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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 11, 1912

Page

29

For Sale Real Estate Lots and Cottages Promo

Numerous local listings advertise affordable homes and lots with low down payments and monthly installments. Properties include a 5 room cottage on Cooper Street, a modern six room cottage on Gibbs Building area, a five room cottage on Vine Street, a four room house near S Flores Street, and a Mission Street lot with Highland Park access, all with cash offers and monthly payments.

Cooper St Nims & Hyde St. James Hotel E. Zander Gibbs Vine W. B. Whitaker S. Flores St S. Medina Mission ST Alamo

For Sale Beven-room Modern Residence Near Car One

For sale a five room modern residence near car line, practically new with two lots. See San Antonio Loan and Trust Co for details.

San Antonio Loan & Trust Co

Farms and Ranches Listings and Land for Sale

An assortment of real estate notices from Texas farms and ranches. Listings include 71 acres near San Benito on the main canal with cabbage income, 31 acre truck farm near Linton, and multiple other properties in Mission Cedar County Missouri and around San Antonio with asking prices and trade considerations.

San Benito Texas Rio Grande Valley Paul Stevenson Houston St San Antonio

Farm and Ranch Lands for Sale in Texas and Nuevo Leon

Multiple parcels offered in Live Oak Dimmit Bastrop and LaSalle counties with acreage from 100 to 162 acres and larger tracts near rail lines. Prices range from 12.50 to 18.00 per acre, with details on water, soil, fencing, and cultivation. Also ranch prospect in Nuevo Leon and smaller urban lots in San Antonio area.

For Sale Prospectus of Texas Farmland Listings

Auction style notices list sixty acres near Lavernia with houses water and cultivation at 15 dollars an acre. Another 250 acres near Zuehl with 70 acres in field, water and good houses at six dollars per acre. TD Decolx advertises 345 acres at Cotulla, Texas with particulars available.

J. W. Beard Lavernia Tex Zuehi Zueh Bros Zuehl Marion Cotulla Texas Decolx Bay City

For Sale 1220 Acre Mesquite Farm West of Disley

Property offers 1220 acres of chocolate mesquite land with 700 acres in cultivation. Includes fine two story residence, seven tenant houses, good water, and well fencing. Entire tract cultivable at 35 per acre with 10000 trade, easy terms on balance. Apply to owner 845 care Light.

Disley

Sheep Ranch for Sale in Blanco County 1861 Acres

1861 acre sheep ranch in Blanco County with small house sheds fencing and running water priced at 4.50 per acre. Also available with sheep. Stewart Von Emon new phone 860. 419 Gunter Building.

Blanco County Stewart-Von Emon Gunter Bldg

Large tract of mesquite land near Cibolo Texas

165 acres good black land with 90 acres in cultivation located 1 mile from Cibolo station. Also 188 acres about three miles from the station with 80 acres in cultivation. School and cotton gins nearby. For information write or call Walter Haecker, Cibolo, Tex. all mesquite land.

Cibolo Station Walter Haecker Cibolo Tex

Farm Land Bargain 809 Acres Near Alice Texas

Listing offers 809 acres four miles from Alice in Jim Wells County at 25 dollars per acre with adjoining land at 56 dollars. Owner out of state sacrifices. 320 acres in the county 100 percent tillable. H C Thorman 425 Navarro St. Also Medina Dam unimproved land valued at 250 per acre but a 40 acre irrigatable farm on Medina River with pecan groves and a nine room house.

Alice Jim Wells Medina Dam Medina Railrroad Station

For Sale Snap By Owner 215 Acres Near City Hall

Property listing describes 215 acres at St Hedwig on paved road nine miles from city hall and half mile from station. 80 acres cultivation with two large tanks, well and cistern, five room house and outbuildings. Fr. W. offers price and terms at 517 Paso Hondo Street City.

St. Hedwig City Hall F. W Paso Hondo Street City

No Mind for Money in Senate Testimony Over Campaign Contributions

Nathan B. Scott, former West Virginia senator, testified before a senate subcommittee investigating election expenses that he cannot recall whether his 1904 national Republican fund contribution was $30,000 or $40,000. He also said George W. Perkins gave $15,000 to the West Virginia state campaign to support electing a Republican governor, due to friendship with Colonel Roosevelt. The piece notes a mechanical method using steel balls to polish and burnish castings, feasible for brass foundries to cut labor costs, typically employing balls about one-quarter to one-sixth inch in diameter and totaling roughly double the volume of the pieces being rumbled.

Nathan B. Scott West Virginia Senate George W. Perkins Roosevelt

Romance of the Prince of Crooks Arrest in Rome

A Pittsburgh Leader report chronicles Count Giuseppe Orsi di Mondello Orsi de Monbello known as the Prince of Crooks. He awaits trial in Rome after decades of swindling across three continents alarming wealthy Americans, with ties to Rome's mayor and ministers.

Prince of Crooks Pittsburg Rome Suong Giuseppe Orsi di Mondello Eternal City J. Pierpont Morgan Wallingford Prince Count Giuseppi Giutsepp1 Giuseppe Abil

Count Orsi the Money Magnet Flees From Politics

Former U S Senator W A Clark of Montana recounts the Italian Count Orsi who fled Italy to escape political turmoil and then allegedly defrauded investors in coffee schemes art dealings and a host of public works. He allegedly gained church royal and government support while amassing funds from Rome hotel keepers florists landowners and clerks before his arrest sparked a Romewide furor.

Giuseppe Grand Rome Signor Giolitti Signor Nitti Count Orsi Venezuela Signor Crispi Italy Bersa Sbert Bersaglieri Gett Ing Turin Jesus Christ Napoleon United States W. A. Clark Montana Europe Milan Paris Ostia Vatican Holy See Wallingford

Building Health Gauge Guards Skyscraper Safety

A Washington engineer develops a clinical thermoscope for structures to detect hidden stress in steel girders. By boring two shallow holes and using a dual-tube gauge, he measures tiny bends over time to assess load distribution, boiler seams, and pavement performance, enabling life-cycle monitoring of buildings and bridges.

J. E. Ho Bureau of Standards Washington

Lightning protection via underground wiring may raise damage estimates

Investigations across Europe suggest lightning damage in cities has fallen as electric wires provide protection by diverting bolts. With wires moved underground the damaged effects may rise, leading to a return to lightning rods as the preferred defense.

Europe

Moose Heads Watch Taft Guests At White House Luncheon

In the White House dining room Roosevelt had placed two large moose heads on display. At Taft's reception Secre­tary Fisher stood under one and joked about them while ice cream was served, noting the animals were dead.

Washington White House Roosevelt Taft Fisher Rodenberg Illinois

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Leva Tehe Rignt Metrz Lhe Highland Park Duliing Printing Co Commerce St Dulling Printing Co W. Commerce St McKinney J. D. Cook Linton Mission Cedar County Missouri Cal Medina River Dromgoole Bros Ouston Live Oak County New English Dimmit Zavala Railroad Station Crystal City Tortuga Valley Iles Price Bastrop County Rosanky LaSalle County Thwest Nicholson Furnish & Smith Gunter Adkin Elmendorf Nuevo Leon A. C Care Light Drom Farm Land Bargain H. C. Thorman Navarro St SNAP the Prince of Crooks Giuseppe Orsi de Monbello Ity Howard New York Indianapolis Saat
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