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Newspaper

Wichita Eagle

Location

Wichita, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Jul 05, 1888

Page

8

Handling Freight in a Busy Rail Yard System

The article describes large city freight handling with dedicated receiving and shipping depots, precise car cuts, and yard work to minimize rehandling. It explains how bills unlock car contents for destination grouping, and how platforms are organized to load and unload by town names such as Jonesville Brownsville and Yellowville, illustrating a complex, ordered flow of goods across multiple stations and weights.

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Grand Clearing Sale At Popular Boston Store

Grand clearing sale announced by a Boston store as it closes. Various fabric and dress goods offered at deep discounts including Latines, Ratistes, wash goods remnants, tinted lawns, jaconet cords, and wool dress remnants with cuts from high to low prices.

Embroideries Sale Cuts Prices to 13 Cents

Cream embroideries offered at 25 to 50 cents reduced to 13 cents across the line. Sale highlights include all fine cream fabrics with marked savings for quick shoppers.

Parasol Department in Bombay Seersuckers Sale Deals

A historical newspaper snippet advertises heavy price cuts across the Parasol Department including white robes 22.09 to 34.98 and 5.00 to 7.50, corsets, Jersey silk mitts, pure silk gloves, silk lisle items, linens, damasks, gauze vests, chemises, batistes, Turkish tidies, and trims. Numerous items show reductions from the 50s to the low few tens of cents. The ad claims “Rare bargains” in gowns, skirts, hosiery, and millinery with drastic markdowns.

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Clearing Sale and Oddities From a Turbulent Page

A chaotic clipping shows a clearing sale repeated, then a Globe Democrat note on race stereotypes and disease fear. It weaves stark warnings about Negro fatalism, New York squalor, Irish blessings, Turkish weddings, and vivid, varied odds and ends from travel ads to grocery prices.

Tigers in pits attract Tafte’s Mian feeding chase

A jagged OCR fragment describes tigers captured in pits and fighting restraint bars. The text mentions huge brutes with ferocity and danger to onlookers, noting a setting where cages and bars are used to control them. No clear names or dates are recoverable.

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Private Schools Train Boys by Public Notice

A partial notice advises interested parties about private schools for boys and training education details. The text references an office contact for the corresponding trust company and requests prompt action from recipients. The fragmented note mentions the Port Boys and Wichita, with references to loan registers and official communications.

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