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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1912
Page
11
Classified ads offer sale items including a second hand Steinway piano for $100 at 815 Soledad and a mahogany upright piano for cash at 114 Lafitte, a Farrand Votey parlour organ for $35 at 716 Sex Street, plus cleaning shop for sale at 3048 Light. Also real estate loan offers and property trade ads across San Antonio listings.
Beautiful new layout features a three bedroom house with sleeping porch sun parlor tile mantels gas grate hardwood floors and mirror doors. Includes servant’s house driveway gas sewers and walks to car with no dust or mud located in Army Terrace. Agents Taylor and Hurley offer prices on farms and ranches and invite inquiries from buyers with trades.
BABCOCK ROAD 100 acres nine miles north of the city cultivated two story and basement ideal place for country home Price 600 acre Hines Johnston 314 Frost Bldg Exclusive agents FOR SALE OR TRADE 1800 acres East Texas land Anderson county Price 7 per acre Land near town fine investment Will take a residence in San Antonio free of incumbrance with valuation 500 to 5000 and balance cash payment of 3500 remainder in notes with reasonable interest KENDALL WILSON Palestine Texas FOR SALE FIFTY ACRES GOOD LAND three miles from Rockport twenty acres cleared balance easy to clear 4 room house barn windmill and elevated tanks chicken house twenty three head cattle including 12 graded Jersey dairy cows Price 4000 WHHL sell without cattle Address Dr Alexander Balley Rockport Tex
Local notice from Richey & Casey invites sellers to visit their office at 4125 Navarro St with phones 2236. It advertises buyers for tract of truck land near the city, a ranch with bottom land, two buyers for small cottages, and a cash for a good residence lot near the car district at 302 Light.
The ad section offers numerous properties and bargains along Fredericksburg road, San Antonio areas and surrounding streets. Listings include houses with varying terms from cash to rent-like payments, vacant lots near car lines, farm opportunities in Bexar county, and homes near schools. Multiple agents advertise, with contact details and urgent selling language.
Multiple listings advertise large tracts in Texas from 346 to 1000 acres for sale near railroads. Prices begin at $1 per acre with options for credit and cash payment. Properties include mesquite land, creek bottoms, artesian belts, cultivated tracts, and several houses or ranches managed by Scheir Winn Realty, Canal Winn Realty, and others in Gurdanton Floresville and Jourdanton.
An incendiary tried to burn Jesus Pedraza's corner store with a five gallon gasoline can placed inside a window and two fires. Adolfo Martinez awoke to smoke and alerted the fire department before flames reached the can. One suspect was arrested as police say the arson attempt was close to completion. damages totaled about 15 to 20 dollars for stock and around 10 dollars for the building owned by James McManus.
A. J. Davis aged 70 president of the First National Bank of Blum Texas died here Saturday night. The body was sent to Blum. Davis was an uncle of Mrs. J. H. Sparks of the county.
The county commissioners court approved a 25 thousand dollar bond issue for School District No 48 Alamo Heights. The 25 bonds at 1000 each mature in 20 years at 5 percent interest with semiannual payments, secured by a 25 cent levy per hundred valuation. Bonds signed by county officials and registered in Austin.
A Sun day night party of eleven crippled pencil and shoe string sellers gathered around a keg of beer in a Mexican jacal on South San Luis street. They sang a pirate song and drank mescal while a mounted policeman listened. Each man paid a ten dollar fine in police court.
Robbers broke into Joe Trevenio’s meat market at 540 Goliad Street late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. They carried off pork, fish, oysters, sausages and more totaling about $20. Entry was gained by forcing the rear door. blinds and lock were damaged. A neighboring saloon was also entered unsuccessfully. No suspects or meat traces found.
Ben Morty a Black servant burns a dog owned by Mrs. Nora Hollinsworth by dousing it with kerosene and lighting a match. The animal died and Mrs. Hollinsworth suffered burns while attempting to extinguish the flames. Humane Society filed cruelty charges. case postponed due to witness absence. Morty claimed he meant to cut the hair.
Sid Peterson buys the Coleman ranch three miles south of Kerrville on the Guadalupe river. Mrs Coleman Sr and family will move to Kerrville after forty years of residence. The report notes tar macadam street surfacing proving durable after rolling and dusting. The piece adds a line about Italy’s trade with Turkey through cotton goods imitations.
A dated rail timetable lists multiple passenger trains with origins Houston and Galveston Dallas and Fort Worth Kerrville and coast towns. It shows departure and arrival times for various No numbers and notes services for Sundays and Kerrville routes.
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