Real Estate Booms as Suburbs Draw Spring Interest
Suburban property in San Antonio races to the fore with plans for large lot sales in Los Angeles Heights Alamo Heights South San Antonio Temple Hill and San Fernando. Dealers expect three months of heavy activity as surveyors convert acreage to high class building lots amid wage earner gains and record bank deposits.
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San Antonio
Los Angeles Heights
Alamo Heights
South San Antonio
Temple Hill
San Fernando
United States
Bradstreets
First American Golf Claim From 1657 in New York State
A letter to the New York Times cites court records showing on March 20 1657 the sheriff charged Hoog enboom and others for playing golf on public prayer day at Fort Orange Albany. The writer credits Dutch colonial authority with early American golf origins and notes the infancy of clubs in the era.
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New York Times
New York State
New Netherlands
America
Meuwis, Hoogenboom
Fort Orange
Albany
Combination store and office building at Shertz Texas
San Antonio architects and contractors start work on a brick and tile two story combination building at Shertz for Dr. C. M. Cotham with a cost near 15000. The ground floor will house a pharmacy while the second floor holds doctors offices an X ray room and medical library. The building features tile floors modern steam heating and complete plumbing fixtures. L Harrington & Company of San Antonio are the architects and engineers.
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San Antonio
Shertz
Tex
L. Harrington & Company of
St. Mary’s Street
St. Mary’s and
Romana Street
St. Mary’street
Gunter
Particu
Texas land must produce more food says Commissioner Davis
With crop planting time near, Texas and federal agriculture officials urge farmers to devote more land to food crops this year. Commissioner Davis warns famine looms if food supply fails and argues resting cotton land for fiber and stem crops boosts production and stability.
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Texas
Davis
Federal
Departments of Agriculture
Canada
H. M. Madison
S. A. & A. P. Railway Company
Dog and Chickens Take a 400 Mile Trip Home
Montgomery City Missouri Dave Foreman traveled with his dog and prize chickens from Platt County Kansas to visit his mother. The trio then completed a 400 mile return journey with the dog in an express car crate while the chickens rode in a large crate. Foreman, unmarried, cared for them during the trip and said the outing was pleasant and the animals enjoyed mother's cooking.
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Montgomery City
Dave Foreman
Foreman
Platt County
Kansas
Nsas
Impudent fraud swindles widow with pitiful tale
A Baltimore American note recalls a swindler who wheedled money from a man by telling a sad story of his widow wife and mothering children. The report frames the con as sharp and heartless.
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John
Baltimore American
Direct land tax proposal aims to fund national revenue
Washington reports Representative Warren Bailey of Pennsylvania promotes a direct tax on land values only, exempting improvements. The Bailey plan would raise 200 million dollars for apportionment among states, territories, and the District of Columbia, claiming broad economic benefits and greater tax transparency. It emphasizes land values as community assets tied to population and density, arguing the tax would advance development without harming private property.
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Warren Worth Bailey
Pennsylvania
Bailey
Territories
District of Columbia
Congress
Mr. Bailey
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
New Orleans
Degenerate cookery and bread costs spark retro critique
A nostalgic column cites Governor Brumbaugh noting 95 percent of girls know little about cooking. It contrasts with Col. Kolb's cheap hot rolls and recalls mothers lamenting decline while a restaurant sign mocks homemade pies priced at five and ten cents.
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Brumbaugh
Girard
Philadelphia Ledger
Kolb
San Antonio Coliseum plan debated by advisory committee
The San Antonio Real Estate Board will host a Wednesday night meeting at the Brady building to hear a financed coliseum plan. B F Nicholson chairs the committee with J H Kirkpatrick and J Herbert Compton. data from nationwide coliseum examples frame the Portland style proposal. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen endorses the project citing national conventions and strong advertising value for the city.
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Real Estate Board
Brady Building
B. F. Nicholson
J. H. Kirkpatrick
J. Herbert Compton
Nicholson
Coliseum
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
David Crockett Lodge No
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainme
Detroit
Ladies’ Auxiliary
B. of R. T
United States
Canada
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Wyer
State Commissioner of Agriculture
W. W. Bailey
Realty
British Columbia
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Order of
B. Or
R. T
J. Appleby
Phone Crockett
Swearingen-McCraw Bldg
Dietz Realty CO
Brady Bldg
Crockett
Lars
L. J. Hart
Gunter Bldg
U.S
Southern Pacific Railroad
Gary
Indiana
East St. Louis
McKeesport
Pittsburg
South Texas
South San Antonio Industrial Company
Bedell Building
Travis
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