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Newspaper

Wichita Eagle

Location

Wichita, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Sep 20, 1888

Page

8

A Sight of Laughter and Odd Notices in Kansas City

A chaotic OCR page shows varied items including theater notices, bids for a city school, bids for groceries, station and rail ads, travel promotions, and local business promotions. The text lists transfers, bids, invitations, and public notices interspersed with unrelated anecdotes and advertisements.

A. K. Sherman Chip Flay Sedgwick Block Anthony Kansas Themecretary Honmfide

Quare Books and Odd Fellows at the City Library

A lively if tangled reminiscence centers on a Cranker and his cranky table near the Wo'clok library. Readers, loungers, and a parade of peculiar habitues populate the scene with chatter, sketches of daily life, and incidental observations of bookish rituals.

Astor Acheter Craner Tin Tate Wight Max Lin

Special Fabrics Sale This Week At Bargain Prices

Specialty fabrics advertise 40 inch Henriettas at 60c, 44 inch silk finish Henriettas at 75c labeled 50c, 40 inch Tyicots at 39c, crepe lisse ruching at 10 cents a yard, 44 inch suiting flannels in fall shades at 59c, double fold plaid suitings at 12 1/2c, mohair suitings in brocade effects at 9c.

Boston Store Price Via Sale Plethora of Delights

Boston store offers 129 cents for stripe plush and 49 cents for silk plush tanse shades. One case solid colors chambray ginghams at 14 cents, robe prints 34 cents, linen damask 230, colored border damask 34 cents. Fall reg misses ribbed hose two pair for 25 cents.

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