27 Feb 1889
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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1889
Page
1
New line of spring weight French Broad cloths offered at 81.00 per yard. Seven yards make a pattern priced at 7.00 for a Broadcloth Dress. Also 22 yards of 40-inch all-wool Henrietta serge, a durable dress fabric, advertised as a regular 75 cent cloth reduced to 50 cents per yard for a limited time.
An ad notes Monday sale of 125 dozen linen handkerchiefs for ladies. Unlaundered pieces feature handmade instals and hemstitch, plus a large lot of fancy edge embroidered options in colors and white. Most would fetch 40 or 50 cents, offered tomorrow at 25 cents each as the greatest twenty five cent handkerchief ever offered.
Sanitary fast black hosiery offered with strong color retention and guaranteed wearing quality. The store markets its linen department lines as unequaled in the market and promises durable dye and product reliability.
Washington Feb 2 The Oklahoma bill faces uncertain progress as Senator Cullom seeks to force a vote while Butler and Platt resist. Peters and Cullom push to sway dissenters, but opposition remains confident the measure will fail to reach a vote this session. The House debate waned after Cherokee opponents intensified efforts to block the bill amid a harsh Post editorial criticizing cattle interests.
General Harrison and party traveled from Pittsburg to Altoona and then to Harrisburg on schedule, amid large crowds in Allegheny and Centre counties. Officials and spectators lined the rails as the train passed through Jeannette and Mount Union, with Harrison greeting lawmakers in Harrisburg before continuing to the capital.
A Wichita led push favors J C Hallowell for first assistant Interior while many Kansans named for federal appointments under the new administration. The session ends Saturday with several local measures passed and a flurry of lobbying for influential positions reflecting intense partisan efforts.
Louis Noel hopes for a pardon for his brother Oscar Neebe, the convicted anarchist, now serving at Joliet. Neebe travels from Springfield with a communication from Louis Gringell to secure a complete affidavit detailing plans, motives, and roles in the social revolution, and to obtain a notary for oath and early submission to authorities.
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