Reading Mercury Oxford Gazette 12-1920

READING MERCURY

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OXFORD GAZETTE. NEWBURY RERAI.D. AND BERKS COUNTY PAPER. SATURDAY. DECEMBER ]]. 1920.

C HR ISTMAS IN TH E SIi:O PS
DEATH OF 5IR II W VEREY

A READING IMPROVE MENT

R EADING PULSOllIETER COMPANY

Specla.l MemOIr

Work for the Unemployed

War Memonal Unve tled

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to choose

Suppers, 'vVedding

C ome and see OUI special show of C hn:ftmas
Books
P lcrure books 10f the lmy to ' 5, adven-

ReceptIOns, Xmas and New

ture stOlles for boys, lOmances fOt girls, glfl
books for grown-ups

Bal1 s,

Year Partles Catered for.

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BOOKS FOR ALL AGES
AT AL L P R IC ES .
Damty l ei useful gifts m great vanely 1-1nndbags purses
founlam pe'lS dIClIICS, autograp h slatlonery, d c etc
Bcauhful des gos In ChnSl mas Cards

Hirers of all Catering Requisites.

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A nt .que lo1da l , Brass and Copper, E nglrsh
S D'r Toys and Cracke rs, A rt Pottery,
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SOME T E S'l IrAON (A LS F R OM T H E MU SICAL PROFES3JON.

FUNr'RAL OF Mit B l' GI BllONS

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CAKES, 2/6 perlb

Manufactured of the
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Supphed .1I the follow_

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thu ~l1 t o f Mr J A 1: UJr h lil!lt \CIO pre
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Q ua lity

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TOYS and PRESEN"'rS

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DAINTY JERSEYS for BOYS

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t ho lllCoI'e1 soo n mou n t Wll8 llo t to be ulIk(.'<i
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