White Sale Begins Tuesday in Clarksburg Store
The Parson-Souler store announces a January 1917 white sale to offer undermuslins corsets waists skirts and more at up to twenty five percent off. The piece emphasizes early shopping to secure value in white fabrics and disposes of rising costs by leveraging previously arranged shipments. Sale starts Tuesday morning with wide white stock and special prices throughout the store.
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Clarksburg
Parsons-Soulers
Clarksburn
Paryons-Souders
Special Curtain Scrims Sale Opens New Year Bargain
A drapery store on the third floor offers a January special sale of curtain scrims, heavy cord and voile weaves at 17 cents a yard. Colors include cream and white with hemstitched and drawn work edges, promising values about half again as much elsewhere.
Wirthmor Day Opens With New Waist Styles for Women
Four fresh waist styles debut tomorrow in the Blouse Dept on the second floor. Welworth Blouses are priced at 2.00 as part of the event designed to attract women shoppers to the holiday sale.
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Wirthmar
Welworth
New Low Price of 14 Dollars on Suits and Dresses
A tomorrow sale features 34 suits and 39 dresses in fine materials. Suits are tailored and smart in serge and satin styles, while dresses cover street styles in midnight and navy shades. Young women are invited to visit the Second Floor Salons to view the selections.
Winter Coats For Young Women at New Low Prices
Dark colored coats in greens browns and blues appeal to young women for winter. About fifty styles priced at 15 and 25 dollars offer sizes for every shopper.
Ladies Society Meeting Honors Mrs Smith With Gifts
George M. Smith of Adams Town hosted the Ladies Society of the Methodist Episcopal church on Thursday afternoon. The gathering, held in the corennadors’ room, proved delightful as members presented Mrs. Smith, the president, with two beautiful cut glass vases. Remarks were made by Mrs. W.G. Sullivan.
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George M. Smilth
Adamston
Aia’ Society
Methodist, Episcopal | Ehpreli
Corennadors
Nerv Worth ad promotes remedy and local notices
A garbled OCR page lists a health tonic NERV-WORTH SHAS and patient letters praising relief from stomach trouble nervousness sleeplessness and indigestion. The text also notes a public installation by Stonewall Camp No 106 Woodmen of the World and multiple social notices including a Betty Wales birthday party and wedding invitations from local residents and families in Wheeling and nearby towns.
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Stonewall
Camp
Woodmen of the World
D. K. Teed
Ito
Council
The Royal Society Packages Arrive for Spring 1917
The New Royal Society packages for Spring 1917 arrive featuring waists saques night gowns baby dresses caps boys suits and many other useful and ornamental items. Main Floor East Aisle.
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Royal Society
Royal Art, Society
A Brand New Kid Glove for Women Priced $1.65
A glove advertisement states quality depends on more than price and promises the best gloves from foreign and American makers. It highlights French lamb skin gloves in white with embroidered backs, black or black and white over seam stitches, two clasp style offered at $1.65.
Special Eight-Inch Cut Glass Bowl Sale
An 8 inch cut glass bowl offered at 1.50 each with New Year cut glass tableware promoted as attractive and decorative. Tomorrow a sale on eight inch bowls at 1.50 each features on basement floor display.
Carafes on special sale at $3.98 a dozen
The ad promotes twelve nickel plated caraffes priced at 3.98, suitable for filling with water for all day refreshment. Described as large in size and polished, with display noted in a basement area.
Out-Size Stocking With Grey Soles 25 Cents
Burson Hosiery Mills presents new medium weight cotton stockings for large women with grey heels soles and toes. Extra wide and extra long with no seam. Full fashion sizes 1014. Main Floor near Elevator. Price 25 cents.
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Burson Hosiery
Local residents visit Charleston and return home
Joseph Oneslingle traveled to Charleston on Friday to visit friends and relatives for several days. Mrs. Katie Young of Charleston, who had stayed with relatives here for a week, returned home on Friday. Car BRi-Britt arrived home Friday morning from a brief trip.
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Joseph Oneslingle
Charleston
Katie Young
Bargain From a Damaged Catalog on Household Items
Fragmentary OCR lists discounted statuary, vases, epigrams, and porcelains with prices and quantities. It mentions chandeliers and electric lamps, china cups, towels, and vacuum cleaners reduced from higher prices to sale figures. No clear event or date, but a mid century sale catalog style.
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Boudoir Amd
Boudoir Lampe
Sunbright Clemier Fo
France
Davin
Electrig
AG Piece Omeastici
Scrambled Recipe Fragments From an Old Page
Fragmentary text shows a recipe with garbled measurements and ingredients. It mentions nutmeg milk baking powder and frying steps, plus odd spellings and misplaced phrases. The readable portions resemble a baking instructions passage from a historical newspaper page segment.
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