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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1919
Page
10
A page advertises Easter shop values featuring tub skirts in gabardine corduroy and checks priced from 4.00 down to 2.89, trimmed with novelty belts and buttons. It also touts dresses in gingham and chambray for girls aged 6 to 14, with Saturday specials like $2.19 dresses.
Fresh frocks arrive in tissue voile gingham and voile with bright colors in plaids stripes and figures. Prices start at 10.95 with a wide range of colors and styles including 18 to 35 dollar spring coats at 21.50.
Reduced prices range from 12.98 to 19.50 for spring coats made of novel plaid and checked materials. Coats feature buttons quaint pockets belts and new sleeve styles. Available tomorrow at size SIZ.
A sale advertises women’s skirts priced from six to eight dollars with a special tomorrow price of five dollars, featuring Spring skirts in French serge, silk poplin, plaid worsteds and striped silks in gray, brown, black. Also listed are Fat-ta products and other fabrics with prices shown at 45, 35, and a reduced 19 dollars.
Handful of wool knitted slip over sweaters offered in new shades with square collars and round necks. Complete size range available. Prices previously 7.98 and 8.50 fall to 6.30 in a special sale bundle. Limited quantity in tomorrow’s sale event.
Jersey silk petticoats in excellent quality with options of taffeta flounces and accordion pleated ruffles. Wide spring shade assortment in all sizes. Priced tomorrow at 35.00.
Savings of unusual proportions are offered Saturday in Tub Silk Petticoats to be found on the Sales Square. White, flesh, black, emerald, navy, peach, and plum petticoats feature tailored flounces with tucks and double panel fronts. Regular and extra sizes available. prices drop to $2.08 tomorrow.
On sale tomorrow a large assortment of knitted slip over sweaters in season colorings priced originally at 4.00 and 5.00 now slashed to 2.98 each. Coveted values offering wide choice in vivid hues.
Easter season showcases boys clothing with careful selection, matching the care given to toys for fathers. The store promises satisfaction with its Boys' Clothes for Easter offerings and assures customers of quality and fit.
A catalog of boys and girls suits describes waist seam knickerbocker trousers in gray tan and blue wool fabrics with reinforced seats. Sizes 7 to 28 years priced from 7.40 to 19.00 with options at 10.00 12.00 12.50 13.50 16.60. Coal Cloth and Prim Beach Suits noted in light and dark patterns for ages 7 to 28 years.
A large collection features 3 to 4 year old boys’ wash suits in middy sailor junior norfolk military cadet and Dutch models. Prices range from 2.00 to 8.50 with durable materials and neat trimming. Complete shirt and blouse options priced 1.00 to 4.50 plus silk and wash neckwear. Easter headwear straw hats and caps offered.
Fine Georgette crepe blouses for women offered tomorrow at an attractive price. Broad variety of dainty styles trimmed with braid beads and lace, in flesh victory blue red bisque and white. New collar ideas include round square and V necks. Values up to 19.50 at 9.78.
Women seek fine crepe de chine and Georgette blouses with prices up to 12.50. New arrivals feature waists of Georgette de Chine with trim of laces and pin tucks. Colors include beige sands buff maize orchid peach lavender and white. Saturday specials offer similar values at 5.95 with new stock arriving at Kastor.
Exact 100 Voile Waists wrapped in this special lot for tomorrow’s selling. They are new with embroidery and trim, sizes 34 to 44, priced at 1.73 to 4.00 dollars. Crisp new waist styles shown at Shes Square, with Saturday sale.
Special display of new veils to be shown Saturday in the Veiling Department on the first floor. The collection features scroll designs, fancy figured effects, plain styles, hemstitched borders, chenille borders, and wide bordered effects in black and all spring colors. Veils priced from 1.00 to 6.50 each and veiling from 0.35 to 2.50 yard.
