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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1885
Page
3
Colton and Bolton auctioneers invite buyers to examine a large assortment of new and secondhand household goods. Parlor suits, bedroom sets, dining room and kitchen furniture, crockery, glassware, lamps, plated ware, stoves, mattresses, canvass cots, pianos, clocks, firearms, safes, bar fixtures, and more will be sold at affordable prices. Also horses, buggies, carriages, harness, saddles, and blankets available.
Agricultural and residential properties listed with multiple parcels including rock houses with 4 rooms and kitchens, vaults of land from 80 to 320 acres, near rivers and streets like Avenue E Sixth Street Cameron Street and West Commerce. Prices range from bargain figures to $1200 with options on time payments and rents.
A double seated family carriage of Eastern make with leather top priced at 350 dollars. Includes a single set harness and shaft. Also a one horse spring wagon in good condition, suitable for pulling or express use, offered cheap.
Twenty acres of land located on the San Antonio river within four to five miles of the city limits, described as a potential site for development or sale pending further consideration by local authorities.
Advertises loans on real estate securities with sums to suit borrowers and approval of securities.
Vincent Randal returns to Penroth and asks Mary Trevarrock to marry him after confessing his love. Mary, still grieving for her late fiancé Will Penrudduck, rejects him yet is drawn to his passion. He pleads, offers money to her mother, and she consents to a cautious engagement, only to be confronted by a mysterious returning boat and a perilous reveal at the shore.
Various dispatches report social, economic, and crime events across Mexico. Corn prices rise in Monterey. Monterey customs house to move to Saltillo. mail clerk Ponciano Guardiola dies on duty. Electric lights tested in Vera Cruz. Cardo bases at Medano. Yaqui conflict notes. Pimientillo canal work. Sabina Blanco killed in Callejon del Coyote. bandit ambush near Tlacotalpam. Zuniga pushes for Mazatlan lazaretto. miners’ receipts and London transfers. improvised labor, fraud, and a Mexico City confidence scam. railway receipts decline. Captain Rule burglary at Pachuca with $50,000 stolen from safe.
An advertisement extols Opera Puffs as non sticking cigarettes and touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion and related ailments. Also included is a real estate listing for a 90 acre summer residence dairy property near Main plaza with cattle and improvements. A clothing sale at A. M. Cohen's urges buyers to take advantage of reduced prices.
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