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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1913
Page
5
26 piece set includes 6 hollow handle knives 6 forks 6 table spoons and 6 teaspoons plus 1 sugar shell in solid chest. Price is 60 dollars for the full set with smaller pieces listed at 15 dollars each for medium knives and forks.
Winding up a busy month of business the store clears out hundreds of undermuslins and waists. Odd lots and repriced items such as gowns combinations corset covers drawers and fine white materials are reduced. Special offerings include wide flouncings embroideries bands and more. Act early to save.
Reports from basement stores note strong gains in china, cut glass, and related items as sales sheets reflect large year over year increases. Stock coverage is broad with careful, low-cost purchases now offered at 20 percent reductions and up to half off, urging buyers to fill china closet gaps with rare pieces and cut glass.
Ice boxes and water coolers offered in a large variety of sizes and kinds. Refrigerators priced from $50 to $3500 and water coolers from $1.75 to $450. Immediate service available.
The Fairmont Times reports multiple Adamston and East Park marriages. Gribble and Waetsel wed at the bride’s sister’s home with Rev J B Bowers officiating, then a family dinner. Preifer and Kallish wed in Adamston with plans for housekeeping on High Street. Keister and Ash unite in marriage as Arch Crawford and Ella Weidell plan visits and a Clermont celebration. Mount Clemens trips and Detroit detours accompany these social announcements.
The Fairmont Times reports on wedding notices and social events. Ernest Lewie and Sidney Post among the ushers, with Mr Lernard and Miss Beatrice Brown tying the knot at First Baptist Church in Clarksburg. The couple honeymooned at the Great Lakes and eastern locales before settling in Manbar West Virginia. Amelia Vance hosts a card party for Grace Lee Cann at her street home while a Pocahontas lodge box supper raises funds at D K Reed. Mary Moran hosts Hast End Sewing Circle gathering on Pike Street.
London reports extensive strike action in Birmingham centered industries. tube, boiler and brickmaking workers seek shorter hours higher wages and better conditions. Thousands organized marches urging nonstriking workers to join. Brickmakers note many female workers seek a 25 cent weekly raise to $2.50 for long shifts from 6:30 am to 5 pm.
Representatives of the American Keg and Barrel Company are touring the area on begging trips to recruit men for their large new Morgiantown plant. Construction has been heavily retarded due to a shortage of labor.
Joseph B Williams of Alliance Ohio reports Saxo Salve cured a thirty year eczema case and healed a scalp eczema that was cracked and bleeding. He notes one application relieves ringworm and keeps a tube at his workstation for all skin troubles. He believes the treatment gives good deals for skin issues.
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