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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1888
Page
1
A long advertisement notes a large stock with guaranteed quality and price. It touts mufflers, umbrellas, and portmonies with deep discounts, promising no returns but refunds for faulty goods. It claims improved facilities allow twice the previous capacity and emphasizes value, variety, and non returnability with strong selling language.
Bargain millinery event features large stock bought at trader prices cut to half. Includes trimmed and untrimmed hats, tips, plumes, feathers, fantape and plushes, ornaments, and other goods. Store notes not permanent in millinery business and aims to close the lot.
A brief ad promises a great sale of ladies and children's wraps and fine garments at very low prices. It touts stylish cloaks and wraps, claiming half regular price on select items and a chance to acquire a fashionable piece at a light cost.
Honson and McNamara Phaladelphia store offers 10 Plush Wraps in full length or quarter length styles with fur trims. They list 162 Newmarkets and other long wraps in multiple fabrics and trims plus over 200 Misses and Children's wraps. Stock to be sold this week with price drops to 79, 50, or 25 cents on the dollar if needed.
A dated price listing shows slippers and exotic skins with prices for genuine alligator goats leather and velvet items. Items include Maroon goat skins and French kid leather with prices ranging from 75 to 8500 dollars and notes of embroidered velvet and silk plush offerings.
A local shop announces an immense wrap cut and offers a free frost of a Christmastide souvenir with every purchase. The items are showcased in the west windows, inviting customers to view the display.
Locke and Pndens advertise a Wichita shoe parlor at 1657 North Main at the First street corner. The note emphasizes location and storefront presence for shoppers seeking footwear.
Washington reports a Harrison ally predicts the new president will resist calling an extra session. Republican leaders in Congress favor meeting soon after March 4 to push surplus and states matter while avoiding a special session. Also noted are pension and Indian blanket contract updates, and deep water movement plans from Texan leaders.
A twelve month resident list widow Sarah Johnson aged 49 and her 12 year old daughter were found slain in their home near Muskogee. The 12 year old’s brother, shocked by the scene, notified neighbors and authorities. The elder man of the house, already ill, was hysterical. police note frequent quarrels with the widow prior to the murders.
In Austin on December 25 General D S Stanley and Major David J Rambaugh of the U S Army were arrested over a disputed transfer of a U S arsenal site to the city for school use. Printer J 3 Snyder allegedly moved to seize the premises after officials refused the transfer. Stanley and Rambaugh were taken before Justice Stuartam and held on bonds of 429 each. two printers reportedly fled back to San Antonio.
A Washington dispatch reports Victor Stanwood, a U S commercial agent in Andixobe, was shot by Captain Leon De Hothier Duverge of the American schooner Solitaire whom he had arrested. The note links Duverge to earlier American interactions on the west African coast and to Stanwood’s alleged political maneuvering, with conjecture about a power struggle among officials and agents.
A lengthy collection of notes and dispatches discusses Stanley's alleged capture and Osman Migros's lies to delay attacks, with commentary on Gladstone in Rome and British ministerial moves. Also covered are reactions to London's press, English trade fatigue, and assorted foreign affairs opinions.
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