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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1898
Page
3
Local notes include Alderman Lee Kilgore's El Paso trip and Western Tex towns, Henry Pauly's address and Wolf & Marx's store trips, and various ads for roofing, laundry, hats, and medicines. City figures, trips, and events mix with shop notices, deliveries, and upcoming sales across Medina crossing and Riverside park.
The Texas stock market shows persistent overstock of sheep and strong cattle demand. Dressed cattle fetch current prices, with notable traders like Gaimes Burhett Sonn and Walter McGutcheon active in Alpine and Austin area markets. Reports note slow overall sales, several carloads shipped, and prices varying by grade, with cattle and yearlings priced around $12 to $20 per head.
A crew of seventy four marines from the steamship Seanlia will reach San Antonio on the Southern Pacific line at 8 a.m. today coming from San Francisco. They are bound for York with a Wednesday morning departure planned. Officers occupy a Pullman car while the remainder travel in two tourist cars.
The article urges readers to visit the great transcontinental exposition in Omaha via the Great Rock Island Route. It highlights rising grain prices and farm prosperity in Texas, promising education and pleasure from exhibits of farm, mine, forest, land, and sea. Contact Charles B. Sloat, Fort Worth, Texas.
An early 20th century ad promotes Herbine a vegetable liver remedy claiming to cure constipation indigestion jaundice headaches back pain and low energy. It asserts rapid liver regulation blood purification and provides a 60 cent price with free trial bottle offered by Beiss and Co. sellers.
A shipboard letter from Mrs Wilsen of Porter Street South Heisuts recounts a long voyage with husband and children via Ceylon Aden and the Suez Canal. She details temple visits in Kande Colombo and Aden, ocean storms, a diphtheria scare, wrecks, and sights from Colombo to the Mediterranean, ending with prayers for timely arrival in Scotland.
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