Another advertisement read as follows:
HALT! HALT! HALT!
Speculators and Homeseekers, Attention!
$80,000—Eighty Thousand Dollars—$80,000
Sold in a Day at the Beautiful
McGarry Tract
Bounded by Ninth and Tenth and Alameda Streets.
Come Early, before they are All Gone!
Still another was displayed:
Boom! Boom!
ARCADIA!
Boom! Boom!
And now and then, from a quarter to a full page would be taken to advertise a new town or subdivision, with a single word—the name of the place—such as
RAMIREZ!
Vernon and Vernondale were names given to subdivisions on Central Avenue near Jefferson Street. Advertising the former, the real-estate poet was called into requisition with these lines:
Go, wing thy flight from star to star,
From world to luminous world as far