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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1912
Page
13
A garbled page of local service notices lists Miss Frieda Engelhardt a hairdresser and wigmaker at 303 Ave D offering sham pooing manicuring and scalp treatments. Various professionals including doctors, a nurse, a palmist, a real estate ad writer, and a lawyer share listings with old and new phone numbers and addresses in San Antonio and other cities.
Moving packing and shipping services offered with separate stalls at 1.60 per month. L W Culver advertises storage at 120 Fannin with phone 2180. Street's Transfer offers large moving vans and packing with phone 96. Henry C Rips provides piano and furniture moving and storing services with two phones.
Independent Co operative Lumber Company Rosenberg Texas offers complete house bills shipped anywhere and association grades guaranteed. Writes for catalog and prices.
Classified exchanges list properties for trade or sale including 20 acres irrigated near a rail town with well, 17 Lakeview lots in San Antonio near car line, 8 S P track frontage at N Cherry Burnet, and large irrigated lands near San Benito Harlingen. Local brokers George Hagel Stein and George C. Thompson promote city land swaps and trade for fine black land farms in the rainbelt.
Multiple listings offer six room cottages with bath and large lawns, a near‑new six room cottage on Prospect Hill, a four room base house with porches, and a new five room bungalow. Also offered are twenty two and a half acres suitable for a chicken ranch, four new four room cottages, and lots in Laurel Heights with an eight room house. Listings include contact numbers and real estate firms.
Describes a $15,000 three story rock residence with rock barn and out building on 75 acres of pecan grove and 75 acres of valley land. Located 12 miles from city on a macadamized road, 1 mile from a river, 44 miles to the railroad. First payment in trade, long balance with low interest. Old phone 5212. Windsor Realty Co.
Worth 3500 will take 1800 if sold this week. House has seven rooms and hell, porcelain bath, electric lights, front and back gallery. Large two story barn, nice lawn and shade trees, cement sidewalk, lot 125 by 160, om car line, facing south. Call old phone 2668. All for 3950. Take Highland Park car to tden academy or Torres' grocery. Some quick.
A fragmented timetable lists multiple trains from various lines including G N O, Santa Fe, and H and B with departures and origins such as Mexico Palestine Laredo Kerrville and Victoria. The scattered entries show departures from 6:00 am to 10:45 pm and indicate routes to the north east coast and west with mixed destinations.
The Moore Building owner markets nine city properties, farms, and ranches on commission in the rain belt.
A sequence of real estate notices describes multiple properties for sale or trade in San Antonio districts. Listings include a seven room two story frame on Tobin Hill with gas and electric lights, baths, porches, and $6000 price. a g room house with porch for $60 cash and $8 monthly payments. a Porter Street cottage with bath and electric lights at $1550 with $850 cash. an artistic bungalow with large garden and car line. a five room cottage trade offers. a five room cottage on Gibbs Building. a brand new five room cottage near southeast circle priced at $1760 with $100 cash. and an Alamo Heights bargain six room cottage on car line at $8250 with terms.
In a New York hospital a gaunt Spaniard on oxygen compels a nurse to listen as he writes a brief message and asks her to mail it after death. He whispers for the nurse not to show the note to the doctor, then dies. The doctor suspects a threat but learns the line directs his brother not to pay the physician.
Multiple farm listings across Texas describe 250 acres near Zuehl with 70 acres in field and water access at 60 per acre. San Benito area offers 71 acres on main canal with $225 per acre asking and cabbage crop potential at $175 per acre. Millett property presents 360 acres cultivated with fibers and two wells at 25 per acre with seven percent financing and flexible down payment.
Classified notice listing multiple farm land deals in Texas. 104 acres rich land with crops nine miles from city on Madamized road. 41 acres near Brownsville with 36 acres cotton, house and stock. 14,000 acres Artesian Belt listing. 80-acre farm 17 miles east at $45 an acre. Contacts: J. R. Emrie San Antonio. W. Oelze Brownsville. Martin Lamb Brownsville. Whitaker Corpus Christi.
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