Lots of meat in this!

I really have no idea what Henry L. Smith & Bro. meant when they said there’s “Lots of Meat in this!” They were referring, in 1891, to their sale on boys’ skating coats or reefers, knee pants, and short-pants suits. “This will be a week for the boys.”

Smith’s place had previously been known as The Boston and Albany Clothing Store. “Mr. Smith has spent large sums of money in advertising, but has always been careful fully to redeem every promise made the public,” says the 1881 Albany Hand-book.

(A reefer is a short, heavy, close-fitting coat. Short-pants suits are no relation to short pants-suits.)