Christmas Gift List Encourages Generous Giving
Readers are urged to share joy this Christmas with a broad gift list suitable for anyone. The notice promotes giving while possible and aims to spread bright smiles through widespread sharing.
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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
8
Readers are urged to share joy this Christmas with a broad gift list suitable for anyone. The notice promotes giving while possible and aims to spread bright smiles through widespread sharing.
Advertisement listing solid gold lavalliers and neck rings cameos cuff links watch chains and watches with sets priced from 26e to 2.60 and 25e to 2.50 respectively. Cases priced 3.60 to 6 10¢ and 25¢.
A local ad offers silverware sets in knifes and spoons with a lifetime guarantee and teacups priced at $1.50 each, plus several sterling hollowware pieces. The listing notes Bibles and testaments, leather bound books, and reprint copyrights offered by multiple sellers.
Plain packages and combination boxes of powder fume soap and toilet water offered at up to $2.00, with assorted scents and sizes advertised for shoppers seeking value.
An advertisement outlines White Ivory items with price ranges from $1.00 to $6.00. Items include combs brushes manicure cases toilet sets jewel cases carving sets leather cigarette cases thermos bottles pipes and aluminum kitchen ware.
A garbled text snippet lists partial names and phrases with dates and numbers. It includes stray references to people such as Cathy and Reese, scattered terms like Pole American and awaiting calls, suggesting a damaged classifieds or notice page fragment without a coherent event.
Executor J S Wilson offers nine tracts of A W Gillespie’s land in Anderson County at Pendleton starting 11 AM. Tracts range from 53 to 150 plus acres with prime home place and adjoining lands. All real estate to be sold for cash to the highest bidders.
Local items show visits by B A Hagood of Charleston and H C Balentine of Birmingham, and social ties with the McFalls, Martins, and O’Dell family. The community notes include church events, a dinner at Rice’s Creek, and a belated wedding and obituaries context amid regional business and legal updates.
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