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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1916
Page
5
A newspaper feature promotes travelers trunks and luggage, stressing teamwork in store operations and value. It highlights remy and mist ave fabrics, traveling bags, suitcases, and wardrobe trunks, with prices from 12.50 to 25.00 and up to 22.50 for wardrobe trunks, touting durability and fittings.
The advertisement offers a range of women’s shoes with prices from $1.00 to $6.00. Items include a black Gothic scroll openwork shoe, a white kid with sterling buckle, a white glace kid high top with new heel, and a white reinskin boot.
All Our Cloth Suits to go Out With June. Seventy suits remain including ten silk pieces once $45 now $20, plus many gabardines and check models. Lower group contains twenty plain blues tans and checks at $10, all sizes to 40, offering summer wear bargains.
A vintage advertisement pitches the Royal Rochester Percolator as the reliable choice for perfect coffee every time. It emphasizes rich flavor, convenient use, and suitability as a thoughtful wedding gift, claiming readiness to brew a good cup anywhere.
A vintage ad promotes porch shades to enhance summer comfort on lawns and porches. It offers shades four to twelve feet wide priced from two dollars twenty five cents to seven dollars fifty. Free hanging service available with color options in plain green brown and olive mottled patterns.
Grass porch runners priced by the yard in four widths with green or brown colors. 27 inches wide 45c, 46 inches 65c, 54 inches 1.00, 72 inches 1.26 per yard. Additional runners 36 inches wide 55c, 54 inches 75c, 54 inches 1.00 per yard. Porch cushions 15x17 inches with five inch ruffle sateen covered cotton filled 2.50.
The article notes middy blouses as everyday wear replacing house dresses for women, valued from $1 to $6. Most are cotton duck or jean in white with colored collars and cuffs, while $5 silk middies suit upscale outings like at the Country Club. It highlights twenty-five styles available at $1.00.
Trade blurb lists curtain scrims in white ermine and corn colors, washable and airy. Describes Horuntitehed tape edged at 26 cents per yard and other fabrics priced 8 cents, 3 1/2 cents, 48 inch wide, with plaid and allover patterns. Includes several measurements and prices.
Women’s crepe de chine waists priced at 3.85 and 5.00 are described as through and through good. They feature colors stripes or clusters with low open collars and pliant plessing, offered in plain and Bix plessing styles.
The text highlights new silk-and-pongee fabrics with bright stripes ideal for cool summer dresses. Ground colors are rich pongee with one or two stripes, often in delicate tints. Prices vary, with sheer lawns, bitiste, and voile offered at 12 ½, 16 25, and 25 cents per yard.
Washable madras boys suits for ages two to six years offered at 89 cents. Color options include Copenhagen blue with white stripes blue stripes on white ground plain blue pink black stripes blue and white checks and other colors. Material is washable madras.
A colorful summer feature highlights parasols with varied shapes such as Pulip Mushroom Hermit Nippon and La Vogue. The catalog emphasizes quaint charm and endless variety in fabrics and patterns with prices from 2 to 10 dollars.
A detailed account of the St Mary High School closing exercises held in the school auditorium on Tuesday morning with a large audience. The program featured spoken and musical performances directed by Mrs C T Moller, the school orchestra, and multiple awards including gold medals for Latin and shorthand. Various recitations, solos, and tributes followed, ending with the awarding of diplomas and final remarks by the Reverend.
Mra Mary R. Rooney returned home after an eight month South trip. Dr. LC Oyster from Lamberport and J D Garrison from Morgantown visited. W L Woodell of Webster Springs and S Young from Salem called or visited. Mr and Mrs J M Knapp of Parkerburg were visitors. Rev John S Stump of Parkerburg stayed at the Waldo. C W Kennedy from Parkerburg conducted business. Mr and Mrs G A Fisher and daughter of Weston also visitors.
Mr. W B Robbies returned from New York June 1 to reopen Priscilla Beauty Parlors on Second Street. The shop now features a complete facial and scalp treatment setup with modern equipment for enhanced services.
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