Santa Finds Gifts for Hard to Please in City Stores
Santa surveys Charleston shop windows filled with luxe gifts for the hard to please. He eyes a $1000 white gold watch, a black topcoat in Persian lamb, a $3007 coat, a $65 lightweight pocketed coat, and alligator items including a $37.50 billfold and $125 shave kit. Also spotted are a three flask leather case, huntng knife, compact rod, frost proof sunglasses, collar pins, a radio replica, and signalled dictionaries wrapped in leather.
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Santa’s Fashion Spending Spree Delights Holiday Shoppers
A fragment from a vintage column notes Santa browsing gifts for women, including a white fleece lounging robe with fur trim and a jeweled belt, a leopard print robe, a fluffy lambskin skirt, and a white evening jacket priced up to 120 dollars, all echoing a luxe yet whimsical holiday vibe.
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Homemakers Install New Sunyside President at 4 Christmas Party
Mrs. C A Henderson was installed as president of Sunyside Homemakers Club at a 4 Christmas party in the Appalachian Power Auditorium. Officers installed by Mrs. Camille Stewart include Mrs. J Walter Sparks as vice president, Mrs. R A Huber as secretary, and Mrs. H H Williams as treasurer. The group also donated $10 for gifts for servicemen wounded in Vietnam.
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C. A. Henderson
Sunnyside Homemakers Club
Appalachian Power Auditorium
Camille Stewart
Kanawha County Extension Home Demonstration
J. Walter Sparks
R. A. Huber
H. H. Williams
Vietnam
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Peerdale Aquarine
America
S-Mel AL
Salamies
D’ Street
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Charleston
Sandy Wells
Jonathan Park
Lawrence Pierce
By Bob Barnes
Post Office
Picasso
North Pole
Woman’s Department
the Gazette
ARS
Daniel Granv
Capitol ST
Mink
Streiger
Quarrier ST
Plaba
Seaton Mall
Maccorkle Ave
Anal Division
St. & McCorkle
Spring Hhi
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