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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1889
Page
8
A collage of brief notes sketching historic persons, events, and oddities. Features mentions of Emperor William banning horse racing in Prosia, Browning and Lady Geraldine, Yale graduate Charles J. McCurdy, and various curiosities from literature, science, and society.
The article notes stripes predominating in menswear with worsted textures as features. It highlights ginghams, wide wales, and new fabrics from a grayish, black to neutral palette, Saxony influence, and vivid colors. Children’s wear includes bake suits and patterns like sprig trousers, with broad stripes and checks a strong trend.
Readable fragments report various animal incidents and curiosities. A Dover doctor’s horse shows strength and service, a bird captured in Kentucky bears Atlanta markings then liberated, a farmer near Pidgeeny trains a crow to identify colored items, and an owl attacks a dog prompting the farmer’s intervention.
A clipped sale page lists price cuts across fabrics, shoes, hosiery, and blankets. Mohair check suitings, 12 pieces at 25 cents each. 86 inch serges down to 20 cents. broken plaid saltings cut to 19 cents. Shoes and hosiery priced low to move stock. large lot of odds and ends shoes and misses ribbed hose marked down to collect cash.
In Boston and Philadelphia era items, a blaze on Medids drew watchers to an unfinished building as two youths cleared by police. A Philadelphia Press description of a Gaytian general mixes humor and danger while rail service promotions tout routes to California and the Great Southwest with details on schedules and fares for winter travel.
The notice promotes Missouri Pacific routes from Wichita and nearby towns, highlighting cheap winter fares, multiple city connections, and prompt ticketing. It urges readers to visit ticket offices for dates routes and further details, mentioning agents and promotional claims across extensive text.
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