Directory of Societies in San Antonio 1886
The San Antonio listing shows diverse clubs meeting weekly at Odd Fellows hall Alameda block and various venues. Included are Freemasons Ancient Order of United Workmen Knights of Pythias Anchor Lodge and more with officers and meeting times in September 1886.
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Opp Frellows
Sar Antonio
Odd Fellows Hall
Houston Street
William Holt
N. G
Lemman
Alamo Lodge No
Alameda Block
Commerce
Alamo Streets
W. A Bonynge
Anchor Lodge No
EK. BE
A. Derby
Knights OF Pytthias
East Commerce Street
W. Wurzbach
P. W.setfel
William Lange
Alamo Fire Association No. 2
Avenue
William Nes Sr
Haueisen
Charles Degen, Sr
Young Men's Benevolent Association
Firemen’s Hall
William Hoetling, Jr
H. Heiligmann
F. Jaimes
Milam Lodge No
Odd Fellows
John B. Hamilton
Ivaal
Hall
Monterey Street
G. Giorda
E. Moretti
French Benevolent SocieTy
E. P.clauson
International Building and Loan Association
Losoya Street
M. Lindner
Alamo Legion OF Honor—Star Council No
George RK. Dashiell
KwNiGuts OF Honour
Sunset Lodge
C. L. Wagner
Independent Order Bnart Brrrn
Edar Lodge
G. LB. Frank
Mexican Mutual Alb Society
Recorder's
Juan
Cardenas
Pablo Rodriguez
Rame Council
American Legion of Honor
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Louis Spahn
J. W. Schuwirth
Schimlcne
Knights of
P. Loos
BE. Tuller
SAN Antonio Fire Association
Fireman's Hall
Market Street
Schreiner
Alf. G. Schild
SAN Antonio Benevolent Association
Fritz Hauerson
F. Boltz
C. B
A. M. Hilliard
F. A. EB
Prohibition Opinion From Waterville Sentinel
The Waterville Sentinel argues Maine cannot house three liquor stores and keep liquor from those who will obtain it. The paper states sentiment and law fail to stop demand for drinking in the state.
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Maine
Waterville
Controversy in Palatka Herald Letter Firestorm
A Palatka Herald letter harshly criticizes Black residents describing them as lazy and cites a demeaning anecdote about a man tying a fishing line to a dog. The author targets a racial group with offensive language amid summer sun.
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Palatka
Sleepless in the Watermillion Season
A dialogue features Uncle Rastus and a gentleman discussing insomnia. The older man laments he cannot sleep in the watermillion season, expressing fatigue and weariness.
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Uncle Rastus
Rastus
Weather and dinner talk mix in shadowed streets
In a quiet evening scene Bobby converses with Featherly noting the light rain is unlikely while the stars shine. Bobby recalls a dinner guest and hears a family saying that misfortunes seem to come in clusters as a proverb about rain.
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Bobby
Featherly
Lee
Boy Refuses to Sell Puppy's LifeSaving Twist
A man offers a dollar to a boy to drown a puppy. The boy declines after realizing most earnings would go to his father, choosing not to drown the dog. The exchange captures a moral moment about animal welfare and parental influence.
Village Tale Reveals Stranger Face in Oswego Notice
In a rustic exchange a girl asks to see her father at home. A caller learns a farm dispute left the father unrecognizable, as the man warns the caller wouldn’t know him, highlighting a rural misunderstanding reported by the Oswego Times-Express.
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Oswego
Times-Express
President Cleveland Demonstrates Democratic Simplicity on Rough New York Ride
A vivid portrait praises President Cleveland joggling 42 miles along a rough New York road in a buckboard. The piece contrasts American republican ease with Europe’s pomp, noting the president travels with only a friend bearing a fishing rod as guard and companion.
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Cleveland
Billy Roa
New York State
Europe
United States
Russia
Anenksside
Morning Call and Blasphemy Satire in Verse
A poem contrasts a shabby morning suitor with an elegantly dressed mother Hubbard figure, then notes Bob Ingersoll’s quip on blas phemy and a Rocky Mountain editor. The verse mocks rapid change in appearances and exposes satire of religious rhetoric.
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Bob Ingersoll
Rocky Mountain
Bargain Column Offers Several Texas Ranches For Sale
A series of farm and ranch bargains listed near San Antonio and Uvalde. Properties include 1400 acres two hundred yards from a Moore Hollow station on the International railroad with 65 cultivated acres, a six room frame house, and water from a tank. Other listings cover 640 acres on the Leona river with irrigable land and a sugar mill, 900 acres on the Rio Frio with 300 acres fenced, a 40 acre stock ranch near San Antonio, and more parcels described with prices ranging from 1,200 to 12,000 dollars.
