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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1888
Page
1
A newspaper advertisement proclaims a limited sale offering tomorrow and Friday and Saturday pieces of black Faille Silk at a yard price of one dollar. It describes the silk as high quality and new season fashion, urging early call to avoid missing the deal.
FOR THE MEN SHIRTS advertised at deep discounts across multiple lots. 600 unlaundried shirts in sizes 14 to 17 in heavy muslin with linen bosom, valued 75c, sale 49c. 500 unlaundried New York Mills muslin shirts with improvements, worth 90c, sale 62c. 500 unlaundried best material linen shirts, $1 each, sale 81c. Remaining stock slashed to 38c. Also discounted spring and summer flannel and percale shirts and laundried shirts. T. L FOX & SON 150 North Main St Wichita KS.
Tornado remnants sweep Mt Hope and vicinity injuring property. Roofs ripped off TJ Moore residence one mile south, fences and outbuildings leveled. Carrie J Bradshaw windmill and cattle shed demolished. cattle losses, pumps broken. Fences and hay scattered across two square miles. Hail deposits cover ground one and a half inches, then heavy rain. Night temps drop about thirty degrees toward Manitoba.
A sweeping strike wave looms as the Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen declare a wage dispute with the Chicago Burlington & Quincy and allied lines. Chief Arthur and leaders urge unity, mass meetings, and readiness to withdraw members from major routes. Reading Railroad tensions trigger official inquiries and nationwide rail disruption fears.
A Missouri farmer Samuel Carnahan of Sedalia vanished after a late Saturday night walk near his home. Friends fear foul play as the missing man, a local laborer, left his farm in the evening and did not return, prompting a community search with authorities.
In Washington the House resumes consideration of the omnibus bill and reviews the report from the Government Control of Telegraphs committee. Debates cover licensing in the District and private pension provisions along with a proposed evening session schedule.
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