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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1884
Page
11
An 1884 call urges fair-minded men to join a movement to end servitude and secure equal rights, education, wages, protection, and access to public facilities. The letter speaks against caste prejudice and pleads for universal rights and civic recognition.
The report grants a one month leave of absence to Second Lieutenant J M Cunningham of the Ninetenth Infantry at Fort Clark Texas and approves an extension request. Assistant Surgeon W C Gorgas is granted absence on disability. A Board of Survey ruling on Private Michael Condon of the Sixteenth Infantry regarding a mule is disapproved, deeming the incident accidental. surplus mules are redirected to Fort Brown Ringgold McIntosh Concho Stockton Davis and Camps Rice Penn Colorado.
The Zapadores and Eighth cavalry study a programme for the New Orleans exposition. Matamoros merchants plan sailing vessels to New Orleans. An English firm may stock 50,000 cattle and build wool factories near Santa Rosa Coahuila. Mexican artisans invited for New Orleans work. fifty sapper-men will depart this month under Quintas Arroyo. Hemenway plans return to Vera to manufacture a water-closet purifier. Palmer-Sullivan railroad aims to close 360 miles from Saltillo to San Miguel Allende in about eight months, boosting trade. Yellow fever in Mazatlan noted.
The Major is enthused about the presidential race and believes Cleveland and Hendricks will be elected. He has long claimed forecast accuracy after returning from his notifying trip, and this year he predicts the same outcome despite prior misses. The Express language suggests the usual certainty.
Messrs George R. Dashiell L Wurzbach Aransas Prescott Joe Varga and Phil Braubach reported an excellent time at the Grand Lodge gathering in Lampasas this week. They praised the town’s hospitality and the warm reception they received.
Two farms totaling 1207 acres lie along the Guadalupe River and Mill Creek nine miles from the railroad and county seat. About 900 acres are timbered and 300 acres cultivated in three fields with varied soils and river bottom land. The property includes five California houses three log tenement houses and a main home with four rooms and galleries. Titles are perfect and land has been in possession 34 years. Second farm spans 700 acres with 300 river bottom and 200 cultivated, fenced and cultivated by the owner’s current workers. Address J W Brapiey Real Estate Agent San Antonio Tex. 6-2-1f
City ordinance regulates theatres and places of amusement in San Antonio. It bans vociferous language and indecent shows, bans indecent performers, and sets fines from twenty five to two hundred dollars on conviction. Passed July 14, 1884, by Mayor J. H. Freneh. City Clerk E. P. Ciavupon.
A 1884 city ordinance bans sparring and any public fight in venues open to the public with or without gloves. Violators face fines from 25 to 200 dollars after conviction before the Recorder. (Note: The source also contains unrelated legal notices and anonymous medical ads.)
One of the finest finished houses on a fashionable avenue with gas hot and cold water bath room stable and carriage room 16 rooms Brussels carpeted with fine piano and pictures. Also six bedrooms parlor bath servant's room and kitchen two-story carriage house with two omelots in third ward two blocks from street car line price 5700 half cash balance on easy payments 29 Olive street lots 250 to 600 for building. Also two-story house and two lots in Fourth ward offers wanted apply J W Bradley. New cottage and 10 acres all fenced 24 miles from plaza offers wanted apply J W Bradley. Thirteen acres with river frontage near San Antonio river 2 miles from plaza 1500 apply J W Bradley.
A variety of properties and items are advertised for sale in San Antonio including a furnished eight room boarding house at 304 East Commerce with furniture and a piano, a corner lot at Goliad and Matagorda, a business stand with stock and lease, South Alamo Street property with improved US Rooms, seven 10 acre tracts near Prospect Hill at 250 each, a 240 acre farm on Calevaras Creek, riverfront lots on River Avenue, and numerous residences on Crockett Alamo and Nolan streets. Also advertised are Electric Bitters offered by Rice Bros Co as a cure-all remedy.
A medical note urges readers to consult an aurist for ear discharge and odor. It argues against old French authorities and cites D B St John Roosa as a top expert, warning that untreated ear disease may harm the brain, lungs, or heart and stressing early treatment. References list patients and doctors in San Antonio and nearby towns.
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