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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1885
Page
2
Through express Mast daily departs for New Orleans and Houston with two daily trains. Morning service leaves at 8:05 a.m. and afternoon departure at 3:16 p.m. to Orleans, Houston and Galveston.
Readers report grasshoppers in large numbers damaging crops and fruits in Arkansas. A parade of mixed notes mentions Chicago gamblers, a mayoral crackdown, Mexico City gun accident deaths, iron workers strike concerns, and opinions on Texas capitol material. Dallas and San Antonio street projects are cited along with a Mexican railroad forfeiture and a Deiter deposit at Jonal Monte de Piedad.
The piece surveys moves to relocate federal offices to Houston and urges the Texas exhibit be housed at the Alamo building. It notes plans for a cotton mill in Fort Worth, calls for stronger unity to boost San Antonio’s prosperity, and comments on state rail projects and political reform debates. It cites figures like Governor Ireland and Alderman Belknap, and mentions a Rio Grande area revolt era figures and a Brooklyn gambler case in Mexico.
A Rochester page notes ex President Arthur’s illness is blamed on Bright's disease with doctors misattributing deaths to malaria or other ailments. It argues independent remedies like Warner’s safe cure and criticizes medical orthodoxy while detailing spread to prominent figures and workers. Also includes multiple local ads and health notices.
The notice extols the Art Gallery of C. H. Mueller at 205 Commerce St San Antonio as a premier supply shop for artists and draughtsmen with paintings frames wallpapers and decorative materials. It also includes a testimonial from J D Browder praising Morley Bros Blackburn Balsam for a baby’s summer complaint and teething, with local sellers F Kalteyer & Son.
A column of farm and land bargains including 1100 acre tract in Harris County 60 miles from Houston on Buffalo Bayou with railroad water grass and timber, 400 tons hay last season. 1400 acre Moore Hollow farm near station on International railroad with 65 cultivated, 6 room house and improvements. 640 acres Leona River irrigable near Uvalde with sugar mill $5500. 900 acre Rio Frio valley land with 300 acres fenced. 40 acre Salado ranch in Bexar county with tanks and cow pens. 100 acre Calaveras creek small farm 14 miles from San Antonio with house and well.
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