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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1885
Page
3
A public sale advertisement promotes a large assortment of new and second hand household goods including furniture, crockery, glassware, bedding, stoves, mattresses, clocks, pianos, cases, safes, bar fixtures, and a variety of horses and vehicles. Prices pitched as affordable for all.
Extensive property listings describe multiple houses, lots, and farms for sale or rent in San Antonio area. Properties include 4 room houses with galleries, metal roofs, hydrant water, shade trees. two-room and nine-room homes. ranches with 146 and 320 acres. farms with irrigation and fruit trees. and rental homes on North Fields, Utica, Avenue B, and Concho streets with monthly rents ranging from 12 to 25 dollars.
A double seated family carriage of Eastern make with leather top and valued at $350 is offered at a bargain. Includes a single set harness and shaft. Also a one horse spring wagon in good condition suitable for pulling or express work and offered cheap.
Advertiser seeks twenty acres of land on the San Antonio river within four miles of city limits. Desired condition and title of land unspecified. Respondents should provide location details and asking price.
Investors advertise seeking money for top real estate securities. Lenders or brokers may propose financing or equity participation for preferred properties and portfolios.
Brief note indicates loans negotiated in sums tailored to borrowers on approved securities.
An advertisement proclaims a new general purchasing and commission business offering to fill orders for dress goods clothing crockery glassware boots and shoes at lowest market prices with commissions paid by the wholesalers. It promises to quote prices freight rates and provide any desired information to customers unable to visit in person.
A governess uncovers a planned marriage between Zillah and Lieutenant Augustus engineered by her guardian circle. Zillah roams night beaches planning elopement while the narrator debates exposing the plot. In a tense moment she is halted as the narrator intervenes to stop the flight and protect the heiress.
A card touts Dr L V Weathers as an eclectic practitioner with 20 years of success treating pneumonia typho malarial fevers and other illnesses. It includes a patient letter praising his care for a liver ailment and speedy relief, mentions Arnica Salve sales, and notes a local sale by Nicholls Co and real estate offerings by Frank Bailey Abilene Texas with land and livestock services.
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