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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1900
Page
4
The Light is authorized to announce John W. Tobin as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bexar County.
Local ads and brief items report tailor and suit promotions, imports from London Paris and New York, theater and dance events, a birthday celebration, a painter job, a smoker event, and a city permit for a two story dwelling. Also noted are church services, a city council meeting, and a municipal warrant.
An assortment of short items lists merchants and services including universe of goods from Japanese and Chinese fancy wares to bread and laundry services. Mentions Sung Chong 120 North Alamo Street and Bohner's bread. Public lectures on tuberculosis hosted by Dr Campbell and notes about travel plans of Mr and Mrs Ed Braden Jr sailing to Rome.
The public cheers the operatic comedy Little Miss Johnston with crowded houses and continuous laughter. Critics note sharp songs and up to date specialties, praising the production for its lavish, superior take on the original New York version.
Abby C. Baker outlines the May Woman's Home Companion feature on the first reading room for the blind in a public library. Readings and weekly musical afternoons run October to June, with notable Washington figures supporting the cause. The pavilion hosts poetry, Braille work, and volunteer readers, including a blind chaplain and students who copy articles in New York Point.
General Pretorius, wounded and captive, a veteran Boer leader, views a British man of war at Simonstown after hospital treatment in Wynburg. He is impressed by the engines guns and discipline, exclaiming it is worth losing a leg to see what the rooleks can do, yet fears the forces of nature are ungodly.
On Brookville’s main street a weathered two story house houses Miss Phebe Meeks a recluse for 65 years. She spurned fiancé Hadley Johnson after a brief betrothal in 1835 and never left her room or met visitors. Her sister runs a millinery store in the front room, she reads widely and feeds sparrows at the window daily from a life of seclusion.
A recruit, described as raw but fox y, keeps a Bible and a greasy pack of cards over his heart. He says no chances are taken against foes, yet he must reckon with the embalmed horse meat net.
Pierre Cadognet, a poor artisan, marries a mysterious noblewoman known for a famed voice. After his mother’s death a carriage takes him to a chapel where papers are signed, and the reveal of the bride’s face shocks him. He asks for a song to forget the visage.
In a Pretoria alley a modest bake shop run by Solomon Gillingham doubles as a political hub He funds and promotes Boer sympathies and Irish connections and hosts anti British caricatures behind a door over which his name is painted The piece highlights how a simple bakery fronts influence in the town's politics and Kruger's Irish Brigade support
Three years ago Parisian cat Bis inherited ten thousand francs via a trust to a district school. French law barred direct bequests to animals, so the sum was placed with a concierge under a contract to provide Bis food and care. After Bis died, the schools received the funds.
The school trustee election results show F A Chapa leading with the most votes as the old board wins by a solid majority. Voters largely cast straight tickets though some scratching occurred and results were in the county clerk’s office within two hours of closing.
Monday specials feature fine millinery ladies skirts silk waists laces and embroideries at MOKE Millinery Co with limited time offerings for shoppers seeking refined accessories and fabrics.
De Zavala Chapter DRT plans memorial tablets on four missions and a monument to Alamo heroes. They raised funds to honor Ben Milam with a Milam square statue and will install a memorial tablet in Charles Schreiner’s new building at Flores and Commerce, site of the Navarro building, tying to early Texas history for public schools.
The Duke of Parma has a larger family than any other prince in Europe. With his first wife a Bourbon Sicilian princess he fathered nine children, with none of the elder except the Bulgarian Princess died. By his second wife a Braganza princess and sister to the hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxemburg, he added nine more children, the youngest girl being one year old. In total he has 18 children, 17 of whom survive.
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