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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1916
Page
11
640 acres offered at eight dollars per acre in Mesquite country. Three miles of railroad station access, fertile land, good shallow well and artesian well district. Sold not later than December 15 with favorable terms through Lane Department Central Trust Co.
Historic notice describes sale of 219 acres 16 miles southeast of San Antonio with 150 acres in cultivation, fully equipped farm features including a 4-room home, large barn, windmill, and well. Offers option to buy all or half at $42.50 per acre with cash and long-term terms. Also lists 150 acres near Hondo with 85 acres cultivated, 8-room house, fencing, farm equipment, and stock priced around $40 per acre with $2000 cash and easy terms.
Fort Worth Telegram promotes its city and regional reach with 60 percent higher net paid city circulation than competitors. It boasts a 36 000 paid daily and 40 000 Sunday circulation, with 400 towns served in West and Northwest Texas. Want ad rates are 1 cent per word per insertion, cash with order, minimum 5 cents. Send ads to the Fort Worth Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas.
Sealed proposals due December 11 1916 for Sanitary Sewers on Pruitt avenue with plans at City Engineer office. Proposals require 10 percent certified check. City may reject all bids. Also notices on an ordinance regulating ice cream parlors and soda fountains detailing sanitary requirements and penalties for violations. Mayor Clinton G. Brown signed November 20 1916.
Regulation sets health and safety standards for ice cream production storage and handling in San Antonio. It requires separated rooms with tight construction cleanable walls floors and proper washing sterilization facilities. It also mandates employee hygiene clean clothing vehicle cleanliness and strict labeling to prevent adulterated or misbranded ice cream from sale.
Sealed bids to the county judge will be received in the county auditor's office until 11 a m Monday and opened in the Commissioners Court room of Bexar county for cement sidewalks and driveways at the Robert B Green Memorial. Plans and specs are on file in the county auditor's office. The county reserves the right to reject all bids.
Austin welcomed more than ten thousand visitors for the University homecoming with a thousand strong cadet contingent from A and M. Dr R E Vinson was inaugurated as university president in a lavish House of Representatives ceremony attended by six thousand spectators, with a university music program and remarks from regents faculty and ex-students.
The Cudahy Packing Company disclosed fiscal year sales of 133,960,966 and net profits of 3,011,416, with a surplus of 2,695,192 after the May 1 dividend. E A Cudahy notes 80 cents of every dollar from animal products goes to farmers, with 7 cents to workers, 6 cents to freight, and 4 cents to manufacturing costs.
A head on collision on Southton road injured two people Franklin Mitchell and Jack Wright. Four others escaped with minor bruises when a car overturned at Sap crossing Roosevelt avenue. Mitchell and Wright were treated and taken to hospital by Alfred Garza. Police did not identify the occupants of the overturned car from the dance party return ride.
A. B. Frank Company mails 10 percent bonuses to all employees as of December 15 1916 with letters from vice president Henry L. Halff praising cooperation and faithful service and citing the year as the most prosperous in the firm’s history.
In Corporation Court Thursday, two automobile drivers were fined one dollar each for operating cars with glaring headlights. Both defendants promised to comply with the law immediately. Police had five arrests Wednesday night under the headlight ordinance. two cases were dismissed for prior compliance, one defendant failed to appear, and an alias was issued for re arrest.
In Kansas City November 39 a small group of calves horses and swine inoculated with virus from local stock yards shows no new infections this morning. Federal and state officials conduct further tests to monitor the situation and verify the lack of disease spread.
Liverpool market reports staple values with good middling at 12.21 pence per pound and middling 12.14, low middling 11.95. Receipts total 44,000 bales with 64,700 bales labeled American.
A certificate shows a 1908 marriage to Mrs Vervet at Floresville, but Justice Fisk cannot determine if Mrs Georgy is living. The ambiguous records leave her current status unresolved.
Waco Texas November 30 municipal service planned by Mayor John Collins featured a Thanksgiving sermon by Dr. J B Gambrell of Dallas. A separate note mentions a Hamburg sugar refinery blast destroying a major European plant.
Futures for December to November contracts close at multiple levels in Liverpool trading. Official noon close lists November and November-December values alongside long series of forward months with fractional pence adjustments.
Michael Georgy aged 67 living alone in a two room house at 621 South Polaris street was found dead in bed Thursday morning by a Mexican houseworker. An inquest by Justice of the Peace Ben S. Fisk ruled natural causes. The Riebe Undertaking Company will seek relatives. Georgy born in France held Illinois citizenship. He had two sons in Illinois and worked at cemetery jobs. The deed to the house and citizenship papers were found among his papers.
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