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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1915
Page
17
Thrifty shoppers flock to the Parsons Souders sale to save while buying power is greatest. The store cuts prices to clear stock for the new season, offering decisive reductions and featured items for summer clothes buyers.
Clarksburg offers a large, improved collection of dress trimmings, laces, and nets at twenty cents on the dollar. Now is the time to choose full assortments for selection.
Drapery section offers Scrim Curtains at $1.35 per pair. These all white curtains feature plain hem or hem stitched lace and tape edge. Housekeepers visiting the Rug and Matting Sale tomorrow are invited to view the curtains.
The ad touts two women’s summer underwear specials emphasizing comfort and fit. Corinth Silkene Vests with low neck and short sleeves priced 39c for sizes 5 to 9. Clover Combination Suits ribbed 10 summer garment priced 25c for sizes 5 to 6 and 29c for sizes 7 to 9.
Attractive silk stockings elevate any outfit and fit neatly with low shoes. The shop advertises 600 pairs of all-silk stockings with ribbed-thread tops and soles in white, black, and colors, offered as Special 3 pairs for $1.25.
Lot of 50 handbags offered with black pin seal and plain seal leathers. Each bag features leather exteriors with leather lining and moire silk interior. Average value quoted as half again higher than the current price.
A bold sale features an 100 piece china set priced at 18 dollars with gold traced handles and floral decorations, described as slightly imperfect but at a remarkably low price. Also offered are gowns and undergarments at 1 dollar each, plus various personal care items such as talcum powders, toothpastes, and brushes at special low rates from 19 cents to several dollars.
Stockings in 26 dozen bundles sell at 10 cents a pair along with oddments in 1c and 19c grades in various styles. Hats for girls reduced 1-4 off. Children's gingham dresses for ages 6 to 12 cut 20 percent from $1.25 to $3.00. Boys wash suits for ages 2½ to 6 reduced one fourth from $1.25 to $4.50.
Social and personal notes report a six week auto tour by Mr. and Mrs. Rock Hellson and family, visiting major cities and returning by New York, Baltimore, and Washington. Other items include bake sales by Otterbein Sisters, music pupils’ gathering, Enid Heckler’s Parkersburg birthday party with guests and musicians, Camp Fire Girls meeting plans, a dance hosted by Miss Mary Hart, a reunion dinner at Ohio Wesleyan students’ gathering, and various local visits and society notices.
Ivy leaf infusion cleans and revives black cloth or serge after steeping in boiling water and cooling. For damp feathers, sprinkle salt on the fire and hold the feathers over it while shaking, but not so close as to burn.
A garbled historical fragment mentions a simple pin verish and a near certain cure, with odd phrases about a face and onions. The text is severely fragmented and lacks coherent context or identifiable facts.
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