Stepney social and family notes from local and international scenes
In Stepney and nearby towns a social evening at the Methodist church raised funds for the treasury, announcements include a birth, visits, entertainments, a firehouse social, a Christmas drive for needy children, and school programs. International items report a Prussian mayor fining a policeman and Brazil’s President Pessoa considering rubber price measures and credits for European buyers.
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Methodist Church
Clayton Hawley
Richard Milon
Wallace Brown
Weston
William Craft
Ruth Beardsley
George Clingan
Maryland
New York
Frank Gilbert
Newtown
Milon Hawley
Elmer Reid
Bridgeport
Herbert Joyce
Carrie Curtiss
James Ackerman
Keenan
Laurett Keenan
Stepney
Cutlers and
Birdsey Plain School
Beulah Beck
Helen Zlatken
Fimer Joyce
Dorothy Dinkler
Roger Beardsley
Frank Fabio
Man With the
Hoe
Alfee Botsford
Jennie Tufano
Jennie Carbone
Lillian Puzinsky
Arthur Joyce
Marian Lee
Horace Car
Bertha
Rio de Janeiro
Amazon
Pessoa
Italy
Modern laundry service for blankets carpets and curtains
Cleaners offer removal and cleansing for blankets comforters carpets rugs curtains and many items not easily cleaned at home. Prices noted as reasonable with a promise of satisfactory work and available by phone via a driver delivery pickup option.
Pull-Apart Circus Invites Kids For Christmas Start
A playful offer runs daily from Christmas morning featuring a kids circus with animals and performers, promising stunts and family fun. Prices range from $1.50 to $14.50, including electric railroad outfits and doll carriages. Located on the third floor, with assorted playthings like desks and wagons featured.
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Piggy
Mr. Clown
Clownie
Glove fashions offer slender grace for Christmas
A marketplace listing presents gloves described as slender and graceful in seasonable shades. Options include gray mochas with embroidery, soft suede with silk or fleeced linings, imported kid in white or black, and various cape styles with strapped wrists. Prices range from $3.50 to $4.50. Center aisle rear.
Delicate Crepe de Chine Gowns on Sale
Sweetest gowns and chemises of crepe de chine in fresh tint trimmed with Georgette crepe and lace. Hand embroidered nainsook undies include chemises gowns and petticoats with fine embroidery. Prices range from 2.25 to 5.00 with second floor display.
Rich bags and purses listed with varied leathers
Rich bags of brown duvetyn and leather purses described with velvetlike texture and deep shades. Frames include shell and silver with green-gold finish. prices range from 3.50 to 17.40. Purses offered in brown gray blue patent or dull black leather with top or back handles. Left aisle.
Contrast Spanish and Irish handkerchief embroidery styles
A compact note compares Spanish and Irish embroidery on handkerchiefs. It praises Irish linen with small patterns and Spanish very fine batiste with larger but delicate stitches, noting both are attractive and suitable for the Christmastime collection. Also mentions lace edges, eyelet work, tiny rosebuds, and corner embroidery in white or color.
Special-priced fine gold jewelry and accessories
Advertisement lists 14K gold pieces including cuff links and brooches with diamond and stone settings, silver mesh bags and jewelry boxes, cigarette cases in sterling silver, and spangled fans. Items feature wide price ranges from low to high, highlighting special value and decorative designs.
Rich wide ribbons offered in varied colors and patterns
Rich wide ribbons described as heavy lustrous and beautiful suitable for bags and distinctive wraps. The text notes color combinations artistic designs and splendid quality with eight and nine inch widths and prices around six dollars per yard.
Congoleum Rugs Offer Inexpensive Floor Coverings
Gold Seal Congoleum rugs praised as light flexible sanitary floor covering in blue tan or green patterns. Two piece sets match perfectly, nine by twelve size offered at regular prices from 12.50 to 8.50. Limited quantities. early choosing advised.
Fireless cooker deal with stand advertised
A Domestic Science cooker with two compartments priced at 48.95 is offered with a sturdy metal stand and utensils. The limited lot includes a triplicate set for simultaneous cooking and a height-adjusting stand, with a sale price of 40 dollars on the fourth floor.
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Y.M
C. A. Notes
Santa Claus
Berlin
Crawfs
Laundry CO
Babe
Billy
Ringling’s
Bridgeport Ives. Co
Ireland
Spain
Rich
Rez
Howland Dry Goods
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