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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1885
Page
3
Strictly Business Colton and Bolton Auctioneers advertise a large assortment of new and second hand household goods. The sale includes furniture, crockery, lamps, clocks, firearms, safes, barroom fixtures, and horse drawn vehicles priced to suit all buyers.
Real estate ads describe a four-room rock house with outside kitchen and two galleries, priced for quick sale on Avenue E between Seventh and Eighth streets. Listings include multiple houses, lots, farms, and ranches within San Antonio area, with terms offered and bargains highlighted.
Multiple listings along East Houston Alamo plaza Crockett and nearby avenues. Rents range from 9 to 25 dollars monthly for 3 to 11 room houses and smaller store rooms. several properties note hydrant, well water, or furnished interiors and verandas.
Twenty acres of land on the San Antonio river near the city limits sought. Loans negotiated on approved securities. General purchasing and commission business opened for distant residents to save travel costs and obtain low market prices. Request prices and freight rates for dress goods clothing hats millinery crockery glassware boots shoes hardware and related items.
A July 6 1885 travel sketch from Satyr Lake describes a drive to Camp Douglas a government post three miles north of Salt Lake City with concert life and a high vantage showing the city valley and mountains. The piece blends landscape beauty with lively urban details and ends with a scenic night impression and a Denver Rio Grande train passing Ogden.
An advertisement-style notice introduces Dr L V Weathers an Eclectic physician with 20 years practice who relocated to San Antonio and treats pneumonia malaria fevers and childhood illnesses. A grateful patient praises rapid relief of liver abscess in a letter. Also listed are carriage maker J P Condon offerings and a clothing sale at A M Cohen plus real estate services by Frank B Bariey in Abilene Texas.
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