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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1916
Page
10
At Joske's Tomorrow is Misses' and Children's Day Baby Week of Spring 1916 with a wide range of veils. Circular veils that flare and round veils that fall loose over the hat are offered alongside close fitting dainty bordered styles. Prices begin at 50 cents.
The agate ad proclaims Baby Week of Spring 1916 with confidence in a large Texas Baby-wear Store. It touts infant garments from dresses and sacques to hats and coats with prices from 10c to $15, plus baskets, booties, and baby care books. The lengthy catalog highlights Gertrude styles, Crepe de Chine, cashmere outfits, and a broad range of children’s wear from sizes 2 to 14 years.
Popular yard yardage fabrics with fast color guarantees. Renfrew Devonshire cloth at 20c yard wide with stripes checks and plains. Pacific Galatea 20 inches wide heavy sateen at 18c yard. Plain Sport Suiting full yard wide at 17c yard. Fancy Dress Gingham 22 inches wide 124c yard. Fancy French Madras 33 inches wide 15c 17c 20c yard. New Spring Percale 1c 12c yard.
In maise and flesh colors with neat cord border these Crepe de Chine handkerchiefs are in strong demand. Excellent quality silk. choice 10c per piece.
A selection of over fifteen fabric border colors is now available, ranging from white with decorative borders to pastel shades with delicate embroidered corners. The items are offered in various color tones to suit differing tastes.
Silk auto caps in convertible two ways with a leather visor and long veil in contrasting shade. Twenty different combinations offered at 1.98 dollars.
Old Tyme Molasses Kisses and Peanut Butter Kisses drop from 25c to 10c per pound tomorrow at Joske's. The variety pack includes Lemon Jellies, Coconut Bon Bons, Fruit Bals, Marshmallow Peanuts, Italian creams, Wrapped Caramels, Strawberry Jellies, Burnt Peanuts, Peppermint Star Light Kisses Peppermint Creams Spiced Creams.
At peak hose demand the Joske Store offers 50 feet of 5-ply half inch hose with couplings and guarantee for the season at 3.69 and 25 feet for 1.89. Regular values are 4.50 and 1.89 respectively.
The notice lists garden items with prices: rakes 25c to $1.00 hoes 25c to 90c spades 69c each spading forks 69c brass hose onan 32c sprinklers 25c The May's flower and vegetable seeds are advertised with a regular price pack being offered tomorrow in a local sale.
Local shoe sale features women's instep strap pumps in white canvas with ribbon bow, priced at $2.00. sport pumps in white Arab cloth at $3.50. cream elkskin golf boots at $5.00. natty colonial kid leather boots at $3.50. patent gipsy pumps at $5. Louise pumps at $6. additional boots listed at $7.00 to $7.50 and marked down to $3.85.
Joske’s showcases a wide spring collection including gabardine and silk coats in new colors and a full range of misses dresses suits frocks and party wear. The touts midries linen dresses gingham pieces and voile marquisette lingeries for girls 6 to 18 with prices from 98 cents to 75 dollars and up.
A newspaper advertisement promotes linen goods with reduced prices on table cloths napkins and damask items. It touts pure white satin damask 45 inch cloths quality napkins and assorted patterns with special tomorrow price drops for dozen sets and individual pieces.
Coasters three inch snail design with nickel rim and porcelain bottom offered at a third of regular value tomorrow. Cups and saucers set of 69 cups and 6 saucers, trays large 25c, creamers 10c, sugars 10c, pitchers various designs at special tomorrow prices.
An old advertisement lists Joske's and other stores offering 50c to 60c items. It includes toilet preparations, face powders, creams, soaps, extracts, and cotton for sale with multiple brands such as Nadine Pond's Lazelle's Dr Charles and Cuticura scattered among two 25c cake soaps and various 50c bottles and jars.
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