Christmas Gifts for All
A brief shopping list style note invites readers to spread cheer this season. It urges giving with heart and sharing bright smiles, suggesting a wide range of suitable Christmas gifts for everyone.
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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
4
A brief shopping list style note invites readers to spread cheer this season. It urges giving with heart and sharing bright smiles, suggesting a wide range of suitable Christmas gifts for everyone.
Solid Gold Jewelry offers cklaces from $2.50 to $16 with ranges for Lavalliers Rings and cameos. Watches from $1.85 to $20, brooches and pins, collar buttons and tie clasps. Cameo rings and brooches emphasized. Many other pieces shown with assorted prices and discounts.
An advertisement offers Reliance Community flatware with a guaranteed 25 year warranty on knives forks and spoons. International goods are said to include a lifetime guarantee on teaspoons with a dollar price and proportional pricing for other items. Several sterling silver pieces are mentioned with various price points up to ten dollars.
An extensive line of patterns priced up to six dollars including Bibles from fifty cents to thirty one fifty, Testaments, Bible Dictionaries, Billy Sunday items, Daily Food Series, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls merchandise. Also mentions Gerards Four Years in Germany and related rights at about two dollars and a few cents.
Advertises combination perfume and toilet water packages with plain and fancy packaging up to two dollars per item. Mentions powder and scent sets available in assorted styles.
A price list lists White Ivory items with prices such as combs up to 1.00 dollars brushes up to 3.00 dollars manicure cages up to 6.00 dollars toilet sets up to 6.00 dollars jewel cases up to 3.40 pounds and adds carving sets leather cigarette cases thermos bottles pipes in cases and aluminum kitchen ware.
An item list offers Gillette and Ever Ready razors, Dorham-Duplex strops, brushes, old style razors, leather boxes, pocket purses, stationery, fountain pens, coffee spoons, statues, vases, shaving sets, hand painted china, military and combination sets with prices from 25 cents to 6 dollars. It reads like a department store or shop window notice.
Local ad urges customers to visit before 8 00 and pick up a range of candy including many American dolls. The message notes strong demand from girls boys and soldiers and warns not to wait till the last day.
Maxecutor and executor announces public auction of nine land tracts of A. W. Gillespie, deceased, located north of Pendleton in Anderson County South Carolina. Tracts range from about 60 to 150 acres with various adjoiners. Sale begins at 11 a.m. cash terms. J. S. Wilson is executor and trustee.
Local items report Lorena Taylor returning from Atlanta and others traveling to Columbia. The Pickens bridge over the Keowee River reopens after weeks closed. New Local Renard member Christopher replaces O. B. Stewart. Fireworks ban enforcement planned for Christmas. Train schedules updated by Pickens Railway Co. Notable marriages and social updates listed, plus bank error and wartime recruitments. Snow brings six inches locally with fuel shortages and cold conditions.
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