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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
17
Notice states the San Pedro Loan Co ranch at 113 W Houston St was sold to J C Huelbarger of Jvalde Texas. All accounts before June 24 by the San Pedro van Co branch will be paid as fare at San Pedro Loan Co., 25 727 W Commerce St.
Multiple lenders advertise rapid loans on real estate and personal collateral in San Antonio. Offers include deeds of trust, vendor liens, and notes on farms, ranches, city properties, and valuables with various terms and private offices downtown.
A catalog of businesses for sale includes transient rooming houses near S and S P and M depot, an auto machine works in West Fort Worth, a grocery and meat market with cash flow, a saloon with a license, a furnished rooming house lease, a beer saloon and small grocery, a first class auto repair shop, and a ready to operate meat market with rental options. Each listing notes urgency and discount for immediate sale or trade.
Extract shows sale of concessions at Exposition Park including African Dip peanuts and popcorn leaving city. Includes FOR SALE HOTEL and information line. Also PROSPECT HILL 6 room house for rent near new high school with new phone numbers 1017 and 1715.
Local moving firm advertises storage for furniture pianos and buggies with separate stalls at $1.50 per month. L. W. Culver lists services at 129 Fannin with phone 2180 while Street's Transfer offers moving packing shipping and storage through new hours and a large moving van.
New carpet cleaning plant completed featuring up-to-date machinery that fumigates carpets during cleaning. Rugs are sheltered for one day and delivered the next. Contact Henry Ripps at 304 Alamo Plaza using both phones.
Classified notices list numerous exchange propositions for land and city properties. Advertisers seek trades for farms, irrigation tracts, and homes in Crystal City and San Antonio with various prices and terms.
Lake area property listing notes a 50 by 160 lot on Westfall Avenue in Highland Park with a cement sidewalk and asking price of 200 dollars. Contact old phone 239.
Advertisement list notes for sale or trade of real estate and land. R. M. Craig and North and South Trading Co propose exchanges for San Antonio improved property and Texas lands. Texas Realty Co offers matching deals. Also listed are a seven room house trade option on Porter Street and a two story residence trade for a vacant lot or farmland.
For sale a fur nished three room house on three lots with barn in Harlandale on Compton Ave. Apply 137 Belden Ave Harla
Multiple real estate notices advertise neat five room cottages with baths lawns and shade, near Flores car line and Highland Park area. Prices range from 2000 down to 864 with small cash deposits and monthly payments, listings include contacts: Nims & Hyde, Powers, Pancoast, Whitaker, Penfield, Scott.
In Poteet Texas H T Mumme owner offers 100 acre improved tract featuring a well and reservoir for sale. Property described as ready for immediate use with water infrastructure and potential development opportunities.
Harper's Weekly ponders the fate of used pianos traded in during modern sales. Dealers offer cash or credit, but the old instruments return via repair and revarnish, shipped globally to regions eager for music, sold in small down payments and long monthly plans, allowing dealers to recoup purchase price, repair, boxing, shipping and interest.
To Mr and Mrs CC M Smith a daughter born June 23 201 at Carson Street. To Mr and Mrs S A James a son born June 25 at Santa Rosa Hospital. To Mr and Mrs A Velasquez a son born June 23 1119 South Frio Street. An entry for Mr and Mrs in Pedrases at 223 Pecos Street ends abruptly.
Harry P. Brown, a young Boston aviator, becomes the first airman held up in his airplane. As he prepared for an early morning flight near the Long Island motor parkway grandstand, two goggled motorists halted him and, training revolvers, robbed him of 240 dollars from his wallet and a diamond stick pin valued at 100.
A humorous collage shows a bacteriologist vexed by his wife asking about coal while he counts germs in a spoonful of oil milk. Nearby cartoon captions parody golf, wages, and travel jokes reflecting early 20th century newspaper gags with playful regional speech.
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