23 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Bryan Daily Eagle And Pilot
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
1
Heavy snowfall and a coating of snow and sleet spread across North and West Texas as four to inches of snow were reported in the Panhandle. Oklahoma saw three inches of snow in the east, with melting underway. Dallas and Muskogee reported sleet and rain amid the fall.
Lord Hardinge the Viceroy of India was wounded and his attendant killed when a bomb buried on a street toppled the elephant carriage as he entered Delhi for the capital transfer ceremony from Calcutta.
Sherman Texas headline reports the death of a mother in the hope of joy as her son Hickman entered her home to spend Christmas. The man had traveled with his young daughter from Montana after losing his wife and a child in a ranch fire three months earlier.
New York December 2 Charles S Mabden president of New York New Haven and Hartford railroad E J Chamberlain president of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada and Alfred W Smithers chairman Grand Trunk board of directors were indicted by a federal grand jury charged with violation of the anti trust law in an alleged monopoly agreement between the two roads.
A formal designation effective January 1 raises M. M. Dobbs to a senior role at Bourhem Pacific. The announcement notes his new duties and responsibilities, highlighting his prior service and the company’s confidence in his leadership.
A violent incident occurred this afternoon on the Exchange Motel block between Tom Hodges and J A Pope. Pope received a deep throat slash from a knife, jugular vein ruptured, and he was rushed to a local hospital where doctors stopped the bleeding and saved his life.
Thirteen persons died and several injured in a Barragues moving picture theatre fire last night. All fatalities resulted from efforts to escape as flames swept the building amid panic. Local authorities investigate cause and safety lapses.
The superintendent of the pri o manufacturing talks with Mr Hewit over a new southern territory. He says the extent of the area is proven by clay quality and declares a fifteen year supply with shipping facilities. Two tons of clay were arranged for shipment to the factory.
Mobile Ala Dec 23 British schooners Cartagena and Georgian foundered in the Gulf of Mexico between the Cayman and Jamaica banks during a West Indian storm. All on board, twenty two persons, were drowned as advices received this morning report.
Tokyo dispatch reports two hundred miners trapped after a coal mine explosion on Hokkaido. Only three workers were rescued. many are feared dead as rescue efforts continue.
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