Joske Store Invites Fiesta Visitors to San Jacinto Celebration
Joske Store extends a warm invite to Fiesta San Jacinto visitors with a hearty welcome. The ad highlights: Information Desk on Main Floor Section C, free telephone service across the store, rest and check rooms, and Joske’s Spring and Summer goods. It touts five acres of floor space and hundreds of thousands of dollars in new merchandise as a city sight worth seeing.
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San Antonio
Mississippi
Pacific Coast
San Jacinto
Texas
Joske
New Silk Dresses Sale With Wide Range Of Silks
The store announces an extraordinary dress sale with over 200 dresses priced at 22.50 25.00 and 27.50. Styles include Crepes de Chine Crepe Meteors Georgette and Crepe de Chine combinations in shades like wild rose navy French blue tan wisteria lettuce green and black. Sports styles are also featured.
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Joske
Charming Array New Summer Frocks at Joske’s Store
The display features a full range of summer fashions including French Voile Net Filet Crepe Marquisette Organdie Lingerie Cloth and Woven Tissue in pink blue lavender and white. Black lace dresses and bewitching frocks in voile net and embroidered fabrics span $15 to $125 with sizes for women and misses ages 14 to 18.
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Joske
Fiesta Week Hand Bags Sale Need 300 Price Cut
Special Fiesta Week offer features 300 fashionable hand bags in twenty three styles including novelty silk and leather options Imperial Morocco crepe goat pin Morocco and seal goat. Entire lot priced at 1.50 each with a special 7.59 pricing noted.
Gold Filled Bracelets Move at 2.48 Each
A bulk buy enables a limited offer on heavy gold filled bracelets. Hand engraved and machine turned designs guaranteed 20 years. Values to 6.50, tomorrow only, choice 2.48 each.
New Neckwear 50c Styles Wide Variety
Advertising copy touts latest neckwear fashions at 50 cents with double caped Puritan collars Postillion and sailor effects in collars and cuff sets and vestees in white and spring colors for broad variety and low price.
Fichu Ruffling in Net with Pleated Edges
The Neckwear Department offers a new fichu ruffling 12 inches wide in fine net with pleated edges. It is described as pretty and effective, priced at 85 cents per yard.
Full of Oriental beauty Santoy Parasols in Japanese shapes
An advertising blurb for Santoy Parasols showcases Oriental Japanese shaped parasols in colorful designs priced at $3.50 each from the Parasol Department.
Worth While Books and New Additions At Discount Prices
Book sale listing highlights multiple titles with authors and prices. Includes H K Webster, McLaughlin, Ethel Houston, Basel King, C Sheldon, Marion Harland cook book, Zane Grey novels, Corelli, Curwood, Rupert Hughes. Over 500 books now at 50c each with new stock.
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H. K. Webster
McLaughlin
Ethel Houston
Basel King
Jesus
Chas ‘Sheldon
Marion Harland
Zane Grey
Corelli
Curwood
Rupert Hughes
Fashion notes on styles and silhouettes across ensembles
The article describes a range of outfits with charm and dash suitable for street, sports, afternoon, or evening. It highlights silhouettes such as silhouettes with silk loopings, boleros with cape effects, and moderate pegs, plus dresses featuring tiered skirts tunics and ruffles.
Officers Selected for Alzafar Temple in San Antonio
San Antonio Shriners have chosen officers for the Alzafar Temple and will seek imperial dispensation to establish a new temple here. The proposed officers include Frank Newton as potentate and Ted Milburn as chief rabban, with a new temple committee named for further coordination. A ceremonial session is planned May 1, with the 32nd degree to be conferred May 4 and life memberships under consideration.
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Imperial Shrine Council of North America
Buffalo
San Antonio Shriners
Ben Hur Temple
Austin
Wallace H. Newton
Robert Burns
Kenedy
Robert S. Michael
Stanley Winters
New Temple
C. A. Soule
Nat M. Washer
Masons
Texas
William Seat Fly
Frank R. Newton
Ben Hur
Ted H. Milburn
Imperial
San Antonio
Alzafar
Socialist Party Split Rocks Salford Conference
The fifth annual British socialist party conference in Salford adjourned to a secret session after a resolution to bar the press sparked turmoil. Thirty delegates broke away for Manchester issuing a manifesto denouncing the move as weakening national resolve against German militarism.
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London
Socialist Party
Salford
Manchester
Texas Suffragettes Meet for May Convention in Dallas
The Texas Woman Suffrage Association will hold its sixth annual convention in Dallas from May 10 to 12. Attendees from across the state are expected to exceed three times the prior gathering as railroads offer a one and one third fare. Endorsed by affiliated groups, the body urges suffragettes from El Paso to Texarkana and Red River to Rio Grande to join and assist in planning the year’s work. The call is issued by president Minnie Fisher Cunningham and a slate of officers and organizers.
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Texas Woman Suffrage Association
Dallas
Texas Woman's Suffrage Association
el Paso
Texarkana
Red River
Rio Grande
Minnie Fisher Cunnigham
M. Eleanor Brackenridge
Kate Hunter
Lindley Miller Keasbey
Anna E. Walker
John Davis
G. Scott Shannon
Elizabeth
Building Contractors Notice for San Antonio School Bid
The San Antonio School Board will accept sealed bids until 7 p m May 2 1916 for a twelve room Durango Street school with plumbing heating and lighting fixtures Plans and specs are at Bever ly Spillman Architect office A $2000 certified check on the general contract must accompany the bid Adv Paul H Scholz business agent
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San Antonio
Durango St
Beverly Spillman
Advertising and Ethics in Modern Industry
Hon. Joseph E. Davies of the Federal Trade Commission lauds the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World for promoting internal business ethics. He says sustained campaigns and truthful advertising strengthen industry and public trust, urging readers to write the AAC of W in Indianapolis for a booklet.
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Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Indianapolis
Joseph E. Davies
Federal Trade Commission
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Sylvan Lang
Oriental Guide
J. H. Haile
P. D. Mathis
Thomas FE. Blundell
A. (. McDaniel
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M. P. Ostro
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Roth Bros
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