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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1885
Page
3
Special attention invited to a broad list of lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. We represent every advertised property and claim the largest diversified Southwest list with better showing facilities and advertising advantages. Call or write for our circular list of bargains now available.
Hilton and Young advertise 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters as prime cattle range with abundant water and winter protection plus 40 000 acres nearby. Multiple river and creeks farms from 100 to 1200 acres with rich soils, water, and improvements near Seguin Medina San Saba and Me la. Also city properties including numerous building lots on Tobin hill and several residences with modern conveniences in San Antonio. Call for terms and circulars.
The poem describes leaves and forms of beauty appearing after loss. It speaks of sowers, harvest, and the idea that cherished friends do not perish but rise to greet in a fairer land. It envisions faithful reunions beyond harsh suns and snows, without a single one left behind.
A Niagara coastal hotel owner describes a plan to sweep away Black staff after a violent incident. He boasts hiring fifty white waiters in one day, routing present workers to a private jail, and paying off the new crew to silently assume duties while ensuring no disruption to guests. He claims swift, secret changes to avoid public notice.
A Boston Courier reminiscence describes a seaside hotel using racial bait and replaced black waiters with white staff to placate guests. The narrator notes guests’ discomfort, but claims the operation reduced theft and improved profits, while recounting muttered remarks from a hotelier and the aftermath of a violent incident. The piece also sketches steelworks labor, hot plates, and red-hot iron being formed for shipbuilding.
A narrator nicknamed Shad plans to wed the landlord's daughter Annette amid light banter and bouquets of peas. The narrator orchestrates the proposal while Shad boasts of love and a large home, a humorous social scene from the Ingleside column in San Francisco.
A two ton plate is heated in Landore's vast rolling plant and hoisted to the furnace. It is moved to the rolling mills where the ingot enters the rolls and gradually flattened into a plate as flames hiss from the closing jaws.
The Boston Budget recounts anecdotes of historic gourmets and thinkers. Dr Fordyce and Dr Parr savor meals while Newton subsists on bread water and vegetables. Dryden Bacon Johnson Paley Franklin Pepys Beau Brummel and Franklin reflect humorous food habits and musings.
In a Detroit Free Press reminiscence Brother Gardner delivers a Thanksgiving reflection full of dialect humor and social hints. He notes neighbors taken by illness and misfortune while contrasting unlikely fortunes and losses. The piece blends memories of 1884 with a cautioned gratitude for simple sustenance and communal endurance.
In Paris a hotel guest leaves on foot after paying her bill. The landlord accuses a woman of stealing a mantel clock. He pursues and detains her. at the hearing she denounces the charge while the clock’s chimes trigger laughter. A warder later returns the timepiece to its owner.
Newspapers in the Southern States call for a crusade to fix the habit of driving on the right. The piece cites regions where left hand turns prevail and suggests sermons and teaching should reinforce right side behavior.
Colonel J W Bradley of San Antonio invites investors to Monterey Tamaulipas and San Carlos mountains Mexico to examine rich silver ore deposits. Mines reportedly denounced by Mexican government with high yields, crude ore valued at about 1000 per ten tons, profits claimed at 500 per day, offering one third of net products in exchange for investment.
A mixed property notice lists 1100 acres in Harris county near Houston with hay, water, and some improvements, plus several city lots and houses in Houston on McKinney street and Avenue C with modern conveniences and special bargains. Also offered is 65 000 acres with livestock and ranch components near the Rio Grande, plus tobacco brand Little Joker.
Campbell Press has operated for 16 years, building a reputation for simplicity, durability, and few moving parts. It is praised for ink distribution and register, favored for colored label work, easy running and low ink and roller costs, with high quality acknowledged by fair observers.
An eight column Prouty used eight months listed. A Ruggles Card Press in good order priced at 2500 dollars. One Pearl Jobber 7 by 11 inches offered at 50 dollars. An Eighth Medium Gordon new model in good order 175 dollars. An Anson Hardy Cutter thirty inch priced at 100 dollars. A Country Campbell 31 by 46 used one month. A small Thorp Card Cutter offered at 5 dollars.
An 1885 San Antonio Light notice from Campbell Printing Press Co New York commends the Campbell Two Revolution Book and Job Press as superior for all work. The brief ad notes table distribution and long use in San Antonio, urging readers to consider the press. The publishers Girrop Johnson & Wierer are listed.
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