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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
19
A vintage ad outlines custom clothing calling attention to fit and sensible pricing at M. J. Lobert's shop on Alamo Street, plus pattern making and model services by San Antonio Manufacturing Co. at 333 Austin Street and furniture repair by George Anderson at 206 Virginia Street with contact numbers.
General contractors and builders can hire Alamo Carpenter Shop at 128 Avenue D for cabinet making as well as specialty storefronts and fixtures. The business promotes new hone and broader carpentry offerings for commercial projects.
Various classified notices for businesses, real estate, loans, and services in San Antonio. Items include restaurants for sale, stock of groceries, a boarding house, profitable partnerships, a machine shop for rent, and numerous loan offers with contact references and old phone numbers. Includes opportunities to lend money and buy real estate or businesses.
A string of real estate notices including a Laurel Heights cottage bargain priced at 2950 on terms a nine room Laurel Heights home with large galleries and modern finishes near San Pedro car a two story cottage near 4287 Light and other properties in Fort Worth and San Antonio plus 50 plus acres of Matagorda County land advertised with rail access and cash offers.
A dated January 27 1912 endorsement from WL Harrison & Co praises J R Foote the auctioneer in San Antonio noting satisfactory work and better prices than expected. The letter asserts confidence in Foote’s abilities and value.
Advertises multiple real estate offers including rent-to-build options for homes, South Heights Bath cottage with easy terms, Laurel Heights building site 100x125, four East Macon street and Ninth street lots, Marlborough front lot discounted, 4 room house on Pruitt Avenue, and a 80-foot lot in San Fernando Addition with electric light and water, all with cash or easy terms and contact details.
Wharton and Matagorda county tracts promise a near yearly 42 inch rainfall and multiple crops including cotton, corn, rice, sugar cane, alfalfa and fruits. Land lies within 10 miles of a southern Pacific town, 4 miles from a St. Louis & Brownsville town, and 6 miles from deep water. Several tracts sold recently. small cash, long term balance, bank references. NES & LOGWOOD San Antonio Texas.
The notice from C. B. Sewell of 518 W Woodlawn lists an improved irrigated farm in Nueces Valley and offers to exchange for a San Antonio property. Also seeks a cottage home in San Antonio in exchange for land notes or 141 acres in Smith County Texas. Walter Nail of San Antonio advertises a trade for gilt edged notes or land. A fourth listing from W H Chambers offers four lots and a small brick hotel in a railroad town for trade or sale.
The San Antonio Express features ads from Harrison Moving Co and Street's Transfer offering storage for furniture pianos and household items, packing, shipping, and moving. It highlights large warehouses, separate stalls, and new contact numbers for each business. Local firms claim best facilities and prompt delivery.
Eighty and twenty five acre parcels offered for subdivision or quick sale near Harlandale Texas. Properties include a cottage home on 121 Dignowity street with rental income and an insured three year policy. Several plots and lots available with cash or easy terms and owner listings.
Six acre tract near the car line adjoins a subdivision where lots sell for 600 dollars. Must be sold by February 10. Price is 2000 dollars with terms. Richey and Casey 425 Navarro Old Phone 2236.
Listings show Sutherland Springs land contracts for sale at 1260 dollars direct from owner with terms. South Heights Highland area home details include seven room rock house at 3875 dollars with shade trees near Dignowity Hill. Other ads mention a four room front property at 1260 dollars and a 411 Garza Street bargain four bedroom house with large lot. Sterling Robertson at 313 Alamo National Bank Bldg handles listings.
Free instruction in horseback riding offered by Bowles Saddle Livery with contact options old phone 489 and new phone 403. School of Optometry at 411 Main Ave advertises day and evening classes. Telephone your want ads with rates listed and 1 cent per time, or a reduced rate per word.
Laurel Heights lot between West Magnolia avenues 517 and 621 with 650 by 125 feet, sewer and gas mains in street, price 1250, owner contact 4171. Madison Square district lot on Quincy Street near Brooklyn car line, price to be discussed, owner at 2103 Zavala Street. For sale or rent a five room cottage in Tobin Hill apply Talcott Electric Co., Navarro Street.
Real estate notices list multiple properties in San Antonio and nearby areas offered by owners or agencies. Properties include five to seven room cottages, lots in Laurel Heights and Highland Park, a warehouse site near Walnut and Eda streets, and a Hicks Avenue lot with various amenities. Prices range from a few hundred to several thousand dollars with terms and contact details.
Property listing offers 29 irrigated acres five miles from San Antonio with house barn tools horses and chickens. Requires responsible buyers. Contact Jones and Logwood San Antonio Texas for details. Also notes other farm listings in Texas with prices and contacts.
A dandy 10 acre tract in the best part of Cross ranch with an 8 inch flowing well and large reservoir. Good roads to railroad. Sold cheap. Contact 5543 Light. Also offers about Cotulla onion farm and a 800 acre goat ranch bargain with improvements and a near residence. Address Amos Allen Sabinas Texas. Improved farm ready for planting with tools and water at 3500. Terma Whitaker old phone 6121.
A collection of farm rental and sale notices listing 60 acre and 30 acre offerings near city roads, 400 acre tracts with orchards and cultivation, irrigated truck and poultry farms, and Mexico land tracts. Listings include contact names such as Ross W Davis, George D Verner, W J Cheney and Sterling C Robertson with locations in Moore Building, Washington Street, Mackay Building and Alamo National Bank building. High level notes mention prices, locations like Road Blanco Taft Ranch Sodville and Sonora country options.
The city records list seven birth notices to couples at varied streets. New parents include Gourley, Atone, Ornenses, Montemayor, Wickenhoefer, Delgado, and Martimes, each welcoming a boy or girl in late January.
A compiled record of transfers includes Prank J Schwartz to W P Covington on Rogers Avenue, T B George to Bertha at Key-Boom Park, Mrs W B Mathis to C J and Nora Ringlestein on Van Ness Street, Hall P Street to W J Wiley on Traylor Street, Annie Beitel to Jesse Beitel on Garden Street, First Townsite Co to Pablo Gonzales in Somerset, J H Biggar to C E B Stephens in Alamo Heights, A B Stephenson to Adelbert Stilson on Rivas Street, W C Walton to Emma Moore on Nebraska Street, H P Drought to J T Walton on Alabama Street, Alamo Heights Co to lots in Alamo, Ora Wright to I J Harvey in Sylvan Park, with various lot and block identifiers.
A fragmented timetable lists multiple passenger trains by number and name, including northbound, coast towns, Houston and Galveston routes, Kerrville services, Kerrville Sunday restrictions, and a Sunset Limited service to San Francisco and New Orleans with specific departure times. It shows exports from El Paso westward and Victoria division stops, with some sun day exceptions and scattered misreads.
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