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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
8
Boots for walking and 8 inch dress boots feature heavy tan walking boots with low heels brass eyelets and viscalized soles. Dark tan calfskin lace boots with medium heel and ivory top. Dark brown kidskin lace boots with ivory top and kid cover heel. Imported Russia calfskin lace boots with ivory top. Dives Pomeroy and Stewart Market Street.
Tres Bon and La France finished black with white stitching or white in a pea split finish. Sans Pareil and P. K. gloves feature overseam stitching in black with white or white with black. Prices $2.25 and $2.00.
Holiday displays feature a wide selection of men’s and women’s umbrellas with sterling silver trim carved mission handles and hardwood options. Prices range from $1.00 to $6.00 across silk taffeta, piece dyed, and American taffeta models including children’s sizes at 75 cents to $2.00.
A promotional note for The Automobile Girls series in cloth edition at 25 cents per volume. Describes the stories as engaging for present-day girls and lists titles set in Newport Berkshires Hudson Chicago Palm Beach and Washington with themes of adventure, competence, and espionage.
An advertisement for a quarto edition of All the Old Favorite Stories. Handsomely printed on excellent paper with full page color plates and text illustrations on nearly every page. Bound in cloth with a decorated cover. Price fifty cents.
A catalog listing the Ruth Fielding and Dotty Dimple volumes by Alice B. Emerson at 25 cents per cloth bound 12mo volume. Titles include Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm, Little Prudy and Dotty Dimple titles, each with illustrations.
Second floor selection highlights long crepe and flannelette kimonos in solid colors and floral patterns with embroidered touches. Also featured are corduroy robes with sailor collars, beaded beacons of robe gowns, silk bloomers, and cotton petticoats in white, offered by Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart.
Dark Cordovan tan and purple shade boots praised as winter favorites from America's leading boot makers. Cordovan Cordoran and cherry red styles highlighted. Prices range from 7.00 to 9.00 dollars. Market Street retailer Pomeroy & Stewart advertises stock as best.
Our Christmas stocks of slippers are ready with a broad variety. Women can choose from boudoir and lounging styles while men’s lines include Cavaliers Fausts Romeos Operas and Everetts. Children and boys offer felt moccasins and knitted slippers, many priced from 50 cents to 3 dollars.
A catalog style note lists reed rockers at $9.50 finished in Baronial brown or old ivory with spring seat and cretonne cushions. It markets Windsor chairs, leather rockers, music cabinets, fern stands, tea wagons and more from Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart on the Third Floor with prices ranging from about $3.50 to $35.00.
The article records housewives discussing forming an organization to aid in budgeting and shopping. It cites low prices for winter produce like turnips carrots parsnips and onions and notes wives urging husbands to try simpler dishes.
The text blends medical claims about deafness cures with home remedies and recipes. It cites Hall's Catarrh Cure, offers dietary instructions, and details several vegetable dishes and cranberry preserves for holiday meals, interspersed with grocery pricing notes.
Duncannon Pennsylvania December 5 that day P F Duncan cashier of the Duncannon National Bank is confined to his home with pneumonia. Mrs Margaret Ellis an elderly resident suffered a stroke last week and has now contracted pneumonia on the same week.
Frank R. Speck of Carlisle died at Reading Hospital after a brief illness. His body was brought home for burial. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon from his sister’s home. He was active in fraternal circles.
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