19 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
1
Orn display of embroidered handkerchiefs in dainty patterns and good quality, priced 10 cents to 1.00. Hand bags offered as useful gifts from 1.35 to 4.55. Other novelties include pins, blouse sets, cuff links, gloves, pins, ties, purses, and more dainty Xmas gifts.
Ad lists suspenders in a pretty mas box with pairs in different colors and makes. Prices range from 0.00 to 1.00 each.
Visit the hardware department display for daily use gifts. Pudding dishes Nickie plated with removable inside porcelain dish offered in three designs. Crum trays and brushes in brass with brush or scraper. Carving sets in ten English makes priced from $1.25 to $3.00. Also trays Jardinieres knives forks spoons pocket knives and skates.
Shopping rush nears as Christmas approaches with only four days left until the holiday. The note urges early purchases and suggests forenoon shopping for better service and smoother errands.
Readable catalog note details four winter coats described as shells of broadcloth in two colors black and navy. It notes quilted mecereye material lining and references a supplier or brand phrase Withea jorge western Sable Dollar.
The ad offers Freshest candies and dainties for Christmas. It lists Bright brown mixed two pound, Royal Xmas Cream Candies, Jelly Fig Candies, Melba chocolates in boxes, and assorted raisins and figs with prices from 5c to 2.25.
A department display offers a range of Berolin wool heavy knit slippers in felt with leather soles and fur trimming. Sizes include ladies 31 35 and men 2 0 with prices from 1 25 to 5 00, detailing options for girls and boys and both women and men.
The listing promotes a broad china department with mustard sets to full dinner sets. It highlights gifts for Xmas and a range of water sets, bohemian glass, German china, priced from 19e to 600, and Japanese china in various shapes and finishes.
A Manitoba town recalls twenty-one years since the first train arrived and notes growth and prosperity. The piece laments CP Rail passenger and mail service delays, claiming wind shields now lengthen the Winnipeg to Hamiota trip by about two hours and criticizes the CPLR.
About eighty Lavinia Sunday school members gathered at the Wyatt home for a social evening with music readings and stories. They presented Mr W H Decker a chair to honor superintendent A W Lief, praising his years of service and the growth of the Lavinia Sunday school.
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