Grand Prize Contest Highlights Yard Showoffs and Judging
The sixth annual beautful yards contest by the real estate board features judges comparing yards to infant rivals. Prize winners are listed by category with donors including King Furniture, Alamo Iron Works, and Gas and Electric Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Strohm
Real Estate Board
Tdst
Gas and Electric Company
East Houston Street
King Furniture Company
Alamo Iron Works
Wolff & Marx
Sherwin-Williams Paint Company
Guarantee Shoe Company
Morrison Coffee Company
Tips Hardware Company
Whisenant Drug Store
Cones Studio
Alamo Trunk Factory
Fox Kodak Company
Alamo Camera Company
Dreiss Drug Store
Saul Wolfson Company
Braun
Local Yard Prize Listings Show Varied Houseware Winners
Readable fragments describe multiple prize entries across addresses such as 218 McKinley avenue and Pleasanton road and Davis street. Items include cash awards, a hat, a thermos hottie, a Kodak camera, garden tools, and a loving cup with references to blocks and streets like Woodlawn avenue Schley avenue Crockett School and West Houston street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. George
Encino Ue
A. J. Staudt
Delmar Street
Kodak
L. Raborn
Cavalier Street
T. E H. Moebes
Denver Wlevard
L. H. eDaniel
Hunstock Avenue
Lady's Ubrella
G. Lachapelle
Harriman Lace
Lode
Avenue C
H. Meede
Camden Street
J. H. Hawes
Mason Street
J. F. Howard
West Mulberry Enue
Rs. G. Lachapelle
Harriman Place
BE. M. Burleson
Satin Avenue
A. Snyder
Wilkins Avenue
Ardence
A. P. Ford
West Mag- Jia Avenue
Snyder
la Rebé
Evalyn Corighan
Avenue B
Lachapelle
Harri
Fious
John Kelly
Ting Avenue
Lawn Ewing
Went Perrine
Francisco Street
Mary Perrine
Francisco Ne Cash
Clifton George
X Avenue
A. Ord
West
Magnolia Avenue
A. Hooke
van Ness
North Pine Streets
Cren
Frank Austgen
McKinley Avenue
Maemwin
J. L. Lytle
Pleasanton Road
Davis Street
Mary_D
Thermoshottie
Mra. Little Craig
Goutp Pinto Street
Mare. C. Y. Bailey
West Baghy Avenue
Homn
Shafer
Soa Aages
G. F. Scharfenberg
Saldana
Espinosa Streets
Crockett School
West Commerce Street
Ary
Loving Cup
State to Offer 2 Million Acres of Texas School Lands
About 2,000,000 acres of State school lands will be offered for sale January 1, 1917, announced by J. T. Robison state land commissioner. Lands will be sold by bidding, with most parcels requiring settlement. certain counties allow bulk sales up to eight sections per buyer without settlement. Applications to buy land may be sent by mail to the general land office in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Robison
Brewster
Bandera
Culberson, Crockett, Edwards
el Paso
Jeff Davis
Kerr, Kimble
Menard
Pecos
Presidio
Real
Terre
Val Verde
General Land Office
Austin
Had a Good Day By Mr Simpson
Mr Simpson visits a repair shop and a restaurant where a misunderstanding with an umbrella occurs. He accidentally trips a bystander into an awkward moment, then later meets the same woman on the trolley and realizes they shared a comical day with umbrella fragments and a returned item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simpson
Plan to Drain 1.5 Million Acres Swamp Lands in Texas
A San Antonio Real Estate Board notice details a National Chamber of Commerce bulletin calling for drainage of swamp lands in Texas and across the United States. The report highlights acreage by state, notes historical battles against malaria and yellow fever from mosquitoes, and discusses drainage costs and potential land value gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio Real Estate Board
Texas
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Lukenbach
National Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Minnesota
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
National Chamber
Panama Canal
Cuba
Real Estate Transfers Involving Alamo Heights and Surroundings
A sequence of property transfers shows J O Terrell selling lots to Mrs N A Lamum for 1100, Frank and Annie Ward selling half an 80 acre tract to Osten Ward for 1400, Mission Cemetery Co selling part of Lot 282 to Beulah Neel Eddy for 50, Osten Ward selling lots 9 and 10 to Frank Ward for 900, and multiple trades among Irish Lilley Sullivan Ward and Kuntz Albaugh Lumber involving Alamo Heights and vicinity with prices ranging from 1 to 2000 dollars. Additional deeds cover Colonia El Porvenir and Encino Avenue areas, plus Ber lin Heights and Karnes County parcels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Terrell
N. A. Lamum
New City Block
Frank
Annie Ward
Osten Ward
Aaron Gardner
Mission Cemetery Company
Beulah Neel Eddy
Mission Burial Park
Frank Ward
Lamar and
