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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1912
Page
25
A dense string of loan solicitations fills the page with offers on diamonds real estate furniture and personal property. Financials target salaried people farmers and households with promises of confidential quick cash across multiple downtown offices and shops.
A cluttered page advertises Miss Frieda Engelhardt hairdressing and wigmaking services at 308 Ave. D with new and old phones. Additional entries promote home confinement care, a regulator product, Dr. Selby Evans obstetrics, real estate advertising planning, Mrs Norton specialist, a sanitarium for opium morphine whiskey addictions, and various personal notices including a nurse, a palmist, and switches from combings with names and addresses for women’s health and beauty services.
Separate stalls at $1.50 monthly for storage of furniture pianos buggies. L W Culver at 120 Fannin operates a new storage house with moving, packing and shipping services. Street's Transfer offers separate stalls and a large moving van for packing shipping and storing. Henry C Rips provides piano and furniture moving and storage services in the city.
15 Down BIG EIGHT-ROOM NEWLY BUILT HOUSE on hill eight minutes from business center surrounded by beautiful homes Below cost 4500 Old phone 1720 FOR SALE 7-ROOM TWO STORY framed home on two finest river lots City street 210 feet deep large bearing pecan trees dew hackberry and fruit trees Price 6500 Terms 169 Light CAMDEN STREET A bargain in a pretty cottage home five rooms hall and bath large lot all modern conveniences Ring 2836 Blue NEW HOME SNAP A splendid home of eight rooms on the North Side near car and city school a bargain this week 500 cash and balance easy i Cc Thorman 103 College St both phones
600 acres of fine red chocolate mesquite land 16 miles from Devine seven miles from new Franklin road 300 acres in cultivation fronting on public road one 6 room house two small ones for 25 per acre if sold in next 90 days contact J A Clopton 419 Gunter Bldg Also 1 acre irrigated land Edgewood addition 125 W 8S Oelze 03 Frost and 200 acre farm Loop road 300 pecan trees 815 S Presa St Old phone 2107
Real estate transfers show numerous 1912 transactions including Lakeview Townsite to O A Oppenschmidt for 190 dollars and Pettus to Luling State Bank for 5600 dollars. Other entries include School Board lot sales on Lopez street and multiple parcels in Bowle and Halliday avenues, with prices ranging from 150 to 15000 dollars.
Adolph Schumacher was fined $200 and costs by Municipal Judge Caverly for beating his wife. The judge offered to suspend the fine for sixty days if Schumacher would abstain from drinking any beer or intoxicating liquors during that period. Schumacher agreed, doubting the pledge but committing to abstinence.
The San Antonio Independents return from Brackettville after dropping two of three games and praise the local town and baseball team as royal in treatment and tough opponents, noting Brackettville is fast and clever.
The H. N. Moore baseball club seeks games for next Sunday with any strong team and invites contact from Frank Bros., the W. O. W., or the Harlandales. Morrison at 1427 will arrange. In FRANKIFORT ON THE MAIN July 16 the national shooting tournament welcomed visiting American riflemen with Dr. Friedleben, chairman, and Judge Seller of New York responding.
Lightweight champion Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers of Los Angeles may schedule a return match in San Francisco on Admission Day September 9 to settle disputes from their July 4 bout. Promoter Jimmy Coffroth aims to secure the fight, confident the champion and challenger would both welcome another title try.
Denver runs a one day event as the Western Golf Association begins play at the Denver Country Club. Nine holes were lost to Cherry Creek flood Sunday, leaving nine holes in use for today’s round.
Rail service details list arrivals from the north and Palestine and local departures to the north. It includes numbers 6 8 7 9 12 4 6 8 10 56 with times such as 6 40 am 6 30 pm 9 56 am 10 45 pm and mentions Mexico en route.
A garbled timetable lists numerous train numbers and routes across regions including Houston Kerrville Kerrville coast Kerrville Sunday mixed and Victoria division plus El Paso east and north arrivals and departures with various times such as 7 30 am 9 00 pm 8 15 pm and 6 30 pm indicating a fragmented historic rail schedule likely from a station listing with trains for No 16 38 6 44 43 41 301 302 and Santa Fe lines across multiple areas.
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