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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1885
Page
3
Large assortment of new and second hand household goods offered by Colton and Bolton commission merchants. Parlor suits bed room sets dining room furniture crockery glassware lamps plated ware stoves mattresses pictures pianos clocks firearms cases safes bar fixtures and assorted effects. Horses buggies carriages harness saddles and blankets also offered at affordable prices.
Multiple properties advertised including four room rock house on Avenue KE near Seventh and Eighth streets. 18 by 4 by 6 feet Champion Safe. several corner lots and blocks near River Avenue, Elizabeth street, Nolan and Hackberry. scattered farms and ranches 18 miles east and 8 miles west of San Antonio. prices and terms noted, with a mix of habitable dwellings, outbuildings, and lots offered for bargain prices.
Two small store rooms on East Houston street offer $20 per month. A store house and one room at the corner of Alamo plaza and Crockett street asks $15 monthly. Three rooms at No 206 Avenue B rent for $12. A seven room house at No 1400 North Olive street is $15. A three room house on Brooks street between Olive and Hackberry is $9. A six room house on Avenue C rents for $20. A large nine room house on East Houston street is offered furnished. A Troom house at No 508 North Flores street has hydrant and well water and rents at $25. An eleven room spacious house with two verandas and basement rent very low for a desirable tenant.
Twenty acres on the San Antonio river within four to five miles of the city limits sought. Loans negotiable on approved securities. General purchasing and commission business opened for distant residents to save travel costs and obtain low market prices with commissions paid by wholesalers. Requests for prices and freight rates for dress goods clothing hats millinery crockery glassware boots shoes hardware are invited.
Reports detail Cordova’s arrest for counterfeiting in Mexico City and a billiard hall owner shot in Tacubaya. Officials in Queretaro face layoffs for incivility while Mezia and others are linked to alleged misconduct. Rail ties are sourced from California as political tensions rise.
The speaker condemns extreme wealth hoarding and urges generous living even in hardship. He argues a man should spend as though a king to safeguard family dignity and love, contrasting money toward greed with spending to sustain familial well being and respect. He invokes R. J. Ingersoll’s words on generosity and marriage.
A Brownsville area teamster Mr Archibald Adams tried washing a mule’s hoof in hot water after reading a column praising the practice. The clipping also cites Isaac Newton figures on Noah’s ark and compares the ark’s size to the Great Eastern, noting iron versus wood construction.
A card extols Dr. L. V. Weathers as an eclectic physician with two decades of practice in San Antonio. Letters praise his rapid relief of a child’s grave illness and his adaptable treatment, while local notices promote custom carriages by J. P. Condon and a sale at Cohen’s ready made clothing store.
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