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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1912
Page
11
A sprawling page of era classified ads and notices lists psychics accountants loan firms real estate auctioneers pawn shops and sale dates. Names and addresses appear for Sun Proof Paints the Sun Proof Store D Drake and Blederson Co Connell Loan Co Gibbs Building W A Lilac Tolman and others along with auction announcements for C W Guiney and Foote Auctioneers.
A flood of classified home notices: four room cottages on Essex Street and Laurel Heights, a three room bungalow on Paseo Hondo, two large lots on Prospect Hill, a modern two story home near South Heights car line, and several other houses with prices from 8500 down to 1500. Also listings for lots on Mission Street and bargain trade offers. Includes old and new phones for contact.
Fashionable Reno guests toast Mrs Mary Fuller of Boston for her divorce dance honoring Philip T Dodge president of a New York typesetting machine company. Mrs Henry Hutt wife of a New York artist has filed for divorce this month. Only single man present was Ray Baker once linked to Margaret Hollis McKim. Other attendees were divorced or seeking divorce.
The text lists multiple Santa Fe J and G N Depot and other lines with arrivals and departures by number, origin, and destination such as from Houston Galveston Kerrville Kerrville mixed and east El Paso coast towns with times like 1:50 pm 6:35 pm 9:56 am and 3:20 am for express north and local services.
A string of visitors check into San Antonio hotels including W D Thompson and HKE Pentecost of Texas, J N Bradley and William Ellis of Houston, Philo Burkholder from Mexico City, and many others. Guests from Dallas, New Orleans, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Beaumont, and St. Louis are listed with stays at the Bexar, Gunter, Crockett, Menger, Savoy, St. Anthony, and other hotels.
Nick Dunn a pioneer ranch owner in Jim Wells county died at his ranch near Alice Texas at age 78 due to old age. His body will be shipped to Corpus Christi with funeral services planned for Friday morning.
Real sacrifice. New two story modern home never occupied near car and school in a highly restricted north side district where values rise quickly. Must be sold this week. H C Thorman 425 Navarro 8 1. Phones 3443. For sale seven rooms no pantries screened plumbing wiring large lot and os 2500 terms. Apply 106 W Crockett 5. For sale by owner Lot 4 Block 65 DeWitt St Old phone 6986.
Special to The Light. In Austin on August 29 the governor remained reticent about when he will announce the replacement for Associate Justice Fly on the Fourth Court of Appeals at San Antonio. He said he would reveal the appointment time when it happens and offered nothing more on the matter. More than a dozen applicants seek the Bexar county assistant district attorney post vacated by J F Carl on September 18, with the governor likely to name Carl’s successor shortly before the vacancy. San Antonio lawyer J E Wilkins, among the applicants, was in town regarding the position.
A cautionary notice directs visitors to the Union Painless Dentists at 322 West Commerce Street and warns against offices with similar names nearby. It emphasizes the correct stairway and distance from the 332 West Commerce building.
Quotation from the Washington Herald notes a cautious man who refuses to order half a canta loupe in a restaurant until someone else approves the remaining half. The witty remark highlights risk aversion in dining decisions.
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