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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1885
Page
3
A real estate firm invites attention to a broad list of lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. It claims the largest diversified Southwest inventory and superior showing facilities and advertising advantages. Prospective buyers may call or write for the Circular List of Bargains.
Real estate dealer offers 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters plus 40 000 adjacent acres and 6 500 acre ranch on the San Saba river with water, winter protection, and stock pasture. Additional farms along Medina river Calaveras creek and other near-Seguin sites range from 100 to 1 100 acres with improvements. Also building lots on Tobin Hill and fine city residences listed with terms and trade options.
A narrator watches Luigi tune and play a magical violin which unlocks a trance like vision. The music shifts from eerie skill to a dreamlike scene of a lavish phantom room where two figures appear and the tale hints at a love remembered from a past era.
The narrator witnesses a dramatic scene in a haunted room where a French violinist courts a beautiful girl, his rival conveys scorn, and a fatal confrontation unfolds through a phantasmagoric performance. The vision shifts to a poverty struck attic where the Frenchman writes a letter of hate and love, then returns to the violin's haunting strain.
Bargain column item lists 1100 acres on Buffalo Bayou six miles from Houston with rail by the property. Features include water grass timber improvements and partial cultivation with 400 tons of hay last season. Contact T B Johnson or J W Bradley for details and terms.
An 1885 notice describes Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy for piles with weight in the back and itching, touting a permanent cure for 50 cents. It also features customer letter claims about Two-Bit Couch Sylvur for bronchitis, Bucklen's Arnica Salve for skin issues, and a piano offered by T B Johnson with price and contact details.
A thief described as grabbing the throat of a bald old man named Mr. Consumption is arrested by Policeman Marsden after a report that the thief used Cough as a name. The scene ends with the old man carrying the policeman in his pocket and expressed happiness. For sale by druggists. Wholesale by A Dress.
Headquarters Department of Texas invites bids for wagon river and steamship transport of military supplies for fiscal 1885 86. Routes include Abilene to Fort Concho Murphysville to Marfa Fort Davis Fort Ringgold Fort Brown to Ringgold and connections to Corpus Christi Galveston. Bids due April 17 1885 with forms available on request.
Advertisement from the Texas Department invites sealed proposals for fresh beef and mutton deliveries to Forts Brown Clark Cho McIntosh Ringgold Ban SW Tont Stockton and Camps Rio Camp Pena Colorado and Camp Rice for July 1885 to June 1886. Bidders must provide a $300 guarantee and bonds. terms and conditions will be issued on request.
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