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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1913
Page
8
Sealed bids endorsed Proposal to Purchase ends will be received by October 2 1913 for 3 450 000 in San Antonio city bonds dated September 1 1913. Five percent interest semi annual payments, serial bonds over forty years. Bids may cover entire issue or portions with par and accrued interest considerations.
City ordinance restricts stopping for more than five minutes on the Commerce Street section between Alamo and Main Plaza during widening work hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Violators face a fine up to fifty dollars. The measure includes emergency clause suspending the three readings rule.
The board of equalization will convene October 1 in room 18 city hall to hear appeals from the city assessor and to pass on all property assessments for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1913. Sessions run daily for up to 60 days, Sundays and holidays excepted.
Somer and Cunningham auctioneers offer contents from a room cottage including dressers chairs stoves refrigerators carpets and tools. Sale starts Thursday September 25 at 10 a.m. Take West End car off Menchaca Houston and Brown auctioneers listed.
For sale a motorcycle in first class order for 70 dollars cash or a good driving horse. Address 238 Light. Also for sale a twin Excelisor fully equipped. owner leaving city must sell this week. Call 523 Market. Trade offer: one 5 HP Imperial motorcycle for a good horse, contact Rogers Bicycle Co., 523 Market.
Advertises a $30,000 stock of up-to-date jewelry with first-class mahogany fixtures in a live town of 40,000 within a rich surrounding country. Seeks rental property or lands in South Southwest or West Texas at value with right to investigate any deal and reserve the right to reject junk or over-priced property.
Various listings show FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE options including a modern eight room Beacon Hill home on a car line, a beautiful brick home half a block from ground ready to exchange for vacant lots, and 640 acres of raw land trading for a good city residence. The Southwest Trading Company handles trades nationwide with contact Travis 2383 or Travis 2338.
Classified ad offers a six room cottage with all conveniences and garage, located at 116 W Locust Crockett. Includes pecan outbuilding. contact Fein Hj. at 2795.
Incomplete and newly furnished six room house with hall bath electric fixtures water gas sewer. Regree $3750. Terms. Phone Travis 2566.
Elegant residence on two lots at Cherry and Iowa features a circular porch vestibule screened gallery and back hall with high class chandeliers and electrical touch button system from family bedroom. Nine blocks from Joske’s with two blocks to schools and Bermuda grass lawn. Travis 1602.
Real estate notices advertise multiple large tracts including 4000 acre and 7000 acre parcels near Hondo and Crockett, 1886 acre ranch north of San Antonio, 215 acre farm near the city, and other parcels with irrigation, cultivation, and trade options. Agencies J E Mayfield Co and Southwest Trading Co promote extensive estates, with prices, locations, and trade terms.
The wife of Premier Zahle of Denmark holds the official stenographer post in the Danish parliament earning 825 dollars yearly.
A fragmented timetable lists multiple railroad lines and per line destinations. It includes No. 4 and No. 6 for the north, No. 8 local to Palestine, No. 10 express north, No. 16 for the north, and various departures and arrivals for lines serving Houston Galveston Laredo Kerrville Victoria Sutherland Springs El Paso and Kerrville with times and notes on daily or Sunday operation.
The keeper of the Washington park zoo in Milwaukee avoids leaving to tend to baby animals. He notes that young leopards and other infants sulk and become ill when left alone. He takes few vacations, only when no young animals require his care.
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