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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
2
A San Antonio nurse Miss A Bright endorses Plant Juice as a general tonic and nerve food. She reports improved appetite digestion sleep and mood and recommends trying it now. The product is sold at Fischer's corner Alamo and Houston.
Sofia reports detail a huge Turkish army of about 200000 men defeated by Bulgarian forces. Nazim Pasha led the main Turkish force retreating from Kirk Kilisseh while remaining garrisons held in Adrianople, Saloniki, Monastir and other towns.
Vienna dispatch reports Bulgaria Serbia Montenegro and Greece negotiating to unite demands on Turkey after hostilities end. The four Balkan states favor direct talks with Turkey but the Ottoman government resists and may seek mediation by European powers. Uncertainty remains over acceptance and possible intervention by others.
Mr. Bailey superintendent of the industrial department at the State Orphan asylum in Corsicana and Mrs. Swan senior matron of the home arrived in the city today aboard Seen connected with this institution.
Downtown women canvass districts for a memorial fund within a week to build a new orphanage near the First Mission. Business leaders pledge thousands, aiming at a minimum 25000. A large executive committee and many names are appointed to oversee the effort and memorial plan. Local Sister Mary Kostka remains in fragile condition after the fire. Two toddlers, Charles Matloch and Francis O'Brien, remain missing. a boy identified as Joseph Silem is confirmed dead.
Sister Edith one of four nuns who escaped the St. John’s orphanage fire remains in serious condition in Santa Rosa hospital with shock. Sister Kostka’s state is unchanged as reports from Santa Rosa continue to detail the aftermath of the disaster.
A benefit game tomorrow afternoon pairs West Texas Military Academy football with Battery G from the army post. Proceeds go to an orphan relief fund supporting children made homeless by Wednesday’s fire.
In San Antonio two hundred eighty children donated their small savings to help St. John's orphanage. The children to children committee raised about $70 in nickels dimes and quarters over two days and handed it to Bishop Shaw with Mrs Joseph Emerson Smith as chairwoman.
The Light reports Boerne residents added 25 to relief funds today. The town had already sent 75 yesterday and promised further donations would follow.
Miss Mabel F. Dawkins of Fort Wayne Indiana reports three years of catarrh and blood disease ended after two bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. She says she felt like a different person and recommends Hood’s to others with similar symptoms. The ad promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla in liquid and “gersa tabs” chocolate tablets.
Conversation notes a husband urging no talk of the first husband and the wife agreeing to discuss the likely qualities of his successor in a terse domestic exchange from a German magazine.
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