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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1885
Page
5
A real estate office declares it represents every advertised property and offers the most diversified catalog in the Southwest. It advertises superior showing facilities and urges buyers to request its Circular List of Bargains, with trips across the state to view lands.
Hilton and Young list 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters with rich water, winter protection and fine range. Additional tracts include 40 000 acres outside the range and 6 500 acres along San Saba with good water. Also 700 acre farm below Seguin 12 miles, 320 acre Medina river farms, 320 acre east and west parcels, 265 acre southeast farm, 1100 acre hay farm near the city, and city properties on Tobin hill and nearby streets with multiple residences and lots. Terms and price details offered.
A Victorian humor essay by Bill Nye responds to Herman A. H seeking books and guidance to become a humorist. Nye quips about spelling, grammar, and a staged dramatic path to fame, joking that trials and even a steamboat explosion could prove the candidate’s worth. He jokes about signatures to back a public experiment in humor.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a dramatic scene at a well known hotel where a man cried murder from room 40. Police and bystanders arrived as a veiled woman supposedly tortured him, later claimed to be removing a back roughed plaster rather than harming him.
Colonel French recalls Vinnie Reams working on a model of Admiral Farragut. Twenty artists offered 20,000. she arrived with her full-scale bronze in a wagon. The team struggled to move it, and it shattered into smithereens as four or five men helped.
A Chicago Inter Ocean corresp recounts Vinnie Farragut placing a statue of Farragut in a passage to the Senate post office. Crowds of 200 watched as authorities moved the work to clear access, with Sherman and Mrs Farragut praising the likeness and government awards totaling about $50,000.
A Cassell's Family Magazine piece warns travelers to avoid hurried train journeys. It notes risks to the heart and nervous system, claims concussive effects on the brain, and advises invalids to prefer slower travel or rest. It contrasts first and third class, citing cost and cognitive impact, and urges care for comfort and rapid recovery on long journeys.
A resident reports a man described as wild and uncivilized from the North Carolina hills visiting Gainesville, noting his filthy appearance and unfamiliarity with books or newspapers. He spoke in a strange brogue and claimed to know Gainesville as his target on a long journey.
Colonel J W Bradley of San Antonio promotes select loads of silver ore in Jamaalipas Mexico with claims of high returns. He describes denouncements by the Mexican Government, self sustaining mines, and a one third share offer to investors, inviting inquiries at 402 Houston street.
Multiple real estate bargains listed in Harris County and San Antonio. 1100 acre farm on Buffalo Bayou near Houston with water grass and hay, 4 rooms to 6 room houses on McKinney Street, other city lots and a 65 thousand acre ranch on the Rio Grande with sheep oats horses and equipment offered by J W Yor Bolingson and I B Johnson Realty.
Auction line listing multiple printing tools with prices and conditions. Prouty 8-column press used 8 months for $2500. Buggies Card Press good order $2500. Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches $50. Eighth Medium Gordon new model good order $175. Anson-Hardy Cutter 30 inch $100. Country Campbell 31x46 used one month. Thorp Card Cutter $5.
Publication entry for Campbell Printing Press Co of New York promoting the Campbell Two Revolution Book and Job Press, listed in San Antonio with date January 26, 1885.
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