RAYS OF LIGHT Hop at Turner hall and local notices
A bustle of city happenings includes Turner Hall events and a Manning benefit at Fashion theatre tonight. Sheriff Jones of Gonzales in the city, a Lunacy trial for Chang Wah next Monday, and various commercial notices from San Antonio Lumber Yard, Calcasieu Yard, and new ventures. Community life shows theatre, church services, farewells, and minor incidents across the town with several reminders about weather impact on work and transit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Efron
New York
Manning
Fashion Theatre
W. E. Jones
Gonzales County
Landa
District Court
Marshal Manning
Max Zimmermann
Taylor
Lexas
Houston
Galveston
Cleveland
San W. Bennett
Sabinal Canyon
L. Michael
New
Tall
Chang Wah
Whitehead
Temple Beth el
Turner
San Antonio Lumber Company
Calcasieu
Houston Street
W.W
Nelson
San Antonio
City Council’s bold push for manufacturing fails to move
The public watched last year as a strong drive to foster manufacturing stalled in council debate. Voters, spellbound and unsettled, then rallied just before the election to elect five dynamic, public spirited men they believed would push progress forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio Light
Tey
San Antonio council debate hints at growth and wealth
The article argues against agitation of a subject and favors promoting city prosperity and labor opportunities. It notes vacancies in the council and urges ward residents to elect vigilant leaders for the common good. It also reports a marriage license issued to Giovanni Giovanazzi and Louisa Delboschi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Giovanazzi Giovanni
Louisa Delboschi
Delegates Return From Austin Legion of Honor Meeting
Messrs George R. Dashiell John H. Copeland J B Ramsay and John E Ochse delegates to the American Legion of Honor meeting at Austin returned home last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
George R. Dashiell
John H. Copeland
J. 8. Ramsay
John E. Ochse
American Legion of Honor
Austin
Skull Presented To San Antonio Literary Association
Mr. Runge received a well formed Indian skull from the Nueces valley, presented by John Semlinger who found it and handed it to Mr. Runge for the San Antonio Literary and Scientific association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runge
San Antonio
City Hall and Jail Appeal Draws Local Backlash Near Sunset Depot
Captain William Lyons told a Licnr reporter this morning that his neighborhood near Sunset depot opposes the proposed appeal for building a new city hall and jail. He suggested a flaw in the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lyons
Licnr
Sunset Depot
Lunacy charge for elderly man arrested near Sunset depot
Chang Wah, described as an old sick looking China man, was arrested yesterday near the Sunset depot by Officer Martin. He was taken to the bathcave and held until this morning. A charge of lunacy was preferred against him in the County court this morning and he will be tried today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chang Wah
Sunset Depot
Martin
Local Agent Proposes Oil Pump for Five Gallon Cans
Mr. Herff Smythe, agent from 216 Commerce Street, presented the Licur with a pump designed for five gallon oil cans. The device, described as a useful and convenient invention, only needs to be seen to move its claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herff Smythe
Commerce Street
Westward Stockman Returns With 400 Fat Muttons
Charles Oberchain, a successful young stockman, returns from the West with 400 head of fat muttons. He plans to market them tomorrow after buying them from Mr. Ames of Kimble county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Oberchain
Ames
Kimble County
Young clerk leaves for San Angelo post with Sterling Robertson
Julius Zalmanzig, longtime clerk at 8 Deutsch & Co., departs tomorrow for San Angelo in Tom Green County to join Messrs Sterling Robertson & Co. The Linear wishes him success in his new home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Zalmanzig
Deutsch & Co
San Angelo
Tom Green Co
Messrs. Sterling, Robertson & Co
Liear
San Antonio
Letter of $25 Returned by Train Robber
Mr James Duncan, a victim of the recent train robbery near Little Rock Arkansas, received a letter this morning offering $25 which the robber had the courtesy to return. The writer signed none but bore a Kansas postmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. James
Duncan
Little Rock
Arkansas
Kansas
Real Estate Transfers Include Four Parcels and Prices
