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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1885
Page
3
An advertisement round of land and property bargains offers homes, farms, city residences, building lots, and ranches. The firm touts the largest diversified Southwest listing, ready to accompany buyers statewide and to provide a circular list of bargains by request.
Hilton and Young advertise 10000 acres on Guadalupe river headwaters with water and range, 40000 acres nearby, 6500 acre Menard ranch with San Saba frontage, 700 acre Seguin farm, 240 acre Calaveras and 320 acre Medina river farms. Also city lots on Tobin hill and Dal las Augusta streets, elegant homes on Erie avenue and kingsley street. Descriptive circulars available.
Telegraphic notes from March 2 cover General Grant’s improving health and ongoing memoir work in New York. Other items report Pope Leo XII’s anniversary, British finance talk, dynamite plots, Egyptian affairs and political moves in Washington with Cleveland and Manning preparing for travel and inauguration events.
A Notting Hill resident records a chaotic January 16 1885 night detailing barrel organ noise cats politics dégust tension a drunken workman a Lost Chord concert and a booming convent market cart rattling dawn cock crowing and a German band arrival, asking what a noisier neighborhood would be like.
A fragment from a Chicago Herald page mentions a girl on roller skates as fearful of moving, with a chant to Chawley for help. The text also references political praise for Senator Johnson and Governor Ireland, plus assorted ads for Morley’s Two-Bit Cough Syrup Electric Bitters and local trades by F Kalteyer Son and others.
A wide batch of real estate ads detail properties around Houston and San Antonio. Listings include an 1100 acre Harris county tract by Buffalo Bayou with hay and improvements, Houston cottages on McKinney Street, a new concrete house on Avenue Milam, and multiple city lots on Crockett and Alazan creek. Large ranch with 12000 sheep and 3000 goats near the Rio Grande is offered with livestock and improvements for 40000. Contact J W Bradley or T B Johnson for details.
List of used items including an 8-column Prouty in use eight months a Ruggles Card Press in good order a Pearl Jobber 7x11 inches a Eighth Medium Gordon new model in good condition and a Thorp Card Catter with prices from 5 to 2500 dollars geared toward buyers seeking vintage printing hardware.
A well improved 1400 acre farm two hundred yards from Moore Hollow station on the International railroad offers 65 acres in cultivation, a six room frame house with galleries, stables, barns, bath house, a water system, and electric fencing. Sold for cash with immediate possession. Cattle and horses may be sold on site at their market value. Title perfect and warranted. For particulars contact L. C. care I. B. Johnson, Lient office.
640 acres on the Leona river eight miles below Uvalde with 250 acres irrigable and a sugar mill, improvements, and $5500 price. Also 900 acres on the Rio Frio in Valde county twelve miles from railroad with 300 acres under fence. Address L. C. care this office.
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