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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1896
Page
1
The Light preacher extols the blessedness of blindness as a spiritual discipline. He cites the Alamo scene to illustrate how sight can fail to ease suffering and argues cultivating non seeing heightens pity, compassion, and moral restraint amid earth’s misery and injustice.
A sermon-like meditation urges readers to cultivate two kinds of blessed blindness. It condemns heartless indifference to suffering and praises a prudent blindness that avoids judging others faults. It extols mercy, restraint, and charity within family and society as antidotes to social ills.
Local shoppers praise Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy with cures for colloquially described cold symptoms. Notes from W W Spillen, J A Van Vatta, and P Wilager cite complete relief after trying the product. Available at druggists in 25 and 50 cent bottles.
Burt Ashford conducts a closing out sale of locks watches and jewelry at 102 K Houston Street with daily hours from 10 am to 7 pm. The sale includes household items such as curtains rugs mats and various arts and crafts items offered at hard times prices.
The piece zigs through mayoral quarrels in San Antonio with names like Elmendorf and Bhupncort, rails at a corrupt City Hall, discusses audits and tickets, and lampoons press influence and graft. It critiques a straight Republican ticket amid a muddled crowd and hints at electoral tensions and public scorn.
Alexander Ite quits the Oliver Byron company while Thirid Henderson and Frankie Ray Mond wed in Chicago Now. J M Ward becomes business manager of Aloride Enebronment amid arrests in New York over a Sunday performance. Max Bielman learns of his mother’s shipboard death as Walter Stetyon and Ida Dupree headline a sport company in Washington. The Actors' Association plans a test case on alleged discharge without cause. Richard T Brown and Amelia Bra iglett wed in Memphis. France and Europe see operatic premieres and revivals as Gustave Geffery is named Paris theatre critic. Debates over stage art versus moral instruction continue.
Notice from the Mayor's Office of San Antonio dated December 1896 announces a Board of Revision and Appeal session at City Hall Team No. 18 to correct and equalize rendered assessments for the fiscal year ending May 8th 1897. Board meets from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays and holidays excepted. The Assessment committee will not consider petitions after the Board is seated.
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