Philadelphia shoppers flood our store all day as prices fall across fabrics and garments. Broadcloths Henriettas cashmeres flannels and linens slashed to new lows with many items cut at least half. Every dollar buys a ticket for a one thousand dollar Music Box drawing.
A local promotion advertises a daily free draw offering luxury items including gold and silver wares, clocks, knives, forks, spoons, and jewelry. The scheme claims continual redraws with new prizes as previous ones are claimed, calling it the most liberal and fairest giveaway in the state. Names of some winners are cited, with many others unnamed.
New Orleans reports the death of Jefferson Davis at 12 o'clock this morning in New Orleans. The scene near his residence at First and Camp streets reflects civic mourning with proclamations, resolutions, and a large funeral plan set for Wednesday.
Fragmentary OCR recalls tributes to Jefferson Davis. The article references stenographers of the seaats and official proceedings during the late antebellum period, with garbled lines describing Davis’s character and political context.
A comprehensive measure to organize the Oklahoma territory was drafted by lawmakers and will be introduced soon. It creates a new territory, subdivides into five counties, extends Kansas land laws, establishes a land office, and sets up a complete judiciary across the five tribes while abolishing federal court jurisdiction at Wichita Paris and Fort Smith. The plan also extends town site laws protection for occupants and mirrors the Kansas legal framework as the territory forms. Additionally, Kingman salt plant freight decisions to Hutchinson may raise regional competition.
A Despatch reports voters favored resubmission of a sugar enterprise in Pratt County though about half support a constitutional convention. The plan outlines a sugar factory with capital around 649m to process cane, employ locals, and create a farm market, with farmers backing the project though debates linger over gain and distribution.
Taxpayers note several new charters by the secretary of state among them Wey Goanders P. A. Serogis CFL Wine The Clearwater Sugar stock and other entities. In Topeka Kansas the city council repealed the meat inspection ordinance citing a police judge ruling that the law was invalid. Police reported raids on several sites with limited contraband found.
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