This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1917
Page
32
The article surveys cities that built convention halls and auditoriums to gauge San Antonio’s potential. Some buildings ran up costs, others yielded profit, but most agree such facilities are valuable city assets. It presents pictures and descriptive stories of selected auditoriums.
The Houston city auditorium built in 1910 cost 450000 including land, with a main hall seating 4000 and a 600-seat banquet hall. It hosts 474 events in 1916 with 298390 attendees, largely free. annual operating loss about 7907 dollars.
Fort Worth features two major public venues the Coliseum and the Chamber of Commerce Auditorium. The Coliseum hosted the National Feeders and Breeders Show and grand opera revenue ventures while the Chamber building funds itself through rent and bonds. Both buildings, notable for capacity and flexible use, anchor the city’s convention economy and civic pride.
Kansas City rebuilt Convention Hall in ninety days after a catastrophic blaze that destroyed the original structure on April 4, 1900. Despite the fire, a fundraising surge produced $20,000 within hours, with material support from iron and steel firms. The new hall opened July 4, 1900, hosting a Bryan presidential nominating convention and later speeches by Roosevelt Taft Wilson. The facility costs about half a million dollars, seats up to 15,000, and runs a busy schedule of concerts, expositions, and events, while operating as a civic, nonprofit venture with depreciation funds and a standard $300 nightly rental.
Travis Hayes of Skidmore Texas brought 500 oranges from each of his two trees to San Antonio for a display. The fruit will be shown in the 8. A. and A. P. railroad ticket office window on Avenue C. Agricultural agent H M Madison plans to exhibit Texas fruit across the railroad’s territory. He predicts rapid growth in Southwest Texas fruit production.
A Russian diplomat tells a luncheon tale about a guest misnaming people as titles baron marquis and duke. Paderewski replies that Poland’s throne isn’t vacant, as the emperor of Russia holds it, ending with a quip about drink offers and principles.
Authorized sale offers a handsome 2 story brick residence with a large reception hall double parlor library dining room kitchen and screened dining porch on the first floor. Second floor includes five bedrooms two baths and a hall while the third floor holds a sun parlor and roof garden with porches and full basement steam heat garage and servant quarters. Grounds cover a quarter block 175 by 224 feet facing south and east amid tree shaded residences. Price listed at 16000 with one third cash and the balance on terms at low interest.
Elegantly described two story residence with nine rooms and modern fittings. Corner lot with trees, shrubbery, garage and outbuildings, near car line and paved street. Owner moving away, selling at under value with reasonable terms. price ten thousand dollars.
Five room bungalow with large rooms, back porch screened, stable, cement walks, beautiful yard and garden. Located in an excellent neighborhood near school and churches, half block from the car line, gas and paved street. Lot fronts south with 75 ft. Front page ad notes price and terms at the office.
Real estate note touts San Antonio district as the cleanest and most beautiful with ongoing construction. It highlights 50 foot lots priced from 400 to 500 dollars with easy monthly payments and cash discounts for buyers.
Large solid body ranch real estate for sale containing 25 000 acres in South Texas. Fenced with four double galvanized wires and cross fenced into six pastures each with a well and windmill. Red silt soil with clay sub soil 75 percent tillable and shallow inexhaustible water. Located 35 miles to railroad priced at 5 per acre with terms and 25000 cash. See us for real bargains in real estate.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.