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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1911
Page
9
Ad lists Joske Store specials for tomorrow including drinks like Claret Lemonade 5c, Robin Hood Sundae 5c, sheer white dresses from 3.98 to 4.98, lingerie waists at 1.19, petticoats 0.89, skirts under 1, gowns 0.75, West chemise 0.48, and more, with hours from 8 to 6.
A local ad promotes Cuticura soap noting the usual 25 cent cake price and a one day offer tomorrow for a box of three cakes at 50 cents. The message emphasizes everyday value and a limited time deal.
A 60 inch Nations Dressmakers tape measure with slide and pin adjuster is offered. Also described are Paper Roberts Gold Eye needles, Coats darning, and a set of 12 safety pins nickel plated in three sizes.
About three hundred pairs of women's hose in lace, plain gauze, and plain cotton across medium and lightweight fabrics. Colors span black, blue, brown, tan, green, red, white and more with values to 50c, choice tomorrow 3c each.
A newspaper ad promotes Kayser gloves noting their superior quality. Tomorrow only, double finger tipped Kayser gloves sell for 63 cents per pair with silk 12 button length in black white and colors also at 63 cents.
About two hundred fifty Axminster Rugs in 27 by 54 inch size offered all day Thursday. Floral and Oriental designs in harmonious colors priced at 1.59 dollars instead of 2.50.
Axminster rugs high pile 36 by 72 inches offered at 3.29 tomorrow. The usual 4 dollar rugs in floral Oriental and medallion patterns on the second floor, all day.
All day Thursday bargain on embroidery and Valenciennes laces. Snowy edges and insertions in Swiss styles offered from 7 to 12 1 2 cents per yard, tomorrow price five cents per yard. Hundreds of lace bolts listed with 60 to 75 cents value, twelve yards for 48 cents offered tomorrow.
A compact catalog item listing various fabrics with yard lengths and prices. Percales shirting gingham and Madras fabrics offered in multiple widths and patterns, including 12 1/2c to 15c quality ranges. Domestic soft bleached domestic fabric is described as pure white and 36 inches wide in 15 yard bundles.
A large lot of women's pure linen and sheer white handkerchiefs offered at 15c each, half price, with hand embroidered styles and demstitched edges. Some may show minor imperfections but are generally valued at 25c. The 5c kind will be 3c on Thursday.
The listing promotes a postcard album and Kodak album options including embossed covers and leatherette bindings. It highlights capacity for 300 to 500 postcards and fifty carbon leaves, and notes a sale for tomorrow with 43 cents for postcards and 19 cents per dozen for hexagon pencils with eraser tips.
The list features Royle’s The Squaw Man and Gene Strutton Porter’s Choice At the Foot of the Rainbow as suggested summer reads.
Infants socks described as pure silk and attractive in summer shades, pitched as ideal for mothers shopping for babies. The notice highlights multiple pairs and emphasizes comfort and style for little tots.
A note found inside a seawater damaged bottle drifted to a Greenwich Street police station. Harry Walker 18 denied any intent of suicide and said he would investigate the gruesome joke with help from authorities and witnesses.
Incomplete excerpt contrasts a husband unknown before marriage with concerns about language retention. Quoted lines reference a wedding and a coronation motif, appearing from Boston Transcript and Kansas City Journal sources.
Author Jack London fished five weeks at Lake Crescent in Washington seeking a Beardslee trout found nowhere else. After efforts at dawn to dusk and forty seven fly changes he hooked a nine pound spotted trout using a 15 karat diamond stud as a lure, winning $198 from Alexander Pantages and $50 in tips.
In a fight on Avenue C between Fifth and Sixth streets, a revolver and rocks were used. Antonio Trevenio received a gash on the head and exposed left cheek. Frederico Olvera’s shot went wild. Trevenio and Solis appeared before Judge Buckley, fined $20 and $10 each, Trevenio claiming the pistol discharge was accidental.
John Howard a white man refused to swear when asked by Judge Buckley in police court. He claimed he never swears but agreed after further urging to be sworn. Howard faced vagrancy charges for sleeping on river bank near City brewery. A $10 fine was imposed after he pleaded illness and mercy.
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