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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1920
Page
5
A garbled, highly corrupted passage depicts a crowded gathering in a town setting with tense exchanges. Names and actions blur, but the scene centers on a public moment, a proposed engagement, and reactions from the crowd as characters struggle to be heard and understood.
An OCR fragment sketches a lively open house with mentions of hospitality, local venues, and festive gatherings. It hints at community engagement, tours, and social activities amid scattered words about events, locations, and planning notes.
The readable fragments describe a kitchen scene with hazy references to Sister Mary Kitchen and various odd terms. The text drifts through incomplete instructions about rinsing, hot water, and odd food preparation phrases, interspersed with nonsensical names and garbled phrases, offering no coherent event or outcome.
Osgood's greets friends and future customers with wishes for 1921 and beyond. It reports 1920 sales rose 25 percent over 1919, which was 40 percent higher than 1918, and stresses honest value and dependable goods. The note thanks Mrs Lidy and Mr Man for their patronage and invites shoppers to return, promising continued cordial service and daily opportunities in advertising.
The brief notes a competing event or result involving the Osgoods with repeated action. It hints at an advertising slogan The Best Place to Shop After All. Further specifics are unclear from the readable OCR.
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