St. Martin Streets
B. G. Irish
Benjamin L. Lilley
Saab
Queensboro Place
Otto Kabelmacher
Fratt Bowling Club
S. Leeper
D. J. Davis
D. Sullivan
W. C. Sullivan
Grandview Addition
Alamo Home Builders
Rosa Hernandez de Bernard
New City
Colonia el Porvenir
William and
Winifred E. Carter
Kuntz-Albaugh Lumber Company
Alamo Heights
John W. Rogers
Encino Avenue
Charles
Alma R. Gates
John W
Emily B. Rogers
Cc. L. Bell
Karnes County
R. M. Ware
Berlin Heights
E. B. Jones
Estaban Cassanova
Mariano Seguin
Eastern firms are turning away orders amid rising costs
Eastern firms maintain momentum despite elections and price rises. Demand for current and future needs outpaces production and distribution, with labor shortages and material scarcity slowing manufacturing. Car shortages and limited fuel add to industry concerns as prices keep climbing and profitable contracts are rejected. Weekly bank clearings total 5,266,352,324.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R, G, Dun & Co
German Band Tour Opens in Milwaukee with War and Art Theme
The Imperial German Third Sea Battalion Band arrives in Milwaukee for a two week concert series. Representative Richard Brueger stresses that art transcends wartime divisions, praising masters by Wagner while honoring rivals. He notes friendly German American audiences and a release from captivity by diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Sea Battalion
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal
Richard Brueger
Vertreter
America
Tsing-Tau
China
Brueger
Red Cross
Germany
New York
Government Investigation Letters on Interstate Transportation Proposals
Senator Newlands announces a congressional inquiry into transportation issues with hearings planned across the country including New York Chicago St Louis San Francisco Portland San Antonio and possibly New Orleans Atlanta and Omaha. The probe will study government ownership of public utilities and the balance between regulation and ownership with focus on the Interstate Commerce Commission structure jurisdiction and credit and securities controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis G. Newlands
Nevada
Joint Committee On Interstate Commerce
Railroad Commission Commercial, Farming and Banking
Texas
Washington
Special
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Portland
San Antonio
New Orleans
Atlanta
Omaha
Congress
Newlands
Interstate Commerce Commission
Like a Lady on the Train Gum Incident
A London man returning from the States reports a girl on a Pittsburg train chewing gum in long strings and letting it fall back. Her mother scolds Mabel to chew gum like a proper lady, per London Opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
States
Pittsburg
Mabel
Good Roads Drive Boosts Texas Farmers and Counties
D E Colp back from Fort Worth to Roswell reports unprecedented enthusiasm for highway bonds across Northwest Texas. Farmers voting large bonds say good roads bring farms to markets, reduce wear on wagons, and spur regional prosperity as clubs organize along routes from Fort Worth to El Paso and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Union
D. E. Colp
Texas Good Roads Association
Fort Worth
Tex
Roswell
N. M
Mr. Colp
D. R. Colp
Bexar County Highway League
Colp
Fort Worth-Roswell
New Mexico
Albany
Lubbock
Lueders
Avoca
Stamford
Lagerton
Brandenberg
Aspermont
Swenson
Peacock Jayton
Girard
Spur
Crosbyton Rails
Ized New Road
Corp
Texas Division
National Highway Association
E. J. Hernan
National Commission
el Paso
Texas & Pacific Railroad
Post City
Snyder
Sweetwater
Ballinger
Brownwood
San Saba
Brady
Monument Marks Sheriff Nugent’s Resting Place
A Boston visitor asks about a nearby monument in the wild region. A local native explains it marks the grave of Three Fingered Jim Nugent, hailed as the county’s best sheriff who died with his boots on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Jim Nugent
His Desire and the Golden Officer on Whitehall
A gorgeously dressed foreign officer in full dress walked Whitehall, met by two countr ymen who marveled at his blazing gold blue and crimson uniform. They joked about pawning him and credit schemes, noting such ploys work for some goods but not for gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehall
Begorra
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Texas Real Estate
Gunteot Grand Prize
Realty Board
Strohm
Feds
Guch
Eee
W. H. Stephenson
Buena Vista Street
Mrs. Shafer
Los Angeles Street
T. E. Moebes
Denver Boulevard
Billy Heyne
Vicot
A. H. Cadwallader
Houston Atreet
Rocker
United States Chamber of Commerce
Dan
SAN Antoni
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