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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1884
Page
2
Anxious Eastern paper notes Butler’s letter delay and stagnant wages. France pushes on in the Far East while cholera looms. Friends of Colonel Upson doubt Sayers’s nomination and the political ring politics. Commentary and satire reflect a nation in stagnation with a wary eye on machine politics.
The piece rails at Democratic machine control in Texas and offers quotes from press organs on tariff policy and overproduction. It highlights Terrell and other Democrats as machine targets, while promoting Republican prospects and Houston Galveston opposition to a Gulf road. It concludes with an 1884 San Antonio ordinance regulating subdivision plats.
City notices declare prohibitions on signs in parks and leaving lighted oil lamps in unoccupied buildings within the first five limits. Ordinances set fines up to 200 dollars for violations and outline enforcement by the city. Also notes tax list appeals board schedule and Republican precinct meeting details in August 1884.
Dr John Kittson, one of Commodore N W Kittson's 23 children, died after a long illness. Born to an Indian mother and educated in Montreal, he studied at McGill and served as Chief of the Medical Department of the Northwest with the mounted police. He returned to his father's home two years before his death.
This property near Eagle Pass offers 15 solid brick, rock, and adobe houses with thick walls for heat and cold, perfect ventilation, cisterns, large stables, and layouts suitable for boarding or sanitary use. Rent is available per house or as a whole. apply to T. L. Ocuspy in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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