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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1913
Page
7
Our Side announces a Building Clearance Sale at our San Antonio piano showroom. High grade pianos of standard makes fill the wareroom, offering patrons a rare opportunity during a prosperous year ahead. We thank the music loving public for support and urge buyers to act within the next five years to avoid missing this sale.
The ad urges buyers to purchase pianos for children, claiming highest grade and best makes are offered at price reductions. It argues buyers have delayed due to price or terms and positions the public as the jury to judge value and quality.
Montague Jeffray, a wealthy bachelor, asks his English valet Howson to arrange his sister Mrs Bronson's hotel stay as he prepares a disguise and plans a clandestine journey. A detective scaffold and known crooks loom as Fire ruins vaults and a billion in treasure lie beneath.
Mr. Jeffray secures a scale drawing of the Ex calibur Trust building foundations then dines with Mrs Peyton who offers hospitality to his sister. In a hotel room confrontation Mrs Bronson recalls a prison ordeal while Jeffray schemes with Cockney Tim to raid the building’s vaults, race to the fire site, and bypass police lines.
Advertises standard remedies used by mothers and grandmothers. Claims physicians also prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief of female illnesses and overall suffering.
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