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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1885
Page
3
A real estate firm touts a large diversified Southwest list of lands ranches city residences and farms. They offer guided property tours statewide and invite calls or letters for their Circular List of Bargains.
A long list of ranch tracts near the Guadalupe and Medina rivers plus Me dina areas in Menard and surrounding counties is offered. Properties include up to 10 000 acres with water, winter protection, and good range, plus numerous farms from 100 to 1600 acres with cultivation, stock water, and timber. Also city lots and elegant residences on Tobin hill, South Laredo, Dal las, Augusta, Erie avenue, and other blocks. terms and descriptive circulars available.
In a riverside scene near Dalebury, Fleurette Dervaux rebuffs John Penn’s marriage question while revealing hidden sorrow. Penn presses for truth about her reason to deny a proposal tied to her mother’s illness, then warns he will persist until she speaks plainly.
Narrator recalls a seaside escape with Fleurette who leaps from a boat to avoid company. She later returns, they reconcile, but soon depart for the Continent. Months pass with no word and a single white rose labeled Adieu remains in John’s drawer, the last token of their romance.
1100 acre tract on Buffalo Bayou six miles from Houston with rail access water timber and some improvements. 400 tons hay last season. Terms available. Contact T. B. Johnson this office or J. W. Bradley San Antonio. Houston property for sale 5 room cottage on McKinney Street with brick cistern and trees. Price 1200. Address T. Johnson this office. Sixty five thousand acres ranch near Rio Grande with 12,000 sheep 3000 posts 100 horses. Price 40000. Address J. W. Bradley or T. B. Johnson San Antonio. Lengthy listings of farms and ranches with irrigation water fencing and improvements follow for Moore Hollow Leona river and Rio Frio areas.
A 1885 advertisement describes piles with back and abdominal weight, indigestion, and itching. Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy is claimed to absorb tumors and stop itching with a 50 cent price, plus listed distributors. Also promotes Bucklen's Arica Salve for various skin issues and a used piano offer from T B Johnson seeking buyers.
A thief seized the throat of a bald elderly man yesterday. Police officer Marsden’s Pectoral Balm arrested him. The victim, Mr. Consumption, now keeps the officer in his pocket and is content. For sale by all druggists and wholesale by A Dress.
The Army Transportation office in San Antonio invites sealed proposals for fiscal year 1885 86 for wagon river and steamship routes in Texas and nearby states. Bids due April 11 1885 with details on route and contract forms available on request. Government may reject any or all proposals.
Official call from the Department of Texas San Antonio dated February 16 1885 seeks sealed proposals in triplicate for fresh beef and mutton deliveries to Forts Brown Clark Mench Ringgold San Antonio Stockton Camp Del Rio Pena Colorado Rice from July 1 1885 to June 30 1886 or as directed. Bidders must provide a $500 guarantee and comply with contract terms, with right to reject any bids.
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