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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1885
Page
3
A real estate firm advertises a large and diversified list of property in the Southwest including lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. They offer to accompany buyers anywhere in the state and invite calls or letters for their circular list of bargains just out by the firm.
Hilton and Young advertise 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters with abundant water and winter protection, 40 000 acres outside range, 5 000 adjoining acres, a 6 500 acre Menard county ranch by the San Saba, a 700 acre Guadalupe river farm near Seguin, plus numerous Medina Calaveras and other tracts. They list 820 acre farms, 265 and 1100 acre parcels, several city lots and residences with modern amenities, and encourage visits for terms and descriptive circulars.
Four travelers recall a long plotted anecdote that derails into a quarrel over isothermal vs isothermal and a disputed traveler story. The narration centers on Sausage the talkative savant whose tale collapses into confusion as the group debates names and the supposed Garden of Eden reference.
A Mail and Express interviewer notes rising quality in art needlework. The adept lady describes satin and cloth designs resembling etching, cites techniques like Kensington outline stitch and Rogovo ribbon embroidery, and stresses patience, color sense, and years of practice as keys to skill.
Instructions describe shaping petals from silk ribbon in dark to light shades to form roses and other flowers. Start with five shaded pieces two inches long, create inner folds, stitch to petals, and build centers with maize silk French knots while shaping petals to stand out. For fine flowers thread ribbon through a large needle and stitch per petal.
Judge Pennett explains how a deed carries fence materials, standing trees, standing crops, manure, buildings and fixtures, including window blinds, lightning rods, furnaces, mantels, pumps and water pipes. It notes items like new fence material, third party built buildings, and ornamental statues may not pass unless specified.
A West Point friendship turns playful wartime rivalry. General Pierce Young, invited to breakfast at the Hunter mansion in Virginia, watches General Custer lead his staff toward the house after a shell bursts. Young retreats then waves farewell, promising the dinner awaits.
A clipped discussion contrasts getting much for little with the duty of work. The text laments the tension between earnings for little effort and extensive labor for small pay, noting long historical pushes by various groups and the moral risks of sacrifice.
The article notes that cotton burns quickly once ignited and burns even faster when baled tightly. It remarks on frequent gin-house fires and the difficulty of insuring such properties. It adds that oil, hay, and paper do not burn readily when compressed into compact masses.
Colonel J W Bradley promotes a Mexican silver mining venture in the San Carlos mountains of Lamaulipas near Monterey. He claims rich fissure veins with ore assays around 150 dollars per ton, outlines costs for 10 ton smelter setup, and offers a one third share of net products to investors. He invites interested parties to see the property by rail to Monterey and stage to Linares for inspection.
A string of real estate bargains across Houston and San Antonio. 1100 acre farm on Buffalo Bayou with water and hay. 5 room cottage on McKinney Street priced at 1200. 10 room Avenue C property with modern amenities. six thousand dollar two story home on Avenue C. four lots on Crockett Street for 1100. irrigable land with fruit trees and shade at 900. Also 65,000 acre ranch near Rio Grande with sheep goats horses and equipment included. Best tobacco mentioned as Little Joker.
Classified item list includes an 8-column Prouty eight months used, a Ruggles Card Press in good order for 2500, a Pearl Jobber 7x11 priced at 50, a 7x11 Eighth Medium Gordon new model at 175, an Anson-Hardy Cutter 30 inch for 100, a Country Campbell 31x46 used one month, and a Small Thorp Card Cutter at 5.
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