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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1914
Page
5
A Prime Silk Favorite is popular for ornate coats and lingerie dresses. The taffeta line offers silvery shimmer in desirable colors, 36 inches wide, at 1.50 a yard, described as soft and supple with bygone stiffness in contrast to modern figures.
Romper-clad infants enjoy free movement and sturdy muscles. Mothers favor rompers for ease of use and order, available in checked gingham striped seer sucker galatea chambray and linen with white collar cuffs and belt. Sizes 2 to 6 years priced 50c to $1.00.
A carload of odorless refrigerators arriving for hot days highlights this home favorite. Odorless styles cover every need with prices from seven fifty to fifty five dollars, promising vital cooling for many households.
Shoes in dull or glazed Kidskin are now made on smart lasts and in conservative shapes. These fine soft comfortable leather shoes offer good looks in high and low styles, worth investigating for a well dressed appearance.
A sale of women’s suits offered at 25 dollars each discusses limited stock and desire for more. The seller notes one style with many samples, while others use manufacturers’ remnants in fine serges worsteds crepe woolens and related fabrics in spring hues such as blues greens rose and lavender.
Spring coats arriving in medium blues tan black and white with belted backs sold at 10 to 25 dollars. A novelty loose belted coat with cape shoulders uses novelty card cloth and costs 18 75 dollars.
Wardrobe trunks provide compact safe carrying for gowns and wraps. Parsons-Souders showcases trunks in styles priced at 20 and 55 dollars, with steamer trunks for trips ranging from 6.50 to 35 dollars and other trunks from 6 to 35 dollars.
A fragment from a 20th century ad promises the public a limited run of Petticoats at $1.95 in all colors and sizes. It notes fine plain and changeable messaline silks priced by the yard and cites plain-jersey as the preferred fabric choice for most, urging quick purchase to save money.
Vantine’s showcases a window display of perfumes and cosmetics including Wisteria Toilet Water Geisha Flowers Nile Lily Japanese Lily and Oriental Orchid. Items list scents powders creams nail products lip rouge tooth powders talcum sachets and manicure sets with assorted prices.
The list markets diverse items from chests of community silver and refrigerators to vacuum cleaners and dinner services. Prices span from 10 cents to 1 000 dollars, highlighting brands and categories such as O'cedar mops, drip coffee percolators, chaffing dishes, portable lamps, and cedar wardrobe bags, all promising notable savings.
Social notices describe Eleanor Wilson's upcoming marriage to be held May 5 in a White House setting. Attendance limited to close family and cabinet circle, with Miss Eleanor as bride and Miss Margaret Wilson among attendants. Gowns described, ceremony possibly in East or Blue Room, with a small guest list and a brief wedding supper.
Brown of Pennabito and Bartlett of Belington visit the city on business. F L Lynch from Parkersburg seeks local business interests. Jackson Arnold from Westport and A C Rountkee from Morgantown in the city on business. J R Hughart and S V Carper from Burnsville visit on business. F Fowler, B and O railroad agent, in city on official business. Others include J Julian Wilson from Washington, Mr and Mrs Milton J Foos from Besac visiting Swager, H H Watson from Fairmont, R T Williams from Brown, Clay Bennett from Brown, and Wade Duffy from Sistersville.
A London meeting of thirty British mayors formed a reception committee and elected an executive to host the Southern Commercial Congress commission. The group will depart New York July 9 to attend the International Congress of Municipal Executives in London and travel to Lyons and major European cities for a civic problems study. Senator Hoke Smith seeks Senate support for diplomatic courtesies, while governors appoint representatives. J J Horace McFarland lauds the mission as noble and potentially beneficial.
Tom Haymond of Fleming Kentucky spends days with his family on Jackson Street in Fairmont. He notes Fleming as a hustling thriving town in Kentucky coal fields and plans to relocate his family there in June. Also cited are 1915 US corn acreage 105,820,000 acres and 1913 pecan crop in Central Texas valued at $200,000. Sue Cotton Latrobe Pa relays Mattie Richter Me chanic Street. H B Cornog Philadelphia reports Cortright Coal Company and one million acres of new land in British Columbia in 1917.
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