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their way to Mexico to locate the assembling and distribution plant of the-Fordson tractor in the republic of Mexico, left here this morning for Nuevo Laredo, where they took the train to the southward.nou Hot citySUS(pub the SpaTomorrow Is Columbus Day and j q also “Liberty Day,” hut the occasion will not he celebrated on as elaborate tjj€| a scale as it would have been had the epidemic of influenza not appeared, win It Is damjeroiiH for gatherings to h* least held and people get the contagion that ^ a11c Is epidemic here now. The wise one»j0j rue keeping away from closed rooms peg, and large assemblages,There Is quite an epidemic of in fluenza ai the coal mines and a tium* {prelt; her of the miners are down with the posj disease, but the mines are still in ed I operation with shifts sufficient to do the tie work. The one physician who Is boa out there, however, has his hands full and night and day looking after the influ* thei enza patients dependant upon his care.With the closing down of the customs house In Nuevo Laredo yesterday afternoon the importations of Mexican products have ceased Indefinitely, at all goods coming to this side Lap from Mexico must pass through the) Hall Nuevo Laredo customhousetornworthe)clostheirainTschcboat(’onstance Talrnadge in “The n°tlikeT1Lesson*' at the Royal last night was a fine picture play with a good moral, |eoo hut unfortunately, on account oti°f * many people taking precautionary measures and keeping from gatherings, there was a very small audience present at any time to enjoy this masterpiece j ibeon account of the fact that every I Nidi member of the force of clerks and as* whe isiants is sick abed with the in-! ever fluenza, the custom house in Nuevo Laredo dosed its doors yesterday Deputy Collector Arzamendi was the only one of the custom house force on yy^ the job over there yesterday when he decided to close the doors until the influenza epidemic abated--w * g.Notice,Regular meeting of EncampmentGrarI
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 13, 1918
Page 23
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