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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1900
Page
4
The Light announces John W. Tobin as a candidate for Sheriff of Bexar County and James M. Van Riper as a candidate for Sheriff in the forthcoming November election of 1900.
John Wilkens Jr files as a candidate for Por County assessor position. The filing appears in a county records section, identifying him as a contender for the elected office.
Theodore Harris campaigns for the Democratic nomination to represent the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District comprising Bexar Bandera Medina Kendall Kerr and Gillespie counties. He aims to win the seat in the state senate.
H B Salliway is a candidate for County Judge in the upcoming election set for November 1900. The notice lists his candidacy and timing for voters in the jurisdiction.
Chris B Callan is nominated by the Democratic Party to run for a seat in the state legislature representing Bexar County in the upcoming November election.
The announcement declares Phil H. Shook as candidate for County Attorney of Bexar County Texas at the November 1900 election. Also notes Will E. Anderson’s own candidacy for the same office and urges voters to consider the ticket.
Bart J. De Witt respectfully announces his candidacy for re election to the office of County Attorney for Bexar county and solicits the support of his friends.
Benita Jimenz and Angeli ta Gamese were married last night by Judge J. J. Sweeney at 401 South Frio Street. Many friends and relatives attended and a supper followed the ceremony.
Local ads promote R A Cleveland laughing song at Riverside park on Sunday and highlight cheap potatoes and baby supplies. Church notices invite attendance at First Church of Christ with readings, services, Sunday school, and visiting hours. Small items note lampooned humor and multiple local merchants offering frames, jewelry, millinery, and fabrics.
A visitor in a West End restaurant frets over prices and moral pricing while the waiter cites a rule about what is on the bill or an extra charge. The exchange highlights tensions between explicit menu items and perceived conscience in billing practices.
In a brief domestic incident a former engaged couple, once fond, quarreled and could not mend fences. He called on her father on business, she answered at the door, he asked to see the father, then left in hauteur. She asked who called as he departed.
Pauline Hoffman, described as of loose character, abducted a Negrito boy named Victor, employed by Vieto, from the New York hotel in Manila. Victor, aged about ten, was recovered at Tomaso Rosario's Calle Culumbayan home and will be sent to Spain with the Vieto family aboard the Elcante.
A Paris confectioner faced moldy chocolate but turned loss into a hit by advertising that only his chocolate could pass for mold free. The campaign drew a large following, likened to Tom Sawyer's fence whitewashing as a clever publicity ploy.
In a Washington Star quote, Senator Sorg hum asserts that while most men have a price, some are so rich they do not need any more money, challenging the idea of universal monetary motivation.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports a remark about General Gordon kissing Jefferson’s daughter at a Confederate reunion. The line mocks public sentiment with a wary tone and a crowd of observers.
Two clerks recall a man resembling Admiral Dewey in their Washington shop. They wonder if the famed figure was really there and ask what he purchased, noting a copy of Paradise Lost.
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