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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1887
Page
1
A Mary Street shop promotes a miscible sale with warm weather discounts. It touts velvets, check flannel, braids, and velvets at reduced prices including 68 1-2 cents, 1.50 for 63 1-2 cents, and 29 cents yard. The ad emphasizes quick sell of stock and urges customers to buy before chilly weather returns.
A retailer touts new evening dress fabrics with autumn colorings inspired by forest leaf fading rose and evening skies. Reproductions are offered to adorn the female form at 69 cents to 2 dollars per yard. Come to us for these things.
A dispatch reports 2800 acres of land entered by settlers near Wisconsin Central. It notes rate-cutting by Ohio & Mississippi and Wabash between St. Louis and New York. Cincinnati Southern car shops at Ludlow Ky burned, destroying immense shops and many cars. 600 workers unemployed. Estimated loss up to 375,000, with Pullman cars burned. news items on track laying, miner strikes, and rail labor issues follow in brief items.
Dense crowds jam Berlin depot as Czar and Emperor William arrive with state escort. Princes William and Herman accompany the Russian party, guards and regiments line the exit, and officials report calls on the embassy amid ceremonial honors and public cheers.
A garbled colonial era summary mixes Joseph Chamberlain references with grain prices and export concerns, discussing market speculation and economic fear. The text mentions weather, audience grants, and various names, producing a chaotic panorama of late 19th or early 20th century trade chatter.
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