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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
14
At Joske's store a February sale features silk blouses for girls ages 6 to 14 and new dresses in gingham plaid and checked patterns. Styles include skirts with plaits, crash fabrics, chambrays, and coatee or Russian effects in various colors.
A large jewelry lot features hat pins with steel stems and enameled flowers on sterling silver, gold filled brooches with enameled flowers, gold top waist sets in oval shapes, buckle and bar pins, and prettily hand engraved pieces. Tomorrow offers the entire collection.
Catalog listing items on child welfare and social reform. Titles include Better Babies and Their Care by Anne Steese Richardson priced 75 cents The Progress of Eugenics by Caret William Saleeby at 1.50 The Younger Generation by Ellen Key 1.50 The Woman Movement and The Wayward Child by Hannah Kent Schoff at 1.00.
Amid rising silk prices and dye shortages this February sale offers notable value on new wash silk blouses in white and stripe patterns. Styles include sport cuts with convertible collars, turn-back cuffs, and many trims in sizes 34 to 44, with about fifty models at 3.98 dollars.
A versatile baby foldup unit called the Kiddie-Koop serves as a bassinet, safety crib, play pen, and walker. It features white enamelled wood framing, rust proof wire sides, eight inch rubber wheels for easy steering, and white enamel trim inside. Priced at $16 $18 and $20.
Advertises free samples with any purchase in the toilet goods section tomorrow. Includes Wild Rose Soap, Bradley's Face Powder, Hind's Cold Cream, Eversweet Artesia Soap, and other brands. Customers may take advantage of the store’s cut prices and receive a sample with any purchase.
More than fifty soft Crepe de Chine waists offered in Sunset Rose Maize peach flesh and white. Long sleeve designs feature new collars cuffs embroidered fronts fancy hems and tucks. Styles include Georgette Crepe de Chine Radium Taffeta striped silk and lace trimmed options with shawl collars frill fronts and two tone effects. All sizes in February sale.
This week's shipments debut untrimmed millinery in hemp and Milan straw, with small and medium sizes dominant and a full range of shades. Black options are available, and the collection offers broad variety in new styles for Spring 1916. Visit Joske Millinery Section tomorrow to see the entire display and prices start at 1.48 dollars.
Beached towels and bed spreads offered at deep cuts with heavy crocheted spreads in full double bed size and linen items marketed as tomorrow’s sale. Lunch cloths, damask patterns, and toweling sold in short lengths and full towels at reduced prices for quick purchase. Reliable fabrics and reduced prices highlighted for immediate consumer use.
Patriotic lunch sets with 68 by 84 inch cloths, paper plates doilies and napkins in red white and blue. Crepe decorations 10 feet for 15 cents. Seals flags Uncle Sam hats liberty bells cherry trees 50 seals for 10 cents. Cardboard red hats assorted sizes one dozen or two dozen for 1 cent. Patriotic napkins five cents a dozen. Garlands hang ing flags 15 or 20 cents each. Fire Pro of crepe paper 10 cents. Streamers 50 feet for 15 cents.
The Young Folks' Library of History and Literature offers hundreds of titles including Children’s Stories in American History and American Literature by Henrietta Christian Wright, The Roosevelt Book, Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Lanier Book, The Page Story Book, The Van Dyke Book, and more. Books priced at 75e, tomorrow 25e choice.
An ad notes grained wood swagger sticks with steel tip and sterling knob and cord. Buyers may choose from a large lot tomorrow for a modest price.
Brighten your dress with new neckwear including vestees of organ die lace and net novelty collars and collar and cuff sets. Prices range from 25e to 2.50.
Scarfs fashioned from tulle and silk net in fresh spring shades. Some finished with satin border. Priced at 1.50 2.50 and 3.50.
The ad promotes Presto electric hand lamps compatible with standard dry cell batteries and featuring a magnifying glass. Lamps with a 60 hour nitrogen battery are priced at $1.75. Also offered are sterling silver pie knives with standard blades in gift boxes at $1.00 each.
A wide selection of boys apparel priced from 50c to 2.00 includes new spring hats in duck galatea and poplin, shirts in madras percale and soisette, spring blouses in white madras, knickerbockers in fancy cheviot and blue serge, and rompers for ages 2 to 8.
Readable items show garden hose at 4.50 and rakes 3.69. Other tools include hoes at 1.00 and spading forks 0.69, pruning shears 0.65, brass nozzles 0.32, sprinklers 0.25. Prices indicate a department store display of discounted garden implements.
Crepe seal shopping bags with strap handles and mirror lining. Each includes a coin purse. A special showing promotes these new bags at two dollars.
Exquisitely dainty white dresses in sheer organdies and laces. Many are hand embroidered or trimmed with vintage bands and medallions. Available in sizes 6 to 14 years with silk girdles in pink or blue. Prices from 3.50 to 17.50 and up.
Advertisement notes three five cent bars and ten cent cakes and bars made with cream and nuts, covered in high-grade chocolate and wrapped in tinfoil. The sale price is 6c each with a special tomorrow offer of three for 10c.
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