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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1888
Page
8
Fragmentary text references a probate matter and convention with incoherent names and dates, making a concise summary impossible. Key entities are unreadable, preventing a coherent card.
The clipping lists numerous real estate transfers filed in a recorder's office including CE Barwise to L A Denaion maps and various parcels, plus mentions of other transfers among multiple parties. It blends advertising text about medicines, cattle trades, and health guidance with unrelated notices and local chatter.
Our clearance sale goes through the wash department with no mercy. Latines that always sell at 10 cents a yard are now 10 yards for 71 cents. Navy Ground Batistes formerly 12 1/2 cents a yard, now 10 yards for 71 cents. Pacific Batistes in all patterns formerly 12 1/2 cents a yard, now 10 yards for 71 cents.
A dated sale offer lists dramatic price cuts on seersucker and lawn fabrics. Cream Krinkles drops to 49 cents for 10 yards, Fancy Double Stripe Krinkles to 69 cents, Bombey Stripe Krinkles to 89 cents for 10 yards, Jaconet Cords and Fine Tinted Lawns reduced, with other bargains on India Linens and printed goods.
The notice states Weier plans to close and offers to sell 50 good quints and 10 yards for 30 with rents mentioned. It implies a liquidation style sale and rental terms.
Immense slaught of white goods and fine robes offered at deep discounts. Yardage now 6 14 cents per yard. robes formerly priced 4.50 to 7.00 reduced to 2.98. Limited stock and quantities likely to sell quickly.
A city sale lists dramatic price cuts on ladies full regular made hose and misses stockings. Items include black and color hose formerly 30 cents now 20 cents, misses solid color hose formerly 10 cents now 7 cents, grain hose black and color size 5 to 8 1 2 clear red seams formerly 20 cents now 1 cent, misses lisle thread hose now 15 cents, full regular grain hose formerly 20 cents now two pairs for 25 cents.
Ladies and rear items go on sale with discounts across lines. Silk lisle vests priced at 2.00, 1.25 and 1.50 are reduced to 50 cents, offering substantial savings for shoppers.
Last week’s special prices cut massin underwear costs with a large lot of remnants mios uito netting offered at 66 cents per yard, attracting buyers seeking value.
Go glike in this sale. Gents furnishing goods served the same way. One lot of gents silk scarfs formerly sold from 45 to 75 sents, now for 23 cents. Our 25 cent gauze undershirt reduced to 15 cents. Gents balbriggan undershirts, formerly sold for 75 cents, now 45 cents. One lot of jaundried white shirts, worth Sie and 1.00, now 59 cents.
A Boston store advertises a study of recent industrial uses of electricity. The piece traces early skepticism about electrical profitable use to today where incandescent lighting, telegraphy, and medical viewing devices show growing practical value, with vivid comparisons of power, efficiency, and scope across urban and scientific applications. It notes street lighting, arc lamps, and new telegraphy methods, plus economic implications and public interest in ongoing advances.
An old Kansas railroad notice describes train routes through Wichita and Topeka including connections with St. Louis and Chicago. It mentions ticket agents, penalties for trespassing, and multiple depot locations, with references to the C B & N and Santa Fe lines and pending timetable changes.
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