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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1913
Page
5
A group of ladies praised the selection as they viewed beautiful dresses. The store pledges a homey visit with inviting atmosphere and highlights items such as Medici neckwear, laces, trimmings, silks, late summer fabrics, blouses, sports coats, tailored suits and corsets.
Miss Laass, an expert in hair matching, leads a free display of Sexton’s human hair goods. Women are urged to attend the center cross aisle on the main floor to learn latest fashions and take advantage of special value hair switches priced at 1.95 3.50 5.00 and 10.00.
Ten suits originally priced at 35 dollars now reduced to 17.50 each. Styles include finest imported Bedford fabrics in tans and leather shades. Also blue serge suits for vacation wear in sizes 16 to 18 years, with long cutaway models and wrist lengths at 14.50.
A local advertisement lists reductions on parasols and fabrics. White and colored linen and silks drop 20 percent from $1.00 to $4.50 ranges. Pongees, embroideries, and Japanese shapes also see 20 percent discounts. Children's parasols are reduced as well.
Catalog style item list detailing Vador porch shades 4 ft to 12 ft with prices from 2.25 to 7.50, grass rugs 9x12 and variants 3 to 10.50, crex runners by yard 45 to 95 cents, TCH boxes 3 to 12, alarm drip pans 1.50, hammocks 1.50 to 10, ice cream freezers North Pole 1.25 to 2.25 Alaska 2.25 to 4.00, churn Ice Cream in 3 minutes.
A sale of 52 boys wash suits advertised as Mother’s Friend offers 20 percent off. It lists various styles and sizes including Sailor Blouse, Russian, and linen striped cottons, with prices previously at 1.25 to 4.00 now marked at open fifth off for the week.
A representative from Madison Dress Co. travels from Lancaster to Clarksburg to offer fall and winter dress samples at a 25 percent discount. Sizes 16, 18, 36, and 38 busts available, with all models and materials—serges, poplins, bedford cords, eponge—offered at $3.75 to $18.75 instead of $5.00 to $25.00. Builders notes indicate any model can be ordered in other sizes and colors at the same discount.
We gathered waists from stock and odds and ends of summer voices. Styles include high neck long sleeve low neck short sleeve Dutch neck and sailor collar. Sizes 84 to 42, none larger. Prices were 1 to 2 dollars.
Nellie Munday hosted an engagement party on Oak Street for Frances Gloeckner and John H Bell of Tyrone Pa. They plan to marry early next month with pink and white decor and a towel gift for the bride. Attendees included Misses McDonald Moran QM Burns Lynch Stout Mulvaney Frarron Connell Connell Mutheran Tilly Quinn Walsh and Mrs Wilkins Weston Whalecy Grafton Ferrell Devine McGuire plus the honored guest.
Senator Fall of New Mexico faced a resolution urging a fixed policy toward Mexico. The motion was defeated by the Democrats who later found the plank matching their own party's last national platform, touching on the Glass currency issue.
Fragmented ad copy warns against unsafe catarrh ointments containing mercury and lists dangers. It promotes Hall Catarry T, a remedy by FE 5, sold by druggists. Plus a note for Lal's Petty PRI and Chamberlain's Tablets as bowel and stomach aids, with sale by dealers.
A vintage advertisement urges housewives to host unplanned guests and keep textiles pristine with Easy Task laundry soap. It touts spotless white tablecloths and fresh napkins, presenting Easy Task as the dirt foe and fabric friend, urging readers to try it next Monday as part of a washday promotion.
A fragmentary 1911 style note recounts Mrs. Manges escaping a serious operation after using Lydia E Pinkham’s VegetableCompound. It also contains political commentary about the Aldrich tariff plan, Governor Foss, and party conflicts, with scattered references to congressional finance debates and patriotism in the Bay State.
A Chicago Crib One recounts a tale of early English law that banned middle names for ordinary people for four centuries. Royals could bear extra names, while common folk faced whipping, thumb removal, or ear cutting for adding a third name.
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