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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1916
Page
5
Clarksburg notes the Parsons-Souders store will shut at 5 30 p m with a sale of a thousand remnants tomorrow. The firm reflects on growth from two selling floors to four and about fifty to a hundred workers, crediting customer support for progress toward broader development.
A rummage sale offers some 200 waists in sizes 34 to 44 with styles in lingerie linen cotton voiles and China Silk. Ready Wednesday morning in the bargain center on the basement floor at 75 cents each, a fraction of their former value.
A local sale advertises 161 Lindsay and Welsbaugh inverted gas lamps with burners globe and mantle for 39 cents each. The Wednesday morning sale targets housewives seeking bright kitchens and reliable lighting.
Social notes describe postponement of a Ladies Aid meeting at Mrs. Harvey W Harmer home and a Morgantown Military Ball with eighty couples attending amid illness. Highlights include Rev John Beddows anniversary invitations and social events at First Baptist and Otterbein churches with card parties, a chicken supper, excursions, and guest lists featuring Mrs Lynn Horner and Thomas W Fettigrew.
A Parsons Souders Company hostess party followed Lou Tellegen’s appearance in The Unknown. Guests included Mrs. Monty Haymond and several others. A Marento Muste Chitty recital is planned at the Masonic temple featuring Morley and Washburn among soloists with a 220 o’clock Thursday evening program.
Names of visitors from Morgantown Huntington Parkersburg and Charleston fill the column with notes on business visits and social calls. The piece includes household tips on lamp burners cleaning, fern care and cooking hints for roast chicken and laundry. Municipal elections note new administrations in several towns and a mock trial to be held Thursday at the Trinity church with refreshments.
Hundreds of housekeepers can seize the opportunity in a group sale of tin, aluminum, and granite ware. The assortment features 14 square flue cake pans, 12 round flue cake pans, 2 steamers, 86 cog poachers, 40 milk strainers, 5 salt boxes, 6 culleniers, 2 cake jits, 4 jem cake pans, 10 chambers, 25 open kettles, 84 small kettles with lids, 2 small turkey roasters and 2 pitchers.
Women can buy finely made blouses in Pussy Willow Taffeta or Crepe de Chine at 3.85, marked down from 1.00 and higher. Regularly priced items now offered at a reduced rate, with white silk trims and stylish tailoring to attract buyers.
Smart turbans and toques for early spring shown at southern resorts now. Tailored and semi dress mourning silk and crepe with silk and braid styles. Limited marine models. New from New York hatters. Prices from 4.50 to 7.50. On Main Street between 2nd and 8th.
Practical tips describe removing grease from woolen fabric using chloroform on stains. Advice covers applying chemical, rubbing until dry, and using available remedies, presented as a domestic guidance item from a periodical.
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