This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1885
Page
1
A Cincinnati lawyer Ferd Thompson profiles in a sprawling tale of flight and affection, with a Texas wife and a valuable but fateful past. The piece also surveys theater riches, naming Lotta, J Murphy, Lillian Russell, and Fanny Davenport, noting Beasso’s fatal shooting in New Orleans and a frontier land ad closing the column.
The San Marcos summer normal thrives due to Professor Rote guiding the program and a wide spread of talent from across the state. Mrs Canfield teaches geography, Professor Jennette covers physics, Le Mise Clifton enlivens history, with music by visitors and locals. Attendance stands at about 70, and the programme promises growing enrollment.
A homely American writer quips that people focus on reforming others while neglecting self reform. The piece contrasts England's concern over Sudan slave trade with new disclosures about London slave trade replies, noting twinges of political hypocrisy in Chicago.
The Washington correspondent reports the Jeffersonian Democratic association has filed 875 charges against offensive partisans in departments, with about 200 dismissed. They plan to extend their usefulness by creating clubs and branch bureaus in every state, circulate targeted circulars, and deploy agents to key locations including Ohio Virginia and New York ahead of next fall elections.
J B Johnston of Kentucky and financier Otto W Steffins with Col Berry in Galveston seek to route the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe through Abilene. Cowboys shot at a house. deputies pursued them but outcome unknown. Crops and hay rise. emigrants pause at Abilene as settlement accelerates. Lyon of Sherman arrives at the Menger hotel.
Consul General Waller arranged before failing to transact London business for a New York firm promising him a ten thousand dollar annual addition. Jimmy George of Mount Vernon, Ohio, at eight years old, stands six feet eleven inches in his stockings. The new First Assistant Postmaster General has appeared frugal with over two thousand apportionments to minor post offices in four days. Cotopaxi’s summit remains unattained at fifteen thousand feet above Vesuvius with active fiery venting and a distant thunderous voice. Connecticut’s sixty tree specimens grace Hartford’s capitol south lobby, with a room planned above the ay chamber for em. The United States biological map is projected to take about twenty four years to complete, covering roughly one fifth of the nation. Opera Pull cigarettes are promoted by a first-class dealer.
A compilation reports Manning’s tariff circular seeking views on shifting from ad valorem duties to specific rates and cost comparisons between U S and European manufacturing. Georgia passes a general local option measure advancing prohibition, with two-yearly elections preserved until full prohibition. News from London and St Petersburg notes quiet in Herat and a cautious stance on Russia, plus India’s Star of India investiture. In Kansas, the Mary Baldwin murder leads to a coroner’s verdict charging William Baldwin. Atlanta and London reports tie to pay car theft attempts and related arrests.
Glimpses of George Washington as a poet surface in historical notes. The Buffalo Express notes a humorous worry that the founder did not author "Kiss My Eyelids Down." The German Emperor awards Mme Minnie Hauk an honorary title Imperial Chamber Singer shared by three other prima donnas Adelina Patti Jenny Ind Goldschmidt and Artot Padilla
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.