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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1927
Page
22
L. B. Tobin publisher of the Lincoln Star and his family visit San Antonio for six weeks. He notes the rainy spell, compares temperatures with Nebraska, and praises the city as one of the fastest growing and most substantial communities with a bright American future.
Pearsall real estate shows early year activity as Roy Woodward and Jerling Evans promote a new city park addition surveyed last week with stakes at block corners. Cohen and Meredith had 163 acres surveyed south of the park, with blocks and lots staked out and street grading planned immediately.
Gulf Coast Lines awards the San Juan passenger station contract to H. J. Hansen & Son of Brownsville per Kelwood Company of San Antonio architects. The one story building will use concrete hollow tile and stucco finishes.
Orville N. Leary joins J. Ross Boles as part owner of the San Antonio Storage and Warehouse company at 108 Comal Street. Leary brings years of experience from Scobey Fire proof Storage and praises Boles for building the business. He is active in local civic efforts.
James Miller of the John T. Wilson Jr. company announces the sale of a prime Club drive lot in Woodlawn District to Frank Lefevre, local oil operator. Lefevre plans immediate construction of a Spanish type home at an estimated cost of about $15,000.
Home economics experts hail a new sink enamel from Standard Sanitary Manufacturing of Pittsburgh. After twenty years of study, the enamel resists acids and cleansers, remains smooth and glossy, and survives lemon tests that erased pencil marks.
He H Dickinson a prominent San Antonio realtor will return from Houston where he pursued an industrial project for months to resume real estate activity. It is expected he will launch new residential developments in the city. Harold Miller has managed the H E Dickinson Company in his absence. Dickinson’s subdivisions include Rose Terrace Jefferson Heights Norland Heights and Eastland Heights.
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