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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1884
Page
3
A talking red nosed mosquito declares Coney Island the ideal spot for a jamboree over Newport and Atlantic City. He ridicules other resorts with notes on drinks and crowds, then jokes about kicking a policeman's spectacles aside.
An 1884 San Antonio section mixes fiction and letters lampooning Wall Street speculation and political figures, warns of threats to John Kelly, and lists city notices. It includes a tax list appeal schedule, promotional medicine claims, and local business notices with dates and places.
Real estate notices advertise a fine 1100 acre farm on Buffalo Bayou six miles from Houston with water grass and timber. Also listed are building lots cottages card press and concrete house sales in San Antonio and Houston areas with installment options and prices up to 6000.
Finest bargain in Southwest Texas offering 12073 acres in Guadalupe County fronting Guadalupe river and Mill Creek. Property includes 900 acres timbered and 350 cultivated, several houses including five California and three log tenant houses, streams, fences, and stock pens. Second farm adjoins with 700 acres and 300 river bottom, 200 cultivated. both farms reachable nine miles from rail and county seat via main stage road. Contact J. W. Braphy, Real Estate Agent, San Antonio.
The Republican Executive Committee for the Tenth District of Texas issues a call for a congressional nominating convention to convene in San Antonio on September 10, 1884 at noon. Mass meetings in each county vote for delegates based on Davis 1882 results, with one vote per 100 Davis votes and one per 50 over, plus one per county. list of county tallies given. proxies not allowed. George Paschal chairs.
Dr Bosanko the originator of the great Dr Bosanko Coueh and Lung Syrup is presented as the people's favorite remedy for coughs colds consumption and throat and lung affections. Sold by C schasse Co James Clavin Ragland Co.
A dense ad listing many properties for sale or bargain including a well furnished eight room boarding house at 304 East Commerce, a piano and small store, a corner lot at Goliad and Pareepeca streets, business stand with stock and lease, property on South Alamo street with garden and vineyard, seven 10 acre tracts near Prospect Hill at $250 each, a 10 acre tract near Corpus Christi road, several lots in wards 1 and 8, homes on Crockett Alamo and Nolan streets, a fronting lot on Soledad Acequia, and improved Acequia street properties. Also medical pitch for Dr King’s New Discovery with free trial bottles at Rice Bros. & Co.’s Soledad block. regular size $1.
Public citation for Mathias Koch v Ellen Shoulders in Bexar County Texas demands appearance on the second Monday in August 1884. The defendant’s residence is unknown, requiring four weekly newspaper publications in the San Antonio Lieut to compel response to a sworn debt claim for 47.60 dollars and 595 pounds of beef.
An unsigned regional notice promotes Dr Hosanko's pile remedy and other medicines as a universal cure for cancers, consumption, fevers, epilepsy, insanity, syphilis, and more. It claims endorsements by Santa Rosa Hospital authorities and advertises San Antonio testimonials, with contact in Texas and Gulf States.
Informational piece argues against delaying ear discharge treatment. Cites D. B. St. John Roosa and warns untreated purulent ear conditions threaten brain, lungs, or heart. Names multiple Texas locations and practitioners who have cured ear diseases, urging consultation with an Aurist.
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