Six Stokers Injured On Battleship Vermont
Six stokers were injured on the battleship Vermont at anchorage off Eton Roads November 2, two seriously when the No 6 boiler exploded under steam. A board of investigation ordered. P Horan and H W Cramer were the most seriously hurt. The Vermont was towed to safety. no damage to the ship reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shington
Vermont
Eton Roads
P. Horan
H. W. Cramer
R. M. Er
J. W. Newberry
M. W
CC. W. Hoteling
A Big Turkey Supper At The Verside Restaurant
A big turkey supper is advertised for 25 cents tonight and a special family inner and supper is planned for Sunday at the Verside Restaurant. The promotion calls it the best ever and targets a family crowd.
Haising Fund Women Take Up Work for Orphanage
Chamber of Commerce launches $25,000 drive to build St John’s Orphan asylum memorial, asking pastors to announce from pulpits. Women form a 500-strong organization coordinating ward by ward solicitation and a Grand Opera House benefit at the Grand next Thursday to fund the project.
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Chamber of Commerce
St. John's Orphanage
Charles Graebner
St. John’s Orphan Asylum
William Cassin
T. L. Conroy
Arthur Seeligson
Cannon
Lloyd Spencer
T. L. Conrey
Carlos Bee
G. Schoeber
J. H. McClure
Injured Sister Edith Improves After Night of Strain
The report notes Sister Edith is not broken but badly wrenched with torn nerves after a harrowing incident involving the fire chief's automobile horn. Doctors stated she may be an invalid if she survives, while her condition showed improvement today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Herff
Edith
Light relief fund collects further donations totaling 207 dollars
Additional gifts arrived after the Light closed its relief subscription to orphans, turning the effort to the Chamber of Commerce. Contributions include F. H. Kingsbury five dollars Merchants' Cold Storage ten dollars N. Von Hartung five dollars H. C. Rees Optical twenty five dollars Mrs R H Russell ten dollars Mrs Florence Silvey five dollars Range citizens one hundred dollars Boerne citizens twenty five dollars Lockwood National Bank employees twenty five dollars.
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Light
Chamber of Commerce
F. H. Kingsbury
Merchants’ Cold Storage Company
N. von Hartung
H. C. Rees Optical Company
R. H. Russell
Florence Silvey
Range Citizens
Citizens of
Boerne
Employes Lockwood National Bank
Last of His Family Survives St John’s Orphanage Fire
The 9-year-old brother of Francis O'Brian, who died in the St John’s orphanage fire, is the sole survivor of his immediate family. The Ohio family settled near Big Wells on the Pecos. After the father’s death and the mother’s typhoid, both children were placed at the orphanage. Mother Mary of the Cross died while trying to rescue Francis. The boy remains with surviving orphans at St Louis college awaiting a new orphanage placement.
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Francis O'Brian
St. John’s
Ohio
Big Wells
Pecos River
Santa Rosa Hospital
St. John's Orphanage
Mother Mary of the Cross
Francis
St. Louis College
Fearful Sister Near Death Hears No Fire Deaths
A wounded Sister Mary Kostka lies near death after the St Johns orphanage fire. She has not been told that five fellow sisters died and she remains unaware of the victims. Her questions about the orphans are met with evasion.
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Mary Kostka
St. John’s
Staraniecy
Fire at St. John’s Orphan Asylum Caused by Spontaneous Combustion
Fire Marshal McNeel reports spontaneous combustion as the cause of the St. John’s Orphan asylum blaze last Wednesday morning. Linseed oil and cotton rags used on floors led to the fire in a building freshly painted and varnished, killing five Sisters of Charity and three children.
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St. John's Orphan Asylum
Sisters of Charity
W. P. McNeel
Austin
Texas
McNeel
Marshal McNeel
Ranger Citizens Raise Funds for St. Johns Orphanage
The Light reports a $100 draft from Ranger citizens toward erecting St. John’s orphanage. Mrs. J. H. Keppers Sr. led the effort for relief to orphans or general building funds. Boerne residents added $25, promising more donations to come.
