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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1912
Page
5
Parsons Souders highlights peak service days in Clarksburg with emphasis on summer prep, home needs, and strong performance to meet customer expectations. The piece urges staff to rise to the challenge, deliver great service, and energize the community with reliable support.
Intricate infants flouncing patterns described in 18 and 27 inch widths. Rosewood Lilly of the Valley Forget-me-not motifs with scalloped or hemstitched edges. Sheer lawn fabrics with neat patterns, match sets including flouncing edge insertion yoke and enough material for a dress. Priced at $2.50 per set.
An ad describes crepe kimonos priced at $1.00 featuring generous width and shirred shoulders. Available in navy blue pink red light blue grey lavender and black with solid colors and unusually wide satin ribbon borders.
Three splendid items offered at 15c each or 2 for 25c include a round neck lace trimmed sleeveless style and a square neck version. Additional round neck sleeveless vests in sizes 5 and 6 priced at 10c. Belt and collar pins marketed at 39c, with sale extending from Wednesday morning.
A larger shipment of boys wash garments admired by Clarksburg mothers arrives in styles for 3 to 8 years, including Sailor and Russian cuts in white, tan, blue and striped. Prices from 41 to 3.40. Also playtime dresses rompers and Indian suits for girls and boys with a special table this week offering rompers at half dollar each.
On Wednesday morning we will offer 60 washable skirts of white linen at $1. Two styles all sizes to 28 inch waist bands. Great assortments, styles, kinds, prices of white skirts including pique rep Bedford cards welts linen crashes etc to $4.50.
A report outlines a teacher appreciation gathering at the Warne home with students from the seventh and eighth grades offering songs dances and refreshments. It also notes visits and informal entertaining by Mrs Lynn S Horner for Mrs Coates Forrer of Parkersburg and Mrs Wyllis Read of Baltimore, plus a card party and a rehearsal for The Rose Maiden at Central Christian church with Marguerite Ford joining. A box supper at Vincent chapel funds church debt and a piano recital by Homer K. Jackson’s pupils is announced for May 17.
In Washington on May 7 the migration and banking committees held meetings attended regularly by Congressman Brown. He is a member of both committees and much of his time this past week was devoted to their work.
Police intervened in Chicago as striking newspaper boys and drivers rioted. Two wagons carrying papers were overturned and horses spooked, disrupting street traffic on a May day. The unrest followed labor tensions, with no injuries reported.
The troupe presents a farce comedy with ten performers, strong singing and dancing, and special scenery. Audiences laugh through each act as characters stay true. Thursday Victoria reruns a two week engagement with a high-class repertoire company.
Lustrous hair promised by a Parisian Sage advertisement touts a refreshing tonic claimed to promote growth, prevent dandruff, and avoid poisonous lead or sulfur. The copy urges women to buy the product from Wells & Haymaker Co and lists stores and trifet aunts as distributors.
Otter Wells and Haymateer advertise a refined foot remedy sold by Exo Chemical Co Rochester North Dakota. If it fails to relieve soreness aching and foot misery readers may get their money back. Pr ice 25 cents. Mail orders offered. Men and women report improved walking and relief from coins bunions calluses chilblains and chapped hands and faces.
An old promotional blurb touts Mother's Friend as a soothing external emulsion for pregnant women. It claims to ease the suffering of childbirth, prepare the system for the crisis, and aid postnatal recovery, recommending regular use before and after delivery with sale at drug stores.
A garbled blot of text hints at a claim that Chamberlain's Tablets helped a woman with gut or stomach issues. The fragment mentions a “gi ant” task and suggests the tablets are very effective. The overall source is unclear and riddled with errors.
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