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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1885
Page
3
A local real estate firm touts a large diverse list of properties including lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. The ads promise superior showing facilities and offer to accompany buyers anywhere in the state and provide circulars on bargains upon request to Gill.
Hilton & Young offer 10 000 acres on Guadalupe river headwaters with water and winter protection, plus 40 000 acres outside range and 6 500 acre Menard county ranch near San Saba. Numerous farms around Seguin and Medina river, 20 to 320 acre parcels, timber lands, and city property on Tobin Hill. Also residential lots and homes in San Antonio with flexible terms.
Testimony continues in the Newton malfeasance case with Evans Berlin er, Stanniforth, and Shardeln detailing handwriting, contracts, and payments. Evidence centers on Eckford and Newton, with dates around July 1883 and prior enforcement of old versus new ordinances and related prosecutions.
The Truth of London advertised for original proverbs and received hundreds. Selected entries include lines about honesty and deceit, self-promotion, breaking shells to eat eggs, and valuing sense over long writing. Other maxims touch on money, marriage, character, and time.
Historic San Antonio retailer features the Art Gallery of C H Mueller offering artist materials frames wallpapers and decorative items. Also advertising Creole Female Tonic Morley’s Two Bit Cough Syrup and Electric Bitters with claims of cures and sale details.
The ad touts Dr Haines Golden Specific claiming to cure drunkenness whether moderate drinker or alcoholic. It promises swift permanent results with no knowledge of the patient, offers free testimonials, and lists an address in Cincinnati. The page also includes brief local advertisements for holiday goods and services at 304 East Commerce Street and other retailers.
Multiple Houston area real estate notices advertise a 1100 acre Harris county farm near Buffalo Bayou with railroad access and improvements, plus city lots and rental homes on McKinney Street and Avenue C. Listings include a 1400 acre Moore Hollow tract near a station, a Rio Grande frontier ranch, and additional building lots with easy terms, all seeking quick buyers through agents J. W. Bradley and T. B. Johnson in San Antonio.
Valuable lands advertised include 640 acres on Teona river eight miles below Uvalde with 250 irrigable, mesquite timber, sugar mill and improvements priced at 5500 addressed via 1 C care this office. Also 900 acres on Rio Frio in Valde county twelve miles from railroad with 300 acres fenced irrigable, ads read J C care this office dated 1 31 1f.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers and more with a money back guarantee and mentions Rice Bros Jr selling it. It also promotes Morley’s Two Best Cough Syrup as a cure for coughs and lung diseases with F Kalteyer & Son as the distributor.
An 8-column Prouty used 8 months, a Ruggles Card Press in good order for 2500 dollars, a Pearl Jobber 7 by 11 inches for 50 dollars, an Eighth Medium Gordon new model in good order at 175 dollars, a Country Campbell 31 by 46 used one month, and a small Thorp Card Cutter priced at 5 dollars.
A January 26 1885 notice from Campbell Printing Press Co New York praises the Campbell Two Revolution Book and Job Press used in San Antonio for nearly two years as superior to any press in the market.
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