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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
1
A local shoe seller touts Patriot Shoes for men at 3.50, praising fit and workmanship by union labor with calfskin and patent options. Boys’ Eternity shoes in pliable calf come in Blucher style, offered from 1.75 to 2.25, with cheaper alternatives available.
The ad notes cooler nights demand heavier clothing and highlights a seasonally shorter coat with a longer V shaped lapel. It promotes hand tailored suits with hair cloth and canvas fronts to prevent wrinkling, offering blacks and fancy mixtures priced from 7.50 to 15.00.
The store emphasizes its furnishing department with novelties in neckwear and gloves, plus cool underwear and shirts. It notes attractive negligees priced at 50 cents, one dollar, and 1.50.
One lot of menu's jeans and heavy cotton pants, mostly large sizes, slightly soiled, one washing will clean them. None worth less than $1.00. While they last, your choice for 50 cents.
A verbose advertisement touts long experience and cash purchases to secure best values. It appeals to customers to trade for quality and fair prices, promising to make things right if anything goes wrong and inviting shoppers to visit when in town.
Our Society shoes for women come from years of testing and now rival any 3 50 shoe. They fit closely hug the heel and avoid cramping giving a neat appearance. Styles fit all feet with plain and patent leathers in blacher styles with buttons light and soles. Sizes 2 to 7. Price a é ie.
An assortment of corsets and long and short models from brands such as Warner's Thompson's Glove Fitting R G and Kabo priced under 1.00 with choice of any size 50c each.
The new dress goods are here down on the counter where you can feel them and handle them. Mohair patterns are prettier with full designs and new finishes. Solid color Mohairs in blue gray and black sell for a yard with figured Mohairs at the same price. Hard woven wool suiting 40 inches wide with thin stripes sells for 75 cents and 1.00 a yard. Taffeta silk, full yard wide, glossy black sells for 1.00 and 1.50 a yard.
Advert declares lower staple prices with a wide range of fabrics including shirting madras at 10 to 25 cents, outing and calico options, brown domestic yard wide at 8 1/2 to 10 cents, bleached domestic similar pricing, cheviot stripes at 10 cents, and plaids at 5 cents. The tone promises best value before a market turn.
A long letter from kin triggers Gran’s family reunion in Paducah with multigenerational reactions. The scene shifts to tales of emancipation era memories, a nursely doctor, and an eventual gathering of funds to reconcile divided relations. Also noted are a Kentucky wedding, a Maysfield death, a Brown County land slide, and a local sales pitch for a herbal tea.
In a brief Texas romance note, Judge C. K. Bell wed Miss Smith in Fort Worth on a Wednesday, after local spinsters had condemned Charley Bell’s gubernatorial bid for lack of marriage prospects.
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