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Moore Hollow
International
Leona River
Uvalde
L. C
Rio Frio
Frio
Valde County
Salado
San Antonio
Bexar County
L. A
Divine rights fade in social age bring security detail
In olden times kings relied on a hedge of divinity but modern royalty faces socialism and dynamite. Emperors need police and bodyguards, while a Wiscon sin girl recalls a neighbor sketching logs and a ram disrupting his work, illustrating changing attitudes toward elites.
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William
A Wife’s Love Outweighs Renown in Marriage
No woman loves a man for fame alone. Even a first among men will not win pride or fondness without love and kindness. A man with a loving wife becomes her hero and king, while neglecting her leads to unhappiness in most marriages.
American citizen Forges Mexican National Song Popular Across Borders
Leindecker of Laredo Texas, a cathedral organist and former postmaster, is credited as author of a Spanish song now beloved in Mexico. The tune, printed with English translation by the Mexican National railway, travels through the United States and features in concerts and social venues. A New Laredo military band helped popularize it as a Mexican song along the Rio Grande.
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Mexican National Railway
United States
Leindecker
Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Rio Grande
Standard pitch convention urged for the United States
A fragmented collage notes a British music standard pitch debate and calls for an American law to enforce it at camp meetings. The text wanders through assorted clippings including Dana’s 1863 Senate rejection, potato pest quips, Bartholdi, a claim about a fly, choler a trends, and a health syrup advertisement, forming a garbled archival snapshot.
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England
Buffalo Express
Dana
The
Sun
Senate
Binghamton
Bartholdi
Three Hundred-Twenty Acre Ranch Near San Antonio
Property listing offers 320 acres eight miles west of San Antonio with a good fence ample water timber and improved land. Enclosed with sturdy boundary fencing and well kept by the seller. Prime agricultural or development site offered for sale.
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San Antonio
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Chicago Herald
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Cummings
ED Steves
Board of Revision and Appeal
City Council
Bryan Callaghan
E. P. Claudon
D. Quasso
New York
Wm. Reuter
Gro. Reuter
Two Brothers Saloon
Duleling
Texas and
St. Louis R. R
St Lows
Chicago
Pullman
St. Louis
A. ©. Sheldon
South Fourth Street
St. Louis, Mo
Starr S. Jones
Chevalier
Soledad Street
Patent Office
J. R. Littell
Washington
DE. C
U. S. Patent Office
Harrison
Tom Harrison, JR
Harrison & Harrison
Attorneys At Law
Ory Leelon
Tobin
W. H. Tobin
Avert
Tex
Z.T. Fulmore
A. v. Houston
Dra. J. J
A. W. Houston
F. Groos & CO
Thornton, Pres
I. W. Glass, V.P
Jas. P. Ear
Traders National Bank
San Antonio, Texas
Alexander, Sident
Arou A
Alexander
Texas National Bank
Commerce Street
Pap In
G. W. Brackenpidge
B Andrews
Augustus Belknap
B. Eee
R. A. Holland
Aransas
Avenue E
N. B
Joseph Hermann
A. Seffel
M. Herweck
K. A. Seffel & CO
N. Alamo St
Joske Bros
VY Ashington
COR. W. Commerce and Laredosts
Lone Star
Rudolph Singer
Alamo Iron Works
Sunset Road
Presa Street
J. A. H. Hosack
I F. McC. Newton
Hosack & Newton
West
Coma
Bell & Bro’s
G. A. Jomneron
H. M. Canroun
Drs. Johnston & Carroll
West Commerce Street
Healation Rice
Boston
Michigan
Detroit Free Press
Huxley
Detroit
Free Press
Touton
Revolutionary Squadron
Toulon
Gulf of San Juan
Bosanko
Oer
L. Powler
R. Cobn & Co
J, Dd
Ine
J. Olavin
Veramendi Garden
Aa of Nations
Frank Starr
Trevino Avenue
Berwick Maregotte Bay
New Orleans
Mobile
Biloxi
Lephone No
Fargo &Co
Express
Texas Express Co
Dan J. Colton
John H. Olon
W. Houston Sr
Our House and Estate Agency
Anyroom
Hack Street
Nolan and
Burnet
Baltimore Avenue
Park Avenue
Oak
Twelfth Street
Corner River Avenue
Elizabeth Street
Government Hill
Cameron Street
San Marcos Street
Nolan
Hackberry Streets
Brooks Street
Olive and
North Olive Street
Duvall and
Milam Streets
Belgin Street
Duval Street
Crosby Street
North Leona Street
Austin Street
Avenue B
Olive
Hackberry Street
Purchasing Agency
West Texas
Colton & Bolton Auctioneers
W. Houston St
A. T. Hensley & Son
Soule & Williams
Oil
Japan
East Houston Street
J. W. Bradley
J. N. Groesbeeck
Notary Public
Real Estate Exchange For
Mexico
Ragland & CO
City Drug Store
Harry L. Fowler
Rick Brothers & CO
Houston St
NEW Drug Stores
Court House
James D. Devine
Sunset Drug Store
Sunset Depot
Chemie Pala
Carefu
John U. Bodenmann
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