Splendid a Holiday Spirit in the Store
A festive store celebrates Christmas cheer with ample life and happiness, offering a scene free of pessimism and grumbling as shoppers enjoy a bright holiday atmosphere.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
5
A festive store celebrates Christmas cheer with ample life and happiness, offering a scene free of pessimism and grumbling as shoppers enjoy a bright holiday atmosphere.
A brief note urging readers to start Christmas shopping now, stressing the value of completing gifts today rather than delaying until tomorrow. Emphasizes timely giving and prudent planning for the holiday season.
A promotional note urging Naas shoppers to visit a basement store offering a wide range of gifts. Items include chaffing dishes, coffee machines, casseroles, trays, brass jardinières, smoking sets, desk sets, lamps, candle sticks, silverware, and vacuum cleaners with prices from modest to premium. Emphasis on genuine china goods at reduced figures and a focus on gifts for wives and mas presents.
The finest material aided by tailors forms rich black Astrachan coats for women. Pull length straight models feature wide fronts, large silk ornaments, and satin lining with a storm collar. Prices $21.50 $25 $30 and $35.
Copal Carch of Washington DC will deliver a lecture on Brains at First Baptist Church under the Ministers Union. Tickets for a five-member course are $1.50, single admission 30 cents. Lectures include Bishop Frank Bristol December 12, Schuberts January 18, Dr Russell H Cornwell January 2, Albert Edward Wiggam February, Benjamin Chapin April. Also a dramatic monologue on Lincoln. Birthday party for Miss Aileen Highland at North Chestnut Street with dinner, flowers, music, and dancing. Cadueza orchestra program at Waldo Hotel. College Chaps March. various songs and acts listed followed by Daniel Davisson Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution meeting.
Mrs. J. C. Green reports suffering from severe womanly ailments until doctors failed. After using Cardui she claims complete recovery, saying the pains are gone and she feels healthier. The ad urges others to try Cardui and notes the medicine strengthens nerves and restores rosy cheeks.
A local shop highlights boxed undermuslins as practical gifts. Fresh designs include night gowns priced 1.00 to 5.00, drawers 1.00, short petticoats 1.00, corset covers 1.00 to 1.25, princess slips 1.25, and combinations 1.00.
A school bar and a school girl show interest in gold fish. On Monday, ten cent sets will be distributed to all children, featuring two real gold fish and an aquarium with pebbles.
In a Toledo advertisement Chesey & Co promotes Reba by Propaiete Fakeball's Family Pills as a remedy for constipation, using patent remedy claims and period marketing language to tout health benefits.
Readable fragments describe a Tuesday Literary Club meeting at Mrs John J Davis s Lee street home addressing Intellectual Paris with prose papers and readings. Loyal Temperance Legion held a meeting at First Methodist church basement with seventy three children and prize noted. Central Christian church women plan Christmas sale December 1 at Post and Courthouse Second street. First Methodist church women host Christmas sale December 12 in church basement with luncheon.Union Missionary Society reception at Chriversconil parish house with light refreshments. Waldo recital featured Miss Cora Reese Smith drawing praise from attendees.
A group described as a band of wealthy wives from the Economic lab trek early mornings to New York markets. They seek cheaper, cleaner food and are portrayed as a rising force challenging unscrupulous vendors and local associations. Founders among them are named in the report.
On Monday December 9 Real Down Comforts will be offered with silk coverings and satin bands priced at 10 dollars. The item appears in the sale catalog with specified textile details and cost.
An advertisement cites a local vendor from Saraing Indiana claiming thirty years of selling Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and calling it the best on the market. The mis-spellings reflect OCR text but convey strong endorsement of the product.
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