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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1885
Page
2
A San Antonio voice calls for vigorous action on Texas county propositions and civil service reform. The piece argues for steady sessions, fair pay, and delayed but decisive advance in state and national policy, noting socialists, Illinois politics, and implications for US intervention abroad.
The piece surveys a Tax American Almanac forecast with Cleveland leading the popular vote and discusses regional fusion votes, Texas city bond debates, and Waco’s patriotic stance. It also analyzes Russia England tension with India as a strategic pivot, noting military will power and logistics like railways and telegraphs shaping potential war.
Large real estate broker Colonel J W Bradley advertises extensive holdings in Texas and Mexico. Properties include 200000 acres grazing land with river fronts, 108 sections near Tom Green, 290 acres riverfront near San Antonio, and massive ranches in Presidio and Uvalde counties with cattle, sheep, timber, water, and improvements. Also offers houses, cottages, and city lots near San Antonio with easy terms and rental options.
The Texas Sour Mass sales pitch extols a tonic claiming to cure dyspepsia, debility, malaria, venereal diseases, and female ailments. It cites W G McGown of San Antonio endorsing the medicine and asking for a two bottle order via money order.
Government orders a bamboo and paper contrivance to shield troops from sunstroke in London villages near the Japanese settlement. The device uses bamboo arches and a green paper canopy to form a lightweight umbrella mast, keeping hands free for rifles.
The Richmond Dispatch notes Nottoway County Virginia once home to early settlers now lacks energy and industry. A visitor predicts in twenty years it will become a wilderness as the young leave for better regions. Deer graze among abandoned plantations once cultivated by enslaved workers.
A fragmented notice notes the Duchess of Norfolk owns the finest rubies in Britain and that wealth cannot buy health for her heir. The text also advertises Mishler's Herb Bitters with testimonials claiming cures for various ailments and a claim about synepsie of tee.
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