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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1913
Page
77
Here is Your Chance five room home nearly new in excellent condition with sample outhouses and a fifty foot lot within easy walking distance of Main and Houston street. J H Kirkpatrick Co exclusive agents at 417-419 Navarro St offer this improved lot and a bargain price quick. For information phone Travis.
Real estate notices advertise a 7 room 2 story modern Tobin Hill house near a street car site priced at 3600 with two year ownership now impossible, plus four lots on Camp Street suitable for residence or factory, 180 by 158 feet. Additional listings include Craig Place Cottage five rooms at 2000, Porter Street cottage three rooms at 900, Booth Heights Park Cottage four rooms at 1360, all with small cash down and monthly balances, contact Anderson via Crockett 31.
Multiple property listings describe 20 acres for 3750, also a 90 acre farm. Laurel Heights beauty with eight rooms and modern features offered at 7500 cash and balance terms. Other listings include 18 acres near Los Angeles, 200 acres black land with cotton potential priced at 25 per acre, an 800 acre ranch with 70 cultivation acres, and 7265 acres near Pearsall at 22.50 per acre. Includes contacts Crockett 4171 and Crockett 5709 plus addresses and vendors.
Direct from owner offers 60 acres near San Jose with easy terms, 40 acres on Corpus Christi Blvd near Harlandale, about 1400 acres 18 miles south of the city with sandy loam soil, suitable for fruit or cotton. Includes a residence and fencing in one listing. Also mentions 182, care Wight 40 acres one mile Kraii l ekuad near Alice, black val sive topsoil 160 acres cultivated, and 37.50 per acre.
Advertisement seeks a lady presser and a boy with a bicycle to deliver garments for cleaning and dyeing at 622 Main Ave. Best wages promised. Lost watch and hunting cage reported near Alamo or Houston streets. return to 613 A or Wolfson store. old phone Travis.
A garbled classifieds block offers a mix of wanted housekeeping work by a widow, a strong capable 16 year old seeking work, several rental cottage notices with addresses on Travis 499, Light Street, and Callaghan Avenue Crockett, plus sellers advertising birds and an incubator, and a Carnival visit promoting a portable house at Avenue D and Sixth Street.
A long list of 1912 to 1918 real estate transfers in Texas shows purchases and quitclaims involving numerous parties. Notable entries include the State of Texas by Comptroller to Mrs. Tra E. Collins for a 1912 deed, S. E. and A. Gantt to W. S. Mitchell for Los Angeles Heights lots, and multiple family and LLC transactions across blocks and new city blocks with varying sums from $25 to $8650. The records reflect transfers in Bexar and Guadalupe counties among individuals and estates, with lots, tracts, and acreages detailed by survey and block designations.
P W Costello engages in engrossing a will to be opened in 2163 and placed in metal tubes for five centuries. The document, for Adolph Metzer of Evanston Ind, plans a $1000 gift to Evanston and ten other states, held at interest for 250 years to reach about $201.56 million for homeless dogs and cats.
German gathered statistics show over seven thousand people aged 100 or more in Europe their wealthier nations report fewer centenarians Bulgaria tops with 8888 followed by Roumania 1704 Servia 573 Spain 410 France 213 England 92 and Denmark only two with war torn Balkans linked to longer life in the last century.
Rice and Dove Water Carnival Company brings fourteen shows to San Antonio Fiesta Week with a twenty car equipment train and a 200 person troupe. The water circus headliner features Annette Kellerman style divers, a 75000 gallon tank, and acts including high diving and diving dogs. Mexican village on Haymarket plaza hosts six dancing girls and a 15 to 20 piece orchestra for weeklong performances.
During the Tosca performance at the Metropolitan, a lantern flame set Miss Geraldine Farrar's wig on fire. She calmly smothered the blaze and finished the act, while the audience urged with cries that her hair was aflame. A London Standard note adds George Yardley completed forty years as a railway flagman without accidents.
In a Baltimore American classroom prompt children reply Yes mi Ice. The riddle hints at a science concept where certain materials contract with heat and expand with cold, inviting discussion on thermal behavior.
In a Washington Herald exchange, one speaker favors cheerful conclusions while the other jokes about losing a handkerchief or glove in theatergoing. The lightweight banter reflects columnist era humor and audience talk.
The ad promises a life scholarship in shorthand and typewriting or bookkeeping and banking to the student with attendance figures exceeding other local schools. It details a Fiesta Week offer with $25 down and balance from salary after securing a position, running April 21 to April 26, with a later entry option by sending $25.
The page lists multiple rail lines and timetables including northbound and southbound departures and arrivals. It references local trains to Palestine, Houston, Galveston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Kerrville, Cuero, Victoria, and coast towns, with times such as 1:50 pm, 6:35 am, 4:30 pm, 9:55 am, 10:45 pm, and 7:55 am, along with mixed and express services and Sunday variations. It shows a complex schedule for No 6, No 8, No 11, No 21, and other designations, plus notes on Victoria Divisional arrivals and related connections.
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