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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
8
A vintage ad promotes umbrellas as ideal gifts with a one year guarantee. Men and ladies styles feature natural wood, gold and silver trims, horn and pearl handles, with prices from 98 cents to 8.50. Kids umbrellas offered too, all with fast color warranty.
Thousands of handkerchiefs across men’s, boys’, and girls’ lines offered at low prices. Features include embroidered edges, hemstitched borders, linen and cambric options, booklets with two handkerchiefs, and a range from 5¢ to $3.50. Includes men’s silk varieties and fancy patterns, with many boxed gift sets and initial embroidery.
A chaotic price rundown lists men's night shirts 49c to 1.50, pajamas 98c to 1.50, men's shirts 49c to 1.50, laundered or unlaundered white shirts 49c to 1.50, and working shirts 4? to 2.50. Hosiery, underwear, hats, gloves, caps, and bags are priced unusually: underwear 49c to 2.50, boys and girls hose 1c to 25c, gloves 49c to 2.00, cases 98c to 10, and leather bags 49c to 7.00.
Long, fragmentary column notes on residents visiting relatives in Phillipsburg, Belvidere, and Easton. mentions Miss Iva Adams, Mrs. Har Price, Geo. A. Unrighth, and various weekend visits. Also references community events, church entertainments, and a brief cough remedy advertise.
Carpenterville area notes a nurse Mary Price visiting Riegelville Pa this week. Pastor C. Ta Fleck of the Miegeaville Lutheran church extends invitation to Mrs. Chas Sheninger and others, inviting members and friends to attend.
Mountain Lake reports Tehm G Andersen installing an acetylene gas plant as neighbors recall resilience. Visitors include Ars Win Galrymple and Talla to Brainardes parents. Local figures Mrs John Hopking and daughter Eeten with Mrs Joslat Park and Fraveia Smith travel for Piurschy visit. Geo TT Smith at Buttzville and Geo Skylar purchase of the Warring Ton Smith house and lot, sold by Robellers last Saturday. Skylar has lived there several years.
The fragment preserves a few readable phrases about a long practiced use for over thirty years and a reference to a customary object or person. Names and precise details are unclear, but the text hints at a well established habit or product tied to a familiar figure.
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