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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1916
Page
18
Rates list for the daily and Sunday editions of The San Antonio Light. Includes per word charges for various insertion sequences, minimums, half-rate for certain help wanted ads, and deadlines for daily and weekend publications. Also notes rights to reject or revise copy and late insertion handling.
The notice outlines advertising rules and phone orders for discontinuing classified ads. It states that ads must be in writing to stop, though phone orders are accepted, and that a receipt is given when a t. f order is discontinued.
Read your ads the first time they appear as The Light will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion of any classified advertisement.
Combined guaranteed daily circulation over 140 600 and 170 000 on Sundays across Dallas Times-Herald Fort Worth Star-Telegram El Paso Herald Houston Chronicle San Antonio Light. Classified rates set at 6 cents per word per insertion. a 20 word ad in all five papers costs 1.00 for a weekday or 3.20 for three insertions. Sunday ads due noon Thursday.
Notice for Woodmen Circle Magnolia Grove No 26 meeting printed in error. Classified Advertising Manager, The San Antonio Light. Card of thanks from William Dunn and family thanks friends for floral offerings shown to mother Mrs Mary Dunn.
The timetable lists multiple I. & G. N. trains with origins and destinations including Sunlight Special, Katy Flyer, Sunset Limited, and No. 101 through No. 102 services. Key connections span St. Louis, Houston, Waco, Kerrville, Victoria, Cuero, Port Lavaca, and Corpus Christi with departures and arrivals noted in April style numbering. The Santa Fe and Laredo routes appear with daily and Sunday variations and the Sunset Route schedules show multiple daily services to New Orleans and San Antonio.
A long list of real estate transfers mentions numerous individuals and trustees led by R W Hearne J P De Lesdenter and storey with banks such as Lamberman s National Bank of Houston City National Bank of Galveston and West Texas Bank and Trust Company. The notice names many principals including L N Wai thall W S Keller D M Lambeth Miss Pamela and estates of W H Jones and others with executors and administrators listed.
A historical notice lists multiple transfers and deeds across San Antonio and surrounding areas. Notable items include L. B. Haines to O. C. McLeod for undivided interests in numerous lots in Cable Ranch Subdivision. consideration stated as $20,000. Other entries cover W. A. Shafer and John Bellows to Lloyd and Ida Mitchell for city blocks and lots, and transfers involving W. W. McAllister, W. Forster, Ventura Alborado, Paul Kahn, and others with varied parcels and payments. The list provides dates from 1913 to 1916, with city blocks, lots, and survey references across several neighborhoods.
G. D. Robbins applies for remodel of store front on Avenue with estimated cost 140 dollars. Henry L. Halff seeks to repair a house on Main Avenue for 300 dollars. Hood Main plans a two room dwelling on Cincinnati Avenue with projected cost 600 dollars.
Albert Dougherty and Zula Waublon Mauro Vasquez and Margarita Morales Anulfo B Hernandez and Julia Castillo Faustino G Viagran and Maria M Riv as Alejo Perez and Florencia Valdez de Perez Henry Hope and Lizzie Pugh
A community notice lists births by gender with parental names and home addresses. It records boys born to multiple couples on specified dates and streets in February and January. Girls births are noted for two couples with dates and street addresses included.
Upstairs un furnished eight room apartment with private entrance bath and toilet. Children considered. Located at 216 and Poplar.
Classified listing shows two or three unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping at Government Hill with phone Crockett 5653. Also two well furnished housekeeping rooms at 122 Madison St with Crockett 1560. Plus two neatly furnished light housekeeping rooms at 111 Nebraska St near car line for $10 a month.
Private home offers room for two gentlemen with private room, fresh milk and eggs, walking distance, garage, Travis 1472. LT room and board with home cooked meals by day or week, two blocks from post office, Nacogdoches 316, Travis 2156. Tele TNS cer room and board 84 per week, walking distance, good table, 738 South Presa, Travis 3002.
Mrs. Anna Wagenfuhr 74 died February 7 at City Hospital. Miss Anna Kunz 2 1/2 died February 6 on West Houston Street. Miss Theresa Huppertz 58 died February on Garden Street. Miss Muncey Kitterman 24 died February 6 at Santa Rosa Hospital. Jacob Crawford 85 died February 5 at 181 West Dittmar Avenue.
For rent a large new store building at 1064 Cameron Street with five upstairs living rooms, lights, bath, hot and cold water, suitable for any business. Reasonable rates.
Ferd Staffel at 219 East Commerce Street offers hay grain garden seed and poultry supplies including incubators and brooders. The Southwestern Bee Co advertises Purina Chicken Chow and related feeds with delivery via area grocers and a phone contact Crockett 853. It also promotes Pure Bred Rhode Island Red eggs at $1.50 for 15 with blue ribbon stock and Cr. 1800 as a contact.
Classified notices list male jobs and trades in Texas. Positions include barbershop training offers, blacksmith with woodworking and horseshoeing skills in Meyersville, an office boy for the San Antonio Light, bookkeeping and commissary roles with housing, and a homeless old man sought for work in a beer saloon. Various addresses and contact details provided.
A private family seeks a room with a sleeping porch either with or without board. No boarding house. Preference for the Sap depot neighborhood. Address 35 Light.
Multiple rental notices list cottages and houses in San Antonio and Crockett areas. Entries include a four room cottage near I and G N depot at 1018 N Comal for $10, a five room cottage with gas and lights, and two three room cottages with baths and sewers on Avenue D for $12.50. Additional listings mention a six room modern cottage on Harriman Place in San Fernando and near Clinton Ave with two three room houses. Phone numbers Crockett 8072 59065 2836 6434 and owner contact.
Listing includes one gentle horse two wide tire gravel wagons three spring wagons second hand farm implements four head of horses and sewing machine for hay. Also Crockett 7766 sale note. Registered Duroc sows and pigs will farrow in March from R. J. Davis Beeville Tex.
Thousands bought last water cooled Franklin cars as the market shifts. Advertisements list low prices on automobile painting and related services, with references to Frahnich and Potchernick at 124-126 Ave and Anton Hannich Jr at 210 Kim Travis.
Crosby Airey Co announces a listing of hotels apartments and rooming houses offering rental options. Contact 450 East Commerce Street or call Travis 2162 for details and prices.
City commissioners pass an urgent health ordinance defining contagious diseases and requiring physician reporting, isolation, hospital care at public expense when needed, and police support for enforcement. Violations carry misdemeanor penalties. Public health provisions include vaccination, quarantine, and hospital regulations within city limits.
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