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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1912
Page
5
Tonight the Parsons Souders sale showcases half price summer dresses skirts and coats with new fall suits priced as low as 16.75 and dresses at 2 to 4.25. Customers rush for silk kimonos and silk items while remaining stock is slashed up to 50 percent.
Advert confirms waists priced at $1 with mussed and tailored styles. Items include lingerie lawn voile batiste white only and manufacturers samples offered at about half their worth. Includes high and low necks in stock with low extra cost.
A classified note advertises new raincoats for women priced from 5 to 13 dollars. Descriptions include double texture pure all wool cloth with plaid back, rubber lining hid, rich dark tan English box style coats with high roll neck. Sizes 22 to 46, 56 inches long.
Women s Vests and Stockings offered at 39c each from regular makers. Undergarments for retailing at savings of one quarter to one third. Includes Swiss knitted bed hand crochet rimmed silk strings and pure silk stockings with reinforced heel and toe in black only.
Practical travel attire described includes black silk shirts priced at 2.50 with soft taffeta options for women. Noted features include soft collars cuffs and pockets suitable for dusty journeys.
The ad touts 16 button length sheer Milanese silk gloves in white or black with double finger tips for service. It claims they are better than any gloves known and priced at one dollar per pair.
Advertisers offer a new stock of Fall and Winter suits described as 100 percent stylish with quality fabrics. The display emphasizes wool fabrics, colorfast service, and mens wear serges priced 10 to 25 dollars, with about 225 fall suits available.
A historical note praises affordable women's suits priced at 10 15 and 21.50 raising the tone of lower priced fashion. It highlights black and blue serges, yarn-dyed satins, satin linings and hand tailored designs as part of today’s Mall showing aimed at young women and ladies.
Local note records a surprise party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Gibney for Mr. and Mrs. D2. B. cart sparger and John Strothers of Clarksburg. Music and a 8 o clock dinner for about forty guests marked the event with many honor guests listed.
Ruby Marshall of the Indue tra addition to the city won the gold medal in a Friday night oratorical contest at the Methodist Episcopal church in Mt. Clare. The event was under the auspices of the Clarksburg Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
A lively city column notes a political parade and a Waldo hotel music program featuring Cadanza performers with Frank Cork and other acts. Rebecca Plant hosts an evening of music and diversions at her Wilvonburg home, with a guest list including Butler residents. Dinner for guests celebrates Mr. and Mrs. Camden of Parkersburg, while others attend dinners and theatre parties in honor of Springfield photographer Mrs. Lora B. McDaniel. The Loyal Temperance Legion holds a post‑meeting outing at Central school grounds, and a parsonage wedding is announced for Thomas S. Ste. The report ends with a note that the item continues on page eight.
The article discusses mute-supported schools in England and Germany, noting 529,000 teachers in the United States with over two fifths women, and mentions Austrian bans on certain fairy tales. It describes schools in Wandbrooke England and a Birmingham-linked social service institution, plus a German school in Barranquilla Colombia, funded by Germans abroad with government aid contingent on teacher qualifications.
A frightened horse belonging to Martin Brothers bolted Saturday near the Union National Building, creating a small scene but causing little damage. One wagon was slightly hurt in the confusion.
For the second time Taft vetoes a bill intended to revise the Payno-Adrich wool tariff plan, challenging the proposed economic policy changes amid political contention. The action highlights ongoing disputes over tariff reform and administration tax policy.
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