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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1910
Page
11
A illustrated guide suggests diverse useful gifts for parents during Christmas including shopping bags in light gray velvet with long purses, mourning jewelry such as black onyx beads, gun metal chains, and umbrellas. Also offered are warm wraps, lace scarves, silk or satin waists, furniture items like lamps and bookcases, and practical items like handkerchief bags and silver eyeglass cases for both parents.
The piece suggests a variety of practical and whimsical gifts for Christmas. It mentions a golf bag, a dozen golf balls, a new putter, bridge or whist card sets, a brass desk set, auto records, piano players and talking machines, and a Nut Set For Mother with six paper ice cream cups wrapped in red crepe paper, red ribbon, and holly, stuffed with salted peanuts or candy for the dinner table.
A broad survey of toys and gifts for children including captive airships, electric trains, motor cars, monkeys and bears on trapezes, parlor games, tool chests, watches, hockey skates, pennants, desks, games, jacks knifes, tie clips, and monogrammed pocketknives. It notes wireless batteries, drums for drum corps, and doll carriages with affordable prices, plus furs like ermine and chinchilla for young girls.
The article lists practical gifts for men including a fitted kit bag with brushes and toiletries priced at 85 dollars, an unfitted bag for 19, brass cigar boxes with drawers and a cigar can with match safe, a desk clock and paperweight for the news editor at 4.25, and various accessories like cushions, briefcases, shaving stands, riding crops, cribbage boards, bathrobes, initial handkerchiefs, and new key ring designs such as a horseshoe and an elephant model. It notes options for smokers and non smokers and emphasizes stylish, useful gifts.
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