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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1911
Page
13
An assortment of classified items including rooming house sale with piano, diamond rewards for lost items, money loans for salaried people, and film developing services. Contacts include Sterling C. Robinson at 421 Moore Building, Mrs. Harvey Page on Houston St, D. H. Tolman at 520 East Houston, and other local service listings.
An early 20th century classified blurb offers quick confidential loans of 5 to 100 dollars for salaried workers without security. It promises low interest, large or small loans on valuables like diamonds, and lists contact details for S. B. May at 104 West Houston Street and Claud J. Carter, attorney, Oppenheimer Bank Building. Other notices advertise city real estate and short term chattel loans.
A dense classified listing shows buyers seeking trades for cottages and real estate near San Antonio and surrounding towns. Multiple properties are advertised for sale or exchange including a six room cottage, suburban plots, a six to seven room home, and land with chicken or dairy farm potential in Uvalde, Riverside Park, Killgore, and Dignowity Hill.
Good Farm offers 100 acres on Macadmized Road near city with option to sell 40 acres or more. 423 acres three miles from Carrizo Springs in Dimmit County with hotel for sale. 100 acres with 60 acres in cultivation near Elmendorf including water and house. W A Miller in Asherton invites buyers or trades for unincumbered property at cash value.
Five room cottage near the fair grounds on Regina Street priced at 1200 with a stated value of 1860. Built at 1400, owner in New Orleans seeks cash or balanced terms. Several other listings include a 564x16 lot close in and a five room bungalow on 106x144 corner lot at Alamo Heights. Phone numbers provided for appointments.
For sale a two-story home with a servant's house barn and sheds on Brooklyn avenue. The San Antonio Loan & Trust Co notes this as the best buy for the money. Also offered a new five-room house near the car line at 51 Indiana Street.
An investment pitch highlights six lots or an acre in Artesian Gardens with water from two artesian wells. Terms are 50 cash and 10 monthly payments. Also advertised are a Laurel Heights nine room home for 6250, a Rural Avenue owner option, and a Hill lot deal by Texas Investment Co.
Close in Garden Street five room cottage with large east front lot, plastered rooms, reception hall and bath. Modern throughout with nice trees and lawn, one block from the line. $1000 cash, balance $300 yearly. Present owner paid $3300 two years ago. must sell. Nims & Hyde Room 6 St James Hotel.
Jim Craig, owner of Red Lion ranch, recounts a past near-death encounter with lions in a Peshawar keddah and a New York dockside, detailing how he faced fear with open eyes and a guiding will as a storm rages outside. The tale leaves the five cowboys awed as thunder and lightning lash the night.
Prices in the local wholesale market for vegetables fruits canned goods and related items. Idaho potatoes 2.10 to 2.25 per hundredweight yellow yams 1.75 cwt cabbage 1.75 to 2.00 per cwt peppers 60 cents per 4 basket crate onions 2.25 to 2.26 cwt beans 2.26 to 2.50 per bushel cucumbers 2.50 per bushel crate tomatoes 1.26 to 1.36 per 4 basket crate California 3.25 per barrel garlic 8 cents per pound oranges 4.00 California grapes Tokays 1.30 to 1.85 bananas 3.00 per cwt lemons 4.50 Grapefruit 6.50 apples various types 1.60 to 2.50 pears 1.40 to 1.90 canned goods prices listed. Hides and rough price listings for shippers. Coffee sugar salt fish flour and bran prices noted.
The retail food markets present a holiday scene with a wide range of Thanksgiving essentials. Turkeys, cranberries, celery, lettuce, and various fruits and vegetables are plentiful and pricing is generally low with steady quality. Eggs and butter hold firm while specific market quotes cover eggs, butter, dressed poultry, meats, seafood, fruits, and vegetables with concrete price ranges.
A fragmented price catalog lists meal in 36 pound sacks at $1.76, Pure corn chops, bran prices, dried fruits including prunes apricots and raisins with various weight and price points, seeds, vegetables, canned goods, coffee, sugar, grain, meats and lard, and pickled meats with bulk quantities and per unit costs. It preserves vendor style pricing for July era shopping.
North Dawson street permits list multiple residences and outbuildings on various streets. Notable entries include 3 to 4 room houses on Irvine street and Avenue D, a bakery on Grand avenue, and a 2 room house on Hood street. An 800 dollar dwelling on Dwyer avenue is also noted along with other repairs and garages. The report also mentions the Francis hotel sale in San Francisco for 6 million dollars as the latest U.S. hotel purchase.
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