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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1927
Page
26
City inspectors report 65 new structures started last week totaling 249090 dollars, led by homes and factories inside the city. Suburban district activity adds about 100000 dollars in new homes, while six small industrial plants push factory construction near 100000 dollars.
Laredo Texas on January 22 reports Casa Blanca Country Club will open its nine hole golf course in a couple of weeks. The grounds were cut from brush with Bermuda grass irrigation and water pumped from a reservoir. The club, spanning 1200 acres northeast of Laredo, features hills and a planned Spanish Moorish clubhouse atop a hill overlooking the city led by president George Marshall.
A campaign explains how thrift and the investment house work as kin to fuel growth in San Antonio. It argues that combined savings fund home building, streets, schools, and transit, while investors provide secure returns. It elevates disciplined saving and prudent borrowing as civic duty.
The Victoria Junior College building started this week with N A Evans of Columbus Texas as contractor. The project near Patti Welder High School includes plumbing and heating contracts awarded to John Wattlinger of Austin. The school board sold a $70,000 bond issue to H C Burt and Company of Austin, receiving par accrued interest and a $1512.50 premium from nineteen bidders.
Central Power and Light of San Antonio plans a new ice plant for Kenedy. John M. Marriott, bidder, says bids close January 24 for a one story concrete and steel building.
Henry T. Phelps in San Antonio announces bids for a brick and reinforced concrete theater to be built for Brady. Bids are set at 12 o'clock with preliminary hollow tile one story construction planned.
A large chain store to operate in San Antonio this weekend. Cox Hosiery company funds a 175000 lease and 25000 remodel to launch a major shoe hosiery millinery and beauty shop at Alamo Plaza in the former Casselo market building. The store will be a Texas flagship with four departments and gifts for opening day.
A national survey by 8 W Straus and Company finds 26 of the 50 leading building centers posting higher volumes in 1926, with total permits across the fifty cities at 3.097 billion compared to 3.216 billion in 1925. Texas shows gains including Amarillo and San Antonio, while New York City and Chicago lead the fifty. Suburban rail and auto access drive much of the growth, though overall volume edges down from the prior year.
A new town named Winter Haven rises in Dimmitt county Texas within the Winter Gardens. Visionaries cite a 125 mile drive from San Antonio via the new Rainbow Drive highway and bonds supporting continued road building. Developer Henry Hagelstein envisions thousands of northern families moving to citrus groves and orchards, with artesian wells and a lifestyle of warm winters and homegrown produce.
The Southern Surety of Des Moines awards top honors to C. L. Nutt and Elmer J. Edwards of Coleman and Company San Antonio for leading agency sales in 1996. Coleman and Company produced the largest volume of business among two agencies nationwide. Nutt earned a $250 cash prize plus a gold watch and Alpine bag. Frank M. Coleman expresses pride in the achievement.
Bids are being received to close January 25 at 1 30 p m for the Walter Napier residence to be built in Terrell Hills at Verrell and Elizabeth roads. Richard Vander Straten is the architect.
Sabinal Texas January 22 work has started on the new Baptist church building and the annex to the Methodist church J B MeBride of San Marcos holds the contract for the annex.
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