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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1885
Page
2
The column bundles on Rockfort subsidy hopes for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad, Mexico exports for Q1 1885, San Antonio visitors enjoying mild weather, Gifford’s health resort ads, and critical notes on Democratic finance versus Republican achievements. It also laments foreign defense costs, questions government protection, and critiques local waterworks debates with Alderman Lockwood and Brackenridge defenders.
The piece argues that San Antonio attracts health seekers with a temperate climate and coastal breezes, urging persistent efforts for Aransas Pass deep water to boost the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad and regional trade, citing General Newton and Colonel Belknap on improvement costs and urgency. It notes forestry in the South and Texas importance, calls for arbor day spread, and discusses San Pedro Park improvements, city oversight, and a possible botanical garden project via Mr. Jermy and Mr. Kerble. It also mentions anticipated Speaker Carlisle and committee appointments in Congress and names several lawmakers and chairmanships.
City committees retain chairmen on education pensions and ships. California Wines proprietor F S Meyer returns from California with brands for sale at Meyer's ball. Families offered pure California claret at one dollar per gallon. Various ads promote Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Brown's Iron Tonic, Hawkes spectacles, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and the Art Gallery of C A Mueller. The Maverick Hotel in Eagle Pass is highlighted as central and comfortable.
A brief verse on railway whistle signals and their meanings. It likens whistle patterns to guidance for safe stops and repairs. It ends with a plug for Brown's Iron Bitters as the world’s great iron medicine.
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