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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1913
Page
7
A bold sales pitch touts a plan to help buyers own a home by making small cash payments and paying like rent. It promises land, a built house, free architectural plans, and use of equity as cash toward a new property. The ad claims to cover lots, construction, and notes, offering ongoing rent styled payments and commissions for dealers.
A garbled 1900s real estate column lists rooms and properties across Atlanta areas including Edgewood, Peachtree, Piedmont, Pryor, and Gordon streets. It promotes three bungalow builds, West End Park, and numerous apartments with varied prices and features like furnaces, tile baths, and sleeping porches.
A steam house lot 48 by 140 feet between Merritts Avenue and Linden Street offers future value as large buildings rise on Peachtree Street. Priced at 84000 or 145 per front foot, terms call for 2000 cash and balance over two years at 7 percent.
Property notes describe land on Edgewood Avenue between Jackson and Yitegerald streets running to Cham Berlin Street. Two single houses on site, asking price $6600 with $200 per front foot. Terms $1500 cash, balance in three annual payments at 7 percent interest.
Factory sites on A, B and A railroad inside the city limits are for sale at ten dollars to one hundred dollars per front foot. The properties lie between Kennedy Street and Bellwood Avenue about two miles from the center. Main street sites fetch 206 to 100 per front foot. These lots are priced to be affordable and forgotten until a buyer appears.
Investment property located one block west of Davis Street on a corner lot 100 by 105 feet with monthly rent of 10 dollars and potential to build an additional house.
Property description for No 116 North Boulevard fronting 64 feet on Ou Boulevard and 90 feet deep along Wheat Street. A 12 room dwelling rented to two families at 36 dollars per month. Price 560 dollars with reasonable terms. Close-in corner location in Atlanta.
Brick corner store on a 41 by 90 foot lot. Building covers the front with a large rear space suitable for additional structures. Cash price 500 dollars with balance in monthly or yearly payments. Current rent 4180 dollars annual. Asking price 5500 dollars.
Five parcels on Currier street and Fairfax street measure 50 by 140 feet with six tenants paying 750 dollars monthly total rent 4500 dollars. Sanitary connections installed. Located on a main north side cross street in Atlanta. Price 3750 dollars, one third cash, balance over 1 and 2 years at 7 percent interest.
A near in property at 199 Jackson Street offers residential living with investment potential. It rents for $429 a year, presenting as a solid income property while located at the junction of Hizhlant Avenue and Jackson Street car lines for easy access.
Washington December 27 The federal reserve bank organization committee tonight supplemented its plan for locating federal reserve cities with an unofficial announcement guiding all cities to present their claims for banks. The hearings will help draw district boundaries as cities bid for a reserve bank.
Salion Adams a young negro was bound over by Esquire T J Simmon of Summerville on two charges of arson claimed that the defendant burned a barn belonging to George Salmon on the night of December 11, 1919 destroying fodder, corn, three or four mules and a cow. The state contends malice. Bond fixed at 500 dollars.
Members of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Federation of Women’s Clubs, among others, plan a Tuesday night meeting in the Convention Hall on the Piedmont Hotel’s ninth floor. The session aims to decide what permanent benefits can be drawn from a recent child welfare exhibit.
At the December lodge meeting representatives were elected for 1914 with Wo Robinson as worshipful master and H N Rainey Jr as senior warden. Other officers include J S Settles chaplain, W F Smith secretary, H A Carlthers Jr senior steward, and A P Guttin tyler.
Summerville lodge No 109, Free and Accepted Masons, Dec 27 elected officers for the new term. Rev J J Sappington, worshipful master. J H Pollard, senior warden. T J Simmons, junior warden. N Martin, treasurer. C Martin, secretary. TF A Powell, ryler. Rev J CG Wardin, chaplain. J A Strange, senior deacon. HC Buchalew, junior deacon. BH Edmondson, senior steward. Pa Edge, junior steward.
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