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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1908
Page
6
A newspaper ad promotes school apparel with emphasis on ginghams and footwear for students. It urges timely purchases for the upcoming school year, highlighting special prices and the store’s long-running annual sale.
Catalog of school dress fabrics including silk Zephyr Ginghams, English Zephyr Ginghams, woven Marcras, linen sailings, ginghams, calicoes, shirtings, and dress fabrics. Features fast colors, fall shades, multiple patterns like plaids stripes checks, and wide color ranges. Offers numerous pieces and yard prices, with emphasis on new fall styles and durable textiles for children’s wear.
A newspaper sale notice for boys and misses school shoes in Kid and Calf leathers with various toes heels and soles. Prices reduced from $1.75 to $2.35, highlighting Kid and Box Calf styles and several sizes, with emphasis on durability and school use.
A department store touts its new school book selling plan highlighting large floor space and staff to simplify purchasing. The pitch emphasizes buying supplies early and offers convenience for customers who cannot visit, promising fair treatment for children and a price edge for large buyers.
Describes trimmed lace and embroidered fabrics with large value. Notes windows feature tailor made skirts in fancy stripe patterns gray red navy brown and brass button trims. Highlights semi fitting cutaway coats and two tone chavit suitings in broad stripe patterns and satin lining.
The sale offers boys suits from 2.50 to 5.00 in double breasted styles for ages 7 to 18, with many patterns and weights for early fall school wear. Additional items include Cas fur fill golf and auto styles, felt hats, shirts, underwear, suspenders, waists, caps, and neckwear, all at low prices.
Children’s hosiery advertised as long wearing and specially selected for a school sale. Boys and girls ribbed school hose with spliced heel and toe, extra lengths, medium rib, all sizes priced 12 1 2 cents. Black extra heavy ribbed hose with double heel and toe, extra lengths, all sizes priced 15 cents. Extra fine ribbed elastic fast black hose with spliced heel and toe, all sizes and extra length.
Catalog of children’s accessories including hemstitched handkerchiefs in sets, all white hems, embroidery edges, boxed ribbons and hair accessories. Prices range from 25 cents to 75 cents per item, with multiple sets per box and silk ribbon varieties in assorted colors and finishes. Includes hair ribbons, sash ribbons, bow sets, beauty pins, and pearl coral necklaces in new styles.
Ladies elastic belts two inches wide with gilt and gun metal buckles, white and black. New leather hand bags St Regis style with double strap handles, heavy gunmetal gilt frames, moire lined, plus small coat purse in tan brown and black at 50c. Shopping and carriage bags in walrus leather ten inch, leather frame, strap handles, maire lined, col purse in navy brown black and green at 2.00. 100 only 72 inch close rolled corolla cloth children umbrellas with natural handles light weight frame 7ge and 1.00 valuies on special sale.
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