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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1911
Page
8
Emory B Calvert notes a two dollar Terrace Garden package offering theater, dinner, and taxi in proletarian New York. He praises Sarah Bernhardt’s 35 week American return, 285 performances, and calls her latest tour a supreme triumph marking her potential final U.S. appearance.
The tour has earned about one million dollars. Madame’s earnings include a quarter to her lot. New York audiences welcomed her arrival after a few months with nightly box office sums in the hundreds. Plays like Sister Beatrice and Jean Marie showcased her skill amid a celebrated repertoire.
Brockton owner John Hill Bartlett plans to rent six tenements built for families with babies to tenants without children. Bartlett, once supportive of families, has shifted stance after personal changes and a wife who prefers homes without babies. The building now houses only a few infants, with Mrs. Bartlett noting the preference for noise and damage free accommodations.
Exposition Park debuts a new eleven member Archer Amusement Company show tonight at 8:45 with a ten cent admission and unreserved seating. The program features Mrs. R O Archer a dramatic soprano and elocutionist joined by her husband tenor R O Archer among a breezy one hour of minstrel number musical sketches and comedies.
Manager Nix at the Royal presents a weekly vaudeville bill headlined by the Quaker City Quartette in The Musical Blacksmiths with The Golden Wedding by Beulah Gwynne and O A Gossett. Revolving Collins performs a high skill roller skating routine and W H Mack and company deliver The New Minister with Sara Townsend billed as the stylish performer.
In San Antonio Dell's Crown Theater presents Higginses vs Judsons a tale of a Kentucky border feud between rival families. The plot thickens as crossed loves intertwine with old signs declaring death on each side of a tree. The show runs today along with two new pictures.
Mrs. Edward Baird of 382 Washington street has found her two children Hattie and nk after seventeen years. Once separated from her husband she supported them via the Home for the Friendless then worked in Danbury and later learned they were adopted West. A letter from daughter Mrs. O B Brockway of Long Beach California reveals the brother is in Parma Michigan and a family reunion is planned.
John Vaughn stood on the rear platform of a traction car bound for Alexandria when the sun blazing over 180 degrees caused a coat to ignite. Vaughn had his back to the vestibule as the blaze began, creating a dangerous incident reported by an Indiana dispatch to the Indianapolis News.
A passenger named Vaughn was engulfed in flames from glowing gree n rays on glass. He ran through the car shouting Fire while his coat burned. a fellow traveler wrapped a linen duster around him to smother the blaze. He escaped with minor injuries and needed new clothing to continue.
William F. Vogel age 52 prominent Caldwell County lumber dealer and real estate holder died at Santa Rosa Hospital after brief uremic poisoning. He is survived by wife and children Howard Wille Joe of Lockhart. daughters Mrs. Strandmann Maxwell and Mrs. Baughaf Lockhart. Funeral Monday from his home in Lockhart under Woodmen of the World Hermann Sons and Knights and Ladies of Honor auspices with interment in the family cemetery.
Quote from the Grand Rapids Press cautions that if Mexico requires a president urgently the colonel is unavailable, reflecting political commentary without sharp detail.
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