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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
5
A sale offers a choice of net waists priced at five and six dollars, now reduced to three dollars ninety eight cents. The offer highlights the discount on the waists and presents bargain pricing for shoppers seeking wear.
Practical guidance on choosing breathable fabrics and smart layering for hot days. Recommends airy garments, light colors, and moisture-wicking fabrics. Advises selecting breathable shoes and avoiding heavy accessories to stay cool and comfortable.
All lawns India linens table linens muslins and sheetings offered at 20 percent off. One lot Windsor percales priced at 10 cents per yard.
Pattern hats are half price with five dollar options offering new whrings valued up to twelve dollars. All shapes receive twenty percent off. Baby caps and embroidery hats are half price. Wings and feathers discounted twenty five percent.
Canvas Oxfords priced at 75e with women’s styles 1.25 and 1.50. Big lot patent and plain leather Oxfords offered at 3.00 and 3.50, sale price 2.00.
675 yards of desirable wool fabrics offered for summer suits and jackets. Priced at 75 cents and one dollar, with sale at 80 cents per yard.
A mixed page features humorous vignettes and editorials along with medical pitches. It repeats a cartoonish tale about mourning, cites Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money-back claim, recounts journalism lore about McCullagh and excuses, promotes Dr Shoop remedies, and quips on Cuba and cler gymen. The tone is breezy, miscellany, and locally flavored.
A vivid recounting of the 1840 Whig convention shows how Harrison supporters used log cabins coonskin caps and raucous performances to caricature their rival Van Buren. The piece contrasts Seward and Lincoln bursts, noting uproar, bats above the crowd, and a roof cannon muffled by the din as Lincoln clinched the nomination on the third ballot.
A Dresden woman walked midnight on a roof edge, crowd sheltered below with mattresses. She fell after a lighted candy sparked awakening, dying hours later. Bellini's La Sonnambula drawn from the tale. Separate note recalls loco weed drives irrationality in animals and people, with Carlotta’s fate linked to execution, per Baltimore American.
Public notice in Taylor County West Virginia announces the discharge of duties under a circuit decree, with Commissioner G. W. Ford to determine land owners and taxes on parcels, notifying all parties and unknown claimants to attend and protect interests. the document includes the decree’s origin in 1908 and details of publication, notice, and reporting requirements.
A reflection urges sharing unique, positive thoughts with the world, believing bright speech and pure motives uplift others and bring gladness as one lives out impulses and ideas.
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