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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1889
Page
8
Local notices describe the Rock Island railway offering a new tourist car service with enhanced comforts and partitioned compartments. A Wichita tailors’ shop publicizes fashion offerings and a push for orders, highlighting ready workmanship and international suppliers as part of a broader merchant sales push.
The Hosiery Dress Goods La teens and Staples advertise new spring goods selling fast with large quantities. The store promises plenty for all customers and emphasizes very low prices claiming to be the only house in the city with these new items.
The store offers a 46 inch Henrietta at 49 cents per yard, 38 inch all wool Lutrene suitings in tan and grey at 39 cents per yard, and 86 inch mixture Tricots priced at 16 2 3 cents a yard this week, highlighting a strong value assortment in the city.
Wis Hower authors a feature on Begg's Lars adorned with green leaves. The piece highlights the plant’s lore, care tips, and cultural significance within garden circles. It notes Begg’s influence on horticulture and the plant’s popularity among collectors.
A New York correspondent writes of a flood of begging letters to millionaires from across the country. The letters seek loans from 100 to 20,000 dollars for various schemes, but private secretaries screen calls and discard charity requests. Prominent financiers like Russell Sage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, John D Rockefeller, and others are repeatedly cited as unyielding to such pleas, protected by storehouse discipline and private aides who filter mail before it reaches the men who control vast fortunes.
The Boston Store advertises heavy discounts on Debiege s striped and plaid suiting at 161-2 cents, Beige suiting at 12 1-2 cents, 100 pieces satin-like fabric at 12 1-2 cents a yard, and Red Damask at 22 1-2 cents. Also offered are White lawn at 2 1-2 cents, White goods at 4 1-2 cents, white quilts at 59 and 68 cents, Chambrays at 9 cents, 50 dozen kid gloves at 59 cents a pair, veiling 39 cents, Chenille dot veiling 15 cents, corsets in two lots from 49 cents to 68 cents, and Spring wraps on display for quick sales.
A street-side tale from Chicara Maik recounts a rat charity wagon with a pipe smoking man claiming rats were taken alive. An observer ridicules the yarn, while another tale describes factory rats opening oil cans with teeth in Brighton Park.
A vivid survey of fashion fans from lace and gauze to velvet and surah. Expensive hand painted and diamond studded pieces from Broadway stores command prices from four dollars to five hundred, with feather fans and pearl sticks defining summer style and bridesmaid elegance.
Villette notes an elderly coffin peddler known as Boxem Brown who tours with mules and a wagon of coffins. He visits homes, offers immediate-use coffins, and says families with seniors or many children often buy. He admits selling where demand exists and recalls trading a child coffin for another item, claiming extensive trade and widespread presence.
The notice promotes Missouri Pacific Railway as the great southern system with excursions to California and Arizona via Missouri Pacific routes. It touts comfortable trains, numbered alternate Wednesdays to Missouri river towns, and emphasizes improved sleeping cars and dining facilities. Call Wichita city ticket office for reservations and details.
Special values feature 200 dozen ladies fine shear bordered hemstitched handkerchiefs 5 for 25 cents and 260 dozen colored border lawn handkerchiefs 3 for 1 cent. Visit our shoe department for all styles and widths plus Dona gola ladies shoes at 150 cents. An elegant line of misses and children’s shoes from 24 cents, and satin scarfs for 18 cents.
Fragmentary text describes a public notice about ticket sales and transit services. It mentions contact points, a ticket office, and locations at Wichita and Second streets, with references to schedules and berths. The readable entities include streets and generic transit terms, but specific names and dates are largely obscured.
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