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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 25, 1885

Page

2

Two Daily Trains To New Orleans From St Louis and Laredo

The schedule shows Missouri Pacific and Tron Montane routes with departures from St Louis at 11 00 a m and 6 30 a m and arrivals to New Orleans, Houston and Galveston. Through Express from St Louis runs daily to New Orleans with morning and evening departures plus arrivals from the East and regional connections.

St. Louis Mo. Pac Tron Mountain Laredo Missouri New Orleans Feixpress Mast Houston Galvee Loay New Orleana Galves- 7 Fom Galveaton Hervaton GalvAveeton San Antonio Austin Little Rock Union Depot

Grant at Central Park Burial and National Honors

Reports note Grant's remains to be buried in Central Park New York with national Army honors under General Hancock. The item also mentions a national monument committee including prominent Union figures and a growing Zion of gratitude for Grant in Mexico.

Geo. P. Roweléc Co Newspay & Advertising Bureau Usplace 8 New York Genera Grant Central Park Army Department Hancock Washington General Grant Mexico Cleveland Union

Texas notes on education funds and rail links

The State Department of Education apportionment totals 2,289,625.60 with San Antonio receiving 40,887.60 and Galveston 40,112.80. The piece covers political maneuvering surrounding Cleveland and prohibitionists, hot eastern weather prompting Arctic expedition talk, Aransas Pass deep water plans, Texas industry outlook, and Texas railroad hopes to Goliad and Fort Worth. It includes Ex Confederates reunions and remarks on the London exposition.

State Department of Education San Antonio Galveston Texas Gulf Coast Aransas Pass Texas San Antonio and Goliad Guard Goliad

A Neat Revenge on a Masher

A Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist notes casual masher activity downtown but praises a simple tactic used by a reader. A woman confronted a harasser with calm dialogue and a brave escort, leading to a decisive thrashing by her sturdy brother in law. The piece argues repeated strong responses will curb similar harassment.

Cleveland Plain Dealer St. Clair Street

Brown's Lion Bitters Promises New Life and Strength

A Boston Courier excerpt extols Brown's Lion Bitters as a true tonic restoring energy for tired women. It contrasts genuine tonics with mere stimulants and claims the product improves digestion, cures biliousness, regulates the body, guards against malaria, and helps rheumatism, kidney issues, and nervousness.

Hostetter

Dr King’s New Discovery and Electric Bitters Advertised

A Walking Skeleton in Mechanicsurg Pa touts Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with a free trial bottle and a dollar bottle after healing from lung abscess and weight gain. A Girard Kansas man endorses Electric Bitters for kidney liver and blood purification. Rice Bros sells both remedies at 50 cents and advertises a clothing sale at A M Cohen 200 Main plaza.

E. Springer Mechanicsurg Dr. King Rice Bros. & Co A. M. Cohen’s Main Plaza

Gifford to Promote San Antonio as Health Resort

After three years guiding mining matters in Old Mexico, Mr. Gifford plans to devote next month to advertising San Antonio and Western Texas as a health resort. He seeks cooperation from hotels boarding houses physicians and invalids to submit location rates patient cures and experiences by August 1 and to send any helpful items to bolster the campaign.

Gifford Old Mexico San Antonio Texas

Fine farm bargains in Harris and surrounding counties

Property listings offer 1100 acre tract in Harris county 6 miles from Houston on Buffalo Bayou with water timber and improvements 400 tons hay last season and easy terms. Also 1400 acre Moore Hollow tract near International railroad with 65 cultivated acres a six room house and gallery stables gardens water tanks and option to buy cattle. Other parcels include 640 acres on Leona river 250 irrigable 1100 acre Salado ranch and 900 acres on Rio Frio with sugar mill and fences plus a summer residence dairy ready property near San Antonio with 90 acres under fence and 80 head milk cattle. Also carriage making services and various patent remedies offered by local sellers.

Harris County Houston Buffalo Bayou T. B. Johnson J. W. Bradley San Antonio Moore Hollow International Leona River Uvalde I. C Rio Frio Frio Valde County Salado Bexar County Calaveras Creek L. C San Jose Ditch

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