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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1889
Page
1
An old time ad touts a cooperative profit sharing move on blankets and dress goods. It highlights generous profit sharing on some items and losses borne by importers on others, urging customers to inspect north window displays and note reduced prices, including woolen dress fabrics advertised undercutting typical costs.
The store advertises a closing out sale on lace curtains and related millinery and dress stock. Upstairs features bright millinery while rear bustle shows dresses being made by Madame Smith’s workers. Madame Smith returns from the East with new fashions, promising Paris novelties daily.
We offer a wide stock of new seasonal suits in all sizes and styles at low prices. Merchandise includes several MA S200 line suits priced at fifteen dollars, plus ten dollar suits for seven dollars. Shop for quality, value, and service.
Random distillery notes mix with police and court reports as Colh & Jones advertise Miller and Guyer hats while details of a whisky smuggling case unfold. The long desultory page mentions Walker Niemi and others, a Toronto detainment, and a security scare in Canada, alongside a separate oblique report on a girl’s sacrifice and a marine hospital scandal.
During a city visit the retailer touts the largest stock of dry goods and clothing ever brought to town and announces a $1,000 music box giveaway as a promotional lure. The claim emphasizes a grand assortment and the store’s prominence.
Box orchestra piece valued at 31 000 intended as an attraction to the store. Each dollar of goods purchased earns a ticket toward a chance to win the box. The duplicate is at the Paris exposition and has won a gold medal. Citizens of Wichita and surrounding area are invited to view the box with daily musical recitals from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5.
England and Germany clash over export duties as Consul General Ed want of Delia probes alleged collusion among manufacturers and brokers to undervalue goods. Officials suspect schemes to reduce costs, implicating merchants and shipping routes, with references to market values and certificates.
A 19th century study reports vast arid lands in the upper Arkansas area suitable for irrigation. It notes 16,020,009 irrigable acres with over 15 million suitable for eastern irrigation, and that about 1 percent rests on underground water. The report cites Beaver, White, Pavenes, Walnut, and other rivers as water sources, with extensive aquifer and wells to supply mechanical pumps and canal systems. It emphasizes private enterprise could drive irrigation development and outlines geographic coverage across multiple counties and basins.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a local brief with Cleveland and Nyack mentions. It notes arrival and attendance at a house event and a Sunday plan, but details are garbled and unclear.
In ORLALOMA OK Sept 21 authorities stopped a second illegal Kickapoo charter election. Troops patrolled streets as ballot boxes and books were destroyed. Arrests followed charges of conspiracy while violence remained limited and no further voting occurred.
A garbled Washington County era piece mentions HENNESSY and HENNEY with scattered references to Hennewsey and pioneers. It recalls settlers, crops, and river areas, noting progress and local growth, with stray mentions of Pratt and Pratt, Kansas, and regional weather or events.
Hon J M Husk Secretary of Agriculture and party toured medicine lodge sugar works Kansas, noting 30 ton cane daily, eighty pounds sugar and twelve gallons syrup per ton. They praised water supply, inspected cane fields and beets, and favored prospects for a successful season. They then moved on to Conway Springs Wichita and Kansas City.
Jerome Sotl argues that rainfall and soil absorption will replenish water as evaporation losses mount, predicting full soil saturation in Kansas. He urges immediate study of mechanical pumping to lift water from wells for agricultural use, promoting private enterprise over costly canal systems.
Attorney General Miller released an opinion on Creek nation misappropriation claims tied to Oklahoma cession payments. It analyzes a 2 250 587 10 dollar appropriation for release of title, a 2 000 000 permanent fund at five percent, and a 250 000 small sum, with disputes over attorney fees and payments lacking proper written contracts and federal approval.
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