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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1912
Page
5
The article notes ParsonS-Sonders Mor dey announces springtime home care with a focus on summer comfort. It highlights requests for lighter textures brighter colors and easier living as people plan house improvemnts. The new enlarged Carpet Rug and Drapery stores on the basement floor invite inspection.
The new enlarged Carpet and Rug Store on Basement Floor unveils over 300 rug patterns including Axminster Wilton and Tapestry styles. Sizes range from 4 ft 6in by 7 ft 6in to 11 ft by 15 ft with many odd sizes and 600 patterns. Prices listed from $9.48 to $55 with various house, lodge, and church applications.
Start of the April sale features odorless refrigerators with 10 to 20 percent savings. These four quarter quality units use genuine oak cases with brass hardware and nickel shelves. Various sizes list prices and sale prices, with stock limited and once sold, not available again this season.
The Window Curtains and Draperies of 1912 advertise a range of curtain materials including Nottingham Brussels Net and Trish Point. Prices begin at 20c a yard for plain Ela ine and 25c for plain Hamines, with Marquisette at 50c and imported linens at 20c a yard. A 20 percent discount applies to about 5000 dollars worth of china, statuaries, bric a brac, and fine art ware.
Personal-Souders Spring Sale offers furnishings china and glass at lower prices. Featured items include a 100 piece dinner set domestic make white and gold for 7.48, pink scroll with gold tracings for 8.98, conventional gold traced designs for 11.98, plus cut glass water set 1.39 and 11 inch punch bowls at 0.98.
In Mount Glare, news notes report a baby born early Sunday morning, marking a cheerful arrival as the stork visits the community. Details are sparse in local notes published April 15.
The Bijou Theater in Clarksville screens Solly's three reel Cinderella starring Mina Mabel Talitarro in leading role. The production is praised as a stunning, costly, and gorgeous mastery with hundreds of scenes and exquisite costumes. Screenings are set for Thursday April 26 in both afternoon and evening shows.
A vintage ad extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a forty year standard remedy for female ills. It cites grateful letters from women across the United States and Canada and notes heavy annual production of roots and herbs in its Lynn Massachusetts lab.
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