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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1913
Page
5
A Cordova Art and Crafts Club of New York craftsman offers hand carved and hand tinted gun metal bag frames with real leather. Prices range from $6.50 to $20.
Ready made garments offered in white black navy and color combinations. Prices: ready made $2.50 each. By the yard available in white and black and white with varied pricing from $1.25 to $2.00 per yard.
Long strands of amber beads priced at $1.25 each measure 30 inches and add color to attire. Combinations of amber with black or red are available in the same 30 inch length at $1.25. Other amber beads priced at 50 cents.
Fashion note highlights a white crepe de chine silk blouse with drop shoulders and lace medici collar, part of an autumn tailored suit. Paris copies influence the designs, with blouses priced from 3.75 to 10 dollars and the featured model at 6.50.
Mrs Peters of New York bought large Pure Linen Huckaback Towels at 25e each and extra heavy Turkish Bath Towels at 50c each, totaling 60 dozen and 25 dozen respectively, reflecting a special shipping of household linens last week.
A well attended dance in Hoffman Hall last night proved highly enjoyable. Music was provided by the Cadenzi orchestra, which led the entertainment.
Toh W. Vogel tours town with the minstrel company and heads to Clarksburg next Monday. A member of the Instal band told Vogel fans admired the group and wished to present a souvenir in the form of a Great Dane, while Vogel appeared amused by the idea and ready to receive the gesture.
A curious giant dog arrives at Bem Home with its owner Teese Vogel. The pup, weighing over 200 pounds and the size of a two year old, cannot fit in the car. Vogel declines the liberal offer to keep the animal, worrying it will grow larger and be impossible to move.
At Wakefield Massachusetts Marines practice range a meadow lark nested on a mound near firing lines. Despite rifle shots the birds adapted remaining on the nest as hatchlings emerged, showing courage and attachment to home rather than fear of noise. An account from Youth's Companion notes the brood was nourished amid smoke and left unharmed.
Delegates from various regions gather for a state Adventist conference with tents pitched near the church to host sessions and entertain delegates. An advertisement promotes fresh fish at Smithy’s for meals during the event.
An advertisement urges husbands to shame wives into using a cleaning product, claiming it saves time and money and reduces dirt at home. It targets household labor and promotes a specific brand as a solution. The crude message implies domestic tension and efficiency for housework.
An old advertisement recounts a woman reading a PM MGN ad about soap. It warns that some soaps ruin fabrics by leaving sticky rosin and yellow stains, then touts Easy Task as saving work, protecting clothes, and driving away grime, claiming it to be the best soap found.
The Friends of Miss Onn Riley of Bridie Street announce her condition has slightly improved after a fever of several weeks' duration.
Shook Miss Kennedy announces school opening September 15 and enrollment week. Miss Anderson of Louisville directs the kindergarten with Latin training and Phi Beta Kappa lineage. classes in folk dancing to be taught in the afternoons at the school daily.
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