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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1885
Page
3
Extensive sale listing by Colonel J. W. Bradley details hundreds of thousands of acres in Texas for grazing farming and ranching with prices and terms. City holdings include multiple houses cottages and building lots near San Antonio avenues and rail lines.
Four room cottage with two galleries hall stable and irrigable land water from well. Includes young fruit trees shrubbery shade on property. Price $1,150. Sale advertised as available for immediate purchase.
An assortment of large Mexican land holdings is advertised with Rio Grande frontage and ample water. Listings include 130000 acres with 20000 sheep 3000 goats and 100 horses priced at 50000, 360000 acres with 26600 head of livestock priced at 200000, 20 leagues about 100 miles from the river priced at 20000, 300000 acres near the Rio Grande priced at 60000, and a 700000 acre ranch east of Monterey near the railroad priced at 350000. All on easy terms.
The New York Herald debates Grant's recovery and critiques medical practice. It cites misdiagnoses, questions the monopoly of professional medicine, and praises nontraditional remedies like Warner's Safe Cure, while noting public skepticism and the resilience of the patient.
A seasoned mining party in Tamaulipas has been granted leads by the Supreme Government and now seeks a few thousand dollars to purchase and install machinery to work the mines. They offer a one third interest in the venture.
The Eagle Pass Coal company announces ready supply of first class clean hard and bituminous coal in any quantity with guaranteed correct weight and no delivery delay. Orders at Sunset depot aid office or Rice and Ryan office. Phone 116 or 314 214. F H Hart, Manager.
The list includes Texas residents granted patents by Louis Bagger & Co for items such as window screen holder, bed bottom, cotton picker sack, planter, wire stretcher and churning device. The Brookve bridge railway use rises with about four fifths of last month’s travelers in cars and an 84 percent increase in railway passengers from March 1884 while foot passengers drop 8 percent.
A set of real estate notices from Houston and San Antonio list a bargain 1100 acre Harris County tract near Buffalo Bayou with hay and improvements, a 1 room cottage on McKinney Street, and a large Rio Grande ranch with 12,000 sheep and 3,000 cattle. Also included are a Moore Hollow farm near the International railroad and Leona and Frio river properties with details on acreage, fencing, irrigation, and title. Addresses include J W Bradley, T B Johnson, I B Johnson, and L C care IT.
City council amends section 3 of the waterworks ordinance to prohibit use or activation of fire hydrants or stand pipes except in fires or with mayoral authorization. Passed and approved April 13, 1885. Attest city officials. 4-17-10.
A San Antonio page fragment describes medical claims for Hos teter s Stomach Bitters as a malaria cure, lists local merchants and suppliers like the Art Gallery of C H Mueller and hardware seeds firms, and notes small ads for carriage work, paintings, and land investment opportunities. The mix includes medical ad copy, shop notices, and real estate pitches with several street addresses and dates.
A traveler in Germany learned of an officer once a Franco German war captain who had allowed his company to be surprised. He served in military railroad transport after 18 months in prison and was told promotion would not come. Germans view being surprised by an enemy as an unpardonable sin.
Special attention invited to bargains in lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. We represent every property advertised by us and claim the largest diversified list in the Southwest with superior showing facilities and advertising advantages. Call or write for our circular list.
Property ads describe 10000 acres on Guadalupe rivers for cattle with water and winter protection, 40000 and 5000 acre parcels nearby, 6500 acre ranch by San Saba river, 700 acre Guadalupe river farm near Seguin, 240 acre Calaveras creek farm, 320 acre Medina river farms, 320 acre river land near Saint Hedwig, 265 acre farm near Calaveras creek, 100 acre farms with cultivation and homes, 1100 acre hay farm northwest of city, and city residence lots on Tobin hill, South Laredo Street, Dallas and Augusta Streets. Also listed are multiple houses, cottages, and building lots with terms.
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