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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
9
A dense-page personal lair listing hairdressers doctors and beauticians. palmistry and occult services. babies for care. baldness cures. home remedies. ads for paint and beauty schools. lawyers and real estate ads. scattered names and addresses.
Old and new phone numbers listed for auctioneers J. R. Foote and Red Houston. Household goods livestock and merchandise to be sold at 306 North Street in a big furniture sale advertised for Saturday August 10. References include bank and other contacts with residences and office addresses in Omaha Street and Flores Street areas.
Multiple classified notices offer exchange or sale of property in the San Antonio area. Buyers seek city lots and equity for farms, residence value ranges from 1200 to 315000, with railroads nearby. Listings include shops and cottages, prompting calls to old phone numbers and addresses for particulars.
An estate sale offers a newly built 5 room cottage three blocks from Highland Park with city water on two 50 by 117 lots. Terms: $250 cash and $10 monthly. listed by Dulling Printing Co. 112 W Commerce St. Also Highland Park lot for $275 or $550 option with old phone 3877 at 601 N Monumental.
Seven room modern residence near the car line two lots nearly new priced at 8500 through San Antonio Loan Trust Co old phone 4682 also offers a chicken ranch and other real estate bargains including a two room house with sleeping porch at 414 Navarro St and a 22 room hotel for sale or rent near the depot plus 150 by 150 corner with three room house and grocery potential at 702 Westfall Ave opposite Highland Park with a 1850 price and Sept 16 availability.
F C Hunn & Co exclusive agents advertise five good lots on a city avenue for sale at 925 dollars each. Also listed is a beautiful eight room two story home in the south part of the city on Navarro Street with lawn, view, and convenient features for sale.
A collection of small ads listing price options and terms for houses and building lots. Includes 450 by 150 feet site at 612 Gunter with trade terms by Lott & Son, a modern six room cottage at 811 Gibbs Building, a four room house near Flores Street for 950 cash, a $25 down four room house on a car line, and a $25 cash plus weekly payments option for a three room cottage at 421 Furnish Ave near Collins Garden car line with Nims & Hyde.
An ad offers a five room sash house on a 50 by 150 foot lot at 220 Cooper Street with a 12 by 12 foot house in rear. The sale combines a rent to own plan requiring $20 cash to move in and $20 monthly payments, with emphasis on elevation and proximity to a car line and schools.
Multiple farm and land advertisements across Texas show properties for sale or trade. Listings include 71 acres near San Benito with 175 per acre cabbage yields, 250 acres near Zuehl, 375% acres near Nixon with wells, 346 acres at Cotulla, 60 acres at Lavernia, and 110 acres on the Medina River with contacts for DeGioia and related brokers.
The page details a dense schedule listing G N and Santa Fe trains with numbers and routes including from Mexico Palestine Laredo Houston Galveston Kerrville and Victoria. It shows arrivals departures and local services with times such as 1:50 pm 6:35 am 9:55 am and 9:00 pm among others.
William T. Madden of 813 East Jefferson Street in Louisville made a remarkable catch July 17 while his train, traveling 45 miles per hour between Louisville and Cincinnati, passed Gustin's Park. Leaning from his cab he snagged a foul ball during a game before tossing it back as the train sped onward.
A group of distinguished Texas politicians and businessmen spend a week at Port Aransas. Col. Jake Wolters of Houston joins Paul D. Page Bastrop T A Lowe W R Ewing J P Buchanan Brenham Paul Klatt La Grange J A Hulen C J Kirk Judge H M Garwood Jonathan Lane Carlos Bee and John Wortham are among the party enjoying Spanish mackerel and speckled trout fishing.
Yoakum Texas August 8 A contract has been let to W E Pound for the erection of a sixty thousand dollar ice plant in the southern part of the city The plant will have a daily capacity of sixty tons and will be fitted with ample storage rooms The plant will be owned by a stock company.
August Briam, a San Antonio merchant, told the school board that favoritism exists in the district and criticized high school graduates and the curriculum during a talk advocating shorter public school sessions. He urged a 2 50 dismissal time citing his daughter’s late homework.
The Texas state insurance board will hold an open hearing in Austin on August 19 to consider applications from four Texas fire insurance companies seeking mercantile rate reductions of 10 to 26 percent. Foreign and other competing firms will be given a chance to be heard before action.
The Asherton Fig Orchards company of San Antonio filed its charter in Austin with 10000 capital stock. Incorporators include Henry Wendler Adolph Wendler Bruno Wendler J F Nooe and JL H Schraeder of Kendall County and A A Austin and J B Lewright of San Antonio. The firm will also operate near Asherton in Dimmit County.
Austin Aug. 8 The attorney general's department approved an issue of 17000 Rising Star school bonds bearing 5 percent interest and maturing in 40 years.
DEVINE Texas Aug 8 Citizens of this precinct issue a call for a special election to vote on the issuance of 40000 in good road bonds.
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