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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1885
Page
3
An advertising prospecting notice touts a large diversified list of property in the Southwest including lands ranches farms and city residences. The firm offers to accompany buyers statewide and invites calls or letters for its circular list of bargains.
The Hilton and Young ad lists 10000 acres on Guadalupe headwaters with abundant water and winter protection, 40000 acres nearby, 6500 acre ranch near Menard by the San Saba, 700 acre farm near Seguin, 240 acre farm near Calaveras creek, 320 acre tracts along Medina river, 265 acre and 100 acre farms with rich soil, plus 1100 acre hay farm northwest of the city. Also city property and residences on Tobin hill and nearby streets.
Washington reports the Senate weighs the Nicaragua canal treaty amid disputes over Clayton Bulwer terms. President Arthur will reopen his New York law practice after March 4, with Evarts visiting and Justice Blatchford hosting. Mrs Hoyt, wife of a Central New York bank cashier, is noted for poised White House presence.
A Philadelphia market encounter led to a police court hearing where a witness described being beaten with a cowhide by market girls after a disputed basket claim. He laughed at the accusation, asked for caution rather than punishment, and warned of potential harm if not restrained.
A young Eastonian at a restaurant suffers violent hiccoughs resisted remedies. The proprietor returns with a beer and a concealed knife, forcing the man to drink. He drinks, the beer is consumed, and the hiccoughs are cured by the startling method.
The ad offers 1100 acres in Harris County six miles from Houston on Buffalo Bayou with railroad by the land, water and timber, improvements and cultivation, hay stored last season, and easy terms. Contact H B Johnson or J W Bradley, San Antonio, via Houston office. Also multiple Houston real estate listings and a medicinal cough syrup ad.
Harper's Weekly enters its third year as America's leading illustrated weekly. The coming volume adds W. E. Norrie serials and illustrated articles focused on the West and South including the World’s Exposition at New Orleans, plus entertaining short stories and authoritative essays on current topics.
Harper & Brothers announces yearly prices for Harper's Weekly Harper's Magazine Harper's Bazar and Harper's Young People Plus Franklin Square Limany. Orders may start with the next issue and annual volumes may be bound in calf with mail or express delivery at set rates. Remittances by money order or draft preferred.
A misrepresented ad from H Wallett & Co of Portland Maine promises free goods for a 5 cent postage and claims postal workers will earn money quickly from home. It touts $200 presents with each box and seeks agents of all ages and sexes to join, guaranteeing fortunes.
The periodical markets itself as the only paper to combine fine literature and art with the latest fashions and household adornment. It promises Paris and New York style plates pattern sheets and cut patterns to let women make their own clothes. It highlights practical cooking servant management and etiquette notes with unequaled needlework illustrations.
Harper and Brothers provide Harper's Magazine and Weekly and Young People subscriptions. They advertise library volumes at $1 per volume with up to $1 freight per volume, payable by Postoffice Money Order or Draft to Harper & Brothers, New York.
Notice announces a plan to seek a charter change in the 19th Legislature. It outlines a 3 mile city radius from the cathedral, ward division, elected officers, municipal borrowing rules, taxes for capital projects, and penalties for vice offenses.
The Country Campbell Press is praised for 16 years of public use. It is described as the simplest, most durable press with fewest working parts and best ink distribution. The copy claims easy operation, high quality, and cost savings on paper ink rollers and type versus other builders.
A list of items for sale includes an 8-column Prouty used 8 months, a Ruggles Card Press in good order for 2500, a Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches for 50, an Eighth Medium Gordon new model in good order 175, an Anson Hardy Cutter 30 inch for 100, a Country Campbell 31x46 used one month, and a small Thorp Card Cutter for 5.
GentiLeMEN reports using a Campbell Two Revolution Book and Job Press from Campbell Printing Press Co New York for nearly two years. It is praised as superior for all classes of work by Girorp Johnsox Winter, publishers of San Antonio Light.
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