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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1887
Page
5
Fragments detail business ads for Verdock & Co publishers, names of local residents, Christmas greetings, church notices, city council actions, and brief obituary and society items. The long column includes personnel lists, a death tribute to W. H. Woodman, and various social notices, plus weather and fire reports, with multiple names and places mentioned across Wichita and surrounding towns.
Christmas Day services filled city churches with choirs and sermons. A baptism marked by a child presenting a symbol of the covenant drew praise for pastor’s remarks on baptism and church as God’s covenant sign. Musical recitations and cantatas delighted attendees, with prominent youth performances and a strong Sunday school program.
To our many friends and patrons we cordially extend a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Our past year's business has been very satisfactory to us and we feel assured it has also been to those who have examined our stock and purchased our goods. Our motto, all goods marked in plain figures and one price to everyone, has won us a host of friends. This week we offer all holiday goods at ruinously low prices so all can afford to make their best friend a present.
The advertisement touts a full line of gold headed silk umbrellas, gents furnishings, ladies underwear, gloves, woolen hosiery, dress goods, furs, boas, and all millinery items with sweeping reductions to close the stock. It promises a clock gift with purchases of two clocks or more and claims to offer cheaper prices than any other house in the city.
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