The Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 65, Ed. 2 Friday, December 17, 1926 Page: 4 of 26
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THE FORT WORTH PRESS—DECEMBER 17, 1926
OLD DESIRE OF
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Christmas Reduction Sale of
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Coats
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$14.95 Dresses Now
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$9.95 Dresses Now
$6.95
Children’s Coats
$5.00 and $5.95 Dresses Now
$4.39
Men’s Neckwear
Women’s Dresses
Boys’ Wool Suits
Men’s Overcoats
Blanket Robes
$
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As rare as hen’s teeth the fel-
a studio until Christ-
of
town you like—"
Men’s Hose
Men’s Hose
Men’s Shirts
Child’s Robes
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49c
49c
$1.29
$1.00
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handle fireworks.
Men’s Trousers
Men’s Unions
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Boy’s Unions
$2.98
$1.25
59c
$1.00
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$ 195
Tom Boy Tams
,70 Sy
Double Blanket
Choice of the House
Baby Blankets
Corduroy Robes
$1.95
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Children’s Hats
$2.98
98c
$2.75
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Monnig's Basement Millinery
Blankets
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W omen’s Gowns
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$2.98
$1.59
10c
Riding Pants
Bed Spreads
Silk Hose
Men’s Sweaters
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$1.95
$4.75
$1.25
$1.00
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A Real
Christmas
Gift of
Value
$29.50 Coats
Now Special
$24.50 Coats
Now Special
$19.75 Coats
Now Special
$14.95 Coats
Now Special
$9.95 Coats
Now Special
Women's All-Silk Chiffon
Hose, full fashioned, slight
irregulars of a $2.00 value,
all shades, special, $1.25.
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Men’s Extra Trousels,
large selection, regular
and extra sizes, special,
$2.98.
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$1495
$9.95
$7.95
Women's Gingham Dresses,
long sleeves, in staple shades
and fancy plaids, sizes 33 to
54, priced special, $1.95.
! for the dressing table?
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I Bachman says if it wasn't for
| pressure exerted by mothers at
I Christmas time,’ a lot of men nev-
Rayon Crib Spread in rose
and blue—just the thing to
give a baby for Christmas,
priced special, $1.95.
Men's Cotton Coat Sweat-
ers, blue and black, our reg-
ular $1.79 value, priced spe-
cial, at each, $1.00.
back over the expressionless feel-
ing we had on Christmas morn
when the parlor door was opened
and we beheld—
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GET YOURS
EARLY
Men’s Silk Lisle Hose,
fancy patterns and solid
colors, special, the pair.
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Boys’ Overcoats
$6.95
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NEW PICTURE ON
CARR’S WALL
Get a
New Hat
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Christmas
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For this sale we have taken our entire
stock of Dresses for Winter wear, and have
placed them in three groups, all marked at
special low prices. Choice of silk, crepe, satin
and cloth dresses in new styles, well made,
greatly reduced.
Many Are Having Their (
Photos Made Now
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We have reduced all our women’s Winter
Coats for clearance. See our assortments and
our values before making your selection. Note
our prices!
Double Blankets
$2.69
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Children’s Robes
$1.95
Children's Blanket Robes,
good quality material and
beautiful patterns, sizes 8 to
16 years, special, $1,95.
For, many years ago, Santa ;
. Claus started packing his bag with
’ bright red, green and blue toys.
And how we thrill to think
Before the advent of modern
toy-making methods, with which
thousands of dolls, chairs and fire
engines are made wholesale, John
and Mary, who never saw a toy
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Basement Sale
New
Faille Silks
and
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Spring Wear
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Boys’ All-Wool Suits, coat,
vest, one pair long and one
pair short pants, sizes 12 to
16, special, $9.50.
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Bessie Freeman is only 16, but |
she is manager of a large hotel in J
Harlingen, Texas, and owns more j
than $20,000 worth of property.
She got her start by selling ho-
siery. Boys? •‘They're not inter- i
wood frame, the head of a potato j
with a white cloth face. rnR nnrorArQ
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"Let a boy come in and the
picture is always for his mother,’’
grins Bachman.
“But the girl usually isn't so j
shy. Every one of her pictures
are going to a different sweetie
and you bet she's proud!”
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Children’s Blanket
Robes in fancy plaid pat-
terns, sizes 2 to 4 years,
$1.00.
Men’s Overcoats, new pat-
terns in grey, tan and brown
plaids, the season’s newest
styles, priced special,
$14.95
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store, were content with little—
priceless—gifts that mother or
dad found time to make.
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Bloomers, good quality,
in light and dark colors,
special, $1.00.
| Bachman. “The pleadings of a |
[ mother were usually the goad j
i that brought them out.
“I’d say the average man and I
Men’s Ribbed Union
Suits, heavy and me-
dium weight, white, spe-
cial, the suit. $1.25.
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Corduroy Riding Trousers,
union made garments, splen-
did for Christmas giving,
special, the pair, $4.75.
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CHRISTMAS
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66x80 Double Blank-
1 ets, tan or gray, with
pink or blue borders,
our regular $2.39 blan-
kets, priced special, the
[ pair. $1.95.
half hour to get her hair right
for the camera,” says Bachman.
