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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1897
Page
1
Ti Love That Wo Ill shows a cryptic note with repetitive phrasing and unclear context, likely a fragment from a larger item. The readable portion centers on a vehicle or event reference, with no clear names, places, dates, or outcomes to anchor a fuller summary.
The essay extols love as the central, transcendent force across religion, poetry, and daily life. It contrasts true love with possessive passion, lauds motherly selflessness, and argues love is eternal, giving, and harmless, while warning against jealous or violent misreadings of affection. Local notes follow, including civic and social updates from Georgetown and Elkton.
Advertisement for Dr King New Life Pills promising relief from constipation headaches malaria and liver troubles. It claims safety vegetable ingredients and toning effects with a trial sample offer via H H Bucklen Co Chicago and local sellers F Kalteyer & Bon.
Olly returns from a week in San Antonio. A temperance union meeting at the Methodist church adds new members. A Sand Hollow farmer brought a three pound melon. Mrs. Ferries travels to Cotulla. Mrs. Holdsworth dies in Cotulla. W. W. Ellis and son visit from Ditley. A sociable is planned at N. B. Barnhardt's residence tonight.
A talkative old boarder from Treland lingers in a boarding house, rising through rooms as debts mount. He enjoys odd comforts, tales, and a peculiar habit of keeping a menagerie in his room, entertaining landladies and guests with curiously optimistic schemes and a smoky, quiet evenings.
A fragmentary poem describes a boarder who stays yet avoids paying, shifts with seasons between attic and a lower space, and is content despite pests and discomfort. Interwoven lines reference Poe and a chorus of nameless figures, hinting at social commentary and faded prose.
Public notice lists Formaldehyde Lamps from Santry Construction Co of New York at 12 dollars per foot and up. Lamps reportedly used by City Hospital and Texas Disinfection Co. Other suppliers named include Irms Green Co in Chicago Lilly Co in Indianapolis and numerous places. City Physician 9-20-58 notes concerns over death Cause records and dengue wording and urges cautious completion of mortuary records. Also unrelated medical lines appear.
A humorous verse tale recalls a boarding house in disarray as twenty three men discuss a single landlady who leaves them. The poem blends elegy with satire and includes refrains about lost companionship, odd habits, and oddball suitors amid a faded domestic scene.
Report describes two prominent sportsmen bare shooting near San Antonio. A faulty item in a pocket caused a small fire with minor burns and pocket damage. The tale also notes quail served in a restaurant, a San Antonio Gun Club shoot, and mixed hunting anecdotes from Bexar county and Beanville.
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