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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1918
Page
7
San Antonio department store offers white gabardine and pique skirts in multiple styles and sizes. Prices range from $1.48 to $4.98 with many featuring pockets and button trims. About forty summer dresses in voile organdie and lingerie fabrics also reduced to $9.19 from $20. Stock emphasizes washable fabrics and bright new patterns.
Bright display of sheer voile and organdie dresses in white and colors with sashes. Limited stock but many styles to choose from, values up to $7.50 now offered at $3.98.
Announcing several attractive Bungalow Aprons in Egyptian percales with stripes checks figured effects and plain colors. Generously cut styles in demand. Excellent value at 1.39 dollars.
All day Saturday sale features women's hosiery with 99c 59c and 69c values. Includes silk boot hose lisle stockings and cotton lisle hose in multiple colors with reinforced heels and toes. Styles typically 29c to 50c, offer 2 to 4 pairs per purchase at 99c.
The collection features numerous gingham dresses in bright plaids checks and stripes with gray shades. Many dresses include white collars and fancy pockets, described as made of the finest materials in this group.
The advertisement promotes Teille du Norde and fast color ginghams dresses for girls aged 6 to 14 at 3.98 dollars, plus frocks for ages 12 to 16 in ginghams priced 3.48 to 7.50 dollars. Durable white blouses with colored collars and ties, available in sizes 6 to 18 and women’s 36 to 42, priced 1.48 dollars each.
Hurd announces a new white linen paper product named Madras Linen. Sold in boxes, each contains a quire of paper plus matching envelopes. Packaging price listed at 27 cents.
The column highlights several titles including Ruggles of Red Gap by Ilson Dear Enemy by Webster The First Hundred Thousand by Jan Hay The Clarion by Adams Seventeen by Tarkington and The Eyes of the World by Wright presented in this issue.
Continuing sale and display of girls school dresses excites San Antonio mothers as private schools open in 10 days and public schools begin Sept 9. Joske Store offers broad stock of growing girl dresses in new fashions at reasonable prices, with early material contracts enabling substantial savings. Visit to see greater varieties than ever presented.
A range of new styles in school dresses for girls aged 6 to 12 priced at 1 98. Fabrics include ginghams and chambrays in plain colors stripes and plaids with combinations of plain colors and plaids. Various models available all at 1 98.
Affordable dresses in gingham stripes and plaids plus chambray blends. Some high waist or loose belted styles with embroidery. A white bodice middy skirt set offered in seges navy or black with pleats. Middy blouses in white with colored collars ties and lacings or all white. Sizes for miss or matron. Prices from 1.98 to 3.98.
Small lot of white washable hats and rompers offered tomorrow at 49c each. Boys hats priced at 69c, rompers 69c in limited white materials.
Durable school outfits for boys ages 7 to 18 with lined coats and two price ranges from 6.00 to 36.50. Varied knickerbockers 1.25 to 3.60 per pair, plus madras and percale blouses and shirts priced 0.75 to 2.50.
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