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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1888
Page
1
A brisk business notice outlines years of trade with a firm at 128 to 127 Main Street. It claims progress, aiming for larger fall deals, emphasizing courage, speed, and home and European manufacture as strategic edges. It mentions six months of coordinating importers and manufacturers to obtain special goods for customers.
A fragmented ad for a department store highlights cheap dresses and outfits priced at fractions of a cent, praising a fashionable department with low, promotional rates. It markets silk, wool, and assorted ready wear while promising value, novelty, and timely purchasing opportunities.
Fragmented OCR text yields a brief note mentioning Jeckets and Sucques with unclear terms. No coherent event or identifiable entities beyond the odd proper nouns. The readable bits suggest names and a prize context but lack sufficient structure for a full item.
A shop announces slow cold weather arrival but promises steady stock. This week prices are reduced to induce immediate purchases with every garment described as new and fashionable.
In Newmarkets sale the 50 garments priced at ten dollars each, sizes from 32 to 2 bust, claim to undercut prices on the continent. The ad touts control of production and cheap goods with a bold claim of the lowest price unpinned by competition.
The notice advertises a sale including London dyed seal plush sacques priced at 17.50 with a 25 dollar equivalent and mentions a line of warm underwear for ladies and children and hosiery in wool. It hints at sanitary goods and family wear with sales emphasis.
From now until November 1, the dealer asserts prices are lower than any other seller in Wichita for this line. He invites buyers to comparison shop and promises to beat the lowest offer.
A scanned ad lists low prices on red wool flannels and twilled flannels. Claims reductions for this week on items including red flannel, red twilled flannel, first-class red twilled thin, corner flannel, couperade, and red table linen with strong typographic errors.
36 inch tricots sold at 42 1-2 cents. Same quality cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Half wool dress goods cheaper across the board. Black and fancy cashmeres Henriettas and serges at least 20 percent under regular prices. Our mens, ladies and childrens underwear is priced to tempt. Visit us to be astonished by low prices and stock for winter.
A day of Republican demonstrations in Clearwater described with logs raised as a pole for a flag, a log cabin scene, cider cheers, and speeches by J K Yallowell and others. The afternoon meeting featured Col Hallwell and vibrant crowd support amid tariff and protection debates.
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