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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1911
Page
15
Classified notices include rooming house for sale near 8S P depot with furnished rooms, a potential medical partnership in Le Pass, Texas, barber shop for sale, oil land inquiry from Norfolk, Virginia, partner wanted with cash, dining room for rent, restaurant and hotel listings, drugs and fixtures sale in Chickasha Oklahoma, and various service ads from San Antonio and nearby locales.
A dense mix of small ads and notices shows services from Mrs. Rosa de Bona and other professionals, removal notices, and various sales and trades. Listings include a private detective Alfred B. McGaffey, a psycholog ist, and multiple lost items. Real estate and rental offers appear with prices and contact points. Businesses advertise hats, umbrellas, laundry, tailoring, and hair services along with shipping and moving.
For sale three lots at corner Essex and Maryland Ave South Heights with terms. Apply 128 Kansas. Also brand new cottages priced at 2460 with 500 down. South of Houston Street near South Presa Street and Hot Wells car mine, close to city. Richey Casey at 425 Navarro St 2236.
Cottage home by owner with six rooms, bath, porch and modern conveniences. East front corner lot 100x150 near car line and school. Also other properties listed: river farm 250 acres with improvements, 150 acres near town, 9 room house in top district, five room cottage near Madison Square. Prices from 3500 to 8650 with easy terms and trades. Address 1057 Light and other listings via Conroy Rice and Stout Realty.
Four-room bath home on corner lot with shade trees and electric lights rents for 15 dollars monthly. Will accept several San Fernando lots and cash, balance easy. Price 2100 dollars. J CLOPTON A 419 Gunter Building. Non-resident has five Palm Heights lots elevation near car line cement walk special bargain See Boles Realty Co 612 Gunter Bldg.
Vacancy sale notice states four nicely improved lots available for cash. Owner at 722 Delmar advertises sacrifice to enable a specific investment and invites offers for immediate transfer.
A string of property ads are listed including two lots on Trenton Ave near Macon and Brooklyn Aves, four room houses on Vine Street near South Heights car line priced at 900, a lot with house on East Quincy Street, and a 50 foot lot offer at 50 dollars with easy terms. Also four and five room cottages on Wickes Street Prospect Hill Zavala Street and remaining parcels from Snell & Weber at 421 Moore Ridge.
WANTED cottage close to plaza small and cheap. Contact R H Wester Co 283 B Houston 81. Phones 8041. FOR SALE SIX ACRES IRRIGATED farm with 10 room house inside city limits. Call Drumgoole Bros 105 Hast uston street. WIll sacri fice for Address 222 West Commerce Grebner. Will buy modern cottage and two large lots with east exposure. See San Antonio Loan Trust Co. NEW FOUR ROOM BUNGALOW AND hall two blocks from car 100 cash balance 20 a month. Room 15 French building. FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL ALAMO at a lot 85x175. Ring old phone e. 7-ROOM HOUSE. Recently built modern bath hot and cold water. Screened, near rail line. Clouse to school. 2476 Hither phone. A BARGAIN area on Delmar street line Price 325 inquire 13 13 osx atreet South Heights.
Weather bulletin lists four hour temperature and rainfall readings for multiple Texas stations including Abilene Amarillo Beeville Brenham Brownsville Corpus Christi Corsicana Del Rio Fort Worth Galveston Houston Huntsville Kerrville Lampasas Llano Longview Nacogdoches Palestine San Antonio San Marcos Temple Waco Weatherford Wharton Alice Austin Columbus Snyder Valley Junction with readings for max and min temperatures and precipitation indicated for many towns plus note of the San Antonio bulletin from October 19.
Classified item announces a sale at 1899 San Pedro Avenue with urgent call to apply to the owner, stating the owner is leaving the city and the offer is a bargain.
Real estate listings advertise houses and vacant lots across the Heights from Alamo Ants Sales Co with an office on the ground and old telephone numbers 1766 and 6150. Also offered is a new five room house on Harlandale street and two lot parcels near the streetcar line as the owner leaves town.
