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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1915
Page
5
The Economy Days event at Parsons-Souders store features deep discounts and a wide assortment. Early crowds from distant areas flocked to the first day, as the sale aims to move merchandise to homes throughout central West Virginia.
An advertisement proclaims a rare event with ample stock and citywide value. It promises substantial reductions on a home and wardrobe sale with over a hundred thousand dollars in stock and special buying from manufacturers for fractional prices.
A sale offers hats at half price, with some hats listed as 5 to 10 dollars and untrimmed hats at half price. Flowers, feathers, and other trimmings are also half price, as a clearance event with numerous items priced from 1.95 to 3.95 and a total of 75 hats mentioned.
Curtains priced affordably entice buyers with a wide range of styles and colors. Cream, Arab and White Net options include Cluny Irish Point Filet and Renaissance weaves. Many households may purchase multiple pairs to refresh rooms.
Parlor curtains offered in Cluny Arabian Nets Trish Point and Point Olympic designs. White, cream or Arab colors. Priced $4.85 per pair, regularly $6.50. Limited stock. ideal upgrade for home decor.
Still finer are there with truly fine selection of handsome designs including the famous Duchess Curtains. Seven patterns alone are in the Arabian color, Regular $7.00 and $7.50.
Store advertises fabric sale on silk and cotton blends. Highlights include a 36 inch poplin offered in seven street shades, a 27 inch sikpongee in rose and blue, and a messaline with white hairline stripes in rose reseda green or golden brown. Regularly one dollar, now 59 cents per yard for a limited time.
The piece highlights shimmering cotton voiles ideal for inexpensive dresses with thin, cool fabrics. Over twenty patterns offered in striped or floral designs with white and tinted grounds. priced at 12c a yard.
A supplier promotes a real profits sharing plan to Chin-sei and Mattings Japanese, inviting acceptance to secure a full year’s supply and reduce the company’s large inventory. The pitch emphasizes material gains and long-term stocking benefits.
The store promotes a china dinner service sale with wide stock and reduced prices. It urges buyers to save money as varieties are greatest and prices least, offering 20 percent off all open stock dinnerware and one fifth off all French dinner services.
Social and Personal Items note Ed ward Mills birthday surprise at Broad Oaks July 4 with twenty relatives, Miss Bessie Isenhart on piano, and a table of guests. Morgan Reunion planned August 1 at Loop park Fairmont. Miss Dora Ridenour honored at Point Comfort picnic with Thorne hosts and local guests. Picnic postponed by rain rescheduled for next Sunday. Two Table Bridge Club gatherings at Mulberry and West Pike homes. Otterbein Sisters meet Thursday at United Brethren taubertacle Stenney Helebts.
Mrs Lynn S Horner arrived home from Washington where she was with her mother Mrs Piabk Baine. Captain and Mrs Richart Po Hob son of Washington D C were noted in the same items.
A long list of locals and guests travel between Waldo Shinnston Mannington and Baltimore visiting relatives and attending events. Notables include Major and Mrs. Melville S. Jarvis of the US Army leaving for Mt Lake Park with Mrs. Susan Haymond and Miss Mary Virginia Rapp, plus numerous others from Elkins Huntington Oakland Parkersburg and Morgantown making visits for business or leisure near Main Street Mulberry Street Hast Jackson Street and Parkersburg.
An interior decorator describes how a single contrasting color can dramatically lift a green room with green velour, suggesting pillows in old rose to add warmth. She notes a hue and white bedroom looks attractive but needs another color for warmth, warning a straight color scheme demands skill.
GRAFTON July 7. Dr George R. Ogden and Dr A B dissolve their partnership. Dr Ogden has taken offices in the old post office.
Daily morning delivery of vegetables from local gardeners. Fresh lettuce beans peas green onions radishes carrots offered at low prices. Prices listed as 16c per gallon for beans and 6c for three bunches of onions, 5c for radishes, 20c for three bunches of carrots. Local buyers encouraged to contact by telephone.
Bargain table linens advertised with discounts across damask, napkins, and sets. Highlights include damask priced at $1.00, 72 inch width at 80 cents a yard, and various bundles listed with reduced prices. Sale claims 20 percent off napkins and linens priced from 40 cents to 2 dollars, urging value-conscious shoppers.
Announcements report HB B Fea and Peter F Dergad opening new offices in Salem and city lodges initiating members. W R Ruck to represent Clarksburg Lodge No 58 at the July 1929 San Diego supreme convention. Buck to be away about four weeks. Also notes on lodge meetings and a timber reference to Scots pine wood.
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