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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1911
Page
15
An old classified snippet offers gas and cooking oil delivery from 218 Main Avenue with phone 2796 and a 20 gauge double barrel shotgun listed for sale. Also advertised are a Ney brand leather item and a GE suit made to order priced at $13, size 36, call 217 Alamo Plaza or old phone 6903.
A set of listings describes a 100 by 194 foot ranch on Paso Hondo with a 4 room house priced at 1260, plus a KWTTIEST 6 room one story colonial with hardwood floors mahogany doors and many features in Army Terrace. Also a NEW four room house on Essex street South Heights with bath toilet electric light and street car access. CHAS 0 AUSTIN is listed as owner at 324 Bedell Building and 24 Bedell Building.
A secret romance ends in murder when Laurette Ferrari rejects Baron Jules Loumont. Fifteen years later, the narrator confronts Loumont with Laurette’s crucifix, forcing a confession of jealousy led killing. The baron dies by cyanide after admitting his crime.
Juarez addition lots on Leal Mofidova and Perez streets near West End car line priced from 100 dollars. Several cottages and residences offered in Riverside Building promotions with car line access and modern improvements. Artesia Wells land near Artesia depot touted as colonization style offering flowing wells at 400 feet and vast acreage from 19 dollars per acre with parts resold at 40 to 55 dollars.
A compact sale notice reads must sell my home in thirty days. Two rooms on Lot 51 by 167, two blocks from Harlandale bath house with terms. Nearby mentions a five room house near Hot Wells car priced at 1800 and offered at 1500 for immediate sale. Contact route 7 Wichmand and old phone 3429.
Multiple listings detail improved farms and ranches for sale or trade across Pearsall Cotulla Shafter Uvalde and San Antonio regions. Highlights include 343 acres at $20 per acre by E De Coux Bay City Texas 320 acres at Shafter Presidio County via Talcott Electric Co 8000 acres south of Uvalde by C O Byrd 80 acre farm east of the city with crops wells and outbuildings at $8500 and 184 acres east of San Antonio on a macadamized road with store and stock at cost with house and cultivated land.
A charter was granted to the Liano Land and Irrigation Company of San Antonio. Its capital stock is 26000 dollars, and its purpose is to carry on irrigation business in Kimble County. Incorporators are Henning Bruhn Otto Wahrmund and Arthur W Guenther.
Special to the Light reports Silk O Loughlin argues for faster baseball, blaming players for slow games. He compares speed to vaudeville and boxing, saying rapid play keeps fans and box office. He notes earlier rapid games but laments current slothful methods extending innings.
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