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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1885
Page
3
Special attention invited to bargains in lands ranches city residences farms building lots. We represent every property advertised by us and claim the largest diversified list in the Southwest. We offer superior showing facilities and advertising advantages for clients and will accompany buyers across the state for information and circulars.
Hilton & Young promote 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters and 6 500 acre ranch on San Saba with water and winter protection, plus numerous farms near Seguin Medina River Me dina River and Calaveras Creek. Also listing city residences on Tobin Hill Kingsbury and Erie M streets with modern comforts and favorable terms.
A Treasury of light humor notes witty exchanges about postscript notes in marriage, umbrella history, and police quirks. Jokes contrast English jokes on mules and pikes with humorous lines from Harper’s Bazar and the New York Sun. A Lewiston tale and stray global quips end with a farmer finding cows via a pumpkin hole.
A narrator recalls clearing a massive oak on his uncle's land after a hard three day effort. The tree toppled with a roar, smashing fences and injuring a cow, prompting sorrow and comic misfortune. Uncle Jim reassures him to continue work with payment to follow. Tension remains between them upon returning home.
Frantic social complaint about "frivolous" society men and earnest fops echoes from Boston and Detroit columns. An elderly Moses Motefiore tale recalls charity, turkeys, and the memory of a wife guiding a philanthropist in Ramsgate.
A bundle of real estate listings including an 1100 acre Harris county tract near Houston on Buffalo Bayou with water grass timber improvements and hay crop offered cheap with easy terms. Also multiple Houston properties on McKinney Avenue Avenue C Crockett street and Alazan creek with 5 to 10 room houses and 65 000 acre ranch near Rio Grande with livestock and equipment all for sale by T B Johnson J W Bradley or both in San Antonio Texas and Moore Hollow rail station listings.
Inventory includes an 8-column Prouty used 8 months and a Ruggles Card Press in good order priced at 2600 dollars. A Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches for 50 dollars and an Eighth Medium Gordon new model in good order at 175 dollars. Also an Anson Hardy Cutter 30 inches for 100 dollars a Country Campbell 31x46 used one month and a Thorp Card Cutter priced at 5 dollars.
Classified items advertise 640 acres on the Leona river with 250 irrigable acres and a sugar mill for 5500, 900 acres on the Rio Frio in Valde county with 300 fenced acres, plus various patent medicines and remedies including Morley X-8 Tonic, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, King's New Discovery, Creole Female Tonic, Electric Bitters, and Morley's Two Best Cough Syrup with sale details and local agents.
An advertisement certifies use of WONDER FUL EIGHT as a cattle remedy for Black Leg in Williamson County Texas. It describes internal dosing from five to two drops and external applications once or twice, and mentions Buttercup as a product, Little Joker smoking tobacco.
A San Antonio note dated January 26 1885 praises the Campbell Two Revolution Book and Job Press from Campbell Printing Press Co New York. The writer states the press has been used for nearly two years and found superior for all classes of work including table distribution.
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