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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 29, 1885

Page

2

Washington Appointments Sparse and Local Quarrels Persist

The daily Washington appointment list shows Texas is thin while a large Democratic majority leaves little change expected. A northern proposed hospital faces funding gaps, but Finance Committee oversight suggests a fix. Local frictions include a Dallas water dispute and a man jailed with his wife after an assault over a well. Texas cotton rail pools promise ground floor rates, while church membership rolls reveal many unknown addresses. A former worker’s plight cited, and San Antonio health resort promotion discussed with ongoing call for submissions.

Tae Finance Committee Dallas McComas

Prohibition and Grant era notes from the era

The piece surveys a probable Governor candidate and his stance on prohibition, previews General Grant related content in The Century, and recounts various letters and anecdotes. It covers Laura Nourse’s death by suicide in Louisville, Tom Ochiltree’s hotel corridor interview, and snippets from The Century's September issue with Civil War memoranda and editorials.

Prohibition Texas Laura Nourse Louisville Ben F. Nourse New Orleans New York Mail and Express Tom Ochiltree Fifth Avenue Hotel Mr. Ochiltree Pish Saratoga Iexas Munchausen General Grant Mount McGregor Grant Europe Galveston Lew Wallace McCook Shiloh Vicksburg Island No. 10 Schuyler Hamilton Cooke Gaines’ Mill Fitz-John Porter Philip St. George Cooke W. H. Jitchcock Alaska British Columbia Yukon River Fort Selkirk Howells Panforte di Siena Alice

Inventions and Education: A Reader’s Catalog Excerpt

The excerpt lists several works and authors including Charles Barnar M Jenkins Emily F Wheeler Charlotte Porter Eugene Smalley and R W D Bryan. It also notes a war story Crow's Nest by Mrs Burton Harrison and Henry James serial The Bostonians. Patent medicines and ads are described with prices and suppliers.

Charles Barnar M. Jenkins Emily F. Wheeler Charlotte Porter Eugene V. Smalley New Mexico R. W. D. Bryan

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