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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1916
Page
5
A Pars Parsons-Senders sale advertises curtain scrims and spring merchandise. The notice touts new spring season offerings, the store’s classic building, and a ready service system with educated staff to assist customers in spring and summer preparations.
Fine Spring Suits are unpacked daily with a mix of one of a kind pieces. Prices range from 14.50 to 55.00 featuring taffeta silk and checked serge combos, brown and white checks, Rookie brown fabrics, and navy with white trim. Noted details include lingerie collars, draped effects, and brown leather trim. Grace marks the collection from start to finish. About 150 suits are on display in Crystal Cases on the Second floor.
We are selling Burson seamless stockings fitted for women with no seams. They come in all black Balbriggan and black with split soles. Available sizes 8 1-2 to 10. This feature alone appeals to many and will win favor after first wearing.
A white goods store on Main Floor offers hemstitched pillow cases and sheets in sizes from 63x00 to 81x99 inches with prices from 25 cents to 1.60 dollars. Hemstitched and scalloped varieties add cost. bolster cases at 42x75 inches run 65 to 75 cents. All are standard quality Defender muslin.
The article outlines spring fashion trends with fullness and ripple forms over the shoulder and various yok and walatin styles. It highlights children's dresses in colored cotton with middy and bolero influences, mentions demand for specific fabric types, and notes a shift to stiffer silks, woolens, and light shadows due to dye shortages.
The European war is altering U S business with shortages and rising prices, yet Stayle Dry Goods reports large stock at regular 1915 prices. They highlight staple dry goods bought long ago, listing items like Lancaster Winghams Rose Dress Ginghams and Unbleached Muslin at 8 to 44 cents, with various prints and muslins priced low.
A local retailer extols Wirthmor waists as universally suitable and highly satisfactory. They boast 82 white madras waists for businesswomen, with fifteen new styles available at the price of $1.00 each.
The economical woman can choose fine serges and diagonals in black and navy at four ninety five, a bargain as sizes are fuller. These skirts, now reduced from double the regular price, include the new fashion details of the season.
The engagement of Miss Nelle Wilson Glass of Columbus to Captain O W Pinkston of the Medical Corps U S Army has been announced. The couple will marry quietly in March at the home of Mrs Osman E Swartz on West Main Street.
J. H. Edwards comes from Weston for a brief business visit. Carl V. Miller of Buckhannon also arrives as a city visitor. W. H. Field from Charles Town joins the group. Curtis L. Lyon of Williamstown visits the city. LeRoy Lee of Elkins is also in town. H. V. Otstot from Weston and D. W. Amon of Wheeling are among the visitors attending to business.
Of interest to women this recipe explains breaking up two cups of cold cookett hominy with a fork then mixing with milk salt egg and baking powder to drop by spoonfuls into hot lard and fry until brown. It also provides a sour milk batter with flour cornmeal brown sugar and soda to fry and serve with maple syrup.
Early spring window cleaning inspires a curtain sale. On Wednesday morning the drapery department on the third floor offers 2,500 yards of new curtain scrims in white, cream and aral. Options include plain ribbon edges, hemstitched, or darned work holders. Auction starts at nine o'clock with sale price at 10 cents per yard.
This store in Clarksburg calls itself headquarters for Quaker Maid stockings. The pair is made of artificial silk with reinforced soles and tops. Price 50 cents. Available in plain black only. Merchandise of real integrity.
A promotional piece extols the New Home sewing machines with prices from 28 to 45 dollars. It promises a full explanation of operation and the machine’s ability to sew all kinds of material without changing needles, noting various stitch styles and possible features.
Virgil L. Highland of West Virginia urges a preprimary party convention to select six delegates from each district and four at large to attend the Chicago convention on June 7. The plan would make the primary a ratification vote and reduce chances of a contested result while boosting party unity and turnout. A state committee meeting may be called to set the date.
Miss Connie Fisher aged 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs Lewla Fisher of Smithfield died at 4 o clock Sunday morning in a local hospital after an eight week illness due to pneumonia. Burial was in Falling Timber with D B Fisher an uncle accompanying the body.
Chester A. Meek speaks for Moosheart Governors at Moose Hall Tucway in the evening of February 8 urging all loyal Moose to attend.
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