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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1885
Page
4
Testimony in the city council investigation into City Attorney Newton centers on the invalidity of prior gambling ordinances. Witnesses discuss charter conflicts, power limits, and attempts to draft a valid ordinance with penalties of fines and imprisonment.
Houston's D C Bolinger Coahuila's J M Lane Luling's Captain J N Stagner and others stay in the city. Deputy District Clerk Manuel Yturri is ill. George R Dashiell returned from Austin. Many named guests from multiple cities registered at the Maverick or St Leonard.
A man staged a movable boot and shoe shop on Military Plaza in San Antonio selling footwear at bankrupt prices, drawing curiosity from onlookers as the city displayed both novelty and artifacts of older times.
A listed program presents five musical items including March Song Medley and selections from Macbeth Verdi and The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz. The program features Mendelssohn Farewell to the Forest and a Dave Braham medley among other pieces. The event runs from time five o'clock.
The Texas Senate passed the new city charter yesterday with two amendments. One changes nothing for now as the city limits stay square, and the other relates to sale of city bonds. Bond proceeds must be secured before public improvement work begins.
Yesterday afternoon an intoxicated man assaulted Officer Brown on Houston Street. He knocked the officer into mud and kicked him in the head. Police intervened, the man was restrained with ropes, taken to the bat cave, and fined ten dollars this morning.
Licur reporter interviews Pat Cavaney veteran game chicken breeder about using an old rooster after killing plucking thawing and hanging overnight before cooking to achieve unusually tender meat. He claims the method yields exceptionally tender fowl based on personal trial and memory of a recipe passed down.
In the Recorder's Court, B Herrera of the Mexican orchestra was fined 25 dollars for carrying a pistol. J W Patterson, who failed to have his chimney cleaned, was dismissed after his wife attributed a grease spill to a kitchen fire. Kellogg and Dallas Jack received dismissals for careless driving and leaving a team unattended. J Morrison, drunk and disorderly, paid 10 dollars. twice listed, Antonio Cantu and John Schmidt were fined 5 dollars for drunkenness. R Johnson faced ongoing insults. John Repan was dismissed for peddling tinware without a license after a City Collector statement that tin peculiars did not require licenses.
A long list records numerous construction costs in various wards. Names include William Heuerman John Kitchens F Budde Annie Stickleboat Annie McDonnell H M Hunter Dr 8 T Lowry Freeman Meyers Major F 8 Dodge G B Silabee August Uiricch and E Arnold with designated property types and street locations. Costs range from ten dollars to ten thousand dollars.
Mrs. Wenthave suffered a severe injury while chopping kindling when her left thumb was severed. The attending doctor urged immediate use of an indestructible fire starter to prevent further danger, noting no home should be without one amid such accidents.
The Branch store at 337 Broadway New York City offers dry goods nations stationery jewelry glassware crockery tinware hats shoes clothing and more with low prices on pins needles gloves carpets and coats. Also announces coal delivery by Eagle Pass Coal Co and a public auction at Braden Hotel with bed steads and tables, plus new spring goods from Worrr & Marx.
The Braden Hotel on Market Street undergoes a thorough cleaning and complete overhaul. Prospective renters must furnish all new furnishings and contact Ed Braden at the Electric Light Office on Commerce Street for arrangements. Also notices advertise Italian Coal Company and Frank D. Zottarelli Company music services with contact details and pricing notes.
S. S. Floyd & Co. operates as brokers in grain cotton and provisions with a home office in Galveston Texas and branch offices in San Antonio Houston and Fort Worth.
San Antonio Rifles will offer an exhibition drill Saturday night at the rink. Bunyan's features California black apricots fresh oysters and a piano bargain. Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines advertised with service, discounts at Pancoast & Sons, and various tailoring and craft services listed.
Offers for sale and transplanting of ornamental shade and fruit trees vines plants bulbs and small fruits. Free of charge delivery and trans planting. Proprietor F B Rosenberger. San Antonio.
San Antonio Safe Deposit and Trust Co offers steel lined marble encased vault boxes with master key protection. Boxes rent from 40 cents a month upward based on size.
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