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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
5
All prices change on all goods in the sales rooms upstairs as Clarksburg begins a June plan for a larger store. The selection includes trim novelty suits for school and business girls, high waisted and Russian blouse styles, and serges silks and gabardines in spring colors. Top coats range from $10 to $25, with many lined or half lined.
A Philadelphia maker had prepared fifty pairs of Black Mezzo Calf Pumps with fine leather and long inside counters. They were not shipped to a Harrisburg shop, so the retailer bought the lot to offer to customers at four dollars per pair, a dollar less than the usual five. The promotion targets the first fifty ladies to be fitted tomorrow.
Social and personal notices recap May church gatherings, a Woman's Civic meeting at the Episcopal parish house, and an Old Folks Concert at Bridgeport Methodist Protestant church with performers including Martha Belinde Whitehill and Electrophena McCartney. Initiations at Northcott Camp No. 748 of Modern Woodmen, plus an evening Sewing Circle gathering hosted by Mrs Jules Exnile Fontaine with needlework and souvenirs.
An advertisement touts Miss Lelia May Lacy offering residential beauty work at home. Services include hair dressing, electric facial massage, scalp treatment, shampooing, and related grooming. Bell phone 1633-R.
Parkersburg business visitor PERSGHALL and Flatwoods traveler CC. Davis transact in town. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Farnsworth of Buckhannon stay at Hotel Gore. Grafton businessman B. F. Martin also visits. Keyser’s A Carskadon in city briefly. Parkersburg’s Co. L. Allender in city on business. Mrs. C F Hamilton and son Joseph stay with sister‑in‑law Mrs. M. J. Lynch on Clay street. Hon. James A Hughes of Huntington, former district congressman, noted for his service.
Readable ad announces full size 18x18 inch porch pillows with wide ruffle, cotton filled. Offers choice of Denim or Silkeline coverings.
Basement Floor sale from 7 to 9 tonight features six womens handkerchiefs embroidered in color at 29c each, no more than six per customer, valued 10c. Also new hats priced at 3.95 in Panama and white hemp sailer styles with ribbons and flowers to pair with light frocks.
A visitor from Washington details a boiled cracker pudding recipe using milk crackers molasses raisins and spices cooked in a pudding bar or steamed. The report also covers the May 14 20th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf Astoria New York with talks by Taft Harding and other leaders on Clayton Act industrial relations and trade and notes the federation’s vast global production reach and influence.
Rheuma claims to remove uric acid causing rheumatism and to cure gout and neuralgia. The quick acting remedy supposedly works within 24 hours through kidneys liver bowels and blood. A 50 cent bottle is advertised as proof of cure sold by Wells and Haymaker Co and all druggists.
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