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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1912
Page
9
Must sell grocery stock and fixtures at once for cash. Includes shoe repairing outfit at a bargain. Listings show several small businesses for sale or exchange in San Antonio area with prices and contact details. References to rooming houses, mills, and real estate loans appear among advertisements.
A collage of real estate ads from San Antonio listings. Property owners offer 34 acres near Rockport, plots overlooking the city, several homes, cottages, and acreages for sale or trade. Prices range with terms offered, including easy cash and owner financing. Addresses and contact names scattered throughout, with multiple neighborhoods and developments.
Classified notices list multiple farm and ranch offerings across Texas. Items include 80 acre near Carrizo Springs with two wells and cultivated land. 120 Mackay listing in Beeville with 350 acres cultivated, 600 fenced, price 22.50 per acre. 100 acres near Highland Park with $225 per acre. irrigated and non irrigated tracts offered by McWhorter. rent offers for several farms including a 6090 acre parcel southwest of San Antonio. 1600 acres black sandy land near Harlingen with canal prospect and 600 cultivated, terms half cash. and 360 acres with sale terms and possible trade options in Uvalde.
Maurice Prax presents a humorous faux letter from W S Piarker to John Filarker noting a uneventful voyage to Havre, a Paris visit, a German run Chicago Palace hotel, English tailors, and the oddity of Parisian French-language neglect amid wine and cocktails.
A collection of for sale by owner ads advertising 401 acres south of Uvalde with 60 acres clear, 76 acres with 5000 grapevines, and a 191 acre farm near San Antonio, plus a farm land lease notice in Jackson County. Also includes stray travel notes from W. S. Flarker about Paris sights and experiences with no clear relation to the ads.
Misg Lenser opened dressmaking parlors at 519 E Elmira offering first class work. Lenser, formerly of Omaha, advertises city reference and quality services.
A garbled page shows multiple service ads and real estate notices from San Antonio. Listings include moving services with packing and storage, music studio ads, property sale notices, and buyers seeking to purchase houses or cottages in the Laure l and Tobin Hill areas. Names like Richey Casey Crockett and George C. Thompson are present with phone numbers and addresses.
16000 g acres of Matagorda county lands in 10 acre tracts irrigated rain belt. Fine farms in Uvalde Bee Dimmitt and LaSalle counties Highland Park lots 60 River avenue lots five Woodlawn lots five Hill Crest houses one Olympian way two San Pedro avenue residences Theo avenue residence three Roosevelt avenue lots 82 acres Sutherland Springs 16 acres Collins Gardens 6 room on Alamosa avenue 7 room on South Presa new 6 room Luter St 4 room Grove avenue Brook street all at bargains. Grant K Lilly 407 Gunter Bldg Old phone 6262.
Nice four room cottage with bath on corner lot near school and churches. Priced at $1650 with $50 cash and $5 weekly payments including interest. Rent near free and terms arranged by T H C Hyde in room 5 at St James Hotel.
An early finished five-room home on a very large lot is for sale at 100 cash with easy terms. Listings include land in Smith County, Jourdan ton business lots, and various parcels near San Antonio with flexible payments.
Summit Place parcel 69 by 126 facing Summit avenue with government post overlooking pity city. Good terms. Also model room raised with porch and city view at 104 Drexel avenue corner South Hackberry. Offers include second hand roadster in good condition as part payment. P O box 972 city.
Free water for all purposes forever and fifteen minute streetcar service. High well drained lots with cement curbs and cement walks. Direct to center city with utilities, schools, and police protection. Level land with artesian well and palm trees. no shacks or saloons. small cash down and monthly balance.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that hard wood lumber shipments from south of the Ohio river to Louisville should not bear higher freight rates than to Cairo. Carriers must amend tariffs to equalize Louisville and other Ohio river transfer points. A later obit notes 12 year old Lottie Cornitius of Gonzales Texas died at home with funeral and interment set.
After completing the tap line inquiry the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot decide all issues by February 1. Main line railroads voluntarily withdraw tap line tariffs and allowances until May 1 while the commission prepares general principles for tap line payments.
In Knoxville on January 20 Albert Butler reports a 16 year old hen that hatched three broods last year and remains vigorous. The hen, once owned by the deceased Mrs. Butler's sister, is kept as a fond memory and spared from typical fates due to that affection. An unrelated item notes a new altitude record for a three person aeroplane at Senlis by John Verrept reaching 1075 metres.
Rail timetable lists multiple trains with origins such as Houston New Orleans Dallas Fort Worth and Kerrville. It shows arrival times like 6:46 am 6:80 pm 7:30 am and departure times including 1:55 pm 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm. Also notes mixed local and express services and connections to Laredo Palestine and Galveston.
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