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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1888
Page
8
Fragmented OCR text blends poetry critique with city views, listing streets, places, and figures such as Cape Town landmarks, authors, and publishers. It contains scattered names, dates, and locales, hinting at a mid century urban page note with literary commentary and local color.
Ladies colored fabrics advertised in a large sacrifice sale clear out of wash goods. Lawns Baptistes Latinos and Seersuckers advertised at less than half value. Purchases urged before fall stock arrives with goods to be moved out now.
Go 10 Our Small Notion Department entices shoppers with Cocox nut oil soap cakes for 9 cents and Goce needles two papers for 5 cents, plus 24 sheets of paper and 24 envelopes for cents. Many other articles cut in proportion.
The Boston store highlights a mass liquidation with drastic price cuts. Ladies linen collars, slightly soiled, three cents. Ladies Jersey silk mitts cut from 50 cents to 29 cents. Misses mae hose down to 10 cents. Ladies Nainsook aprons reduced to seven cents. 5 piece cloth toilet sets now six cents per set.
All our fine parasols reduced by a quarter from last week prices. Limited time sale.
The Buston Store announces a clearance selling all lines regardless of value. They sacrifice Oriental Egyptian and Torchon laces, many under 50 cents on the dollar. Ladies silk gloves drop from 50 to 29 cents, metal trimmed gloves from 35 to 15 cents, remnants mosquito netting to 5 cents per yard.
A local advertisement announces sharp discounts across footwear hats and men’s accessories. The sale highlights reduced prices on shoes, millinery, and gents furnishing goods at the department store. Limited stock expected as patrons rush to capture bargains.
A long circulated claim about a Boston pottery expert producing a full set of forty four pieces in eight minutes is challenged. Theodore Haviland and others dispute the speed and skill, noting that true production depends on many crafts stages from clay preparation to decoration. The piece discusses costs, artistry, and whether such rapid output is feasible.
The United States Treasury funds military clothing at cost, supplying boots, caps, trousers, shirts, blankets and undergarments to soldiers. Prices are far below private stores with no rent or profit, benefiting troops while boosting manufacturers through large contracts.
A garbled notice describes a boundary dispute involving Amin Minor and village tensions. The text references a Coriome Diental Cortem, state authority, and a stalled refugee issue near a boundary aries, with a ceremonial step and a referenced village base performance fading from law.
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