Houston Light Guard Tops as War Games Open
The Houston Light Guard won the top prize at the military encampment in Fairmount park amid awards for battalions and batteries. Prizes ranged from 4900 to 200 for various units, with notable honors for the Houston unit and distinguished gifts to leaders and flags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmount Park
Richmond
Ohio National Guards
Ohio Battery
Kentucky State Guards
Ohio National Guard
Wooster
Houston Light Guard
Montgomery Greys
New York City
Twentythird
New York Regiment
Busch Zouaves
the State Fencibles’ Armory
Indianapolis Light Infantry
West Kentucky
Board of Military Judges
Jackson
Clare
Satterlee
Bonheimer
United States Army
Infantry
Somax Rifles
Mobile
Branch Guards
St. Louis
First
Kentucky Regiment
Alexandria Light Infantry
Wooster City
Ohio
Lou's
Washington Artillery
New Orleans
Indianapolis Light Artillery
Louisiana Field Artilllery
Illinois National Guard
New York
Underwood
Board of
United States Officers
Loemer
Buseh
Kyvl Gatling
s/k guerdons
New Yorker
Texas
Maprio
Alfonso
Aranjuez
Chamber of Deputies
Spain
Senate
Senor Navalides Marjaro
Murcia
Parsons
Kansas
Parsona
Osage Mission
Missouri
London
St. Petersburg
Murghab
Penjdeh
Bay City
Mich
Alamo Surrenders to City of San Antonio
Governor Teeann telegraphs Mayor Callaghan on July 4 1885 formalizing the transfer of the Alamo to San Antonio. Legislature’s joint resolution became law without the governor’s signature and the city vows to preserve the historic property.
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Callaghan
Texas
Alamo
San Antonio
Teeann
Recorder's Court Fines and Fights Highlight Night
Wallace Harris jailed for assault with rock after incident linked to jealousy. Antonio Olgin fined for insulting language to Mrs. Valdez. Jim Moore's insult charge dismissed after he showed cause. Amanda Tirey fined for beating Paul Mortinez amid trunk dispute. Several others—drunkenness fines, sanitary violation, and vagrancy cases—recorded with multiple $5 penalties on Dolorosa Street and Military Plaza scenes.
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J. C. Berga
Jim Moore
Antonio Olgin
Tiatila Campian Y Valdez
Antonio
Wallace Hoerris
James Monroe
Wallace
Monroe
Amanda Tirey
Paul Mortinez
Paul
John Vance
Marcellus Elkins
Charles Roth
J. H. Stuart
Willis Wallace
Darkey
Military Plaza
Rosa Williams
Liza Williams
Key West
G. Parker
David Laurence
Dolorosa Street
City Streets Flooded by Rain. San Pedro Area Heavy Water Ponds
San Antonio residents report persistent street and sidewalk flooding after rainfall. The City Street Commissioner is urged to assess stagnating ponds, especially East Street, where improper drainage worsened a waterlogged stretch. Flooding at San Pedro avenue Elmira streets and at San Pedro Main Romana blocked sidewalks and streetcar platforms as sewer outlets clogged.
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San Antonio
East Street
San Pedro
San Pedro Avenue
Elmira
Main Avenues
Romana Street
Patents Granted to Texas Citizens in June 1885
A list from Louis Bagger & Co. notes Texas residents receiving patents dated June 30 1885 including Lee Anderson Paris car science K F Hughes Jr Galveston odometer G A Kelly Longview plow T W Markham Huntsville lock D Pinkham Longview steam engine loner Snow Round Rock plow. Also Thomas O Murphy married Mary F Newton at Fires Presbyterian church at 7 am and the couple left by Sunset railway and Mallory steamship line for New York on bridal tour.
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Lexas
Louis Bagger & Co
Washington
D. C
Lee Anderson
Paris
Car Scienee
K. F. Huces, Jr
Galveston
G. A. Kelly
Longview
T. W. Markham
Huntsville
Lock
D. Pinkham
Snow
Round Rock
Military Clerk Etiquette At Local Drug Store
Observers note that most young clerks in a local drug store belong to the city rifle company. They greet customers with a salute and adopt military bearing while preparing prescriptions and wrapping parcels in precise movements.
