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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1885
Page
4
A busy jumble from the city includes society allusions, religious notices, and public concerns. Items mention a new Shennanigin club, police activity on Dwyer avenue, and a plan for a grand Fourth of July procession. News on births, deaths, and civic happenings appear alongside cattle market letters and remarks from local stock exchange readers.
A colored porter at Captain William Sillson's bar near the Southern hotel recounts a midnight pursuit. On crossing Fourth Street Bridge to Madison Square Park, he was trailed by a man who fired twice after closing in. The porter fired once in return but the assailant vanished.
A Chicago artist, Mr. L. Hughes, now with the Dare & Collins art store, creates exquisite oil decorative work in Major Kampmann’s residence. The parlor features French styles, Moorish borders, and gold leaf accents. halls and doors show Eastlake, Queen Anne, and lambrequin motifs. Hughes offers en plein air, encaustic, and restoration services, promising satisfaction and citing Kampmann as a reference. a Presidio County land syndicate plans stock purchases.
A Mexican woman returning home on East Street at about 9 last night found a large black dog in her room. The animal leaped at her, seized her dress, and she fled for help. Officer Summers fired through bedding after the dog retreated under the bed, wounding it, and the animal was ultimately killed by a shot to the head.
The fragment mentions a lamb with soft curly fleece causing early trouble in Marys camp and references a Texas Stockman source.
A humorous tale shows Augustus and Clara ending their supposed engagement after Clara tires of it. He dismisses the pretend ring as a cheap prop and asks her to keep silent about it while she returns to independence. The item then lists local ads for spectacles, fruit stock, coal, brokers, a dancing school, a seed supplier and hardware goods in San Antonio and Galveston.
Nichols & Co of 337 Broadway New York City advertises a wide array of dry goods hardware and accessories with discount pricing. The notice lists pins brooches ribbons gloves hats linen collars and scarves plus rubber coats and heavy textiles and notes they will ship articles advertised by New York retailers to local buyers free of charge. The ad emphasizes low prices and a 30 percent tinware guarantee against competitors.
Local notices list half price roses shade trees and evergreens at Bunyan s and Armstrong s bargains on peach trees grape vines and apple trees at 5 10 or 10 cents numerous items at City Drug Store including perfumes sponges and toilet articles cheap sewing machines from Wheeler & Wilson and Pancoast & Sons clothing sales plus Morley s cough syrup and Oricont o teeth care ads reflect a bustling small business market with multiple addresses on Commerce and East Houston streets and casual promotions from Fred Swith J W Bradley and Kalteyer & Son.
Mayor Bryan Callaghan orders a special election for two vacant alderman seats in San Antonio. Voting hours 8 am to 6 pm in Ward 1 at Recorder's Office and Ward 4 at 207 Alamo Street. Presiding officers named and election rules stated.
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