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Newspaper
Clearfield Herald
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
3
Fragmented notice offers land on Third Street with a 422 by 100 foot parcel and a building site 28 by 100 feet. Mentions 36 acres in Lawrence town and high quality cultivation prospects. Indicates sale details and location but readable terms are limited.
A long list of local people travel, visit, host, or attend events in the area. Beatrice Parkhill leaves for Hopkinton Iowa. George Miller returns from Buffalo to visit family. Louise Wright visits Indiana Pa. several residents host tea or guests from Pittsburgh and Uniontown. many attend commencements at Dickinson College and Bright College. others shop, travel, or attend church and civic events. Also notes on visitors from Wellsburg, Wellsville, Philipsburg, and Altoona. A feature on Java’s Valley of Death explains carbonic acid gas pools and dangers.
Readable fragments describe Sunday theatricals with a period scene in London and a punishment mockery involving a theater figure. Also noted are North Borneo tobacco fields requiring vast labor, Joaquin Miller’s newspaper habit, a lost watch with chain, and small ads for a room rental and a plumbing firm in Clearfield Pennsylvania.
The administratrix of Harry Byers late of Clearfield Bar announces an adjourned public sale for Monday June 16 at 2 PM at the Court House in Clearfield. The homestead at West First and West Walnut streets in the second ward will be sold under Orphans Court order, free of encumbrances. Terms require 25 percent down with remaining balance upon confirmation and delivery of deeds.
A Suburban Life column quips about the hollyhock as a stately coquette. It praises its beauty while lamenting its unruly seed spread and stubborn growth, noting the double hollyhock as the supreme bloom that fascinates yet resists easy cultivation.
Notice states the existing partnership between Ray Robinson and Isaac Robinson continues under Robinson & Co. Creditors are directed to present claims to the firm and any debts are to be paid to Robinson & Co. The notice names Ray Robinson and Isaac Robinson.
June sale features dainty fabrics for summer wear with floral silk voiles and plissis striped silks. New striped cotton ratine and nub cotton ratine, brocaded silks, fancy poplins, silk crepes, and satin crepes priced from 15 to 50 cents. Complete linen stock and latest weaves at whites counter with crinkles, ginghams, and seersuckers in varieties and colors.
The notice lists several undergarment styles and prices. Comfy Cut and Melba styles priced at 15 cents each. Swiss Ribbed and Silk Lisle vests range from 25 to 50 cents. Mercerized Lisle Crochet tops 75 cents. Italian Silk Vests plain and embroidered priced from 1.50 to 2.00. Swiss Ribbed lisle Union Suits with lace trimmed cuffs and knee length range from 25 cents to 1 dollar.
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