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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
8
The Food Administration describes cupboards as a small branch of the national food bank and urges households to store and preserve garden products not needed immediately to strengthen world food resources.
A large collection showcases Georgette blouses in white flesh brown taupe navy and black trimmed with beads embroidery laces tucks braid and buttons. New collars and necklines feature across broad varieties and handsome styles priced at 5 dollars 10 cents.
A large group features blouses in Georgette and Crepe de Chine trimmed with beads embroidery lace and braid. Styles include Hi-Lo and flat collars in white flesh black navy taupe and more with prices from 4.98 to 5.98 annually.
Paper weights featuring the Alamo or Mission shield offered as souvenirs in several styles. Prices listed as 49¢ 50¢ and 65¢. Location appears to be Section Street Floor with decorative details.
A seller offers Parisian Ivory mirrors with a slight back yellowing defect. The mirrors are pristine in function and finish, ranging from five to seven inches wide. Prices drop tomorrow to 1.98 for 3.50 items, 1.69 for 3.00 items, and 1.19 for 2.50 items.
Hosiery section reveals daily unusual values as stock runs low. Tomorrow tables feature women’s stockings in various colors and weights at 29c 39c 59c and 75c per pair. Cadet and Onyx brands, silk boot styles, and large lots promise savings. Joske's advertises uniform price cuts across boy, girl, and women stockings.
Devoting the Morrow at Joske's invites shoppers to view extensive autumn millinery displays tomorrow. The store offers panne and Lyons velvet plush hats with flowers ostrich fur and new motifs, plus a wide Junior line for girls 6 to 18.
Advertising box sets feature 6 sheets of writing paper and 24 envelopes with colored linings. Prices range from 65 to 89 cents per box. Handmade stationery boxes hold 24 folded deckle cards with matching envelopes and day of week cards in multiple colors.
New Joske's footwear line emphasizes government compliant designs for women and girls this fall. Boots and shoes feature pony kid leather, Louis XV heels, and flexible soles with matched prices from 3.00 to 13.50. Boys’ English style school shoes in gunmetal calf range up to 4% for 3.50.
Extraordinary value with black crepe and walrus Traveling Bags in 16 17 and 18 inch sizes. Styles are described as splendid and well made each marked genuine feather. Available tomorrow at $5.98 each.
Wide 54 inch Renaissance table covers feature hand drawn centers and heavy laces. Stamped bed spreads in floral motifs offer colorfast patterns. Snow white damask tablecloths 72 by 72 inches priced $1.98, with early Saturday sale values listed.
Pretty Japanese silk kerchiefs in a new collection are priced surprisingly low at 10 cents each tomorrow. The designs are described as pretty and the offer emphasizes affordability for shoppers.
A roundup of newly arrived fiction and non fiction titles at Joske's includes Where Bonds Are Loosed and The Mainland by E L Grant Watson both at 1 60, The Apple Tree Girl by George Weston at 1 00, Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells at 1 35, Zella Sees Herself by JM Delafield at 1 50, The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Lutz at 1 35, The Virgin Island Our New Possessions and The British Island by De Booy Faris at 3 00, Paleatine The Rebirth of an Ancient Nation by Hyamson at 2 00, The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895 1899 at 2 00, Diplomatic Days by Edith O Shaughnessey at 2 00, The Reality of the Punychic Phenomena by Crawford at 2 00, Religions of the Past and Present by Montgomery at 2 50, and The Triumph of the Man Who Acts by Purrington at 1 36.
A varied selection of coats in Wool Velour Boliva Cloth Zibeline Kersey Melton Herring bone Cheviot Sammy Cloth Velour and Plush. Colors span black navy taupe reindeer beetroot burgundy Java dark green Oxford Pekin blue. Trimmings include Karami goaline plush with self fabric collars cuffs. Prices $24.75 $29.50 $34.75.
Retail ad notes a final sale on bathing caps with butterfly effects bows pompons and multicolor options. Styles formerly up to 75c are now 41c each and skull bathing caps are 15c each closing tomorrow.
Mercerized ginghams and novelty plaids in light and dark colors priced from 29 to 89 cents per yard. Kiddie cloth and bath robes fabrics offered in 36 and 39 to 69 cents yard. Foulards and eiderdown robe fabrics available in 50 to 69 cents yard with multiple reversible styles. Polonia kimono flannel sold at 35 cents per yard.
An opportunity tomorrow to replenish your supply of table tumblers and pocket a goodly saving. Six 10c glass tumblers offered as a set of six for 37c, a fine quality clear glass that would sell regularly at 10c each.
A Saturday bargain in imported china cups and saucers offered in various decorative shapes and colors. Cup and saucer sell for 19c tomorrow while they last.
Joske's Store promotes a sale on boys school suits at 7.50 and 8.50 with coats knickerbockers in medium and dark fabrics. Sizes 7 to 18, plus a broad range of knickerbockers caps shirts sweaters and other lad attire priced from 1.50 to 5.00 and up to 16.50.
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