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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1885
Page
3
Real estate firm promotes wide list of bargains in lands ranches city residences farms and building lots. Offer to accompany buyers across the state and invite calls or letters for their circular list of bargains.
Several large ranch tracts along the Guadalupe and Medina rivers are advertised with abundant water, good fencing, and winter protection. Smaller farms near Seguin and San Antonio, plus city residences on Tobin Hill and Erie avenue, are listed with prices, terms, and illustrations of improvements. A country store and additional parcels are also mentioned with trade options.
In a Yorke countryside tale, Dick Carlisle and his sisters ponder a Barnes Common spectral visit on Christmas Eve. The next morning the group confronts a dying city woman named Margot and a missing girl Greta, whose link to Dick and a past rescue hints at a hidden guardianship and a dangerous social web.
Dick attends Christmas dinner with Sir Jasper Earle at Bleak House then joins a skating party at Burnham Lake. Dr Hollingshead recalls urban destitution and a starving hospital patient, noting frost, hunger, and a long illness that warmth and care could only delay.
Providence leads a man to his door and he contemplates guilt amid old cronies. Dinner arrives as a young man slips away, while Dick fetches his skates to join a sleighing crowd on the frozen lake near the Bleak House demesne.
Real estate ads describe 1100 acre tract on Buffalo Bayou six miles from Houston with water, timber, and some improvements, plus 400 tons of hay from last season. Other listings include a 5 room cottage on McKinney Street, a large ranch with 12000 sheep 3000 goats and 100 horses for 40000, and a Moore Hollow farm of 1460 acres ready for cash sale. Also promotes various medicines and remedies.
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