New Messaline Petticoats and Dresses Arrive
A new shipment offers cotton messaline petticoats at 89¢ through $3.50 and house dresses in sizes 47 to 53. White waists priced from $1.00 to $1.98 feature in the lot with several pretty styles on display.
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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1914
Page
5
A new shipment offers cotton messaline petticoats at 89¢ through $3.50 and house dresses in sizes 47 to 53. White waists priced from $1.00 to $1.98 feature in the lot with several pretty styles on display.
Local column covers social happenings in Barre including shopping, dances, vestry meetings, and visits by residents. Alerts on theater Runaways rehearsal, barber shop renovations, and real estate sales accompany brief crime report and community notices through December events.
Suppressed readable bits show a local item with names and places but key details are missing. The fragment hints at a meeting or event with people named but lacks dates outcomes or clear actions.
All Pure Linen Huck Towels and Guest Towels priced low for Christmas giving. Linen Tray Cloths, 16, 18, 24 inch Huck toweling, holiday hand bags, traveling bags, Walrus hides with leather linings, Arlington Ivory Sets, and knit slippers featured. Big stock, lowest prices in years, front display of new items.
Christmas gifts priced at 10c 25c and 50c offer a wide selection. Novelty items and little record books appeal for whist and portability. Ladies neckwear by Marshall Field line promises quality and style with boxed handkerchiefs as popular boxed gift sets.
Clean-Up sale offers Plain Brown Skirts in Redingote overdrape style with fine Serge piping at 5.50 to 8.50. Blue Tunah Silk Skirts, previously 7.50, now 5.50. Odd Corduroy Skirts, previously 12.00, offered at half price in Blue and Brown.
A sale features medium weight Serge suits at 7.98 and 9.98, with best values previously priced 15 to 20 dollars and Wooltex models among the season's top values. Coats range 38 inch to long Redingote styles in blue brown green and black, once selling 25 to 60.00 dollars, now highlighted at 18 to 12.98 prices.
A garbled local column lists Christmas linen purchases at Witte and payments due this month. Mentions Mrs. Fraser arriving for the season, James Rowan departing for Mortland, and plans for visits to Mtuckland and Burlington. Several ministers and townsfolk are named in travel and engagement notes.
Town shoppers are invited to a week long preholiday sale at Pitts Block featuring new trimings and silks from Joe Rovaleky tailors. Edmund Heddr returns to Hardwick for work after visiting Barre and family, with hotel clerk duties. Church basketball team under new captain Melver to play Friday night. Open evenings 7 to 9.
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