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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1885
Page
5
A real estate firm promotes a vast and varied array of lands ranches city residences farms and building lots in the Southwest. They offer extensive showings and advertise advantages to clients and invite calls or letters for their Circular List of Bargains.
Hilton & Young advertise vast Texas parcels including 10,000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters and 6,500 acre Menard county ranch with riverfronts. Additional farms along Medina and Calaveras creeks, river land near Seguin, and a city residential section offer low prices and flexible terms. Also promote 400 acre and 320 acre tracts, stock facilities, and a country store stake as part of the deal.
Grace Lilburne schemes to kill her sister Kate to win Roland Ayre. She lures Kate to a turret chamber with a hidden floor, causing a deadly fall into a dark chasm. Roland discovers the danger as the castle searches for Kate unfold. To be continued.
Colonel J W Bradley of San Antonio advertises a Mexican mining venture in the San Carlos mountains of Tamaulipas. He claims rich fissure-vein silver ore assaying high values, with setup costs around 6000 dollars for a ten-ton smelter and annual profits touted at about 500 dollars per day. Bradley invites investors to visit Monterey and Linares, offering a one-third share of net profits and detailing logistics and labor.
Bargain column lists a 1100 acre tract in Harris County six miles from Houston on Buffalo Bayou with water grass timber improvements and 400 tons of hay last season. Sold cheap on easy terms. Contact T B Johnson or J W Bradley real estate agents. Also multiple Houston area property bargains described with prices and locations. Best tobacco brand noted as Little Joker.
Texas bargains list multiple items including an 8 column Prouty used eight months a Ruggles Card Press orderg good Pearl Jabber 7x11 inches 50 dollars Eighth Medium Gordon new model 175 dollars Anson-Hardy Cutter 30 inch 100 dollars Country Campbell 31x46 used one month and a Thorp Card Cutter five dollars.
The Campbell Printing Press Co of New York reports that a San Antonio customer purchased a Two Revolution Book and Job Press and used it for nearly two years. The note praises its table distribution and calls it superior to any press in the market.
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