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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
1
An advertisement touts a timely sale of Wow Buttons Pumps Sailor Ties Bluchers Gibsons in black or chocolate kid and calf leathers, Cuban and spike heels, with all sizes. It also features women's white canvas shoes and misses patent leather pumps, emphasizing quality and lasting style at $4.25 per pair.
In a sale note the shop offers skirts priced around 149 and 34.50 with wide embroidered flounces and a few trimmed ones. Regulars 1.25 1.39 and 1.50. They feature 99c sale price and 490 corset covers. Also 10c children’s muslin drawers in Monday special.
A local yard sale offers embroidery fabrics including flouncings up to 27 inches wide, Alco waist founcings, and hands in Cluny Filet Greek Eyelet Japanese and Trish Bm embroidery on fing neft batiste. Yard sale items priced as 3 cents? per yard.
An old factory ad describes profitable production during economic downturn. The manufacturer markets garments at a loss to keep cutters and needle workers employed, offering low neck lines, lace, and embroidery in several styles priced around 99 cents to a few dollars. Corset covers and lawn dresses highlighted with torchon lace and Valence detail reveal a period retail pitch emphasizing value and readiness.
A brief description notes a fabric with a printed art design suitable for street wear. The pattern contrasts light and dark grounds with checks and figures in pink blue brown black and white. Contains scattered stylistic phrases and color mentions.
Fragmentary ad copy describes White Irish Dimity and India Linen fabrics, mentioning sheer textures and a temporary sale. It references yardage quantities and a special offer, with several garbled phrases suggesting price points and timing for a lawn and textile sale.
Domestic goods advertised as Low Price offer textiles and fabrics for summer use. Featuring ginghams calicoes and prints in multiple patterns and colors at fraction of traditional costs. Items include shirting and dress ginghams, calicoes, foulard prints, India linen, and cotton toweling with yardage and sale pricing across varieties.
A Yorktown dispatch reports Arthur Stuermitel of the city law office married Miss Jane Heinemann at Yorktown on Sunday afternoon at five o'clock. The couple plan to reside in the city.
Sergeant Knox is restricted to dusk duty at police outquarters until health returns. Callaghan and a genial "Tilly" are cared for as recuperation proceeds. Ed Steves & Sones promote a home building plan with easy payments. President Roosevelt stresses self-help.
Steamship magnate 9. D. Malory of Nose York arrives with J. BR. Denison and Mrs Sealy party from Galveston for a day in San Antonio. They plan a Mexico trip tomorrow. Also notes on local committees, a Marcellus Moody funeral, Kentucky floods, and a variety of civic events and entertainments.
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