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Newspaper
Charlotte News
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
6
A local textile dealer advertised a large linen sale on Thursday offering the complete sampler of Fancy Linens from the famous house pros at unusually low prices. The event drew buyers seeking bulk discounts on the entire lot.
Catalogue lists numerous pieces including TER PIECES and VERS lines, embroidered and drawn work. It mentions a variety of items such as square table covers and sideboard covers, with prices from 15¢ to 25¢ each. Availability suggested across different styles and sizes.
Ad copy notes Thursday and Friday sale with half price items. Prices range from 19 cents for small pieces to 9.99 for larger items. Contains promotional language and sample line about window display.
A stray line notes that women enjoy admiring outfits even if they do not plan to purchase. The fragment hints at fashion interest among ladies without providing concrete events or names.
Social column notes a bridge luncheon hosted by Mrs Clarence B. Bryant in Dilworth to honor three 1911 graduates from Presbyterian College, Charlotte High School, and Converse College. Guests include numerous local society figures and house guests from Gaffney and beyond, with a luncheon to follow and score cards themed to college life.
Miss Helen Foil will study music in New York this summer, as noted earlier in The News. She will reopen her Charlotte studio in the fall.
Miss Willie Erminger and Miss Olive Robertson attend lunch hosted by the Brockenbrough sisters with Drs. Matheson King and Leinhbach among guests. Bertha Estelle Johnson visits Mrs Heath in Charlotte as Knoxville guest. A measuring party invitation from Seversville Church notes funds for height based entertainment. The Gutherys plan a July trip to Thousand Islands. Master Clement Bryan marks seven with a Dowd family party. Clara Foreacre leaves for Atlanta and the Montgomerys relocate to Buford Hotel.
This column recounts Deborah Sampson born in Plymouth County Massachusetts who served as Private Robert Shirtliffe in Capt. Nathan Thayer's company after disguising herself as a man in 1778. She fought bravely, endured wounds and brain fever, and earned a pension from Gen. Washington when her sex was revealed.
Miss Edna Hirshinger will host this afternoon's Tuesday Bridge Club with special guest Miss Virginia Chamberlayne, guest of Mrs. Ben Smith. The Ladies Missionary Society meets at 3 30 this afternoon in the First ARP church parlor under Mrs W B Younts. Luckeys School House hosts an entertainment Friday night June 16 at 830 by neighborhood young folks. Daisy Carr, daughter of J P Carr, leaves tonight for the mountains to spend the summer at Summit View.
Mr J W Miller representing an ornamental light company proposed lighting major streets with bronze posts and alabaster globes installed along Tryon and Trade streets. The city would pay 2 per front foot and 4000 annually for maintenance, with power offered by Southern Power Company through Mr Lee.
A Coal Port resident recalls severe monthly agony and back pain that left her a "walking skeleton" until taking Cardui. She reports relief after five bottles, able to work and sew without pain, urging others to try the tonic.
Grand tour of Canada and Niagara Falls aboard a standard Pullman train from Charlotte North Carolina. It includes multiple city stops in Cincinnati Detroit Buffalo Niagara Falls Toronto Lake Ontario and Lake Erie steamship trips and hotel meals with all expenses paid for fifty dollars. Nearly 100 booked with space for about 300. reservations urged with maps folders and agents listed.
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