Bequest to Rebuild Altars and Holy Land Shrine Named in Watzlavzick Will
The will of Mrs Mary Watzlavzick of San Antonio dated 1916 bequeaths 200 to beautify the Matka Boska Cestohowska altar in Cestohowa Russian Poland 500 for rebuilding altars at Sw Anna Kalwaryjska and 500 for the Holy Sepulchre in the Holy Land to be handled by the Commissariat in Washington 200 for a grave tombstone at St Michael's Cemetery 500 for a San Antonio church fund and other masses while the estate valued about 50000 is split between her two children. A nephew Thomas Watzlavzick is named executor.
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Cestohowa
Russian Poland
Mary Watzlavzick
San Antonio
Watzlavzick
Frank R. Newton
Newton
Anna Barbara Hauser
John N. Schutz
Thomas Watzlavzick
St. Michael's Cemetery
Thomas Hurley
Minatitlan
Mex
Joseph Watzlarzick
Business Leaders to Discuss City Growth at Luncheon
San Antonio businessmen meet at the St. Anthony Hotel to discuss the Texas homestead law federal farm loan act city manager plan and a proposed coliseum. Speeches allocate five minutes each with emphasis on future prosperity and civic progress.
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San Antonio
St. Anthony Hotel
N.S. Dickinson
Texas
Dickinson
United States
Edwin Chamberlain
Ischl Plans Monument to Late Emperor Francis Joseph
Ischl residents vote to raise funds for a monument to the late Emperor Francis Joseph who spent many years at the resort. A mass meeting endorsed public subscription with an initial $2000 gift from a Hamburg German merchant.
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Vienna
Ischl
Francis Joseph
Hamburg
The Professor Was Right at Adirondack Lake
A tale recounts Professor Lounsbury of Yale remarking it looks like rain as a pedant questions the forecast. He asserts with a cold eye that what looks like rain is water.
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Professor Lounsbury
Yale
Adirondacks
Lounsbury
Black wedding in New York defies superstition and fashion
Elean or Klinger, a fashion model, and Ora Cne, a Scranton designer, marry in a fully black ceremony at the French church of SS. Vincent de Paul. Everything from attire to décor is black, including the limousine, attendants, breakfast, and even the silver and china.
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Eleanor Klinger
Ora Cne
Scranton
SS. Vincent de Paul
New York City
New York
Mr. One
Mrs. One
Forty-third Street
Boy Scout Parade Ends Athletic Meet in City
Nearly a hundred Boy Scouts from the Alamo Council paraded downtown to cap a grand athletic field meet. Scout Executive William C. Quaiff led as drum major and announced winning troops receiving color-flag prizes, led by Troop 7 from Utica Presbyterian Church with a silk flag trophy. Other prizes went to Troops 4 1 14 12 8 15 and 11 from various churches and the YMCA. A German auto race over ice carried six people at 40 mph and one at 90 mph.
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Alamo
Alamo Chapel
Executive Quaiff
Utica Presbyterian Church
Ida J. Cohen
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Travis Park Methodist Church
Denver Heights Baptist Church
South Park Methodist Church
Westminister Presbyterian Church
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Victoria Cross winner Jarvis seeks return to front
Corporal Charles Alfred Jarvis the first VC recipient of the present war has been discharged after seventeen years in the army. He feels he has a grievance and wants to rejoin the service though his pensionable service would have begun ten months later. He earned the VC for gallantry at Jenappe on August 23 1914 while under heavy fire aiding demolition of a bridge. He fears conscription despite his discharge and fitness.
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London
Charles Alfred Jarvis
Jarvis
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Dry Wave Arrival in 1680 Petition to Governor
A Philadelphia Public Ledger note cites a 236 year old petition from early Delaware settlers at Crewcorne. Twelve men demand suppression of brandy sales to Indians to prevent drunken violence and protect homes and families in the town near the falls of Delaware.
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Girard
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Neu
Dellaware
Crewcorne
Darling, will you marry me in our own home
A humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Record depicts George proposing to Mabel and asking whether their families would visit, with Mabel hesitating and replying no. The dialogue hints at a plan to establish a separate establishment if married.
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George
Siugent
Philadelphia Record
New Bone Dry Amendment Moves Pro Subission Plan
In Austin on February 3, a faction of Pro prohibition supporters rebels against leaders and drafts a bone dry amendment similar to the rejected Canales measure. French Spencer is named as leader of the Pro effort while Antis resist but may back any proposal to submit statewide prohibition. The highway bill and woman suffrage amendment are also set for upcoming consideration.
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Canales
Spencer
Fort Worth
Dunnam
House
Highway Commission
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