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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1912
Page
5
A shipment of Limoges china from B. & H. Patterns arrives and is on display in the basement China Store. The collection includes Spoon Trays Celery Trays Roll Trays Cream and Sugar Sets Comports Cake and Chop Plates New Pots Mayonnaise Dishes and open stock dinner patterns priced from 45 to 225 dollars.
Special sale catalog lists 100 piece Austrian and domestic dinner sets at deep discounts. Many patterns include pink green borders with gold, blue forget me nots, lilies of the valley, pink daisy borders, and Norbane copies. Open stock patterns from Haviland Bavarian Copeland Mistrian Bovlish priced from $21.50 to $1000 per hundred pieces.
AClarksburg dealer touts a fine array of wares in response to a lady’s compliment. The vendor asserts locals prefer quality and will pay for better art and items, insisting nothing is too good for Clarksburg customers.
A basement floor shop offers carpets, window shades, curtains, bed and bath textiles, kitchenware, vacuum cleaners, ice boxes, refrigerators, gas and electric lighting, glassware, china, sewing notions, ironware, hardware, cooking ware, and assorted a dupery goods by the yard including beds, trunks, suitcases, and cookware.
Wheeling West Virginia July 17 plans outlined for Founder Day a semi centennial tribute to survivors of the 1861 May and June conventions. Col Day notes few living delegates and urges inviting them to centennial week events with Wheeling Board of Trade backing. The piece also mentions club and local development news and a social notice in Monongah and Fairmont areas.
Interest in joining the Fairmont Country Club grows as plans for a country home on the club grounds near Clarksburg advance. Foundation work for the clubhouse is finishing this week and the framework will rise next week. Contractors Holbert and Speciten have a large crew on site with lumber and materials readied. The water system for the new grounds is completed.
A historical notice promotes Kennedy remedies for varied diseases claiming effectiveness against malignant and epidemic conditions. It asserts cures for colic cholera and diarrhea and urges trust in the product sold by dealers.
By two deeds of trust executed by Thomas Prim and May Prim, the undersigned trustee will sell at auction to the highest bidder at the front door of Harrison County Court House on Saturday, August 3, 1912 at 2 oclock. The property comprises two lots, Nos. 28 and 29, in East Clarksburg Clark District as plotted.
Property in Garrison County West Virginia on Walnut Avenue described with frontages and deed reservations. Sale terms require one third cash on sale day and balance in two equal annual payments with secured notes. Notice dated July 1912 signed by W Harris on behalf.
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