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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
7
An advertisement promotes Boas in assorted colors and sizes priced at 2.98 tomorrow, down from the regular 4.00. The note emphasizes fashion approval and value purchases for fall evenings.
The Boys' Store offers wool-mixed school suits with superior workmanship and trimmings. Featured patterns include trench style coats and knickerbocker trousers. Prices range from 10.00 to 16.50 with several options listed.
Seasonal sale offers $6.00 to $12.00 suits for boys 7 to 18 with gray and brown mixtures, full lining, knickerbocker trousers, plus knickerbockers $1.50 to $3.50, hats $0.50 to $2.50, felt hats $2.00, sweaters $2.00 to $5.00, raincoats $4.00, juvenile suits for 2 to 8 years, plush hats $0.50 to $5.00, and rompers $1.00.
New edition of Ben King's Verse priced at 1.25. Patriotic Toasts 40cc Rhymes of a Red Cross Man new penny set edition 1.00. Love Sonnets of an Office Boy. The First Call by Guy Empey 4.50. High Adventure by Norman Hall 140.
Catalog page lists small kitchen items including individual custards at 1.00 per dozen and ramikins at 1.10 per dozen, oval baking dishes 35 cents each, covered casseroles 1.09 each, and shelf paper with lace patterns and blue bird borders. Also mentions canvas clothes bags, wash wear, and laundry related items with assorted prices and colors.
Women’s lace boots in pony kid with flexible soles and Cuban heels priced at 5 dollars per pair. Gunmetal calf boots with imitation wing tip and welt sole cost 6 dollars. Plain toe kid boots with high feather Cuban heel sell for 7 dollars. Basco brown kid lace boots with Louis XV heels priced at 10 dollars. Calf mare lace boots with Louis XV heel go for 8 dollars. Labasco brown kid lace boots with white welt and Cuban heel priced at 9 dollars.
Misses and children receive a range of lace, patent vamp, and button shoes in gunmetal calf and glazed kid. Sizes from 2% to 8 for $3.50 to $6.00, children’s sizes 8% to 11 for $3.00 to $3.50, various toe shapes and flexible soles offered across multiple styles.
Boys shoes offered in various styles including Alamo Boy school shoes in gunmetal calf leather with flexible soles. Pricing listed for multiple size ranges and styles, including Blucher lace, Scout, and dress shoes with tan elk leather and English lace design.
A shipment of 1200 Crepe Kerchiefs arrives with printed designs in colors and combinations. The usual 25 cent kind will be 1 cent tomorrow. Fine Swiss handkerchiefs with embroidered corners come in boxes of six and sell tomorrow for 8 1/2 cents.
Broad stocks of worn yet suitable materials for bath robes morning jackets and lounging robes for cool mornings. Robe Eiderdown heavy double faced robe flannel in reversible colors 59 cents a yard. Robeland Flsecy Flannel two splendid robe flannel 39 cents a yard. Pelonia Velour Kimono Flannel 28 inches wide floral rosebud styles for women and children. Tropical Suiting 36 inches wide mercerized finish in new shades 50 cents a yard.
A sale offers sterling silver jewelry with enamel top brooches and bar pins in various designs. Each piece rests in a satin finished box. Also featured are photo frames in hammered bronze with United States emblem embossing suitable for soldiers and sailors serving with the colors.
Damask table linen 60 inches wide offered at 49 cents per yard with satin finish and napkins 1.50 per dozen. Towels 23 cent each with hemstitched 18 by 56 inch size. Japanese scarfs and center pieces priced at 1.19 to 4.40, with floral and blue print designs.
Hosiery XTRA offers three pairs of mercerized silk lisle hose in black, sky, and pink for 50c to 93c, with misses and boys school hose in black white and brown at 39c and 50c. Saturday only, three pairs for 1.23 dollars.
A vast collection features coatee effects, straight line dresses, and frocks with overskirt tendencies. Embroidery, braiding, fringe and new collars show varied trimming and sleeve styles. Most dresses have girdles or sashes and many accordion pleats. Sizes for miss or matron, all at 16.75 tomorrow in the Ready-to-Wear Section on the Third Floor.
A rare lot of nearly one hundred new tailored suits, made by a renowned maker of the highest grade, features coats cut and tailored with heavy peau de cygne or satin linings. Skirts follow current smart lines in all colors, originally regular prices $49.80 to $65.00, offered now at $39.50.
The article reviews autumn suit fashions from Aé & D4 5, presenting about a dozen styles in broadcloths serges wool poplins and cobardines. Colors include black navy beet root Burrundy green Java brown with new details like kolinsky coney velvet self materials and varied trims. Prices range from $24.75 to $389.50.
San Antonio shoppers are offered Cadet School Stockings in light to heavy weights with reinforced toes and heels. Three pairs for 1.35, 3 for 60 cents, and 50 cent values. Women’s silk stockings on sale at Joske's with many colors and full fashion silk hose under 1.00, lisle heel and toe, in assorted shades.
A garbled listing describes leather bound diaries with daily lines, Lenox correspondence cards in several colors, self filling fountain pens, paper doilies designs, bath toys including floating animals for babies, and celluloid kewpie figures with prices and unclear shop details.
Joske Silver Store showcases new inexpensive items for Saturday including a large pierced liberty Castor Set at 2.98, Condiment Sets in liberty silver holders at 60c, 7 inch Pretty Flower Vases with liberty silver bases at 1.19, and 5 inch cut glass Dainty Baskets in floral designs, tomorrow.
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