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Rifle Companis
Manual of Arms
The Chivalry Girl in Modern Life
A New York Journal piece contrasts medieval chivalry with contemporary female life. It notes women of today enjoy lawn tennis watering places rides by shady lanes and other freedoms, while medieval maidens were limited to idle waiting and simple crafts.
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Ian
New York Journal
Prima Donna Appears in San Antonio Variety Show
A Licur reporter praises Miss Zitta Tuorne for a fine soprano performance in five languages at a San Antonio fashion theatre. The evening features Miss Minnie May Thompson, Harrison and Berkeley, Miss Nola Forrest, Mr James McDonald, Larry Dooley, and Aggie Wells with a well received streetcar sketch and novelty acts. The program is recommended as high class, with strong audience turnout cited as proof.
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S.o.ling
Fashion Theatre
Licur
Zitta T'u’orne
la Forne
Merts
Minnie May ‘Thompson
Harrison
Berkeley
J. W. Berkeley
Forrest
Welr
Nola Forrest
James McDonald
Larry Dooley
Aggie Wells
Mexican editors in deadly quarrel near Laredo
Jose Lopez Montalbo editor of El Horizonte in San Antonio and Pedro Aguindegui editor of El Rio Bravo in Nuevo Laredo exchanged words then fired. Montalbo was mortally wounded and died two hours later. Aguindegui was wounded in the stomach and leg and may recover. Montalbo's body was brought to the U.S. side for burial.
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Express
Laredo
Rogers
Montalbo
San Antonio
Southwestern
Lexas
Jose Lopez Montalbo
el Horizonte
Pedro Aguindegui
el Rio Bravo
Nuevo Laredo
Mr. Ontalbo
Mr. Aguindegui
Mr. Alontalbo
Aguindegui
Mr. Montalbo
Burie
Austin excursion by colored churches draws 300 visitors
About 300 ministers and members from Meth odist and Baptist churches in Austin arrived by excursion train for a day of sightseeing and will return tomorrow at 4 p.m. Rev. C A Anderson of the Austin Baptist will preach tonight at Second Baptist. all attendees are invited. A separate incident reports Tom Boyd, a Black man, injuring his foot while cutting wood at Mrs Norton’s San Pedro Avenue residence and receiving medical aid.
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Suancuat
Russia
Corea
Sladvinstok
Corean
Paris
Comtesse de Chambord
Gratz
Don Juan
Don Carlos
Cleveland
Cleveland Rolling Mil Company
W. D. Chisholm
Asong
Methodist and
Baptist Churches of
Austin
C. A. Anderson
Austin Baptist
Second Baptist Church
Tom Boyd
Spring and Summer Goods Fill Dry Goods Stock
A department stock boasts Evening Grenadines English Cashmeres French Cashmeres Melange Suitings Check Goods Serges Brocades and other fine fabrics in abundance for the season.
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Cor. Main Plaza
Soledad St
White Star
Star
Sim Hart, Wheean “ Tobacconist
Commerce Street
Telegraphic News
Houston Light Guards
Iron Worker's Strike
F. W. McAllister & Bro
S. Alamo ST
Cor, Villita
San Antonio, Texas
Rosendale
James P. Hickman, JR
J. H. Marquart
Soledadst
M. Coren
Dollar Store Building
Emerson’s
Emerson
Fordstreet
Thomas Goggan
the Alamo
Recorder's Court
Wallace Harris
Chivalry Girl
Opera Pusif
Orion Figgueres
Marie Buzard
Absinthe
Edoard Pernaud
Vermouth Neilly Pratt
Curacoa
Benedictine
Emanuel Abrahams
Main Plaza
West
Millinery Department
Prince Albert
L. Wolfson
Acequia St
A. H. Shaper
Braden, JR
West Commerce Street
Kershner
Tom Harrison, JR
Attorneys At Law
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