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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1914
Page
5
A 1914 column likens advertising to steam driving business and outlines a promoted rug sale. It lists prices for room size and smaller rugs including Axminster, Wilton, Brussels, and Velvet varieties with discounts and sizes, highlighting a week long push to sustain sales.
A vivid line extols Yu Yaor Pure Shades to transform porches into dining spaces. The pitch links outdoor glare with appetite and air to entice readers.
A bold May sale claim, urging shoppers to visit the store for unmatched carpet bargains. It advertises axminster and velvet rugs with price points from eighteen to twenty-eight dollars, touting the store as uniquely offering quality without prior carpet sales experience.
Fifty pairs of Irish Point Garteins in white cream and Arab colors offered for May selling. Scrim Curtains priced at five dollars per pair, plus 180 yard for fancy Voile Scrim. Madras drapery fabrics 90c yard, linoleum 80c yard, samples of carpets 1 yard for $1. Prices highlight sale of drapery, scrims, linoleum, and carpets with limited quantities and various color options.
The piece is a summer fabric for women’s suits coats and dresses. It is 46 inches wide and priced at $1.25 per yard. It comes in ten shades plus white and is praised for softness and sturdiness.
Two lots of 160 high quality women and young women dresses arrived at great prices. Materials include lawns dimities ginghams and percales with sizes from 1.00 to 1.50. Garments are well shaped finished and attractively priced, offered this week only.
Regular stocks of suits have been overhauled with revised prices. New summer frocks of linen crepe and voiles arrive with canton cottons and capes in checks and gabardines. Washable separates and about 25 finest imported skirts are featured along with a taffeta silk dress lot priced to move.
Mrs Harmer surprised at home with dancers and a Gadenza orchestra to honor her late husband’s widow status as Lynn S Herner. Guild meetings, anniversaries, and birthdays fill a busy social week with showers, parties, and a dance planned by the Delta club at the Waldo Hotel while Beatrice Girard marks her tenth birthday with a family celebration.
A column lists visitors and residents from Parkersburg Wallace Weston Buckhannon Sutton and others in the city for business or social reasons. Names include J W Britton Fairmont R B Taylor Parkersburg and John Dunkin Bridgeport. Also notes Miss Mary Cuieron and Miss Merlé Williamé returning from Washington after attending a seminary.
An advertisement claims Chaaberlain's Tablets cured headache and nervousness and restored health. The ad mentions sale by all dealers and uses period advertising language typical of early 20th century medical ads.
An old advertisement claims rheumatism is caused by accumulated impurities and offers Rabuma from Wells & Haymaker Co. for 30 cents as a thorough remedy. A testimonial from I. K. Greenberg says one bottle cured him after six years of crippling rheumatism.
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