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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
9
M J Lobert displays spring novelty suits offering strictly hand tailored styles from $15 with up to date fit and guaranteed style. Pants priced at $8.50 and up with 25 percent reduction on all suits. Pressing 35c delivery across the city. Phone numbers 144 new and 5776 old.
Money to loan on any item of value with immediate service and confidential terms. Local lenders Horace H Shelton and Hutsell & Co offer private loans on diamonds autos or furniture with flexible repayment. Multiple ads promise confidential borrowing and low rates from location in Houston and Alabama cities.
Classified notices reveal multiple business opportunities and wants across San Antonio and nearby towns. Listings include a transient rooming house near 8 P M depot, a coffee or liquor license swap, a steam laundry in Yoakum, a photo studio, a meat market, a grocery store, and a saloon with license, all seeking quick buyers or partners. Some entries note illness, low price, or trade offers. locations include Commerce Street, Houston Street, and Castro Street areas.
For sale or exchange five room cottages with modern conveniences on Devine Street. Also advertisements for sale without agents and real estate and pension claim services by G A Gage and John H Bolton. Contact numbers provided for inquiries.
Owner offers a 56 room cottage with two lots for 864 now, 200 down and 10 monthly balance. House measures 125 by 150 feet with a large yard and palms. No agents. direct to buyer. Call Smith's Studio 323 E Houston Street to view.
New 18 room hotel in a good railroad town rented for 50 dollars monthly. lease six months remain. no incumbrance. seller will consider good land. 2091 Moore-Bidg. For sale modern eight room house 75 feet from car Beacon Hill. Old phone 6349. Cottage six rooms bath electric lights gas 106x190 lot. See W T Pancoast 115-117 W Commerce. Improved cottage for sale by owner on car line seven minutes from town corner lot 6560x150 feet first class barn address 1100 River Ave.
An assortment of farm land ads touts 27 to 3500 acres near cities and rail lines in Texas. Offers include 11 miles from a macadam road at 675 cash, 80 acres with 2 tanks 3500, five acres extra good land on a fine road near city limits, and 3500 acre tracts with rich black soil and no irrigation needed. GEO. C. THOMPSON LAND CO markets 226 St. Mary's St. Jackson County Texas with charity language urging investors and operators to contact L. H. Bump for large tract handling. J. D. Cook the land man advertises 40-50 bushel corn prospects in Sinton Texas.
Sizable scrambled timetable lists departures and origins including Kerrville Kerrville Sunday Kerrville mixed No 301 Cuero Victoria route and El Paso west east north lines with multiple times and days unclear but indicating a broad rail schedule.
The Amur railway administration plans to purchase and rent several river steamers owned by the Chinese Eastern railway to move railway freight. It is believed that after the Amur line opens the Chinese Eastern fleet will be transferred, and the latter will wind down its navigation department while keeping some vessels for military use.
Advertisement announces a home ownership plan with a $19 initial payment and monthly payments lower than rent, no interest, urging immediate contact.
A flood of classified notices announces new cottages and bungalows for sale or rent in Rockport and Harlandale. Offers include four room and five room houses with low down payments, monthly balances, and cash options. The ads urge legitimate business and note office locations and old phone numbers.
Sixteen acres with large frontage on a direct car line located just beyond city limits. Adjacent to a well improved residential area with 60 foot lots selling for 600 each. Suitable for a country home or subdivided into residence lots with strong profit potential. Pricing reasonable with liberal terms. No trade. Contact H. J. Beton at Grand Opera House building Crockett street side. Also for sale a 560 by 160 lot on Westfall Ave Highland Park with cement sidewalk. Telephone 2329 Old phone.
Close-in apartment house with 26 rooms occupies four corner lots near the business district. Owner leaving in a few days, property praised as the best value for the money at $16,000. Contact F. C. Hunnam & Co or Lott & Son. Also notices on sale of a large lot near S. P. depot, a cheap irrigated acre, and a nearly new six room cottage with screened sleeping gallery.
Real estate listing offers a six room house with modern conveniences on the east side for $2060 with easy terms. Contact 494 Light for details.
Prof H D Bailey at Muhlenberg college urged a law to shield harmless snakes like king milk and other species from killing. He cited their rodent control as farmers benefits and noted western efforts to boost bull snake numbers as a pest deterrent.
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