20 Jul 1912
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1912
Page
1
Summer heat is coming and shoppers are urged to prepare with light-weight summer clothing. The ad promotes cool shoes, thin hosiery, summer shirts, white waists, airy dresses, parasols, fans, serge suits, straw hats, traveling bags and trunks, and encourages readers to get ready as vacation plans rise.
Men's suits offered in worsteds cheviots and cassimeres with erew-checks pin stripes and mixtures in navy serge three-button sack coats with or without centre vent. Sizes 34 to 44 regulars stouts to 46. Features include long coats high cut vests and knife-edge tailoring promising good fit and shape. Includes spring and summer fabrics in various textures and patterns with knickerbocker pants option for younger buyers.
Men may choose from Panamas Leghorns and split straw hats in full crown or telescope shapes with medium brims. Prices range Panamas five dollars Leghorns two fifty and various split straw options from one twenty five to three fifty plus soft sennic and staple Mackinaws.
County’s largest display of women’s lace trimmed underwear in light weights with prices from 10c to 25c each. White ribbed vests with lace trims offered as singles and in sets three for 20c to 35c. Lisle and lisle lace trimmed vests priced 15c to 25c, with multiple bundles available.
These shirts were bought before the advance in materials and are offered at special values. Fancy Percale Neglige Shirts in light and dark colors with separate cuffs. Soft Neglige Shirts with white bodies and madras bosoms, or tan madras with matching bosom. Look like $1.00 shirts, now 50c to $1.50 values. White plaited Dress Shirts at $1.00 with cambric body and linen bosom.
The listing advertises Women's Gauze Lisle Stockings with double heels and toes. It also offers garter top options in white black and tan at 50c, silk stockings, Pere six stockings in multiple colors at 1.00, Juxtra Heavy All silk in black priced 1.25 or 1.50, and Lisle garter-top styles with double heel and toe in several colors at 50c.
Mrs Pinckney schemes to pair Billy Pinckney with Polly Skinner using Dick Westford as a bringer. Billy falls for Polly when Westford declares love, while Billy elopes with the chambermaid, leaving Polly with no regrets as the couple wed.
Polly Skinner and friends at the Mizzeu Island summer hotel gossip about social balance and romantic schemes. Polly notes a male to female ratio of one to seventeen, while plans swirl to attract Billy Pinckney and trigger interest from Dick Westford, a cousin of Polly’s rival. The women dream of engagements as they observe flirtations and family ties.
The Jenny Lind Rock story recounts how Miss Lind, a passenger on a steamer that struck a sand bar near the rock, was taken by boatmen to the rock while the vessel seated passengers. She stood alone and sang two songs during the delay.
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