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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1887
Page
1
Beginning Tuesday morning July 6th the store will offer every dollar’s worth of goods at cost or less in a general sweeping sale from front to rear. Thousands of dollars in goods will be marked down as fall shipments arrive to be cleared quickly. The plan is to prepare for new stock and to reduce shelves heavy with merchandise now. The sale will end as soon as the store is rearranged and the discount ends.
The article lists exceptions to a cost sale where regular price is maintained by contracts with agents for Foster's Kid Gloves Warner's Corsets Ball's Corsets Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton Thread and Butterick's Patterns.
President Grover Cleveland formally withdraws acceptance of an invitation to visit St Louis during the Grand Army of the Republic encampment. He cites duty and hostile public reaction as reasons, stating he will instead proceed to Atlanta in October. Local citizens react with disappointment and plan alternative outreach to honor veterans.
The Pacific Railroad Commission resumes hearings in Kansas City with testimony from W E Garnett and J Tibbetts A Mead and Judge Jas Humphreys on Union Pacific business and general interests. The sessions include questions on rates arrangements, branch line effects, and government debt, while witnesses discuss the road’s preservation and expansion.
A long list of fragments details a public exhibit at the Smithsonian showcasing ancient artifacts from western Europe. The items include parleetions numbering over a hundred objects spanning paleolithic, Mesolithic, and early iron-age contexts, gathered during Thomas Teen’s residence abroad and linked to late prehistoric periods. The text also references a separate Interior Department decision on Fort Hoten reservation boundaries and related land tenure disputes, with various dates and figures noted.
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