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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1885
Page
3
Colton and Bolton auctioneers announce a large assortment of new and second hand furniture and household items. The sale includes parlor suites beds dining and kitchen furniture crockery glassware lamps plated ware stoves mattresses mattresses cots bedsprings pictures pianos clocks and more plus horses carriages harness and other effects all priced within reach.
Property listings include five building lots on Hackberry street with 81x75 varas, two lots on Baltimore avenue with a 4 room house, two residences on Avenue C, and several corner lots and riverfront parcels. Also offered are rental houses on Duval, Crosby, Leona, Austin, and North Olive streets, livestock and a pony phaeton, a rock house, and a 400 acre Bexar county farm. plus a general purchasing and commission business and loan services.
City adopts a detailed sidewalk ordinance dividing sidewalks into Class A B C with concrete foundations curbing grades and notice procedures. It repeats delinquency penalties liens and sale of fronting property for nonpayment with 8 percent interest and city completion if owners fail to act. Passed July 27 1885 by Mayor Bryan Caltaauan and City Clerk EK Ciaupon.
The ordinance amends Chapters 9 10 and 11 of the Revised City Ordinances detailing poll lists ballot handling counting tallying and returns. It specifies how voters are numbered ballots sealed delivery to the mayor or city clerk and certification of results with a 12 month duplicate tally kept. Passed August 10 1885 by Bryan Callaghan and E P Craypon.
City ordinance outlines penalties for keeping or exhibiting gaming tables and banks within San Antonio. It defines included games such as Faro Monte Vingt et un and Keno, and sets fines from ten to one hundred dollars plus jail for violations.
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