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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1913
Page
7
A near‑new house listing offers a five-room, three‑bedroom setup in easy walking distance to amenities. Exclusive agents at 41 Navarro B1 present the property for cash at 4700 with favorable terms. Contact PATRIV CO for more details and viewing arrangements.
A fragmented sale page advertises several cheap houses and cottages with small upfront cash and monthly balance options. Included are mentions of Tobin Mill House, a five room GRal Cottage, and a Denver Blvd entry, plus addresses and contact cues such as Anderton and Crocker. The notices emphasize limited sale windows and quick offers.
Numerous real estate items advertise farms near San Diego and Los Angeles, detailing acreages from 27 to 100+, improvements, water, fences, and price per acre. Prospects include 210 acres near a railroad, 100 acres near San Jose, and irrigated tracts with wells, houses, and outbuildings. Contact numbers Crockett 417, 5209, and local listings.
An OCR fragment lists cleaned garments and displays at Gornens & Schroeder, 62nd Avenue, with various items and prices. Mentions a boy with bicycle delivering leaning signage, and references to watches, fixtures, and a canopy top.
WANTED POSITION AS HOUSEHOLD HITTER for amos county or widower 1208 West Houston. HALF LOVELY FUMMIAHILD COTAGE with 16 rooms, two bedrooms, dright intelligent boy of 1 strong ard fond of werk. ASKING DISTANCE & DEPOT 4 room cottage with gas hot water. Architect and home molder with 22 years experience. BEGGS FOR SETTING barred rooks. Riverside Drive. Visitors don’t miss free hours at Aver street and Sixth Street.
A dense list of real estate transfers and deeds dated 1910s to 1913. Names include Mee amy E Colling Henry King dr J H Bolle Billy Julius Edward Ron Haze Ilan Walter Grathius Agnes M Grathaus Henry and 13 Moose Wile Theiraghh Apel 1a 1943. Locations mention San Antonio area blocks and tracts with varied consideration amounts from 25 to 426 dollars and up to 2800 dollars. The long entry records multiple transfers, vendors, grantees, and parcel descriptions across numerous blocks and streets.
Scranton reports Adolph Melzer of Evanston Ind plans a will shielding funds for homeless dogs and cats. The will delays bequest until after 250 years and places the document in metal tubes guaranteed to endure five centuries. Melzer earmarks 32003 to Evanston and ten states, with interest to grow to about 281 559 641. The article also notes global longevity data and the persistence of war across a century.
Fiesta Week features a large Rio Rico Rice and Dove Water Carnival Company lineup with 14 shows including a water circus as headliner. The program, staged on San Antonio streets and plaza sites, showcases aquatic feats, tightrope stunts, diving dogs, and a Mexican village on Plaza market. A 200-member crew travels by special train to assemble the acts and entertain crowds during the festival.
Miss Geralaine Farrar sang Tosca at the Metropolis last night as a lantern fire on her wig sparked chaos in the orchestra and boxes. Farrar smothered the blaze with a gesture, finished the performance, and leapt to the parapet, while patrons expressed concern and disbelief at the dramatic moment.
A period advertisement promotes a free shorthand and typewriting or bookkeeping and telegraphy scholarship at Draughon's Practical Business College. It pledges free enrollment branding and a flexible payment plan of 26 dollars monthly with salary-backed balance after securing a position, running from April 21 to April 26 with a $25 deposit option if entry is delayed.
A distorted timetable fragment lists multiple railroad routes and departures. It references Houston, Kerrville, Palestine, Victoria, Dallas, El Paso, and coast lines with various numbers and times, including Sunday operations and special notes. The legible items suggest a regional schedule with departures and arrivals across several points, typical of a historical press snippet.
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