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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
4
A local shop presents new Christmas gift ideas aimed at happy selection and generous giving. Shoppers are invited to find special presents that satisfy desires and delight recipients with thoughtful, pleasing choices.
The store urges giving books as reliable gifts and highlights a wide selection including De Luxe volumes, gilt edge editions, the latest copyright titles, and books in sets. Also offered are Bibles, testaments, and travel, adventure, and history titles for boys and girls.
Every woman desires a quality manicure set and here is a selection praised for taste. Each set includes cuticle and nail scissors, file, orange wood stick, emery boards, nail enamel and polish, all neatly boxed. Prices begin at 1.75.
Store advertises Christmas cigars as safe and well made. Shoppers are urged to buy a box with confidence that every cigar is carefully crafted and properly stored.
A catalog touts a range of games for evening entertainment. It highlights new scientific games designed to please all players and notes attractive box designs.
A local shop advertises rare perfumes with flower-like scents. Each fragrance is available in one and two ounce glass stoppered bottles, boxed and wrapped for presentation. Only the most select odors are carried.
Imported and domestic soaps offered in a variety of pleasing odors. Daintily boxed and carefully wrapped for dainty Christmas presents.
Gift combs designed as a high quality Christmas present feature finely crafted backs and evenly spaced teeth, ideal for gifting to someone who values a serviceable and classy grooming item.
Bright, long bristles and solid backs showcased in neatly boxed sets. Ideal gift for mother, sister, daughter, or for personal use, these brushes promise premium care and lasting quality.
An ad for music rolls made from seal, walrus and alligator skin. The items are presented as handsome and artistic and priced at $2.50 and up.
Leather purses and bill folds offered for father brother mother sister and children. Purses described as dainty handsome and serviceable with meticulous leather selection and appropriate designs.
The new toilet sets combine luxury and practicality with Parisian ebony silver and rosewood options. Each piece is crafted for comfort and convenient use, priced at 1.50 apiece, including ivory choices.
A local retailer touts a vast toy assortment for Christmas including rubber and mechanical toys blocks tops and toy houses with a promise of matching every wish. Shoppers are urged to visit and choose from a large stock ensuring children are remembered this season.
An advertisement touts lifelike dolls ideal for a young girl described as a little mother. The dolls boast sleep function, adjustable arms and legs, and real natural hair at moderate prices.
Cards and booklets advertised to spread holiday cheer. Designed and finished with care, these Christmas cards invite buyers to remember everyone with a thoughtful gesture.
A box of high quality stationery presented as a token of friendship. The packaging showcases the best writing paper for polite and correct correspondence.
A refined selection of fountain pens offered as gifts for professionals students and family members. The range features plain silver or gold mounting options, suited for business users and learners alike.
A conversational ad notes bevelled hand mirrors from France are always welcome by women of taste. No perfect toilet is complete without one and giving a mirror keeps you on the safe side. Priced from 50 cents and up.
A clutter of Christmas candy fills homes with various boxes from half to five pounds. Mixed flavors and coatings are common, indicating abundance and wide appeal during the holiday season.
Published weekly by B O Hudler the Kingman Star serves as a local community paper delivering neighborhood news notes and notices from Kingman Arizona and surrounding areas each Friday.
The article notes how egg flavor reflects hens environment from onions to stables and storage. It also reports the dismissal of the bigamy case against Margaret Faye Long, wife of Charles E. Foxworthy, due to lack of evidence of a prior marriage, with potential for a formal divorce decree to follow.
The 1913 Hicks Almanac is promoted as the season’s top year book with storm weather and earthquake starcasts cited as proof of its value. Professor Hicks is urged to send 35c for the almanac or $1 for the magazine and almanac, via Word and Works Publishing Company at 3401 Franklin Ave, St. Louis.
Advertises that buyers at Robinson and Reath pay top prices for hides, inviting sellers to bring stock to their premises.
Notice is given that Samuel Ratcliff has been specified and qualified by the Circuit Court of Fountain County Indiana as Administrator of the Estate of James R. W. Ratcliff, deceased. The estate is supposed solvent.
The Cates Grain Co. completed a new grain elevator at Cates and announced it is ready for business. Alva Bonebrake and his wife from Hillsdale arrived Tuesday to visit relatives and friends.
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