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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1921
Page
6
A store notice announces a postal service at Joske's third floor millinery area offering to wrap pack and address gifts and insure all parcels per Parcel Post rules. It invites customers to bring packages to the sub station for mailing.
Glaced fruits and assorted Christmas candies listed for holiday cooking and gifts. Includes creams, hard candies and festive forms priced at 33 cents per pound. Local ad highlights variety aimed to appeal to shoppers during Christmas season.
A traveling café offers a department of 25 percent off on gift sets and leather goods. Ivory toilet ware and French perfumes are featured along with a wide range of items from $3 to $50. Men and women’s gifts are promoted with emphasis on a popular comb as a potential present. Come in to choose.
An advertisement for Baby's Own Shop features clever toy tables and two chairs for tea parties priced at 12.50 dollars. It highlights pink and blue enamel, embroidered quilts, floral designs, and a range of accessories for children's rooms.
Silk parasols in pure silk taffeta showcase wide tape edges and Bakelite bundles with fancy ring effects. Priced to $7.50, they come in colors such as black av y green purple red and brown with ivory tips and ferrules to match, making a thoughtful gift.
Bright holly ribbons to tie gifts with. 10 yard pieces priced at 20 cents each. Assortment includes plaids stripes checks and solid colors. Hair bow ribbons new plaids stripes checks and solid colors. Present the little miss with a festive hair bow this Christmas.
Beautiful satin stripe hosiery woven of pure thread silks with reinforced heel and toe. Available in black white and brown in all sizes. Described as gift hosiery with low wear costs and long lasting quality at higher priced rivals. Also includes plain silk hosiery mercerized garter tops and lace knit styles priced from 3.30 to AT-Dn.
A vivid ad highlights smart bags in plain and novel leathers, with velvet coin purses and mirrors. French workmanship produces beaded imports in a range of styles and colors, including purses, overnight cases, vanity boxes, and novelty handbags.
In trimmings there never was an assortment more beautiful. Flowers, feather, embroidery, beadings, novelties of all kinds all go to make them more lovely.
Advertisement declares 22 inch cowhide suitcases priced from 22 dollars with silk moire lining and roomy top and side pockets. It promotes a man’s solid leather traveling bag, hand sewn in mahogany colored cowhide as part of a full wardrobe trunk sale on Joske's Fourth Floor.
A note on stationery as a gift that carries friendship and thoughtfulness. It highlights Hurd's Madrasette boxes as especially appealing and suggests Joske's Street Floor as the place to find them.
A new lot of stores presents charming winter gifts in black and taupe. Items feature ball tassels or fringe ends, with finishes in black, brown, and taupe. Some are plain while others are trimmed with delicate tassels, making attractive presents and pleasant keepsakes.
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