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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
4
The store highlights bargain items in the Basement Bargain Center as part of a seasonal stock reduction. Managers aim to lower stocks by January 31 inventory day, through price reductions. The page urges readers to study the list of items under the Basement Bargain Center heading.
A sale features fourteen blouses across fifty styles in Pussy Willows, affre tas, Georgette crepe, crepe de chine, charmeuse, laces and nets. Cooperation cuts costs to bring items in the six to eight dollar class down to five dollars. New and unworn stock, never bankrupted or overpicked, emphasizes quality over quantity.
Invitations require admission cards for the leap year masquerade ball at the Masonic temple auditorium Friday night. Various meetings and social events follow, including church society gatherings, a Hi Bernian dance and euchre, a Cadenza orchestra program, and a charity chair prize event. Local residents, guests, and visitors are noted with multiple names and destinations.
Richard T. Lowndes visits sister Mrs George T Porter of Wantington. B Pranty spent Sunday with friends in Morgantown. Tiane Klein, prominent isa merchant, visits Want city Monday. Hursey Lang arrives Monday from Brushy Fork. Mrs Benjamin R Blackford and daughter Miss Flenaor H Blackford of Parkersburg to stay with Mrs Henry Heymond this week. Mrs Charles M Ernst goes to Oxford Ohio Monday to spend time with parents Mr and Mrs W A Rittwager. Mrs W P Coughlin, back from Indianapolis, returns home. Mr and Mrs John Cuff and daughter, after visiting Baltimore, arrive home.
A hall dispersal sale offers damaged unders garments with prices slashed across many items. 50 garments show handling wear with $4.00 three piece sets and 62c to $1.50 ranges for slips and combinations. 25 gowns marked down from regular prices to 62c to $1.12, plus battenberg lace items and odds ends at half to one third off.
The notice advertises a theatrical cold cream in one pound and half pound cans. Half pound cans are sold out while only 25 pound cans remain. Prepared for Parsons-Souders to soften and beautify skin and prevent chafing. Delicately perfumed and priced at 39 cents.
Plush coats with large fur collars and handsome silk or satin linings in dark or bright evening shades. Prices range from 25 to 85 dollars with savings of 5 to 10 dollars.
The decal and Clothes Line is instantly put up or taken down and any length of aline can be used indoors or outdoors. It uses 75 feet of braided line with six cores, is strong, smooth, and capable of holding a full wash. One hand secures the line by casting into a hole in the reel, with complete screws and hooks included for immediate use.
An old New England maker offers practical daily wear shoes with comfort and good appearance. Seamed vamp lace model priced at 3 dollars features turned soles rubber heels and fine kid leather direct from bench to counter.
Splendid assortment of small furs including black and red fox black lynx natural skunk Hudson Star sheared muskrat Nippon and Real American mink offered at a fourth off Christmas prices. Women are buying sets and coats in the sale at the Savon.
A basement bargain event advertises new and good condition apparel at very low prices. Items include ladies hats, skirts, dresses, coats, children's wear, silks, belts, and accessories with heavily reduced closing prices. Lists many lots and table signs, urging immediate attention.
The article notes that mild fever in young children often stems from simple causes like excitement or indigestion and may not signal serious illness. It advises calm observation, warns to call a doctor if fever persists through the night, and includes a home care excerpt on preparing a broiled steak plate and gentle feeding adjustments.
Fragmentary OCR reports a funeral service for a person named Wash CBI RUMED with times around 10:00 and a residence at stop No. 28 in Witsenbure Aer Hue Grhoodieg. Names like Daley Wash and Sammster Wash appear, with unclear locations, dates, and spellings.
An optimistic Clarkburg article argues a new manufacturing plant here would attract market demand across every U S city, citing adequate railroad and transportation, healthy climate and rising population as key advantages. A card of thanks follows a death in the community with thanks to neighbors and floral tributes.
We express heartfelt gratitude for acts of kindness shown to us in bereavement. Special thanks to friends and neighbors for support and sympathy. Special appreciation to Tigers, Lafayette Giese, Jend Glens Co, and the Lafayette Rolland Wo for their thoughtful gestures.
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