"Now she comes straight to the
studio from the beauty parlor
with a fresh curl and there's no
more primping than on the part
Fire prevention leagues thru- '......- —- .
out the state have compiled the | feur, it would take a
Men’s English Broad-
cloth Shirts, collar at-
tached, in blue, tan,
gray and white, sizes 11
to 17, $1.29.
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Men’s Wool and Cot-
ton Hose, fancy pat-
terns, slight irregulars
of a 75c value, special, j
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। man got over the most trouble- |
j some items of his shopping list,
with the aid of Bachman.
j Photos for mother, sister and
sweetheart—all framed and ready
Women’s Rayon Gowns,
lace trimmed, in shades of
peach, flesh, orchid, nile and
copen, special, $1.59.
Women's Blanket Robes,
new stripe pattern, a regular
$5.00 value, priced special for
these two days, each, $3.49.
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"I’ve had men in their fifties
come in at Christmas time who’d
never had a photo made,” says
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative BROMO QUININE
Tablets. The Safe and Proven '
Remedy. (The First and Original
Cold and Grip Tablet.) Signature j
of E. W. Grove on the box. 30c.— j
Adv.
YES. YOU DOG:
He was a bashful suitor, but
he thought he had found the ir-
resistible gift.
“Would you like a pup2py?"
he asked.
"Oh, Eddie, how delightfully
humble of you! Yes, darling, I
accept."—Pele Mele, Paris.
Women’s Corduroy
Robes ' in all wanted
shades, special at $2.75
to $4.95.
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Double Blankets, 66x80
inches in size, in plaids of
pink, blue, tan, gray, orchid
and gold, priced special.
$2.69.
Boys’ Ribbed Union
Suits, unbleached, me-
dium weight, special,
the suit, 590.
O. E. Carr, "moving picture”
City manager of Fort Worth, has
at last readorned the walls of his ' served
office with a frame and glass l .
More than a year ago Carr had I °*s around
" all the pictures of Fort Worth 1 ma time,
pioneers that hung on the walls
70x80 Double Blankets,
fancy plaids of pink, blue,
gold, tan and gray, priced
special, the pair, $2.98.
Don’t have Christmas bonfires, I
Don't allow an accumulation of
Christmas wrappings, packing,
etc.
Don't decorate the Christmas
tree with cotton or inflammable
material.
Don't let a fire from careless-
ness mar your Christmas joys.
of his office removed, amid a
storm of protest.
On the wall there now is a lit-
tle motto:
It starts off :
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Rayon Bloomers
Children’s Wool Mixed
Socks, seven-eighths length,
with fancy tops, all sizes,
priced special, the pair, 10
The lighted tree, its spangles
glistening like so many stars—
The fire engine, the little red
wagon, maybe a tricycle, all
grouped around the tree, with
stockings crammed full of candy,
an orange on the bottom and a
bright, shiny apple on top.
It is of those toys—joys—for
the boy of 1926, and later, to
hear from the lips of his elders.
Autos, models of the kind dad-
dy drives, and pieces of steel with
Boys’ Overcoats, gray,
brown and blue mixtures,
sizes 8 to 16 years, a real
value at our special price,
$6.95.
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If it wasn't for the bob, Bach- :
man doesn't know what he would
I do with the unusual rush 1o‛a ex-
! periencing this year.
A God-send for the photograph-
' er, the bob!
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which to build skyscrapers,
bridges and houses—-anything of
a practical nature—bring delight
to the boys of 1926.
And ten years hence these,
too, may be obsolete.
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A whistle, made by the whittle
of dad's sharp knife, or a dolly ■
made by mother, who wound a ■
yard or two of calico around a 1
following lists of Christmas j
“don'ts” in an effort to minimize
holiday accidents:
Don't place lighted candles on
the Christmas tree.
Don't permit small children to 1
Alen’s Corduroy Trous-
ers, medium weight,
blue or gray, special. the
pair, $2.98.
A Special Pre-
Christmas “58,
Offer at— “““
All our children’s Coats, sizes 3 to 14 years,
have been reduced, the special prices ranging
from—
$2.98toS11.25
The hardest to please? Milady
when she gets in the "dangerous
forties!"
Babies? "Just simply love
’em," beams Bachman.
"Squawk? Sure they do—at
times, but a baby doesn't mean
it!”
Got that hair slicked up vet,
Charlie?
A wright. Next!
Men’s Ties in a beautiful
selection of new patterns, fine
for Christmas giving, priced
special at, each, 790.
Click!
Photographer Al Bachman
squeezes his bulb up at the Bryant I
Ctudio and at least six names are
list.
struck off somebody’s shopping
How a better way to solve the
shopping problem? Six "birds”
with one stone! And Fort Worth
bulbmen are rushed gentlemen
these days.
BY C. E. GREENE
The toys—joys — that once ,
thrilled American boys have lost
their appeal—
The fire engine pulled by a
string; the auto that wound up .
by a spring, the jumping jack ! /
that brought laughter for a fi
while. I
These are passe, It seems. :
Bicycles, autos big enough for \
x passenger or two, building ' \
blocks with which "giant” struc- i
lures may be built, carpenter I
tools made of real steel—all of a I F
practical nature—delight the i
1926 boy.
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Baby Blankets, 30x40 I
inches in size, pink and
blue designs, special, I
98.
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