Real Estate Boom and Bank Clearings Lift San Antonio Week
San Antonio shows rising real estate activity with many small cash purchases as the Hot Wells sale to Gotham Film Corp. signals a $350000 upgrade plan. Weekly bank clearings rise 22.2 percent nationwide, led by strong overall business expansion and a buoyant cotton market amid cautious buyers.
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Gotham Film Corporation
New York City
Ike T. Pryor
New York
Hot Wells
Moving Picture Studios
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Temple Hill
San Antonio Trades Council
Joseph J. Lodovic
R. G. Dun & Co
Easting Two Men Trade Tales of Big Farms
Two men discuss family prosperity and compare farm sizes. One boasts of a distant barn making milking take until Saturday, while the other downplays the comparison calling the first's farm a mere suburban garden. The exchange hints at pride and humor in rural life.
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Easting
Soong
Real estate market gains momentum across cities
Real estate activity surges this fall with strong demand for well located small farms and moderate priced city housing. Industries run at capacity as workers and affluent buyers enter the market, signaling broad prosperity while lumber shipments and rail earnings show mixed but favorable trends.
Ample Grass Makes Cowboys Independent
Range conditions across Texas are nearly ideal and stockmen can regulate shipments to secure top prices. Reports from the San Antonio Cattlemen’s Exchange show buyers facing margins squeezed by high asks, while inspectors note generally good to very good range and mostly ample shipments to markets such as Kansas City and Wilmore.
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San Antonio
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Hebronville
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Kerrville
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North Pleasanton
Crystal City
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Wilmore
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Dalhart
Hamlin
Fire hazard rules urged by Texas official to San Antonio men
Assistant state fire marshal A W Peningen warned San Antonio business leaders that high fire losses cost property and insurance. He called for stricter city building laws, tin and brick on edge flues ban, mandatory fire marshals, trash burning bans, electrical codes, capped building heights, underground fuel storage, and child fire prevention education to curb Texas fire waste.
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State
San Antonio
A. W. Peningen
Peningen
National Board of Fire Underwriters
District Yard Contest Winners Prep For City Championship
The first stage of the 1916 yards contest is nearly done with eight city districts judged. Final scores will crown city prize winners next week. Real Estate Board Chairman John L. Strohm praises civic improvement through lawns and flowers and urges broader public participation.
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San Antonio
John L. Strohm
Realty Board
Ice making plant baffles botanists in frost weed tale
The Philadelphia North American describes a frost weed that after two bloom cycles each autumn becomes a miniature ice factory. Crystals form on cracked rootlets long before pond ice, with two blooming seasons: golden yellow June flowers and a second August flowering.
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Philadelphia
Beautiful Yards Contest Cleans San Antonio
The Real Estate Board's Beautiful Yards Contest draws national interest with 200 entries, 40 suburban homes, and eight districts guiding judges. Winners across 26 classes will advance to finals as San Antonio's clean-up campaign grows, spurring plantings, new fences, sidewalks, and improved streets.
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San Antonio
Real Estate Board
Texas City
E. E. Luckenbach
Prize winners in district yard competition tallies
Judges of the Real Estate card awarded prizes across districts 3 and 4 for yard work and display. Selected homes include front and back yards, both owner and renter performed tasks, with winners listed by name and street such as Drexel Avenue Hammond Avenue Alamosa Avenue Hunstock Avenue McKinley Avenue and more.
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W. W. Avey
W. Mulberry
C. O. Green
Trenton Avenue
A. J. Brown
Drexel Avenue
Annie M. Wilson
Hammond Avenue
W. E. Hayman
A. J. Staudt
Delmar Street
Front Rd
T. E. Moebes
Denver Boulevard
William Umscheid
Cactus Street
W. H. Flume
Aransas Avenue
L. Payne
Alamosa Avenue
L. H. McDaniel
Hunstock Avenue
B. F. Morris
Mkinley Avenue
Billy Heyne
McKinley Avenue
W. Mulberry Street
Hal H. Branham
W. Magnolia Avenue
T. T. Jackson
W. Woodlawn Avenue
C. C. Green
H. Meede
Camden
C. Y. Bailey
W. Mistletoe Avenue
Poultry Theft Trial Scene Sparks Courtroom Turmoil
An elderly Black man in a West Indian island court angrily accused a neighbor of theft and shouted rine chicken thieves, including Moses mith. After uproar the speaker withdrew and clarified that several well known chicken thieves were present, not singling out Moses Smith.
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Mosesmith
Moses Smith
Trade with Mexico Surges as Buyers Reach San Antonio Market
Government experts report Mexico City buyers spent about half a million dollars in San Antonio last week while revolutions keep Mexico's shelves thin. Bank data show 1916 set a U S Mexico trade record with imports at 97.6 million and exports at 48.3 million, led by coal, copper, mineral oil, hides, and agricultural products.
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San Antonio
Republic
Mexico City
United States
Foreign Trade Department
National City Bank of New York
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