Bargains Draw Crowds This Week At Local Shop
Patrons are upbeat as a busy week unfolds with a long list of special bargains. The store expects crowded periods and highlights receive wide customer interest.
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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1888
Page
1
Patrons are upbeat as a busy week unfolds with a long list of special bargains. The store expects crowded periods and highlights receive wide customer interest.
Store promotions advertise tomorrow morning offers with low prices on blankets gloves silk hosiery and black faille fabrics. Reads like a sale catalog promising deep discounts, urging quick purchase before stock runs out at the downtown shop.
The ad touts cheap articles for all classes of purchasers with a guarantee that no house can beat the price. It invites readers to visit this week to find low prices on all games and dozens of specifics unmatched by competitors. It also claims a savings of five dollars for dollar investments.
The advertisement promises a major sale of blankets and comforts this week with very low prices. It highlights the stock as the largest and finest ever shown, aiming to attract shoppers with a successful event.
Read and weep as prices drop on ladies watches clocks and Rogers Bros silverware. Nine ladies watches at 18 for a week, Elgin stem wind watches 8 to 35, solid gold and gold filled Elgin pieces 20 to 50, Rogers Bros forks spoons knives castors silverware 2 to 3.50, all at former prices slashed across the stock.
General Harrison welcomed delegations from Bluffton Hartford City Montpelier Ossian Keystone and other Blackford and Wells County towns during a reception day marked by a blue uniform Carrie Harrison club from Wells County. Mrs Rachel Martin president notes pledges of one to three votes per member. Harrison urged Hoosier unity and integrity while praising local voters and criticizing recent election misconduct.
A monument to General George E. Pickett was unveiled in Ricnmond with grand ceremony. Confederate camps from Alexandria Fredericksburg Norfolk Portsmouth and Petersburg attended, while the Philadelphia Brigade of Union veterans joined as guests of the Lee Camp. A preparatory dispute over parade colors was settled amicably after talks, with Pickett and other dignitaries present as the exercises began with prayer and an oration praising loyalty to the old South and the Union.
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