A list of spring fiction releases notes Gilbert Tarker’s Wild Youth and Another, Eleanor Galus Phoebe, William Allen Whils’s Heart of a Moor, Emerson Hough The Sage Brasher, and Evolution of Miscellaneous Books. Also highlighted are The Effective Small Home by Lillyaty B. Green, Home Gardening of Vegetables and Flowers by Albaugh, Care and Feeding of Children Ninth edition, Practical Book of Gourd or Rose Growing, and The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert W. Waulkner.
A storefront ad lists Hurd’s Damask Linen paper at 69c with 84 sheets and matching envelopes. It promotes D’Enfants small linen finished sheets, 24 matching envelopes, and a 20e box. Banner Nolet Books offers loose leaf memorandum books and test leaf books with leather covers, sizes from 2x4 to 11x84 inches, prices from 80 cents to 4.50 dollars.
Our department devoted entirely to misses and small women’s apparel offers Easter frocks in Georgette crepe meteor printed Georgette and indestructible voice. Dancing, street and afternoon dresses in new styles read in color and design. Prices range from $22.50 to $80.00.
Adorable frocks displayed in dainty Georgette and Chiffon designs for girls from size smaller to 14 years. Charming ruffles, flesh, Nile, turquoise, peach, canary, and white colors offered. Exceptional values from 16.00 to 45.00 dollars.
White dresses priced from 2.48 to 22.50 designed for young girls and growing teens. Frocks feature organettes, voiles and sheer lawns in long and short waisted styles with lace embroidery and smocking. Sizes cover full range with varied trims and choices.
Neighborhood Frocks for women offered in stripes, plaids, checks and coin dats. Features include straight line models and waistline with bell effects, some with white pique collars, others collarless and back fastening. Sizes 35 to AG, regular values to 3.95, Saturday price 3.08.
Women's percale aprons in light stripes and figured effects with belt and large pockets. Front and side fastening models available in small, medium, and large sizes. Special price noted for Saturday at 2h.
The store offers pink, blue and lavender kimonos heavily embroidered in white with white facing on the front and sleeves. Usual values around 4.70, sale price 0.69.
Special sale ad lists Perin preparations including Perin Dental Cream at $1.00, Orys Sachet Powder 69c, Perin Toilet Water 68c and $2.80, Perin Squid Powder 49c, Compact Powder 19c, Perin Paste Rouge 19c, Perin Nail Bleach 19c, Orys Talcum Powder 19c, and Santal Perfume ounce. The ad emphasizes a broad range of Perin cosmetics and related products available at the Orys Complexion Powder shop.
A pre-Haster offering presents silk and leather hand bags and purses in various styles and colors. Silk bags feature fancy metal or shell frames and beaded effects. leather bags include coin purses and mirrors. All grouped for Saturday in one assortment ad at five dollars and six cents.
Women's knit union suits in white and pink feature open, closed and envelope styles with crochet edging. Available in regular and extra sizes with French and bodice tops. Usual prices were $1.25 and $1.00. offered Saturday for 63 cents.
Advertises rompers and creepers for infants and children up to six years in gingham checks stripes and plaids. Features tow neck and short sleeve styles including totte kid beach and bloomer models. Regular 1.25 values offered Saturday Be.
The ad promotes children's hats from 1.25 to 10.00 in new spring colors and styles including Halo of Milan and sailor shapes. It also highlights Easter confections in the Gandy Department Economy Basement with candies, novelties, rabbits, baskets, eggs, and a regular 20c sundae priced at 10c.
Tomorrow’s sale features Onyx silk hose in navy gray champagne mahogany white and black with double sole and long service. Sizes 9 to 22 priced at 48 cents or 1.50 a pair. Also men’s ties in heavy silk range with 1.50 values and bath robes in Terry cloth offered at 3.66.
Local store advertises men’s undergarments including Porosknit shirts and drawers at a special price tomorrow. Features Carter’s ribbed light-weight union suits, quarter- and three-quarter length options, available in all sizes with a Coho tag, priced around $1.00.
A new shipment from Theanapy Iat Novelties arrives featuring Victory Red bead necklaces and matching earrings. Special Saturday prices at 81 00 apply.
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