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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1912
Page
9
Local ads advertise tailored garments from M J Lobert at 208 South Alamo and San Antonio Mfg Co at 323 Austin Street. Other notices include George Anderson’s Blind Cabinet Making repairs at 206 Virginia Street and Thomas W Carrico carpentry estimates at 914 Ave C plus various tailoring and cabinet making services.
An assortment of small ads lists services from gravel and sub-division work to car sales and repairs. Entries include A Zander address and cheap subcontracting, Souter's Orchestra at Muth's Garden with new phones, Commercial Auto & Repair Co offers used cars and storage, J VanLandingham under new management with bargains, and May's unredeemed diamonds watches and rings at 104 West Houston.
Classified ads offer ventures for sale including a fully equipped machine shop at 823 Austin St and an established business on South Alamo St. Others seek partners in real estate rental and insurance, restaurant trades in Denver, and general loans. Also ads for moving pictures theatre sale and various loan services across San Antonio. Many personal health and financial distress notices accompany the opportunities.
Multiple real estate notices describe five room cottages on high corners near two car lines at 104 Drexel Avenue and other Laurel Heights homes priced from 2950 to 6250 with terms. Listings include building lots in Walker addition and a chicken ranch trade, plus rent and buying options and agents Schmer beck & Co and Doss & Pool.
Property listings seek buyers with easy terms and owner financing. Includes 80 acres adjoining Harlandae and 25 acres just outside city limits suitable for subdivision. Various houses and lots offered with contact details and cash or terms options.
Real estate notes advertise fifty acres near North Loop at $150 per acre and multiple home and building-site sales around San Antonio. Properties include four- and seven-room houses on Tobin Hill and Dignowity Hill, lots on Laurel Heights and Westfall, and building sites in South Heights. Contact points include W C Sullivan Investment Co and Doss & Pool with addresses in downtown San Antonio.
Real estate notices list a four room residence at $1100 with $250 down and several lots in Laurel Heights and Madison Square district. Properties include a 650x125 South Front lot on West Magnolia Avenue priced at $1250 with utilities in street. Additional mentions of cottages for sale or rent and other bargains in houses, lots, farms, and pasture lands with phone contacts.
In Austin on January 27, 1912, W. L. Harrison & Co. endorse J. R. Foote the auctioneer. They praise his work as very satisfactory and his prices as better than expected, recommending him to anyone needing a first class auctioneer.
Advertisements describe a range of commercial chances. A restaurant and lunch counter in a good location notes strong turnover and seller's motive. A general merchandise shop promises $25 000 and exchange for city property or land. A grocery with exclusive privilege is touted as a fortune maker. A pawn broker business with stock of jewelry diamonds clothing seeks quick sale. Also listed are a fruit stand and a rooming house trade post with contact details.
Advertisement style page item listing multiple business offers and notices. A Quin advertises well drilling at 115 Aransas St. Other notices include FOR SALE restorant fixtures 224 Dolorosa opposite Southern hotel, FOR SALE STOCK OF STAPLE GROCERIES near Joske's, FOR SALE A GOOD PAYING REES?A grant at 1327 W Commerce St, WANTED PARTNER with 1000 3000, FOR SALE LARGE BOARDING HOUSES 428 Main Ave, FOR SALE NICE SMALL GROCERY store 4326 Light, FOR SALE BOWLING ALLEY 5585 Light, FOR SALE CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES 1000 cash and good lot. Old phone 1596-2r.
Harrison Moving Co offers storage packing shipping and furniture piano and buggy storage with separate stalls priced at 1.60 per month. W Culver advertises storage and moving services at 129 Fannin with phones 2180. Henry C. Rips promotes warehouse moving packing and carpet cleaning with two phone lines. San Antonio Expressmen and Moving Vans advertise rapid delivery and a new storage house with separate stalls and moving vans. Street's Transfer lists storage services and phones.
Classified exchange notice listing several property offers. C B Sewell seeks to trade an irrigated Nueces Valley farm for a San Antonio residence. W W Townsend advertises exchanges for San Antonio property. Walter Nall seeks a cottage in San Antonio in exchange for land notes or 141 acres in Smith County. Laurel Heights home listed for sale or rent-like terms. Rockport 31 acres for sale at 3000 with easy payments.
Classifieds list eight $30 lots near San Pedro in San Antonio with Edwards Realty Co. acting as agents. Highland Park lot for cash near Garden Academy. For sale by owner a seven room cottage at 206 Halliday Avenue with outbuildings and utilities. Five room cottage newly completed on New Braunfels and Nolan in Dignowity Hill. Individual notices name Alfred Williams and W M Crow among others.
Farmlands offered by multiple owners in Texas. Includes 400 acres near Cotulla with partial San Antonio residence payment terms Holland Realty Mackay Building. 100 acres near Highland Park car line at 220 per acre with easy terms owner. 112% acres of rich chocolate mesquite land two miles from Woodward four miles from Cotulla at 15 per acre and 320 adjacent acres also 15 per acre Sterling Robertson 313 Alamo National Bank Building.
Classified ads list multiple Texas properties including a 10 acre tract in Cross 8 ranch with a flowing well and big reservoir, nearby rail access, plus numerous farms, ranches, and Mexico land deals offering acreage from 25 to 800 acres. Prices range from cash deals to installments, with brokers L Maltman and Amos Allen among others.
Multiple farm tracts in Wharton and Matagorda counties offer 80 160 acre blocks and larger parcels. Uniform 42 inch rainfall, cotton corn rice sugar cane alfalfa and vegetables, nearby towns and rail lines, oil fields, cottages on each tract, cotton gin and cash market. Call Ons & Logwood San Antonio for details. IRRIGATED TRUCK AND POULTRY farm near city with houses and lots, $7 per acre W J Cheney 410 Mackay building.
A brief exchange notes a thermometer reading 18 below zero in the suburbs with a quip that the device lies rather than hangs. The quote captures a heated discussion on temperature reporting.
Transfers show multiple parties purchasing parcels in blocks and additions such as Berlin WAMIR DUE and Alamo Heights Co. Names include Kate Maxwell Carl G Hasenbeck Minnie Fischer and George Schmidt among buyers. Transactions cover blocks and street sides across South Heights San Fernando and Alamo areas with values listed for several parcels.
A railroad timetable lists multiple numbered trains with origins such as the north, Houston, Galveston, Kerrville, El Paso, and Victoria. It shows arrival and departure times for trains including mixed, express, local, and special services, plus Sunset Limited routes to San Francisco and New Orleans.
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