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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1885
Page
4
Colton and Bolton, auctioneers and commission merchants, advertise a large assortment of new and second hand household goods. Parlor suites, bedroom sets, dining room and kitchen furniture, crockery, lamps, clocks, pianos, firearms, safes, bar room fixtures, and various horse drawn vehicles will be sold at affordable prices.
Real estate and property ads describe multiple houses and lots for sale or rent. Properties include a four room rock house on Avenue EB with two galleries, a large 160 acre farm 13 miles east of San Antonio, a 9 room house on East Houston Street, and several building lots near West Commerce and River Avenue. Prices and terms offered vary, with many bargains and flexible payments.
A twenty acre tract lies along the San Antonio river within four to five miles of the city limits.
Advertisement seeking loans on approved real estate securities. Offers to negotiate sums to fit borrower needs and emphasizes secured financing.
A governess at the Le Poer household engages in patient, secret schooling to elevate Zillah the abused ward, while navigating a troubled dynamic with Mr. Le Poer, whose absence and sudden fever scourge reveal hidden loyalties and fears as typhus spreads through the family.
The narrator recalls tending Zillah Le Poer while her uncle Mr. Le Poer and Mrs. Le Poer debate her fate. Miss Pryor plans sea air for recovery as money and promises sway loyalties. Mr. Sutherland contemplates returning to India and insists the narrator stay with the ward as tensions rise.
The fragment shows 19th century ads from A. M. Cohen's Main Plaza shop offering suits and furnishings. Morley’s T-X-8 Tonic Cordial is pitched as a female health remedy sold by F. Kalteyer & Son inCuina Springs. The text includes generic sales pitches and requests for Morley’s tonic via J. M. West & Co. and mentions summer suits at F. Sheets.
A letter praising Dr L V Weathers Eclectic Medicine notes his 20 years practice and success with pneumonia typho malarial fevers and typhoid. It reports a grateful parent crediting rapid child recovery after prior poor results from other doctors. Also contains a sales pitch for Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and a brief ad for a stock sale at 238 Commerce Street with Shoes Hats and more.
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