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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1907
Page
4
A battered classifieds page lists various rough ads including requests for coat lettering and tools, plus multiple entries for rentals, sales, and services. It mentions 030 Duliss street, stable rental, second-hand carpet, feed supplies, and several local business names and contact numbers.
A series of property transfers and releases recorded in the city, including Sayers Jr to Mrs Bassett for lot 8, Beck 2 on San Pedro Avenue, $6 260. De Sha to Staphenson for lot 12 West Commerce Street, $1 100. and multiple parcels around Alamo Plaza, River Avenue, and Palmetto Avenue with prices ranging from $10 to $15 000. Additional releases of vendor liens and deeds of trust noted, with names including H Swearlogen, T H Love, A Arnold, and Wurzbach among others.
Farm land sale offering six 160 acre tracts in Allurica at 12 dollars per acre. Interested parties should contact Light of fiad at 1000 address for particulars.
A private individual offers a parcel near Las Vesas New Mexico totaling 0 000 acres for sale. The listing provides an address 1000 Light office for contact with buyers urged to act on the low price opportunity.
The Meadow Lands of New Mexico offer quarters or halves from 484 000 acres near Las Vegas. Fertile black soil, ample rainfall, abundant water, and favorable climate make the land desirable. Private party offers: address Light Office, 1000.
Property transfer notes show Emily Eberhardt, guardian of minors, selling undivided 1/2 interest in Lot 9, eb. 188 on the east side of Live Oak Street for 1183.34 plus 166.67 to Emil E Zipps. The entry lists payments of 1883.34 and 166.67 tied to the Live Oak street property and a 1/2 interest in Lot 9.
A fragmentary sketch portrays the Duke of Northumberland as England’s largest landowner with estates spanning almost from sea to sea. He is described as tall and thin with reddish hair and whiskers, old fashioned, proud, anti-Vingite in religion, and guiding a preserved aristocratic lifestyle. His keepers ring birds with tags marked IN and the year, with sightings in Scotland and Somersetshire suggesting wide hunting or monitoring activity.
A ragged OCR fragment describes large scale prize schemes in Loulot where about sixty girls process letters and collect small payments before a final authority selects winners. The text mentions many papers and a bizarre system of penalties and poetry prizes, with totals drifting around eight hundred to one thousand.
A new commercial gas grade is made from corncobs bay and other vegetable matter at Bewhrive Nebraska for lighting and fuel. It sells for $1.18 per thousand the lowest price in Nebraska. The gas is said to comparable to coal gas with minimal processing using farm refuse. The cheap raw material enables production and sale at much lower rates than coal gas.
A novelist farmer in his first year discovers that confined chickens fret death. He asks an old farmer about the hens fate and learns the hens were assumed to be nourished by milk, a misunderstanding driving the comic misadventure.
An aged patient died after a Maori ritual attempt to expel evil spirits through cold water immersion and throat sealing known as tahinga. The report notes lingering superstitions despite advances toward civilization.
A New York press feature mocks seasonal weight talk among women as vacation wardrobes sway scales and fat figures. It notes the common self deception about weight under clothing and the public chatter surrounding wares sold by scale makers.
A nostalgic verse tribute to a newborn named May appears in the Baltimore American. The poem paints a diminutive, cherubic child as a “little Human flower” whose dimples, bright hair, and pink toes inspire affection and prayers, framing the infant as a blessing and source of radiant light.
RS. LEW DE FOREST has obtained an interlocutory divorce from Jeas Inventor, his wife of about a year. They separated after a few months. Mrs. de Forest says her husband was unreasonably jealous of a New York brewer.
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