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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1885
Page
3
A real estate firm advertises a wide sale of property including lands, ranches, city residences, farms and building lots. It promotes its vast, diversified listings, stronger showing facilities, and advertising advantages, inviting buyers to request a circular list of bargains and arrange visits across the state.
Hilton & Young advertise 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters with premium water and winter protection, plus 40 000 acres outside range and 5 000 acres adjoining. Also 6 500 acre Menard county ranch beside San Saba river, 700 acre Eniclave river farm, 240 acre Calaveras creek farm, and multiple other 100–1 100 acre tracts with water, fences, and improvements. City properties include Tobin hill lots, multiple residences on Dallas Augusta streets, and a stone Erie avenue home with modern amenities, with terms and exchanges offered by Hilton & Young.
Colonel J W Bradley forwards a Monterey lawyer's summary of Mexican law on foreign ownership within 60 miles of the Rio Grande and permits for non residents to acquire urban rural mines and other properties. The 1842 law and 1854 amendments outline limits licenses residency taxes and inheritance rules for foreigners.
The document outlines who may acquire Mexican public and private lands, including mines, and sets conditions for frontier regions. It cites a 1863 Juárez law granting denouncement rights to inhabitants up to 2500 hectares and notes interpretations by the Supreme Court. Also mentions a U.S. House deficiency bill authorizing funds and filing deadlines.
A Washington Star report explains how cabinet officers and other dignitaries hire plain white china for large receptions to avoid owning fragile sets. The dealer notes most china is returned unbroken, and wear and breakage are recouped through hire fees, with color and patterns rarely used.
A fragment discusses the hot water cure spreading among physicians and merchants with 5000 adherents drinking it before breakfast. It notes initial nausea but growing acceptance, a jab at ice water and ice companies, and a humorous campus scene about a toothache cure and a turning turnip incident.
Bargain column lists a fine tract of 1 100 acres six miles from Houston on Buffalo Bayou with water grass and timber. Improvements and cultivated plots exist with hay and a quick sale offered by T B Johnson or J W Bradley. Various city lots and a 1400 acre Moore Hollow farm also advertised with terms and cash sale options.
Itemized list offers "Prouty" 8-column press used 8 months, Ruggles Card Press in good order for 2500 dollars, Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches priced at 50 dollars, Eighth Medium Gordon new model at 175 dollars, Anson-Hardy Cutter 30 inches for 100 dollars, Country Campbell 31x46 used one month, Small Thorp Card Cutter at 5 dollars.
Advertisements list 640 acres on the Leona river with 250 irrigable acres and a sugar mill for 5500 dollars, plus 900 acres on the Rio Frio in Valde county with 300 acres fenced. Also medical tonics Morley’s I X 8 Tonic Cordial and Bucklen's Arnica Salve pitched. testimonials from Newton Iowa claim New King's Discovery cured a 25 year cough. trial bottles offered by Rice Bros Co.
Advertisement block promotes Creole Female Tonic as a cure for female ailments, Electric Bitters for debility, Morley’s Two Bit Cough Syrup for throat and lung issues, and music lessons at “bed rock” prices. Rice Bros., druggists, and F. Kalteyer & Son market the remedies. Mrs. M. J. Garin offers lessons at 462 Acequia Street.
The note asserts immediate relief for slack leg in cattle using Wonder Ful Right with two drops given externally. It also mentions Me LURE Buttercup Williamson Tex Best smoking tobacco is Little Joker.
The Campbell Printing Press Co of New York reports using a Campbell Two-Revolution Book and Job Press in San Antonio since January 1883 and finds it superior for all classes of work.
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