Annie McDonald sells land two miles below Military plaza from the mission road to C. O. Halbert for 200 dollars. J. A. Dittmar as executor of Dr. T. Templeman Van der Hoeven sells two lots at the upper end of Laredo street for 75 dollars. J. A. Dittmar sells two town lots on the east side of Laredo street to Thomas Templeman Van der Hoeven for 175 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie McDonald
C. O. Halbert
Military Plaza
Mission Road
J. A. Dittmar
Dr. T. Templeman van der Hoeven
Laredo Street
Thomas Templeman van der Hoeven
Colonel Tom Kingsley in Houston Faces Serious Heart Affection
Colonel Tom Kingsley, famed Southern Passenger Agent of the Louisville and Nashville railway, visits Houston. Though aging, his spirits remain youthful but he carries a sadness over a serious heart condition with a single, unrevealed remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Kingsley
Louisville and Nashville Railway
Houston
Tom
Benefit for Deputy U S Marshal Manning at Fashion theatre
Tonight a benefit to support Deputy United States Marshal Manning at the Fashion theatre, with Marshal Ina Rine expected to attend and express thanks for the citizens of San Antonio. The event aims to receive ample local support for this show of appreciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Simms & Samuels
Fashion Theatre
United States
Manning
San Antonio
Ina Rine
New Furniture at Bennett Block
Reinhold Becker, furniture dealer, has moved to the Bennett block opposite his old stand. He has already brought in several car loads of new goods and more are arriving. Becker is known for good business qualities and fair dealing. Customers seeking furniture or house furnishings should call on him. See his card in another column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio Lumber Company
Calcasieu Lumber Yard
Alamo Saloon
Alamo Plaza
Salinas Street
Mission Garden
Colton & Bolton
Milburn
Donaldson
Gang Academy
Maverick Hotel
East
Houston Street
Licur
Theodore Welter
A. Scholz
Theo
Herman Schuchardt
Schuchardt
Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy
Emanuel Abrahams
Moritz Kalteyer
George H. Kalteyer
Pharmaceutical College
Avenue E
Dave
Mishler
Thomas Sharpe
World Publishing Company
Canada
Australia
San Francisco
Pacific Mail
Texas
C, D. Potter
Reinhold Becker
Bennett Block
Becker
Scientific and Literary society notes and local notices
The weekly Scientific and Literary society meeting at Logoyo street discussed a talk by Mr Megrath of the New York Produce Exchange on his Mediterranean travels. Also announced are carriage-maker J P Condon offering handmade wagons at Nacogdoches street, Riverside hotel hosts Madame Sinthea the Egyptian for one more week at 240 Soledad street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific and Literary Society
Logoyo Street
Megrath
New York Produce Exchange
New Orleans
Ques
Mediterranean
Fegrath
San Antonio
Anon
Madame Sinthea
Riverside Hotel
Soledad Street
Notable Visitors Arrive in City Including Telegraph Leaders
Captain N. D. McPhail returns home while numerous guests from Fort Worth to New York, including E. B. Daggett and Dr. W. ne Barradall, gather at the city. Colonel R. C. Clowry and entourage, leaders of Western Union, arrive with officials to supervise operations and stay at the Menger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. D. McPhail
E. B. Daggett
W.ne Barradall
Fort Worth
Sallie Patterson
Charles Bangs
Hondo City
Vance House
Edward Steves
New Orleans Exposition
H. R. Johnson
Americus
H. M. Es
C. W. Cordon
Eagle Pass
G. W. Hodes
Junction City
S. London
A. Meeholtz
el Paso
D. C. Newton
Seuin
H. J.graham
Kendall County
T. Evans
Pearsall
I’. J. Skaggs
Beeville
E. Lestaryette
Cotulla
George Ames
Kimble County
Thomas Ane
Hearne
William Simpson
E. Broquet
Kansas
H. A. Henrose
A. F. Gardner
San Angelo
St. Leonard
O. A. Geiger
Brooklyn
N. Y
W. V. Kretsinger
Palestine
D. M. Angle
Houston
G. M. Gill
Chicago
John 8. Richardson
St. Joseph
J. van Gasken
Luling
J. H. Miller
Calvin Sutterfield
W. K. Hamby
H.M. Frick
Austin
Maxwell
N. Easter
Minnie Hughes
New York
J.S. Dougherty
Dallas
J. B. Crow
San Jose
California
W. W. Smith
Chattanooga
Tennessee
The
Maverick
R. C. Clowry
Western Union
United States
Whimsical Prose Bits and Local Advertisements
A collage of humor and social oddities plus varied local notices from San Antonio addresses. Items include quips on fashion, manners, and marriage, a joke about a gambling brother, brief anecdotes, and several small classifieds and notices for vendors and services around Market Street and Sherman streets.
