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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1915
Page
6
Lace collection features Swid embroidery neck pieces in white and colored hues. Dainty designs perfect to pair with a summer frock. Each piece adds a refined touch to outfit ensembles for warm weather wear.
The sale features crepe and Swiss blouses in Crepe, Voiles, Organites, and Swiss fabrics. Some have velvets trimmed, others embroidered fronts with cluster tucks. Sizes range from 40 to 48 with all items priced at 98 cents for Saturday.
Consumers are urged to purchase their own bathing suits from the latest selections offered. Prices range around $2.98 for splendid mo hair styles with matching accessories, while other styles are priced at $2 and $5.00. New bathing caps, finished with ribbons and rosettes in emerald green and other colors, are also advertised.
Fragmented ad copy notes sale of novelty jewelry and hat pins with floral enamel designs. Mentions prices like 19 cents and 25e, with references to boxes and items described as fancy and colorful.
Lulu store advertises Dox soap at 10 cents and 48 cent mosquito talcum powder claiming bite prevention. All day Saturday offers include violet corylopsis rose carnation talcum powder, 25 cent combs, hard rubber dressing combs, and sample tooth brushes with hand drawn backs and bone or transparent handles.
A local sale offers house dresses priced at 98 cents for Saturday only. The dresses, valued at 1.25 to 1.50, feature pretty porch wear styling with chambray and striped fabrics, embroidered collars, and fullness in the skirts.
Store clears parasols and switches with gray models on sale. 18 inch parasols cut to 2.00, 20 inch gray switches to 1.55, 2.50 gray transformations to 1.75, and 6.00 gray transformations to 5.25. Stock liquidates quickly while quantities last.
All day tomorrow special prices on preserving necessities. Savings on fruit jars with rubbers. Pint Mason Jars 49¢ a dozen, Quart Mason Jars 89¢ a dozen, Half gallon Mason Jars 74¢ a dozen. Pint Schramm Jars 45¢ a dozen, Quart Schramm Jars 59¢ a dozen, Half gallon Schramm Jars 74¢ a dozen. Fruit jar rubbers 3¢ a dozen, Jelly Glasses with tops 30¢ a dozen. Thin Brown numbers of polished lead glass 4¢ each.
A catalog-style note lists 49¢ reprints from Inside the Cup by W. Chur in The Pit by F. Norrie and other works including Peg O' My Heart by Matiners, The Virginian by O. Waster, Han's Brinker by M. Dodge, The Girl of the Golden Gate by Mahoney, Flying U Ranch by Bowers, Son of the Hills by Comstock, Silent Battle by Gibbs, The Southerner by Digan, To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Red Eve by Haggard.
The current fashion display features a wide range of styles with rhinings of pompons flowers and rib bons. Most outfits are in black and white while a variety of mid summer hats in demanded colors are shown. Women will find a generous assortment of pretty styles, reportedly the best yet seen in San Antonio, with prices from seven fifty to fifteen dollars.
Prices on jelly Deans regulars and grape juice advertised with errors and unclear wording. The notice mentions 2 pounds for 1e or lfe and 10¢ per pound sales, plus a Joske a ice cream dessert with marshmallow sauce and peppermint crust, all day Saturday.
Bargain sale offers women pumps in fawn gray tan with Louis XV heels and patent vamp options. Pick from white black trimmed pumps with turn soles, all priced today at 3.65 per pair, plus $1.95 sandals and $1.95 Ostend style patent leather pumps with small tongue. Regular prices ranged up to 7.00.
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