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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1917
Page
3
Every offering stands as incomparable quality at original price. The merchandise shows fashion and service. Savings will prove extraordinarily season defining. On sale Thursday morning without time limits until stock is gone. Shoppers urged to arrive early as many groups will sell out quickly with no restocking at current prices.
Dainty sheer blouses with organza trims and lace Embroidered motifs and fine tucks highlighted. Originally 2.45 now 1.59 with complete sizes and wide style variety. Also odds and ends reduced to 69c from regular 1.00 groups, third floor sale closes quickly, no approvals.
Fragmentary notes cite trimmed hats priced at 2.29 and 1.29 with mentions of Gartlos from El Pi and Jesse Royston untrimmed from El Paso. References to Pensacola and a 350000 third cost plus 1.5 million total spending hint at a shipping program and a 900 foot metric, but details remain unclear.
Napkins cut to sixteen by sixteen inches with a stout hem and dice check pattern now 49c per dozen. Also thirty inch bleached domestic fabric with soft finish offered at 8c per yard, with limit of twenty yards per customer and no telephone orders.
Sale notes bulk silk reductions from 1.50 to 1.19 with all-silk yardages including pongee taffeta crepes de chine and messaline in multiple shades. Also $1.49 silks from 1.75 and $1.69 silks from 2.25 with limited quantities in several colors. Second Floor.
A cotton fabric with the look and wear of fine handkerchief linen. Guaranteed fast color. Available in pleasing summer shades. Originally 50 cents per yard, now reduced to 42 cents per yard. Yard-wide.
Forty inch wide novelty cottons for summer wear at 33 cents a yard, down from 39 cents. Includes 32 inch madrases in 35 patterns for shirts and dresses and forty inch undergarment wainsocks in popular summer shades, reduced from 25 cents to 21 cents. Sec ond Floor.
A local sale advertises Genuine Leather Hand Bags at 69 cents from 1 dollar with covered frames and silk lining. Katted Vests drop to 15 cents, 44 inch Cotton Net to 45 cents per yard, Fancy Ribbons to 32 cents, Linen Handkerchiefs to 9 cents, and Columbia Crochet Cotton to 7 cents a ball with mercerized finish.
Summer sale item details a first floor offer with union suits reduced from 60 to 75 to 49 cents. Low neck sleeveless knee length pieces described as summer weight for warm weather wear.
Durable white drill uniforms for women and children six to twenty years priced at 39 cents. Full cut neat styles with red or blue trimmings, marketed as an affordable update to school attire.
Morning dresses are marked down to 1.35 from regular 1.50 and 1.75 for regular and extra sizes. Numerous styles including plaids checks and striped ginghams and percales in 36 to 52 sizes. Second Floor.
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