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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1889
Page
8
Fragmented notice listing trains, schedules, and ticketing between Wichita and Denver Kansas City with connections and frequent stops. Includes travel times, pricing, and passenger services, plus a long garbled section detailing notices about sales, invitations, and local services.
An eye catching account from Bombay describes a Parsee gentleman hosted dinner featuring contortionists and a snake charmer. Performers include a temple contortionist, a Shy sneak, and a female eyelid act. The room fills with exotic sights, elephants, cobras, and a mangoose as English and Parsee guests mingle amid ornate attire and music.
A special sale on China Silks drew many ladies to the Silk Counter Monday with good value items. The promotion continues through the week to give late shoppers a chance. Stock includes solid color and fancy silks, plus Hosiery, with 300 dozen fall regular made hose at 19 cents to 60 cents and 200 dozen mens socks at 3 for 50 cents, all at sale prices.
A Omaha resident recalls a Dakota mining camp robbery tale. A messenger hauled twenty five thousand dollars by mule to town, outwitting three armed men who halted him. He hid the cash by tying it to a dog’s collar, escaped, and later learned the would be robbers misread the scene while the money remained safe.
Unpublished chapter of Me. WW Corcoran’s life reveals a Spaniard secretary Murnaga challenging the banker after being found with Corcoran’s daughter Miss Corcoran. The affair ends as Murnaga leaves Washington and John Eustis, another suitor, later marries Miss Corcoran, securing the family fortune.
A local sale offers 100 dozen ladies full regular fancy hose in 40 gauge broken stripes and pin stripes at 10 cents per pair, originally 25 cents. Also 76 dozen ribbed hose with two pairs for 25 cents, touted as the finest value offered.
The Wichita Eagle office advertises engraved and printed luncheon cards and blank abstracts, with prompt mail service. It promotes Missouri Pacific and other winter excursion routes to Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, inviting calls at the city ticket office for lowest fares and routes. It mentions a motor railroad meeting and describes rail services to Kansas, Nebraska, and the west, highlighting first class accommodations and connections.
A fragmented letter argues railways misuse the interstate commerce law, seeking fair compensation for passenger transfer services. The author cites alleged superior service for higher fares, notes Wichita routes and Pacific line comparisons, and mentions agents and routes from St. Louis to Colorado and California in a regional context.
Readable bits describe color options and prices for a variety of fabrics and patterns. The notes mention spring beige designs, grand patterns, and new prints from several suppliers with weekly offers and discounts.
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