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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1885
Page
2
Warlike border news prompts militia talk as Ranger force shrinks. Prohibitionists name Galveston senator as a frightening example while legislators push to make offenses felonies and revise state statutes. Debates consider pistol badges, cheaper water schemes, and a Gulf railroad linking San Antonio to Aransas Pass, with Mardi Gras nearing and the World’s Fair scrutiny ongoing.
Advertising supports a sturdy local paper and signals a town’s vitality amid hard times. The piece surveys shifting Western boundaries, African conflict narratives, Gordon in Khartoum and El Mahdi, plus Mexico tariff reforms and Tepic’s creation as a new state.
Excerpt from Paul H. Hayne on Dr. F. O. Tieknor, died December 1874 near Columbus Georgia. The piece praises his lyric poetry and artistic gifts, notes his obscurity, domestic happiness, and a life filled with visions and music, while hinting at illness and financial or social struggles.
An array of ads describes the Art Gallery of C. H. Mueller at 205 Commerce Street offering paints frames wallpaper and art supplies. Real estate listings include a 1400 acre Moore Hollow farm near an International railroad station and other large tracts with improvements and cattle. Medical patent remedies and tonics are advertised with claims of cures and free trials. Local druggists Rice Bros. & Co. sell Electric Bitters and Morgans remedies.
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