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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
16
Store offers special prices on bath towels, guest towels, dresser sets, scarfs, luncheon sets, and linen textiles. Highlights include 25c bath towels, 39c towels, 98c dresser sets, 48c scarfs, 98c luncheon sets, and yard goods from 35c to 1.75 dollars. Includes monogram options and gift-box presentation.
The Joske Store announces a wide selection of Christmas candies from 20c to 65c per pound and boxed assortments, plus fruit cakes and jewelry gifts. Toyland opens with Santa Claus displays and a magical basement salesroom, inviting San Antonio residents to explore and enjoy the Christmas offerings.
A sample line of fine hand-embroidered items is offered including infants and children's dresses gowns teddy bears pillow tops towels scarves center pieces sacques jackets and novelties. About 200 pieces available with tomorrow and Saturday sale days marked at half price or less making them ideal Christmas gifts.
A catalog of footwear arriving in New York features Lace Boots, pearl grey or ivory kid options with Louis XV heels, and turn soles. Prices range from $3.50 to $10.00, with Women's Button Shoes, Lace Shoes, and College Girl’s Boots also offered. Accessories include slippers for home use and boudoir slippers in various colors.
A local store advertises a broad dress and suit sale featuring Serge Silk and Satin dresses for every occasion. The entire stock is reduced with no restrictions on dress types or styles.
The store announces a major reduction across its entire stock of tailored suits. Available fabrics include serges gabardines poplins broadcloths velours and velvets in black and other colors. The offer applies to the full inventory beginning tomorrow.
The notice catalogs men and women apparel with price cuts on suits and dresses. Prices range from $14.75 for suits to $133.34 for a $200 dress, with many mid range discounts and store sale mentions.
Black Pretty Serge frocks in blue-silk fabrics feature accordion and cartridge pleating and varied silhouettes. Suits priced from $33.69 to $283.34 reflect hefty discounts, listing many original values and sale figures.
Offer boasts fashionable suits priced from up to 27.50 to 77.50 featuring gabar dines poplins serges and velours in plum brown navy green and black. Coats are fitted or loose with satin lining and full flared skirts. Some suits trimmed with fox seal or nutria fur.
Suits with long coats and fashionable cuts priced up to 35 dollars are offered. The range includes broadcloths, wool poplins, velours, serges, whipcords and gabardines in navy burgundy plum green and black. Value up to 35 dollars, sale price 23.89.
A large display of stylish suits priced at 28.15 each features broad cloth velour serge gabardine poplin whipcords and novelty weaves in plum burgundy brown black navy and green. Furs include beaver seal and skunk or velvet trims. Values reach 50.00.
Dresses priced from sixteen to forty five dollars feature satin, charmeuse, and serge fabrics in black navy plum and green. Some styles add fur touches cords of silk and embroidered braids with fancy details, valued up to 27 50.
Beautiful dress styles in messaline Georgette tafetta satin and serge combinations. Embroidered with wool collars and cuffs of Georgette and full wide skirts. Available in black and all colors at prices from 37.50 to 26.48.
The Joske Store offers its entire stock of sports skirts priced originally at 7.50 8.50 and 10.00 now cut to 6.9 for a limited sale. Dove ty n Jersey and checked materials available in new styles at the reduced price with no reserve.
Dolls of all kinds from celluloid to unbreakable plus brass trumpets, soldier sets, games including Pit Plaza and Book, toy furniture, rolling lambs and bears, miniature railways, air rifles and blocks priced from 10c to 7.50 with many items under 5 dollars.
Vintage toy and children's furniture sale lists a wide range of items from war toys and animals to tool chests and rocking horses. Prices run from 5c to 13.50, with items like toy automobiles, harmonicas, tree ornaments, artificial Christmas trees, desks, chairs, and folding tables featured.
An advertisement touts Erector as the world famous toy and boy's first choice. It claims builders can make wagons battleships towers and bridges with original educational appeal. Complete sets range from 1.00 to 25.00 dollars.
A vendor features Rolling Chimes for 50c and 25c to 98c for long handle versions. Ten Pins sets run 25c to 1.98, Foot Balls in rubber priced at 50c to 1.00 tomorrow. Toy Trunks range 50c to 3.98, Doll Carts 50c to 5.75, and Shoo-Fly rocking horses from 75c to 3.50.
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