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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1912
Page
9
Emphasizes easy payment sales on phones and bicycles. Emerson, the Bicycle Doctor, offers repair for bicycles phonographs and motorcycles through Reliance Cycle Co. Includes listings for second hand wheels, tool services, and storage moving services with multiple Houston street addresses and firm names.
Item description notes a pair ball bearing roller in good condition offered for exchange. Contact Bex 141 Stockdale for details.
A dense list of loan offers and buy or trade ads from various private lenders and firms. The notices promote chattel and salary loans with low rates, vendor’s lien notes, real estate and collateral loans, pawn services, and trade opportunities across multiple offices in San Antonio.
An insurance and bonding ad lists Fire Tornado Liability Automobile Plate Glass Elevator Health Accident Burglary and Live Stock Insurance plus Surety bonds. It notes notary public at 410 Hicks building and offers want ads by telephone with low rates per word and convenient calling options.
Multiple for sale listings including a 656 by 256 lot with eight room brick cottage at 808 Undo St and a six room cottage at Woodlawn and N Flores. Descriptions cover two story houses, a three room cottage, a two story brick business house, and a large two story barn all with modern conveniences within walking distance of car lines. Contact F R Wefing at Soledad and Salinas or advertiser phones 7996 and 71. An apartment site near the Gunter hotel is pitched as the city’s biggest snap at about one dollar per square foot.
San Benito land offers include 20, 40, 80 and 100 acre tracts with canals and railroad through, cotton and sugar cane planted. Listings note Mrs J C Murphy at 1028 N Flores St. Also a 14 acre fruit ranch near Flores car line with 350 plum trees and 300 peach trees plus cattle chickens and farm tools. Additional 50 acres northeast of San Antonio priced at 2000 with terms. Jourdanton Pleasanton properties and ranches offered by Shewae Co Bank Bldg.
Wanted a four or five room house in good condition with modern conveniences good lot and outhouses bargain cash buyer. See Richey Casey at 425 Navarro St phone 2886.
The Texas attorney general and Comptroller Lane say character witnesses in felony cases are not entitled to fees under the revised criminal procedure code. Prior to the ruling, witnesses were paid 4 dollars per day plus 3 cents mileage, but Judge Mead advises against paying any claims for witnesses who testified solely as character witnesses. Staacke Bros. advertise Kelly Springfield rubber tires.
A dense excerpt shows I. & G. N. and G. N. depots with train numbers, origins, and destinations. It lists arrivals and departures for northbound routes, local services to Laredo and Kerrville, express and sunset Limited trains to San Francisco New Orleans and El Paso, and regional Cuero Victoria services, with times scattered across the page.
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