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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1916
Page
29
The San Antonio Light outlines per word rates for classified ads, rules on consecutive insertions, special rates for certain sections, and the minimum charge. It also states deadlines, reliance on written orders, and a single incorrect insertion liability.
A bidder considers a San Antonio property within a two mile limit. A railroad company on one side plans improvements costing 1 750 000 dollars. Another railroad on the opposite side has begun building new shops and terminals costing 500 000 dollars.
Transfers listed from April to August 1915 1916 include Frank and Rosa Laird to A V Ford on Treasure Hill Summers Place blocks in Kendall and Bexar counties with prices around 1409 and 100 dollars and more. Other deeds include John Loustaunan to W Z Long on Queensborough Court and McC Shacklett to Mollie Shacklett on Convent Street with prices 2000 dollars. Dan B and Agnes W McEnery to A A Schroder add 2600 dollars for east 4 1 2 feet of lots on Grayson Street and Sam and Saille Friedman to Fay Perkins at 1865 dollars for lot 17 block 1 new city block 651 Stouts Inside addition. W C Sullivan store on South Flores street valued at 9000 dollars.
A promotional notice from The San Antonio Light advertises combined circulation among five Texas newspapers totaling over 140000 daily and 170009 on Sundays. Rates are six cents per word for daily and Sunday ads, with 0 word ads costing $1 for weekday insertions or $3.50 for three insertions. Minimum charge based on twenty words. Sunday copy due noon Thursday before publication.
The Mertz family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during illness and death. They express gratitude to Rev. August Wolff St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and San Antonio camp Woodmen of the World and for floral offerings.
A historical timetable lists multiple trains with routes to Laredo Houston San Antonio Kerrville and Kerrville connections. It shows arrivals and departures for Sunshine Special Katy Flyer Katy Limited Texas Special Sunset routes and Santa Fe services with destinations including St Louis New Orleans and Corpus Christi.
A list of real estate quit claim and grant deeds dated 1914 to 1916 transferring lots and blocks in several city blocks including Elite Heights Army Terrace Lynnwood addition and MecGorty tract with stated considerations from $1 to $2000 and notes of receivership and county properties. The entries name Edna May W. McClannahan Mary Elizabeth Henson Adelia Cresston A J Pape C Kitchen Beulah M Kitchen I K Roberts T E Mumme BR Roos Walter Foerster and others with locations on Dourau Avenue Post Avenue Austin Street Lynnwood Brunswick Park and Dimimit Jackson counties.
Dudley Kenneth Lansing and Mary Daniel Case receive marriage licenses. Augustin Villalovas and Carmen Villareal are also issued licenses in the same docket.
No 9042 Ford W Duffy 922 North Pine Street No 9043 Ford 8 P Glover 2902 West Houston Street No 9044 Dodge Harry Sugarman 719 Morales Street No 9645 Hupmobile Em fl W Leesch 1310 Hays Street
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