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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1884
Page
3
Summary of city finances for July 1884 listing receipts from general, police, county, and special funds, and detailing expenditures across salary, street, ditch, fire, and engineering services. Includes balances, collector receipts, and note lines for August adjustments. არსებული
A collection of sale notices for 1100 acre Harris County farm near Houston with hay yield, several building lots and cottages in San Antonio, a Ruggles card press, a concrete house on Milam square, and multiple parcels along Avenue C and Crockett Street. Listings include terms, prices from 6000 to 1500, and agents J W Bradley and T B Johnson.
The city prohibits erecting displaying or maintaining any sign for advertising within all city parks. Existing signs are declared nuisance and to be removed. Violators face fines of not less than five dollars per offense with daily penalties for non removal after notice. Passed August 18 1884 by Mayor H French and City Clerk E P Clapton.
San Antonio enacts a rule banning lit oil lamps during the night in stores warehouses banks and other first fire limit structures unless a room remains continuously occupied. Violations bring fines from five to two hundred dollars. Also notices announcing Mrs Galpin offering piano violin guitar lessons on Acequia Street near the public High School.
Real estate and goods bargains advertised by Hosack and Newton at 2 Soledad Street Opposite Courthouse. Listings include eight room boarding house at 304 East Commerce Street, a corner lot at Goliad and Matagorda, a business stand with stock and lease, a South Alamo Street property with garden and vineyard, seven 10 acre tracts near Prospect Hill at 250 each, a 240 acre farm near Calavaras Creek, and multiple lots on River Avenue and Crockett Alamo Nolan streets. Also mentions improved residences and unimproved property, plus drugstore agency for Dr King’s New Discovery with free trial bottle.
Two farms totaling about 12073 acres lie along the Guadalupe river and Mill Creek near a main stage road nine miles from the railroad and county seat. About 900 acres are rich alluvial land with 300 acres in cultivation. timbered acres include birch oak cottonwood sycamore and black walnut. One farm has 700 acres adjoining the river bottom. 300 cultivated. Homes include five California houses and three log tenement houses with a four room main house. Agent J W Brapiey San Antonio solicits inquiries.
The Republican Executive Committee of Texas Tenth District calls a convention in San Antonio on September 10 1884 to nominate a candidate for Congress. Mass meetings August 30 1884 elect delegates with representation based on Davis vote totals. counties listed with respective weights. The convention requires bona fide delegates and disallows proxies.
An ad touts free sample bottles of Dr Boranko's Cough and Lung Cure with 5 cent and 100 dollar price points. A legal notice from 1884 requires Ellen Shoulders to be served by publication in San Antonio for a debt case involving Mathias Koch for beef delivered, with dates set for court appearance.
An excerpt arguing that doctors fail to cure many diseases and that Dr Stosanko's Pile Pomeny offers cures for piles and other illnesses. It claims Santa Rosa Hospital authorities endorse the medicines and lists testimonials, prices, and depot details in Texas and Gulf States. It also includes unrelated tobacco promotion.
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