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Texas
Light
Ranger
St. John's
J. H. Keppers Sr
Boerne
Houston drives donations for St Johns orphanage
The Houston voluntary fund to aid rebuilding St John’s orphanage in San Antonio reached 1810.50 dollars this morning. Contributions were inspired by the heroic deaths of the Sisters and a wish for a monument in the form of a new building on the site to honor their heroism.
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Houston
Tex
St. John's Orphanage
San Antonio
Local Cuero grocer gathers aid for San Antonio orphanage fire
Cuero Tex Nov 2 Mike Jyrne a leading grocer circulates a petition for funds for the sisters and orphans of St John s orphanage burned in San Antonio by noon today he had nearly 400 dollars in hand
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Cuero
Tex
Mike Jyrne
St. John's Orphanage
San Antonio
Ten Day Want Ads Open Tomorrow At Half Cent Rates
Classified space runs ten days with ads starting tomorrow and two Sundays included. Rate is one half cent per word for each insertion on ten day runs. Ads accepted by phone on line 176.
Free prescription for nervous debility claims quick at home cure
An advertisement offers a free copy of a so called prescription for weakness and diminished vigor. It promises a physician developed, fast acting remedy to restore manhood without medicines, and urges writing Dr. A E Robinson at 4725 Luck Building Detroit for the free recipe. The appeal targets men troubled by excesses and weak memory.
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A. E. Robinson
Luck Building
Detroit
Mich
Thieves Loot Five San Antonio Homes In One Night
A busy group of thieves hit five locations in San Antonio between midnight and daylight. At Watt residence 3425 West Commerce street all food was stolen. Collins Garden home's electric toaster was taken. Scroggs grocery on Sommerset road was robbed. a store on Losoya street lost cash and candy. a barn on 221 Mary C. Dimmitt Street saw hay cotton seed meal livestock items stolen.
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San Antonio
J. Watt
West
Commerce Street
F. F. Collins
Collins Garden
Mr. Collins
Scroggs
Sommerset
Losoya
Mary C. Dimmitt
Cutter Winsom to Aid Stranded Nicaragua Sailors
The U S revenue cutter Win dom sails from Galveston at 1 pm to Padre Island to relieve two sailors aboard the steamship Nicaragua stranded there and to locate the life saving rescue party that left Port Aransas last Tuesday. The rescue party has not been heard from but is believed on the island and not in immediate danger. The cutter should reach Padre Island tomorrow morning.
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Galveston
Tex
United States Revenue
Windom
Padre Island
Nicaragua
Port Aransas
Revenue
Pierce Buys Waters-Pierce Holdings in NY Sale
Announcement that Standard Oil sold all Waters-Pierce Oil holdings to Henry Clay Pierce ends a lengthy legal battle. Also notes January 1913 likely date for a contempt appeal hearing involving AFL leaders Gompers Mitchell Morrison in the Buck Steam Range case. Mentions denatured alcohol as a home heating and cooking option.
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New York
Standard Oil
Henry Clay Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Washington
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
District Supreme Court
Buck Steve and Range ,Company of
St. Louis
Riverside Restaurant Offers Best Ever Big Turkey Supper
A local ad promotes a big turkey supper priced at 25 cents for tonight and tomorrow. The Riverside Restaurant markets a special family dinner and supper claiming it to be the best ever, while a note on grocery prices laments luxuries like tomatoes melons and cucumbers becoming scarce commodities.
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Riverside
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Morey
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Haising Fund
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas F. Marshall
O. B. Colquitt
New San Antonio
Cullom H. Booth
San Marcos
Laurel Heights Methodist Church
J. D. Young
Gaston Hartfield
Seguin
Beeville
Alamo Heights Methodist Church
United States
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Park Square
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Southwestern Company
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