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Includes: Plan of the Beard Tract Subdivision, for sale by Jones & Ellsworth, at "Greaty Reduced Prices," only $550 per acre, with great yield of produce, "Buy today one of these lots for your children only a small payment down and the crops should pay the balance..." 11x8½. * Flyer in both English and Spanish, "$275 Cash Secures 5 Acres in Beard Tract Centerville / $275 Casha Segura 5 alqueires em Beard Traco Centerville." 9¾x7½. * Flyer for a drawing to win a car (Model No. 490, Chevrolet) if you buy a plot of land in the Beard Tract. 7½x8½. Together, 3 items.

Niles, California, now a section of Fremont on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, was from 1912 to 1917 one of the earliest homes of California's motion picture industry. Charlie Chaplin filmed several movies there, most notably "The Tramp."