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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1885
Page
3
A real estate office advertises a broad Southwest inventory of lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. The firm promises unmatched showing facilities and advertising reach and invites buyers to call or write for a circular list of bargains statewide.
The real estate notice promotes 10 000 acres on the Guadalupe headwaters with water and winter protection, 40 000 acres outside range, 6 500 acres near the San Saba river, 700 acre farm below Seguin, and multiple farms along Medina and Calaveras creeks with says prices from a few dollars per acre. City properties include Tobin hill building lots and elegant residences with modern comforts. The firm Hilton & Young invites inquiries and offers terms.
The poem ponders why joy and hardship fall unevenly across lives and places. It reflects on why some taste sunshine while others endure shade and thirst, and concludes that while the whys remain unknown a higher power sees all and grants each soul a mission and strength.
The piece notes that speed ranks seventh for a bicycle behind the balloon locomotive trotting and running horses, lampooning the idea that a lie travels faster than any of them. It reflects a witty quip about rate of travel as a social gag.
Texas citizens receiving patents dated January 20 1885 include J. A. Campbell of Brenham for nut-lock 510985 B. F. Davis of Corsicana for cantilever 311064 and R. L. Willis of Sherman for water gage 311003 reported by Louis Bagger & Co patent experts Washington DC.
A man boasts his wife has not changed in 20 years, while she quips that preserved things in alcohol never change. He then mistakes a buttered napkin ring for a muffin, and they continue in silence, the Washington Hatchet notes.
Bargain column advertises 1100 acre Harris county farm near Houston on Buffalo Bayou with water grass timber and improvements plus 65 000 acre ranch near Rio Grande and multiple city properties in Houston. Also promotes Morley Two Best Cough Syrup and Little Joker tobacco.
Harper's Weekly notes twenty years as leading illustrated weekly in America. The coming volume will feature Norris's illustrated serial, West and South focused articles, the World's Exposition in New Orleans, illustrated short stories, and authoritative papers on major topics. It invites subscriptions for a trustworthy political guide and family journal free of objectionable features.
Recruit Raymond Cox from Fort Clark Texas joins Troop G of the Eighth Cavalry. Theodore V. Davies from San Antonio Texas to Company KE of the Nineteenth Infantry. John I. Barr re enrolled at Fort McIntosh Texas to Company D of the Sixteenth. Leave of absence for one month between March 15 and April 1, 1885 granted to Cox. James Wilson and Sam Johnson from San Antonio Texas assigned to Company Nineteenth Infantry and Troop A Tenth Cavalry respectively. Assistant Surgeon B D Taylor at Fort Clark Texas authorized leave limits expansion.
Public notices of Harper's Weekly Harper's Magazine Harper's Young People and related items list subscription terms post free within US or Canada volume starts January and next after order and extra cloth cases and mailing details plus a misleading promises ad from H Hallett Co and others offering work from home and fortunes with offers for agents in Portland Maine.
The Navasota Tablet offers humorous guidance on rink romance with tips phrased as skating signals. Instructions describe playful gestures and miscommunications about courting and pair skating, framed as comic etiquette for readers.
The Harper's Bazaar paper markets itself as a premier publication combining literature with fine art illustrations and the latest Paris and New York fashions. It highlights pattern sheets and cut patterns for home dressmaking, cooking guidance, servant management, and thorough housekeeping advice.
Harper & Brothers advertise per year rates for Harper's Magazine Young People and Bazar. Franklin Library and postage terms apply. Volume subscriptions of Bazar available cloth bound by mail or express, with price details and payment methods.
Notice that the City Council seeks to amend the city charter with numerous provisions. Key items define city limits by a three mile radius from the Cathedral cupola, create eight wards, and schedule the mayor recorder and twelve aldermen elections beginning 1887. The plan outlines voting rules, terms, budgets, borrowing limits, tax measures, and powers for the Recorder and city council on ordinances, paving, and property takings.
List of used and new printing equipment with prices: Prouty eight-column unit eight months, Ruggles Card Press 2500, Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches 50, Eighth Medium Gordon new model 175, Anson-Hardy Cutter 30 inch 100, Country Campbell 31x46 used one month, Thorp Card Catter 5.
In San Antonio on January 26 1885 Gilvorp Johnson & Winter Publishers San Antonio Light report a customer praising the Campbell Two Revolution Book and Job Press from Campbell Printing Press Co New York as superior for all classes of work and table distribution after nearly two years use.
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