Multiple property ads describe a ten room two story and a four room cottage near the International depot, an address 1366 care Light, a lot east of the postoffice, a large lot near the post office, an eight room house near two main streets, and an owner at 122 Madison Street. Also 145 acres 16 miles east with 85 cultivated, two wells, a four room house, cribs, fenced, priced 340 per acre. W B Whitaker 15 French.
Elusive deal promotes an acre in Artesian Gardens for 50 dollars down and ten dollars monthly with water rights from two artesian wells. Nearby parcels near well 21 attract buyers for suburban homesites or truck farms. Also listed is a dairy farm of two acres with six room house and Jersey cattle for 3000 dollars through Co H Jackson Realty, 415 Gunter Building.
Two story residence on Dignowity Hill with six rooms reception hall bath gas and electric lights sewers cement walk front and back galleries corner lot south front one block from car Old phone 1550.
100 acre Alfalfa Farm on the San Marcos river within a mile of San Marcos with 10000 plus improvements. Fronts a mile on a top state road and offers easy trade terms for San Antonio property or cash. Owner F Walker 411 Gunter Bldg.
Numerous 1920s style sale notices describe 40 acre subdivision potential near a car line, homes on Beacon Hill and Government Hill, eight room houses, leases and trades. Offers include cash terms, trade for other property, or notes. Contact addresses include 822 West Nueva Street 1128 Light and 9156 Van Ness plus George Koerner Brokerage Co. 212 Gibbs Bldg.
Classified ad style notices offer furnished or unfurnished two story homes with 8 rooms and 2 baths on Hot Wells line, 1310 South Presa Street, plus a four room cottage near Sap depot with a large lot and a two story stable. Also several Harlandale lots, rental and purchase plans with low cash and monthly payments. Properties listed by A A Gray & Co, Plaza Realty Co, Realty Co, and individual owners. Also an apartment house with 16 percent income and 11 000 price. Further listings include two 150x140 lots near car line, one Brackenridge addition plot, and a four room hall dwelling with sewers and electricity.
Property listing describes an artesian belt farm near a railroad town of 3000 with 40 acres of fertile land, a new 7 room house with modern amenities, large barn, poultry buildings, irrigation well and windmill, all improvements new, no incumbrance, seeks trade for cultural land. Also offers six brick flats in St Louis for cheap land near Antonio, care Light.
Allen Buell of the Weather Bureau notes the 223 hour period used for minimum temperature data and states it is not used in calculating district averages for Houston. The statement clarifies data handling by the Local Forecaster.
At 8 p m October 19 1911 observations from multiple stations show wind direction and speed temperature rainfall and sky condition. Notable entries include Abilene Amarillo Augusta Birmingham Boston Galveston Houston Jacksonville Kansas City Key West Knoxville Louisville Macon Memphis Montgomery New Orleans Oklahoma City St Louis Shreveport Tampa Washington and more with conditions ranging from clear to cloudy and light or no rainfall.
Executor Juan N Escalera transfers multiple parcels to Martina E Hulaane Anita E Huizar and the Flores family all within San Jose Mission lands. Transfers include 5.5 acre tracts 3 4 and 6 across various parcels with Escalera listed as executor of J M Escalera estate.
Solomon Blanks aged 63 died October 15 at 419 West Romana street. M Elizondo a month old died October 16 at 400 South Laredo street. Florencis Ramirez aged 1 year died October 16 at 312 San Luis street. Miss Mary Ryan aged 24 died October 15 at 929 Nolan street. Clarence A Knapp aged 40 died October 15 at 701 Zarramora street. Earnest A Tafolla aged 34 died October 15 at 1012 West Houston street.
Vague birth notices list multiple parents and addresses with infant details. Entries mention October dates and various street names as the location, noting girls born to each couple. Incomplete names and mixed typos prevail across lines.
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