28 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
1
A store thanks patrons for generous patronage and public support during the holiday season. It pledges to keep customers' convenience and interests first in the future, even at personal cost, expressing appreciation to friends and the community.
List of titles and series appealing to a wide readership including Motor Girls, Racer Boys, and Frances Kane works. Emphasizes gifting a book for Xmas, with selections spanning fiction, poetry, hymns, and educational texts. Names multiple series and authors to attract varied readers.
New Year remembrances are now in order with tasty inexpensive and durable gifts. Old Santa Claus visits have ended and representatives thronged the store in anticipation. News of interest to you includes savings on immediate needs as midwinter wardrobe and home requirements press.
A compact display promotes dainty neck fixings in lace net and chiffon. The offering includes satin Robespierre collars with jabots, Windsor ties in plain colors and plaids, and boxed neckwear with lace and velvet accents, priced at 25c and 50c.
A picturesque catalog style note offers baby gifts including dainty toilet articles wee booters and shoes unbreakable playthings beautiful caps sacques mittens and a charming variety of coats for the precious infant.
That almost indescribable attraction of a well-appointed bed room is attained in a number of ways. The use of fine Dressing Table and Bureau Scarfs and Pillow Shams is undoubtedly one of them. Imitation Filet Net in designs to match prettily finished with a scalloped edge fifty cents. Other Bedroom Linens.
A display offers landscapes and colonial subjects in soft color, framed in gilt and plain mahogany moulding. Wide variety of subjects available with prices to fit all budgets.
An ever happy solution of the gift problem gloves for all occasions. Men’s Kid Gloves for dress fur lined for driving automobile gauntlets for motoring priced from 1 to 3 50. Women’s dress Kid Gloves in black white steel tan brown black suede priced from 1 to 1 50.
An umbrella store touts an extensive range for men and women with horn, gunmetal, pearl, and natural wood handles. Cov ers crafted from union taffeta. Prices described as exceedingly low for the quality available.
Men’s Holiday Neckwear Exclusive is probably the word that best expresses one’s idea of neckwear. It is just a little different from ordinary kinds and that feature alone is worth a great deal to the man who knows. Four-in-hand reversible and wide-end. 25c and 50c.
Bargains on Neglige shirts offered in pleated or plain bosom coat style with attached or detached cuffs. A large assortment of designs and sizes available. Telipse Shirts, Lion and Double Triangle Collars act as headquarters for these offerings.
Shoes for men in patent calfskin patent colt and patent kid options with button and blucher uppers. Modern new shapes offered priced from three to five dollars.
A fine line of Supenders for gifts features men's Half Nose glasses described as durable and suitable for gifting. The catalog highlights practical frames and sturdy construction aimed at everyday wear.
The Holiday Shopper series presents women’s full length coats in black and blue plain tailored options with satin lining at 12.50, 15, and 18 dollars. Plush coats feature a deep rolled collar at 18 dollars. Mixed cloth and chinchilla coats offered in grey tones at 12.50 to 15 dollars. Serge and cheviot suits in blue or black with satin lining, plus a few tailored cheviot and serge suits. Also notes Girls Goats family and Junior Girls suits and coats in new models including cheviots serges chinchillas and double faced cloth.
The notice highlights growing demand for practical gifts as more suit cases traveling bags and trunks are sold this season. Prices range from $1.35 to $8.50 for suit cases and bags and from $2.50 to $20 for trunks.
Mildred Jernegan's tale centers on Sarah Topham who feeds her household rice and milk while pursuing a kitchen invention. Her husband Samuel pursues work at Moses Bowman’s office, leaving Sarah to juggle dinner duties and domestic plans, including a jokingly ambitious invention for his wife. The piece closes with a note on four white stockings granting toll-free passage and a Provence proverb.
Samuel Topham vows to seek steady work for the year while his wife Sarah bakes to support seven daughters. He dreams of successful inventions like an automatic griddle, but a sharp letter from his cousin derails the plan. With faith waning, Sarah urges him to find a job now, as the family faces lean times and hopes for future prosperity.
A long faced prison visitor notes the confinement distresses the convict. The convict jokes that prison bars grate and that life is a failure, adding that it is nothing but a cell. The exchange plays on prison imagery for humor.
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