Parsons-Souders Store Of Tomorrow Promotes Summer Attire
Clarksburg store touts summer dress, emphasizing well dressed ladies. The piece highlights clothing as a study and reflects customer character in outer apparel for the season.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
5
Clarksburg store touts summer dress, emphasizing well dressed ladies. The piece highlights clothing as a study and reflects customer character in outer apparel for the season.
Advertisement details a range of footwear including white boots and white heels for men women and children. Prices span from 1 to 4 dollars with variants in materials gun metal calf patent broad toe and button styles. Sizes cover infants children misses and big girls with descriptions of low heels plain toes and one strap.
Advertises infants slippers at 50 cents to 1.00 dollars and children’s styles at 1.50 to 2.00 dollars. Notes ankle straps and light leather soles with materials listed as patent or dull leathers.
Warner’s braissieres offer low bust corsets setting the upper figure with fitted garments. Two standout models for full figures and delicate styles for slender figures are on hand. A profusion of laces and embroideries accompanies the selection while the Warner name guarantees value and quality in corsetry. Prices range 25c 50c 1.00 and 1.30.
Advertises new skirt styles priced at 2, 3, 4, and 5 dollars. Describes a welted pique model with side pocket and detachable buttons priced at 2 dollars, a cotton gabardine Sports model with two pockets belted and buttoned at 24 dollars, and a new English needle cord pique style at 5 dollars.
Simple cottons in voile and lawn with striped and floral patterns feature full skirts and bodices with collars and frills. Some dresses show tier skirts and jacket effects and suspender styles. Prices range 6.90 to 9.90 for sizes 14 to 20 years.
Take Lincoln's homely advice Dont swap horses in middle of a stream better let well enough alone for when you swap a sure thing for an untried one you may get left Buster Brown stockings have served you well perhaps than any other and when worn alternately week in week out four pairs will wear for four months without darning Sizes and styles for every member of the household 12 box of 4 pair
Basem ent specials include mahogany trays with Cretan centers and brass handles for 50c and Circassion Walnut trays with brass handles at 2.00. Six high stem cut glass sherberts sell for 1.00 and six cut glass sherberts for 1.00. North Pole ice cream freezers priced at 1.00 per quart promising three minute ice cream.
In Our Women's Store a golden day unfolds as spring coats suits and dresses are marked at half or less. Stocks include 55 suits at 15 dollars 18 silk suits 25 to 35 dollars coats at 10 dollars many whites chinchillas and serges and dresses at 15 dollars with rich silks taffetas crepe de chine varieties and extra size suits.
In the June sale shoppers find summer shirtwaists in voile organdies and linens white or trimmed in black and white effects. Grouped silks from China and Japan, plain or embroidered, lace trimmed, plus sports blouses in striped patterns and pink white or blue white varieties. Quaker collars noted.
Allen Hudson and Clara Smith were found guilty in criminal court of unlawfully living together. The verdict outlines their conviction on the charge of cohabitation.
Advert describes Wirthmor waists offered exclusively at this store, highlighting superior fineness and daintiness compared to cheaper dollar waists. It claims the Wirthmor label signals quality usually seen in higher priced garments and urges customers to compare prices and value.
The quiet ceremony for Miss Marian Flowers and Mr. Tracy Joel took place at the bride’s parents home with Rev. George D. Smith officiating. Guests included immediate family and a few friends. Decorations featured June roses, vines, and pelms, with an improvised altar and an aisle lined by four children.
A garbled reading lists a small fruit sale with strawberries raspberries huckleberries currants cherries and other berries offered in limited quantities. The fragment suggests a local market item note likely advertising fresh fruit for Saturday sales.
The reception honored the bride with immediate relatives and close friends attending. Floral decor featured daisies vines and white roses with maidenhair ferns as a centerpiece. Fruit punch circulated, and several aides assisted guests through the rooms and dining area before the wedding cake was cut. The couple planned a departure for an East visit and Boston residence.
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