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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1885
Page
3
A firm touts the region’s broadest and most diverse property listings in the Southwest. It offers superior viewing facilities and advertising advantages and invites buyers to request its Circular List of Bargains for lands across theState.
Hilton and Young advertise 10 000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters with abundant water and winter protection, 6 500 acre ranch on San Saba river, 2 000 acre Me dina river farms, assorted smaller tracts near Seguin, Saint Hedwig, and city outskirts. Also numerous city residences on Tobin Hill and surrounding streets with modern comforts and flexible terms.
A Troy Telegram feature contrasts old and new barroom habits showing men now order non intoxicants or lighter drinks, prefer lounges over standing room, and favor sociable seating. It notes a decline in habitual drinking and a shift toward dining and conversation, with some workers still seeking heavy drink. The piece also includes verse about swinging on a gate and a brief public notice about water shutoffs and coal pricing.
New York Mail and Express warns that stud-horse poker appears fair but hides a secret down card, letting strong hands gain advantage. The game uses exposed cards, central dealer, and high house percentages, drawing men into half-dollar stakes and cheap bets. It notes the law as the best rescue and cites persistent gambler recruitment by cheap thrills.
Harper's Weekly declares its position as America's leading illustrated weekly with expanded literary and artistic resources. It highlights a new W. E. Norris serial, West and South themed illustrated articles including the World's Exposition at New Orleans, entertaining tales, and authoritative commentary on major topics, urging subscription for a trustworthy political guide and family journal.
Harper's Weekly and other Harper titles are advertised with subscription rates for 52 numbers and annual volumes. Offers include free postage in the U S and Canada, cloth bindings and mail delivery, with remittance via money order or draft. Address Harper & Brothers, New York.
Harper's Bazar is presented as a premier weekly combining literature and art with fashion, household adornment, pattern sheets, and instructions for self sewing. It highlights Paris and New York styles, etiquette, cooking, servant management, and needlework illustrations for practical home living.
The notice lists annual rates for Harper's Bazar Harper's Magazine and Harper's Young People magazine along with Franklin Square Library access. It explains volume beginnings in January and offers free postage or express delivery for cloth bound last five volumes, priced at $1 per volume, with payment by money order or draft.
A summary of Harper's Young People noting its wholesome juvenile fiction free from vulgar sensationalism. Highlights include humorous stories, natural history and science papers, athletic sports illustrated features, and reliable writers. Quotations praise its wealth of pictures and value for boys and girls in families.
Terms and price details for a publication begin November 4 1884 with prepaid postage at 200 per year. Instructions urge remittance by post office money order or draft to avoid loss, signed by a group referred to as brothers.
Notice that the City Council adopts amendments to the city charter. Provisions define ward boundaries by a three mile radius from the cathedral cupola, set election schedules from 1887, establish a city recorder court with police powers, and outline borrowing, tax, and road widening procedures. Includes property condemnation rules and commissions for property valuation.
Campbell Press boasts a sixteen year public reputation as a simple durable press with few parts. It claims superior ink distribution and register, ideal for colored labels, easy running, and high quality work noted by fair men. It emphasizes savings on ink rollers and type versus other builders.
Classified listing offers Prouty eight months used at $2500, Ruggles Card Press in good order, Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches for $50, Eighth Medium Gordon new model $175, Anson Hardy Cutter 30 inch $100, Country Campbell 31x46 used one month, and a Thorp Card Cutter $5.
San Antonio Light reports on Campbell Printing Press Co New York Gent LeMan noted for the Two Revolution Book and Job Press. The letter praises its table distribution and all around superiority after nearly two years of use.
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