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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 12, 1911

Page

15

Brand new double track car line property for sale

Five hundred dollars down buys a block of double track car line on South Presa street with gas sewer and full conveniences just completed. See this today. Owners Richey and Casey at 425 Navarro street.

East End Oldham W. Commerce Warwick Boulevard Marlborough Plage Hot Wells City Presa Street Richey & Casey Navarro Street

Tobin Hill Bargain Cottage For Rent

Lovely furnished cottage in Tobin Hill area near Dewey lace. Modern clean and comfortable with no sick lived in house and a large servants house. Lawn and conveniences listed. Old phone 3813.

Tobin Hill Ouse J. Herbert Compton Co Ave. C Dewey

High grade 178 acre Texas land near Nixon with water

Description touts 178 acres four miles from Nixon with black sandy soil, 140 cultivated, level with a painted finished house, orchard, barn, wells. Priced at 40 per acre or 2000 plus six-year terms at 7 percent. Listings include irrigated ranches with perpetual water rights and a 751 acre La Salle county tract four miles to a railroad. Texas Land & Loan Co. directs contact.

Willl Artesian Gardens F. Walker Gunter Bldg Nixon C. E. Way Land Co Frost Texas Land & Loan Co Houston Street San Antonio Tex la Salle County Nueces Valley Nueces River Exas

Fox Will Tour Texas for Inland Waterways Congress

J Al Fox special director of the Rivers and Harbors congress will tour Texas in early November to build interest in the Washington convention set for December. A S Cleveland and Miller, Texas directors, will outline his itinerary and begin organizing the trip. Fox plans to visit Corpus Christi to promote the congress and its projects.

Fox Texas Gorpus Christi Tex J. al Fox Rivers and Arbors Congress Morgan City Miller Commercial Club Washington Cleveland Congress Corpus Christi

Pioneer's Daughter Verdia Ainsworth Dies in Gonzales

Verdia Alma Ainsworth, 41, wife of W. H. Ainsworth, died at home in Gonzales. She leaves her husband and five children, four boys and a girl. Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery is set for 5 p.m. Thursday. She was the youngest daughter of the late Alsoy Miller, an early Gonzales County settler from the old homestead eight miles west on the Guadalupe River.

Gonzales Tex Verdia Alma Ainsworth W. H. Ainsworth Odd Fellows Cemetery Alsoy Miller Gonzales County Town Guadalupe River

Railway Officials Inspect Texas-Mexican Property

Corpus Christi October 12 Special to The Texan A Mexican National lines crew led by W Fish general freight and passenger agent E A Clark general manager C M Fish general agent for the Texas Mexican and Superintendent Leyendecker arrived in private car 100 to inspect local Texas Mexican property. The party returned to Laredo this morning.

Lroad Corpus Christi Tex W. Fish Mexican National Lines E. A. Clark C. M. Fish Leyendecker Laredo

Couple Weds at Gonzales Catholic Church

Henry Cabron and Miss Annie Breitschoot of Steinen were married at the Gonzales Catholic church at 10 yesterday morning. Rev. James Marsellier, pastor, performed the ceremony.

Gonzales Tex Henry Cabron Annie Breitschoot Steinen James Marsellier

Contents of Market Basket Cost Update

Daily market notes report strong demand for fish oysters and sea products with supplies exhausted in three days due to cold spell. Vegetables are in light supply with firm prices. Colorado celery is plentiful at a moderate price. Apples are cheap and plentiful. No meat list changes.

Colorado

Prices From The Local Wholesale Market Report

A dense list of prices for vegetables fruits and groceries in the local wholesale market. Items include potatoes onions cabbage peppers cucumbers cantaloupes watermelons and more with units and per crate or per pound pricing. Out of state items feature kraut garlic grapples and canned goods with varied price points.

California Idaho Valencia Colorado New Mexico

Local Seed Prices Include Beans Corn and Grass

Seed prices list preservatives include Bermuda grass seed at 1 dollar per pound, pole beans at 4.50 per bushel, bush beans at 6.50 per bushel, sweet corn at 3 per bushel, and corn of all kinds at 1 per bushel. Also marrows and fat content noted at 3 dollars per bushel.

Bermuda

Houston district weather bulletin reads like old cotton report

Cotton bulletin from San Antonio dated October 12 lists temperature and rainfall data for Houston district stations over the past twenty four hours ending at 8 am. Includes minimum temperature for the last twelve hours and notes a data field not used in district averages.

San Antonio Tex Houston

Rainfall Totals From Several Cities Reported

Local forecaster Allen Buell of the Weather Bureau records rainfall amounts of 2.10 inches at Wharton Texas and 3.50 inches at Wharton Texas along with rainfall of an inch or more at Brooke Haven Hazlehurst Wilmington and Waco.

Max Wea xAbilene Ballinger Sien Cloudy Brenham Fogsyx Brownsville Clear — Larendon Clear — xCorpus Christi Clear Corsicana Cuero Dallas Lampasas Llano Longview Nacogdoches Paria Udy- Quanah Xsan Antonio San Marcos Cloudy Sherman Bepavion Ie Brookehaven Hazlehurst Miss Wilmington N. C Waco Tex Wharton, Tex Allen Buell Weather Bureau Abilene Amarillo Augusta Birmingham Boston Charleston Kansas City

May Get Port Boat In Corpus Christi

Congressman John N Garner plans to push for four port boats to be stationed in the Corpus Christi bar to improve service. The move aims to justify port boat operations amid ongoing discussions. Local mention includes Abrams and Koenigheim and Royal Orchestra at the Sara toga restaurant daily.

Corpus Christi Tem John N. Garner Corpus Christi Bar

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