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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1905
Page
2
Hosiery buys enable lower prices for ladies black cotton hose in plain and dropstitched styles. 10 12 1 2 and 15c grades feature superb quality and color. 26c plain hose in black tan balbriggan and white plus lace options in black gauze lisle and lace lisle. Lace patterns varied. Black lace hose made to sell at 40c offered at 37 1 2c or 3 for $1. Plain blacks and tans at 37 1 2c also marked as great value.
A listing of hosiery prices and discounts in plain gauze lisle and lace varieties for men women and children. Prices range from 39 cents to $1.50 with notes on white tan black and silk options and various sale values.
A. H. Doty reports experimental results showing a mixture of one pound copper sulfate and one pound calcium oxide in ten gallons of water, used at one gallon per fifty gallons of infected water, rapidly killing mosquito larvae and deodorizing water. Copper and lime alone were less effective.
A survey notes pastor J. W. Phillips of Binghamton earned two thousand dollars last year from wedding ceremonies for about two hundred couples, with many Pennsylvanians crossing into New York for licenses. It also touches on politicians Hoar, Evarts, Ingalls, Butler, and Dawes with sharp quips, praises Arizona’s growth, and reflects on marriage happiness and social norms in Harper's Magazine.
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