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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1885
Page
3
Ay Home invites attention to a broad list of bargains in lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. The firm claims to offer the largest diversified property list in the Southwest with superior showing facilities and advertising benefits and asks buyers to call or write for their circular list of bargains.
Hilton & Young advertise 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters with running water and winter protection, 6 500 acre Menard county ranch near San Saba, 3 600 acre Guadalupe river farm near Seguin, 240 acre Calaveras creek farm, 820 acre Medina river tract, 1000 acre hay farm near city, 160 acre city-area farms, plus 6 building lots on Tobin hill and several city homes. Call for terms or descriptive circular.
A professor Huxley inspired claim that color affects size from stockings to ships and people. White is largest, black smallest, with broad implications for dress, transport, and warfare as white and red dominate perceived size.
The piece compares prices in Sicily and Calabria for wine at roadside inns, notes Spain’s rail stop wine access with extra fees for carryout, cites a London Echo calculation on chessboard grain, corrects it with a Brooklyn figure, mentions cider and rheumatism in New England, and ends with a whiskey price critique highlighting producer cost, taxes, and retail markups.
Empty casks to a Vigneron scam wave caveat then filled in exchange for the other. Those who desire illustrations and verification should ask friends outside the trade who have traveled in southern wine countries and know the language. Phas is learned by being transferred from hotel to hotel under couriers and guides. Wine merchants are men of business.
In a tale of newspaper lore, R. J. Burdette quits Burl ing ton Hawkeye after editor Emory reveals Burdette’s joke page as a “sickly” fake. Burdette recalls his rise from Peoria Transcript to local humor and laments the real risk of being caught out. He leaves for the Mississippi bank, admitting guilt and pressure from the editor.
Spurious bullion has appeared in several states for months, reaching the United States Mint. The forged metal arrived via Adams Express Company with high fidelity. A steel core coated in thin gold fooled acid tests and weighed about ten Troy ounces per piece. Col. Snowden calls it the boldest recent gold counterfeiting scheme.
A mass of notices detail 1100 acres near Houston on Buffalo Bayou with water and timber and cheap terms. Several city lots and new concrete and frame houses offered on Avenue C and Crockett Street with prices from 6000 to 1200. Ranches include 65000 acres near Rio Grande with 12000 sheep and 3000 goats sold together for 40000. Also land on Leona and Rio Frio with improvements, mills, and irrigable sections. Advertisers include T. B. Johnson and J. W. Bradley. medicines and salves from Rice Bros. and others are pitched.
An archival classified snippet lists items for sale including Prouty used 8 months, Ruggles Card Press in good order at 2500, Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches at 50, Eighth Medium Gordon new model at 175, Anson Hardy Cutter 30 inch at 100, Country Campbell 31x46 used one month, and a Thorp Card Cutter at 5. Each entry notes condition and price.
A collage of 19th century patent medicine pitches and ads from San Antonio and Tex areas. It touts Creole Female Tonic, Electric Bitters, Maley’s Cough Syrup, Wonderful Right for Black Leg in cattle, and smoking tobacco, with prices and vendor names Rice Bros, F Kalteyer & Son, and Mrs M J Garrin.
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