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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1915
Page
15
The store advertises a Rebuilding Sale with low prices and many items valued beyond money. Early shoppers from Hear Points and distant towns show the public interest as the sale begins Tuesday, promising to move merchandise to homes across central West Virginia.
Such a event promises abundant stock and favorable prices for home and summer wear. The store highlights over a hundred thousand dollars in stock, many items reduced, and special purchasing from regular manufacturers to offer at fractional prices.
Fifteen hats reduced to five dollars to ten dollars in halves, with groups priced to eight fifty. One ninety five, two ninety five and three ninety five mark three dozen untrimmed hats at half. Flowers, feathers and other trimmings also half price with none reserved.
A vintage ad urges shoppers to buy silk fabrics while on sale. It features a 36 inch Poplin in seven street shades previously 75c now 59c per yard, a 27 inch pongee in rose and blue, and a striped messaline in rose, roseda green or golden brown, all offered at 59c a yard for a short time.
The cry now is for thin and cool dresses and these shimmering cotton voiles offer an inexpensive option. More than twenty patterns in striped or floral designs, white and tinted grounds, all priced very special at 12 cents a yard.
Mattings Japanese 21 cents Chinsey 28 cents. The notice proposes a profit sharing plan and urges acceptance to secure a full year's supply, aimed at reducing the company’s large inventories.
Social and personal items note a surprise birthday party for Edward Mills at Broad Oaks with twenty relatives dining well and music by Miss Bessie Tienhart. Attendees include G W Mills, W H Mills, Alex Isenhart, and others. a warm social gathering, and wishes for more birthdays. Also mentions Morgan family reunion planned for Loop Park Fairmont on August 1 and Miss Dora Ridenour's visit entertainments.
Mrs Lynn Horner arrived home from Washington. Several residents and visitors, including Major and Mrs Melville Jarvis and Mrs Susman Haymond, plan trips to Mt Lake Park. Local families, friends, and relatives from Huntington, Elkins, Wheeling, Fairmont, Parkersburg, and Morgantown are noted as visiting or traveling.
All open stocks dinner ware reduced 20 percent. All fine French dinner services also reduced one fifth. The sale highlights varieties at their greatest and prices at their lowest, urging buyers to act now.
A professional decorator notes that mixing colors within a room adds distinction. She cites a green room with a green velours couch cover needing a touch of old rose pillows for warmth. Blue and white schemes also crave a warmer accent.
Dr Ogden dissolves the Rership with Bo Dra and takes office in the old post office. The move marks a change in leadership and location for the venture formerly run under the partnership structure.
All our vegetables are strictly fresh home grown products not shipped in. Received from our gardeners each morning. Fresh lettuce, home grown beans, telephone peas. Green onions three bunches for 5 cents radishes two bunches for 5 cents carrots eight bunches for 10 cents.
Women who know traditional value praise this selling table linen sale offering fallbe damask in eight patterns. The major price drops include a 1.00 dollar value and an 80 cent per yard sale price, with other linens ranging from 0.50 to 2.00 dollars.
Announcements report Salem business activities and lodge news. Peter F P Daren opened new offices. Dr Og welcomed initiates in Grafton. W R Ruck chosen as official representative to the supreme Moose convention in July 1935 at San Diego. He will depart Saturday via Chicago and be absent about four weeks.
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