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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1915
Page
5
Clarksburg women are invited to shop Parsons Souders Store of Interest for immediate wear and home items. The ad promises quality and assortments equal to city stores, with a definite and unquestionable guarantee and invites customers to test the offerings today.
The notice cites a subscription offering titled The Woman's Magazine for one year featuring New Idea fashions. Miss Haynes is named in charge of New Idea Patterns and fashion content.
A fragmented ad notes another sale of petticoats priced at $1.95 featuring silk Messine colors with silk-jersey tops and flounce details, comparing to a prior $4.05 item. The clipping remains partial and lacks complete product descriptions or shop name.
If a Woman Wants Anything of a Clothes Kind This Winter Now Is the Time to Get It Special Groups priced 9.75 14.75 19.75 Coats and suits newer in style and dependable in quality Few dresses remain 4.95 and 10 4.95 Skirt sale too All wonderfully cheap never such high class goods for so little.
An OCR fragment lists sanitary items and prices including aprons and napkins. The text mentions Leemax Sanitary and Bocee Bloomer items with price entries such as 2c and 12)1-2c, indicating a historical catalog or sales notice. The fragment lacks full context but preserves product names and pricing cues from a shop counter listing.
An OCR fragment reports Hickory supporters for boys and girls, available in white, jasper and black, four grades priced 1¢, 486, 20¢, and 25¢ per pair. Buster Brown hose supporters in black and white for children priced 20¢ and 25¢ per pair.
Fragrant perfumes from A. A. Vantine feature Altar of Roses in 30 drops for 75c, and Azurea and Le Trefle items including toilet waters, powders, and sachets in two sizes up to 140 dollars. Also advertised Buster Brown stockings at 1 dollar per box.
A miscellaneous social shower honored recently married Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dawson at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hooper in Haymond Heights. Guests included Mrs. C. G. Dawson, Mrs. A. Ballon, Mrs. C. Smith, Miss Zion, Mrs. Pray, Mrs. George Fulton, Mrs. Thom Stewart, Mrs. Switzer, and many others who offered best wishes and gifts for a long, happy life together.
Reports from Clarksburg Tent No. 18 and local orders detail officer installations including Commander George B. Barker and Lieutenant Commander E. Cowgill. A university military ball is canceled this year under regents rules, while library and community notices note reading room growth and upcoming meetings.
A garbled notice outlines a program of the North Western Convocation of the Episcopal Church in Went Virginia. It mentions a gathering at Good Shepherd and a sermon or service by Rev W. Hevers. The fragmentary text references dates in late January and a Parkersburg location with church figures.
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