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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1915
Page
5
Parsons Souders invites housekeepers to view a grand dinner set during today or the first possible day as many homes show chipped china. The sale promises a magnificent opportunity to replace broken pieces and start anew with a perfect service.
A shoe store advertises 84 pairs of finest $5 patent colt kid boots in a new fall model. Boots feature cloth tops, buttoned fronts, welted soles, capped toes, leather Louis heels, and come in widths AA to D and sizes 2 to 74. Sale price is presented as equivalent to cash offers.
An advertisement touts our factory and connections offering quality shoes at low prices. It features women’s gun metal pumps, several slipper styles, and a table of bargains with marked specials on pumps and oxfords plus Olde Thyme Comfort shoes and boys’ gun metal styles with low prices.
Warner's Rust-Proof Styles offer slender figure corsets with medium bust and long hip models. Prices range from 2.50 to 3.00, featuring Coutille and Batiste fabrics with elastic gores, lace fronts, and rust proof guarantees.
A local retailer reports steady sales of white fabrics as spring stock arrives. Highlights include white piques and gabardines in 36 inch widths at 50 cents, white beach cloth and seed voiles in 36 inch widths ranging from 35 to 50 cents, and white pajama cloth at 15 cents with shrunk non-crushable linen at 65 cents. The emphasis is on keeping full assortments to meet demand for fresh white textiles.
At The Nation Counter listing shows bathing caps in red blue green purple and black priced 25c 39c and 0c. Bathing shoes 25c and 50c. Black or white in all sizes. Nursehousehold rubber aprons in black and white checks 50c each. Sanitary aprons 25c 50c 75c. Leemax Bloomer Shields 50c.
White felt hats in white with colored bands are advertised at prices 200, 2.50 and 3.50. Summer hats on sale low to mid range 1.95, 2.95 and 3.95 for grades four to fifty eight. If you find a style you like you’ll like your bargain.
Fifty white skirts arrive in a plentiful supply priced at 2 3 and 4 dollars. Ribbed pique styles with pockets and belts offered at 3 4 and 5 dollars. Additional garments include 100 guidelines pique and reps priced 1.5 and 2 dollars.
Rich silks in colorings and fashionable shapes with long wood handles are offered. The season is advancing, so prices would normally stay regular, but all items are reduced by 20 percent with no exceptions.
Travelers Supplies reduced 20 percent on trunks bags and suit cases advertising high grade makes Indestructo Inkly Never-Break and other guaranteed brands. Also promoting steamer wardrobes and dress trunks in a period style catalog language.
A social note details a Thursday party hosted by Miss Katherine Harris at the Harris home in Parkersburg for guests from Bridgeport Marietta and Indianapolis with elaborate luncheon after needlework and music. Judge James W Robinson and Mrs Robinson with Mr and Mrs Frank A Willison plan an extended auto trip through the eastern state towns including Marlinton White Sulphur Springs and a West Virginia bankers meeting. Marriage news reports A B Simpson Buckhannon and Blue Viviane Parkersburg wed in Parkersburg with a surprise ceremony en route to Buckhannon. Bible class at First Presbyterian church resumes with Rev B B Turner teaching after Rural Life Conference at Iowa University.
Clarksburg readers note a Sunday gathering of the Parson’s Louder Company inviting city men and Bible class attendees to a pool session at Washington Irving High School. Attendees from Winchester guests George Bearrie and Bryan Conrad are thanked for visiting. A charity card party and small dances accompany a round of social events hosted by local families and clubs through the week.
Mrs Martha M McCarty and daughter travel with Mrs Benjamin Batsell and Phillip Chfford to Buckhannon to visit Mrs McCarty's parents Mr and Mrs Thomas J Farnsworth for a weekend. Louis Bennett Jr of Weston passes through Clarksburg en route home from Wheeling to see his sister Mrs Camden McKinley. Mary Lewis returns home from an auto tour in Virginia in the Wirt Lewis car. Elizabeth Eleanor Martha Mary Virginia Sloan have returned home from a month with relatives near Marietta Ohio. Mr Marmaduke Well and wife go to Atlantic City. Mrs Philip P Stiptos and children return from a month with relatives in Parkeraburs. Drew A Pletcher heads Saturday night for Awbury Park Bay to attend.
To stop flatirons from sticking to starched clothes place a teaspoon of olive oil on a paper and rub the iron across it. This easy hack keeps garments smooth and avoids staining or cling during ironing.
An advertisement invites women to prepare for any social occasion from tea to country club events. It praises Richard Hudnut toilet goods as the finest expression of feminine delicacy, highlighting 78 as a notable attribute of womanhood and urging patrons to view the showcased lines.
Our July Clearance Sale offers all on hand refrigerators, notably the Leonard one-piece porcelain lined model. Prices drop from 103 down to 24 dollars with many other furniture items also discounted including fumed oak, Kaltex fibre porch pieces, white enamel bedroom sets, Circassian walnut, and Birdseye maple items. The rear showroom, run by P.O. Warne, features upholsterer Gumisher and repairman, with Gallaimom contact at 7151.
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