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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1913
Page
3
Local retailer Washer Bros promotes affordable gifts for boys including winter suits and overcoats. The campaign emphasizes practical clothing options for the holiday season with savings advertised on select items.
The report shows compulsory typhoid vaccination making the U S Army largely immune with only one case in the first eleven months of 1918, before vaccination. the Navy adopts the practice. A Reclamation Service trial prompts 600 volunteers and a Malta Montana outbreak linked to unvaccinated workers.
Charles Fe. Hummel advertises 250 all wool overcoats with Union Label sold 5 to 12.5 dollars and 500 to 600 tailor made suits from E. W. Price Co and Royal Tailors of Chicago ranging 8.5 to 18 dollars. He claims superior fit and quality with camel hair padding and silk stitching. Located at 333 West Commerce Street in Kampmann Building.
A catalog listing bindings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with prices from 12.50 to 5 and 10, plus a range of Description and Travel, Music, Art, and Literature titles with author names and prices such as Panama and the Canal Today 3, Romantic American 5, Rome 3, Florence 1.50, Famous American Composers 1.49, The Art of the Berlin Galleries 2, and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 3.
Fine linens offered in various damask cloths and sets. Heavy double damask 72 by 108 inches with 12 napkins priced at 16.50. Hemstitched all linen satin damask sets offered in 61 by 94 inches with napkins from 5.95 to 6.95. Larger two by four yard pieces priced 12.50 and 13.50. Smaller two by three and a half yard pieces priced 6.50 10 and 12.50.
A list of assorted goods with prices including carpet sweepers silk hosiery hand bags and Pyralin toilet articles. Travel cases lace handkerchiefs and neckwear silk scarfs German silver mesh bags and toilet table pieces. Gloves kikmonos night gowns stationery and shirtwaists priced from a few cents to several dollars.
A catalog of toys lists items for boys and girls including dolls, furniture, pianos, trees, costumes, play sets, and trains. Prices span from 5c to 22.50 with items like iron trains, wooden blocks, teddy bears, and tenpin sets, noting sales possibly ending before Monday.
A catalog of children and youth titles with prices. Includes The Children s Blue Bird at 2.50 and multiple illustrated editions such as Just So Stories Jungle Book 2.50 Grimm s Fairy Tales 1.50 and Anne of Green Gables 1.20. Several series titles listed 50c to 25c.
The list outlines men women misses children and babies slippers and shoes with options like Slumber felt Juliet and Mary Jane styles. It notes travel slippers with pocket cases and adds shoe ornaments such as ribbon bows pon pons rhinestones and buckles. It also mentions durable Scout shoes for boys youths and small men.
Laurel Heights Methodist Church to present a Christmas cantata The Shepherd King at Christmas Day service with Miss Osman directing and a full choir and soloists including Mrs Chester Terrell Miss Elsa Harms C Cameron Bell John W Turner and Mrs Fred Jones The program outlines morning and evening services with organ preludes violin solos and a full chorus and quartet performances
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