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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1912
Page
9
Clean stock of groceries and fixtures offered at 800 cash for a small grocery located at 4066 Light. Satisfactory selling reasons provable by neighbors. Ice cream business beginning April with several prospects. bid must reach 500 at least. Highest bidder awarded.
Multiple ads list new baby grand and upright pianos for quick sale at 126 to 190 dollars monthly installments. Mahogany uprights by Kimball Co. and Braerson pianos at 126 to 190 dollars monthly, plus second hand piano wanted as trade or cash. Also violins and guitars offered at low prices with contact numbers.
Multiple loan offers appear from D. H. Tolman and others, promising unsecured and secured loans for salaried people, households, and general items. Firms Emerson & Co, Liberal Loan Co, and Wimer Richardson & Co advertise confidential terms and repayment options with offices on Houston Street, Washer Building, and Gibbs Building. Cant provide exact locations and terms.
For sale real estate listings include a five room modern home at 4301 Light and a nine room two story Laurel Heights house with large galleries, south facing lawn and car access near San Pedro. Prices range from 1750 to 5260 with terms and on premises inquiries to Dr Evans or caretaker. Also notices of large acreage near Collins Gardens Corpus Christi Robstown Brownsville and other properties with agents Lott Son Co Moore Building 108 Ave C and partners.
Advert gives two choices: build a five room cottage to plan with small down payment and $15 monthly, or buy one of two Marlborough Place lots near the line. Also available a Mission Loop 80 acre tract near an insane asylum for $2500 cash, to subdivide into acre tracts with expected $8000 profit each in two years.
Classified offers showcase homes lots and farms in San Antonio and surrounding districts. Features include chicken ranches 5 room houses with baths 50 by 150 foot lots near Tobin Hill, Sunset Place Rockport acreage 34 acres 3000 asking price and flexible payments, elegant apartment sites near Houston street, and a rooming house with 30 rooms. Listings mention contact details and old phones.
Multiple agricultural properties listed for sale or lease including 401 acres of mesquite land 4 miles south of Uvalde 60 acres clear 85 percent tillable with a room house contact Henry Sonroaser 120 Luter Street San Antonio Texas. Bexar county bargains 76 acres 36 cultivated 5000 grapevines and fruit trees 5 room cottage well basement wine storage 18 miles from city price 2600 and 191 acre farm with dwelling windmill improvements 16 miles from San Antonio price per acre not stated. Also 100 acres near Highland Park car line priced at 225 per acre owner contact details sparse. Other farms for sale or trade include 640 acres near Mineral Wells 190 acres farm 40 percent tillable good grazing water and dairy potential contact R W Lane Uvalde Texas Box 677. Some listings include irrigation farms Frost Texas area and general real estate notices for farms and ranches for sale by owner.
Citizens press for poll tax payments with 200 plus at the courthouse and 217 at the city hall by noon. The county totals 8150 and city 5542 with eight days left and an expected daily average over 600. Mexicans reportedly aligned with the machine vote at the county office.
A dense list of arriving and departing trains with numbers, origins such as Houston, Galveston, Kerrville, Kerrville and El Paso, and times from early morning to late evening. Includes Express, Sunset Limited, and local services with for the north, for the coast towns, for Houston and coast designations.
The San Antonio Liederkranz held a well attended concert at St. Joseph's hall last night featuring a piano duet by Mrs. EB Albaugh and Prof. O W Hilgers and a piano solo by Kurt Heinrich. Other numbers included Die fuenf Lieder and Annie Laurie performed by the Liederkranz. Officers elected for the ensuing year are William Dielmann president Charles Meyer vice president Clemens Gros secretary Edwin Voight treasurer Prof O W Hilgers musical director and John Jehl E Raba Phillip Langsdorf J L Zimmermann Charles Landauer as amusement committee members.
A. Hoevenhoff, a Fort Sam Houston department clerk, was accidentally shot in the hip while duck hunting at Mitchell Lake yesterday morning. He was taken to Baylor Hospital, where his condition is reported improved and the wound is not considered dangerous.
A four year old girl named Piep climbs stairs with five cents to buy licorice bananas or clothespins. Fearful of a robber and the street dangers she negotiates crossing, eyeing a banana while hoping to ease her mother’s clothespin mystery. She ends up buying clothespins, carrying the world’s sorrows on her small shoulders.
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