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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1908
Page
5
The Joske Store highlights autumn styles from Paris and its own workshops. Hats mix Parisian fashion with Americanized French creations in a vast, ever changing display praised by shoppers for freshness and variety.
In Dixie, the Economy Basement advertises a vast assortment of washable dress fabrics at exceptional value. Thirty five display tables feature Cheviots, flannelettes, cambric, and ginghams with many styles and yardage options for women and children, all priced to attract budget buyers.
A Jaske advertisement touts strong hosiery economics with silk hose listed at 98 cents per pair, 1.59 to 1.75 priced silk options, three pairs for 99 cents on embroidered and lisle hose, and gauze cotton hose eight pairs for 9 cents. Cadet boy and girl hosiery toys offered at 25 cents each.
Laces at Half Price sale previews a huge stock of appliques medallions and laces at half real value. Embroidered nets filet Irish point and raised medallions offered from R100 to $2.00 yard with other laces priced EO to $8.00 yard and higher value pieces marked down dramatically.
An announcement advertises a Thursday Toilet Preparation Sale at Joske's with many items priced at 35 and 50 cents. It lists powders cremes perfumes and soaps including Lucille Pace Powder and Pond's products, assuring quality despite the very low prices.
A fragment describes 55¢ worth of stationery for 39e and a pound package of Jose’s Plaga Liner. It mentions linen correspondence paper with envelopes and a bare cost per pie, plus 3$e worth for 5e.
Authoritative fashions showcase new autumnal fabrics and designs. Coats in various lengths feature elaborately trimmed fronts with buttons. Skirts flare at $25.60 while one piece wool dresses with lace yokes sell for 17.50. Petticoats in taffeta silk offer trendy styles for tomorrow’s buyers as all-new shades and black dominate the 500-piece lot.
A sale offers about 50 belts in top styles with metalic effects and embossed silks and satins. Belts priced at 89 cents, with fancy buckles and varied colors, plus $1.25 items advertised for Thursday, promising durable quality and broad color choices.
Handkerchief prices claim 19 to 20 percent lower than rivals with a “Carnival of Handkerchief Bargains” promotion. Offers include white and colored pieces, blue tinted embroidery, and cross-bar Swiss initials. Limited tones and styles discussed but details fragmented.
Fall weights in women's calf weights and knit undergarments are offered. Merofe winterwear includes Jersey ribbed Union Suits with long sleeves and cubic length for cold weather, plus Nishnek vests and ankle length pants. Thursday specials feature complete or separate pieces priced at $1 25.
The Bexar County Court discussed fair parade arrangements and referred a contractor petition to build a spur at Kimendorf across the Gollag road to County Road Engineer Nelson for investigation. Commissioner Frank Sommers to purchase furnishings for district clerk, collector and assessor offices and repair the courthouse. County auditor authorized to buy 400 feet of rubber hose for jail flooring cleaning.
Work crews assemble at the fair grounds for preparations ahead of the opening day. The Fair Grounds service will begin Friday with booths erected and ongoing preparations at the Hot Wells and Wind of the Une area.
News notes report Superintendent Lukin ordering the Spanish and German teachers reassigned. Spanish instructors move to schools 12 7 11 18 6 16 1d 6 2 8 and others, while German leaders are placed at Nos 4 7 11 21 10 13 4 2s, with several teachers listed for multiple sites and grades.
Hannig works on music for a three act Japanese operetta titled Princess Chrys watheiinn to premiere November 20 under Beethoven society auspices. Sixty young ladies in kimonas will form the chorus with chorus jobs in the garden scene. Dr Hugo Moeller directs stage business for the society. Spirit festival winds through rehearsals amid dances and ornate stage planning.
An advertisement touts Fabrice supremacy with large stock of broadcloths and silks. It highlights French Broadcloth, Lovisine, and Satin Messaline in multiple shades, widths around 20 to 52 inches, with prices from 50 cents to 1.26 per yard. The copy emphasizes variety, favorable prices, and store leadership in San Antonio.
A broad range of novelty suitings offered at 500 cents per yard. The assortment includes min acat checks and broken plaid effects with a generous display of all wool Panama cloths in plain colors. Prices and selection emphasized.
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