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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1885
Page
4
San Antonio notices list a sequence of events and happenings. Turkish baths, upcoming parties, markets, parades, and concerts fill the day’s social calendar, along with court actions, a gun club sweepstakes, a racecourse improvement, and a charity sale. Includes brief reports on deaths, legal cases, and business updates.
City guests arrive from Presidio and Lavernia as gossiping columns list travelers from El Paso and New Orleans. A skeptical editorial laments politics and ambition, ending with a moralizing parable on life, wealth, and fate.
A compact collage of mid nineteenth century lines and quotes. It recalls a heroic figure facing death with stoic resolve and interleaves snippets from Chicago Sun and other papers. The text threads Egyptan proverbs and dialect humor into a public notice style vignette.
The article discusses Pasteur’s work establishing parasitic origins of diseases like fowl cholera, the idea of virus attenuation, and how parasites exhaust bodily soil to prevent recurrence. It explains vaccination as using a less virulent organism to exhaust the host’s susceptibility, shaping early germ theory views.
Nichols & Co at 238 West Commerce Street offer a wide range of dry goods notions stationery jewelry glassware and more with wholesale and retail emphasis. The ad lists prices on pins ribbons gloves glassware carpets hats and fabrics and notes free delivery from New York retailers. Also includes medical notice praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and notices for local businesses and services including a paint shop and fertilizer company assets and contacts.
A select circle gathered yesterday evening at Mr. and Mrs. A. Scholz home to witness the marriage of their daughter Jennie to Mr. Henry Boerner. The ceremony was led by the Hon. Charles Wurzbach with a generous reception and costly presents. Also noted is the death of Maud A. Nelson, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Nelson, with funeral arrangements announced. Notices include loan brokering and coal supply details from local businesses.
A man leads a moonlit stroll with a woman as they discuss poetry, pigs feet, and dreams of a shared future. He speaks of love, religion, and a fireside life while she clings to his arm, then exclaims with delight as she agrees to marry. The Chicago Ledger notes her Coinage birth and business lineage.
A collage of old trade notices and ads mentions warm baths at Commerce and Alamo, grocers Pitt & Meek, Kay’s Ken tucky Powder for poultry, a new piano deal, Orikonto toothpaste, Wonderful Eight headaches and worm cure, hardware seeds merchants Kalteyer & Son, and Luth & Son seeds with garden tools and paints.
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