Re: Daisy Baxter Bruce
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:11 pm
The Medical Annual, 1922.
See advert for Mount Ephraim Nursing Home.
https://archive.org/stream/medicalannua ... 1/mode/2up
The Nursing Home.
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The following OCR'd text is as supplied, and I have only checked the addresses against the image.
Skibbereen Eagle, Saturday, February 19, 1910
Many residents wiU regret to hear of the death, last week, of the fine St. Bernard, "Leo," belonging to Miss Baxter, of 8, Molyneux Park. Leo, with an Alpine barrel suspended from his neck to collect for the hospitals, was a _familiar figure on Mount Ephraim. It may be recalled that. Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales, was very interested in his father of the same name, who was a - celebrated canine philanthropist, who spent his life begging for the Cork Hospital, and coUected over £4,000 for that charity. When "Little Leo," as he was called, came over from _Ireland, he had the .honour, of being photographed with her Majesty. At the Ladies' Kennel Show, at tJga Botanic Gardens, last June, the (_fJMen went specially to see this., noble. aSfinal, and expressed her great admiration of him and his family of seven, which she said were very " sweet little Leos." Some of these youngsters have been placed in good homes in Tunbridge Wells, and it is to bej hoped When their puppy days are over that they wiU foUow in their father's footsteps, and •turn out as professional beggars for that most worthy and deserving object, the General Hospital, ¦ •¦ ..
; The above reaches us from a; Wells journal, _<and records, the death of Leo, otherwise Leo' . " ! II. _Nojv, many people willtpjpbably ask who was;Leo II. The question is easily'answered.- He was a son o£ Leo I., and the history of those very renaarkable_^dogs is simplicity itself. Some, years ago -(about twelve), Mr.-John Wagner, 'J.P., Dunmanway, was the possessor of a splendid St. Bernard dog, who. answered to the name of Leo. This was _* Leo I. Even up' midst . ¦ " the .Bigi snows" his equal may not have been found. Mr. Wagner, in. his _character-, istic good nature, -made a present of him to Miss Baxter, who at that tune was Superintendent of the Women's and ChUdren's Hospital, Cork. Very little training =Leo required' for. the work cut out for him, and for a long : time Cork knew the noble dog weU, with his collecting-box round his neck marked '' Women and Children's Hospital Aid." By this means, Miss Baxter, or rather . Leo, collected large sums of money for the hospital; and when Miss,Baxter, to the general regret of all connected with hospital work in Cork, took her departure for " Mount Ephraim Nursing Home," _Molyneux Park, Tunbridge Wells, she took Leo with her, and there for many years he carried on the same work as he did in Cork. He is long since dead, and the Leo whose death is chronicled above was a son_^of his and engaged in the same work.
There's a Miss M H Baxter on Ancestry's Immigration database. Can't see the details. I saw some snippet somewhere about Leo the dog recovering from seasickness , but couldn't access the details..
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss ... h=000&so=2
Alan
See advert for Mount Ephraim Nursing Home.
https://archive.org/stream/medicalannua ... 1/mode/2up
The Nursing Home.
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/397231629616403067/
The following OCR'd text is as supplied, and I have only checked the addresses against the image.
Skibbereen Eagle, Saturday, February 19, 1910
Many residents wiU regret to hear of the death, last week, of the fine St. Bernard, "Leo," belonging to Miss Baxter, of 8, Molyneux Park. Leo, with an Alpine barrel suspended from his neck to collect for the hospitals, was a _familiar figure on Mount Ephraim. It may be recalled that. Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales, was very interested in his father of the same name, who was a - celebrated canine philanthropist, who spent his life begging for the Cork Hospital, and coUected over £4,000 for that charity. When "Little Leo," as he was called, came over from _Ireland, he had the .honour, of being photographed with her Majesty. At the Ladies' Kennel Show, at tJga Botanic Gardens, last June, the (_fJMen went specially to see this., noble. aSfinal, and expressed her great admiration of him and his family of seven, which she said were very " sweet little Leos." Some of these youngsters have been placed in good homes in Tunbridge Wells, and it is to bej hoped When their puppy days are over that they wiU foUow in their father's footsteps, and •turn out as professional beggars for that most worthy and deserving object, the General Hospital, ¦ •¦ ..
; The above reaches us from a; Wells journal, _<and records, the death of Leo, otherwise Leo' . " ! II. _Nojv, many people willtpjpbably ask who was;Leo II. The question is easily'answered.- He was a son o£ Leo I., and the history of those very renaarkable_^dogs is simplicity itself. Some, years ago -(about twelve), Mr.-John Wagner, 'J.P., Dunmanway, was the possessor of a splendid St. Bernard dog, who. answered to the name of Leo. This was _* Leo I. Even up' midst . ¦ " the .Bigi snows" his equal may not have been found. Mr. Wagner, in. his _character-, istic good nature, -made a present of him to Miss Baxter, who at that tune was Superintendent of the Women's and ChUdren's Hospital, Cork. Very little training =Leo required' for. the work cut out for him, and for a long : time Cork knew the noble dog weU, with his collecting-box round his neck marked '' Women and Children's Hospital Aid." By this means, Miss Baxter, or rather . Leo, collected large sums of money for the hospital; and when Miss,Baxter, to the general regret of all connected with hospital work in Cork, took her departure for " Mount Ephraim Nursing Home," _Molyneux Park, Tunbridge Wells, she took Leo with her, and there for many years he carried on the same work as he did in Cork. He is long since dead, and the Leo whose death is chronicled above was a son_^of his and engaged in the same work.
There's a Miss M H Baxter on Ancestry's Immigration database. Can't see the details. I saw some snippet somewhere about Leo the dog recovering from seasickness , but couldn't access the details..
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss ... h=000&so=2
Alan