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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1911

Page

15

Best and cheapest lot on Alamo Heights for sale or exchange

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE BEST AND cheapest lot on Alamo Heights. Will take piano as part payment balance easy. Ad dress 2216 Light. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR SIMI lar property in San Antonio. Two story frame dwelling eight rooms. Modern conveniences including electric lights gas instantaneous heaters etc Corner lot 560x186 feet McKinney and Blackburn avenue Dallas Has cement sidewalks barn garden chicken house etc In best residence part Palise Address 604 Gunter building San Antonio.

WM. Co. Lott, Son & CO Avenue C Moore Alamo Heights Light San Antonio McKinney and Blackburn Avenue Dallas Gunter Building Santonio

For Sale Real Estate Readily Bargained at Essex Street

For sale less than cost House No 837 Essex Street South Heights two blocks from car Three large rooms bath front and back gallery electric lights large lot south front Only 1100 Very easy terms Chas O Austin owner 324 Bedell Building

Harlandale Car Alfred W. Rohde Gibbs Durango Street A. J. Greiner Moore Building Essex Street South Heights Bath Chas, O. Austin Bedell Building

For Sale Kerrville Properties Near River and City Limits

Modern two story residence with servant's house barn and sheds on Brooklyn avenue. Best buy to be had for the money. See San Antonio Loan Trust Co. Nine acres land on river front fifty feet from Kerrville city limits. Four room cottage near Scofield school. Price 1600. Hugh Nelson Kerrville Tex.

Brooklyn Avenue San Antonio Loan & Trust Co Kerrville Scofield School Hugh Nelson Tex

Desirable Corner Lot Listings With Easy Terms

A collage of real estate pitches along Chestnut Crockett Navarro and nearby streets offers corner lots and small homes for sale with low down payments and monthly terms. Properties include 8 to 8 room configurations, near Presa, Southside, Highland Park, and West End area with builders ready to arrange construction. Listings note cash printing services and miscellaneous notices, with contact details and old phone numbers.

B. G. Irish Navarro Street B. G. Trish Laurel Heights Highland Park Wees City New

Farms and Ranches for Sale Listed in Texas Ads

A collection of rural property notices includes an improved farm near Pearsall with cattle and tools and a third cash payment. 343 acres near Cotulla at 20 per acre. an 84-acre tract east of town for 1800. lower Rio Grande land snaps including 40 and 80 acre tracts. 640 acres in Guadalupe county offered with terms and trade for auto. a car trade near Seguin. and a poultry and truck farm for sale near a car line with irrigation and easy terms.

Pearsall C. EB. Kerr Texas Cotulla BE. de Coux Bay City City W. B. Whitaker French Building County Court House Rio Grande Valley Monarch Land Company Gibbs Building San Antonio Guadalupe County Sevi Seguin

Shah Sevar Leads Desert Raid Toward Bam

Shah Sevar also called the riding king of Western Baluchistan leads a fourteen man raiding party across alkali plains toward Bam. They travel at night, rest in hot springs, stockpile water, and approach the village with stealth hoping to avoid scenting dogs before dawn.

Shah Sevar Baluchistan Bam Allah

Attack on Bam Ended by Shah Sevar at Gate

During a sudden raid on Bam a mounted chief known as Shah Sevar directs robbers who seize slaves and loot a village. As armed pursuers approach, Sevar is shot and falls. his body lies at Bam’s gate while the raiders flee toward the desert.

Shah Sevar Bam

Maori Heads Arrive At University Museum In Philadelphia

Professor George B. Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania museum has received three ancient Maori heads through his London agent. The heads, about 200 years old, preserve facial contours and feature grotesque tattooing. Escape from New Zealand origins noted.

George B. Gordon University of Pennsylvania Museum London Philadelphia New Zealand

Rail Schedule Fragments From North and South Lines

A fragmented timetable lists multiple train numbers and routes. Entries show arrivals and departures from the north and south, with services to Houston Galveston Dallas Fort Worth Kerrville and Victoria and special Sunset Limited trains to San Francisco and New Orleans.

Houston New Enveccoc Gal- Veston Seoee Dallas Fort Worth E.secee Sese Peat No Or-Maros Sakis Vedsesnesecsk Osa Ame North Dallas, Fort Worth Wacd Galves- Cor Cocene Coast Kerrville Borgo Co Seeetscecik el Paso Sunset San Francisco New Orleans West East 8. A Victoria Division

Captain Cook and Maori Heads Preserve Tattooed Faces

The article describes Captain James Cook's 1770 observation of Maori preserved heads. Professor Gordon notes heads are smoked and kept for ancestral imagery like Caucasians with portraits. Moari heads are unique among Polynesian tribes. Borneo peoples do not tattoo theirs. Few preserved heads exist, with Robley collection at Columbia University holding many.

James Cook Gordon Borneo Robley Columbia University

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