Nichols & Co Advertises Wide Dry Goods Sale
Nichols & Co at 238 West Commerce St offers wholesale and retail dry goods apparel and trimmings with heavy discounts. The ad lists pins glassware hats gloves carpets and coats plus low prices on lace scarfs socks and table linen and promises delivery with free local charges and prompt attention to orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nichols & Co
Commerce Street
New York
West Commerce St
Local notes reveal a dense array of San Antonio merchants and services
Local notes advertise ice cream, ready-made clothing, medicines, drugs, perfumes, neckwear, pianos for rent, sponges, and custom tailoring. Also promoted are hats, toiletries, dental care products, a new piano bargain, frontier land bargains, dressmaking, cleaning and dying, painting, and an art gallery. Includes a political notice for Alderman Fourth Ward candidate George Schroeder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harnisch & Baer’s
Pancoast & Son
Ragland & Co
City Drug Store
Rhodi
White Elephant
F. Kalteyer & Son’s
Morley
F. Kalteyer & Son
T. B. Johnson
Proclamation Special Election for Two Alderman Vacancies
The mayor orders a special election to fill two ward vacancies in San Antonio. Vacancies arose nine months prior: First Ward from Alderman Juan I Cardenas's resignation and Fourth Ward from Alderman C A Richter's death. Voting runs 8 am to 6 pm at Recorder's Office in Ward 1 and 207 Alamo Street in Ward 4 with presiding officers William S. Smith and A Dreiss Sr. The vote follows An Ordinance Governing Elections, dated March 5 1885.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hon. Board of Aldermen
Juan ‘I
Cardenas
C. A. Richter
Bryan Callaghan
City of
San Antonio
Recorder’s Office
William S. Smith
Alamo Street
Willita Street
A. Dreiss, Sr
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the Daily Light
Paul Wagner
L. Politzer
O. Petitpain
Politzer & CO
S. W. Corner Military Plaza
O, Perriparn
Aransas Prescott & CO
Houston and
Soledad Sts
Europe
W. J. Young
Mallory Line
West Commerce
G. A. Johnston
H. M. Carron
Drs. Johnston & Carroll
West Commerce Street
W. H. Clark
Hi Alamo Street
P. Avis
Lockwood
Olive Street
Hays
Leal & Chavez
Southern Hotel
Bull's Head
Market Street
Ed Steves & Sons
AN Antonio
Fablic
Hackmen’s Association
Lloyd
J. G. Pearson
Presa St
Tessons
Courthouse
Otto Gerlach
5. Deutsch & Co
Turner Hall
Nat Sulbacher
Merer
Holden
Conscience Money
Kingsley
Home Enterprise
J. P. Condon
Nacogdoches Street
Crockett
Sunbeams
Mary Walker
Ceylon
Bothwell
Harlem
Payne
Bridgeport
Conn
Germany
Webster
Henry Ward Beecher
Reorters Onaes
Fogg
L. Huth & Son
Hardware, Paints and
D. Landreth & Son
Johnson
Planet, Jr
Mayer's
Hackberry
Sherman Streets
Menger Hotel
C. F. Schucharet
Salinas
North Flores Street
F. Sonvenaner
Houston St
NEW York Steam
Narciso Lat
Holmes
Southeast Street
W. Ranmstorf & Co
F. Pasche
Pasche
Rhodius & Tempsky’s
Hawkes
Critter Bros., Jewelers
Main Plaza
C. H. Mueller
Mueller
Cash Grocery Store
Lion
George Schroeder
S. S. Floyd & Co
Scusse & Co
James Clavin
Dr. Bosanko
East Commerce Street and Sunset Railroad
Calcasieu Parish
SAN Antonio Lumber CO
DOE & Engeler
James Martin
Cincinnat
Cincinnati
E. F. Redfield Co
Messrs. Martin & Schryver's
Ber Yard
Sunset Railroad
P. T. Shields
Patent Office
J. R. Littell
Washington, D.C
U.S. Patent Office
Wo. Reuter
Gro, Reuter
Two Brothers Saloon
Alamo Streets
William Herpel
Corner Avenue D
Ninth Street
L. Garza
Savings Bank
R. Becker
West
E. P. Claupon
A. J. Nocker & CO
Mattress Makers and Repairers
Navarro Street
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