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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1922
Page
11
A column of playful vignettes from Laredo riffs on local foibles and quirks. It pokes fun at cop thoughts, thrift versus stinginess, fashion memories, and everyday oddities from fashion to meals with witty asides and retro references.
April 5 marks birthday anniversaries for several prominent figures. Jules Cambon recently retired French diplomat turns 77. Edgar L. Larkin Lowe Observatory director ages 75. Henry St. George Tucker Virginia congressman born in Winchester 39. Frank H. Funk Illinois congressman born in Bloomington 63. John Q. Tilton Connecticut congressman born in Clearbranch 56. Jo Stacher famed American professional wrestler born in Dodge 29.
The Times presents a forecast from the U S Weather Bureau at New Orleans. Tonight and Thursday are expected to generally fall with unsettled conditions.
Temperature ranged from 60 to 80 degrees over 84 hours ending 7 am today. Wind shifted from south to east. Sky remained clear throughout observation period.
Daily devotional from the Federal Council of Churches for Lenten use with a meditation on self denial. Scripture focus St Luke 17 11 37 and verse 33. Prayer asks for humility faith and spiritual power to curb selfishness and spread redemption across the earth. Hymn lines close the meditation with Beneath the Cross of Jesus.
A bronze bust of Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World, is shown in the Jefferson Memorial exhibition by the Missouri Historical Society. Sculptor Frederick Blasschke of Budapest, Hungary created the piece.
Three large Chicago hotels began English language classes for their employees. The sessions are held in hotel buildings and run in cooperation with the Americanization committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce.
Mrs Lelia Seton Edmundson seeks the Democratic nomination for Congress in Alabama eighth district. Renowned cotton planter sits on a 1000 acre Tennessee River plantation near Decatur. She traveled worldwide to market cotton and promoted Muscle Shoals development and southern farming improvements.
A sequence of historical notes lists Elihu Yale’s birth in New Haven and death in London in 1721, the 1768 York Chamber of Commerce founding, 1830 Jewish civil disabilities bill in Britain, Frank R. Stockton’s birth and death, Adelphia theater opening in Boston, 1875 Massachusetts liquor laws repeal, 1918 Canadian work or fight order for men 16 to 60, and 1919 US troop departure from Italy.
The Tuesday Music and Literary Club will host a luncheon at the Hamilton Hotel to honor Convention delegates and Federated members. A second concert is at Christ Church at 6 pm, followed by a reception at the Latin-American at 8:30 pm. W M A Circles meet in the afternoon and the Ladies Auxiliary Presbyterian Church conducts Circle one with Mrs. Butler and Circle two with Mrs. Hatley at 3:30 pm.
A fragment from Carolyn M. Lewis’s poem is printed alongside local society notes from St Louis Post-Dispatch. The piece sits with social updates on Pan-American Round Table guests, Federated Clubs delegates, and Junior Auxiliary activities at Christ Church.
A listing of musical pieces and performers for a sacred concert led by a ganist-director. Te Deum in F, God So Loved the World, Seek Ye the Lord, The Way to Dawn, The Penitent, and The Crucifixion are noted with performers including Mrs Edwin B Adams, Miss May Lines, Mr Pierre V Blanchard, and a chorus.
London reports the British government has sent a note to the allies stating that since Great Britain must pay interest on its debt to the United States it reserves the right to compel the allies to pay interest on their war debts to Britain.
Sherman Citizens and People: The Citizens party elected six councilmen and the People's party one, leaving Labor Party in control. Denison: Labor party remains in control after municipal election yesterday.
The first afternoon session began around 2 30 with Mrs W C Martin of Dallas giving an instructive talk on Rural Life club work and county women learning how clubs rest rooms community centers and better marketing facilities can aid country sisters. Mrs Hobart Ostrom sang Ship o Dreams and Mrs R E Buchanan state parliamentarian spoke on Atmosphere and parliamentary law inspiring attendees. Mrs S J Wright San Antonio spoke on Texas First Outpost and La Salle era with vivid word pictures. The session closed after a solo by Mendel H Morgan as delegates prepared for a Heights Civic Club drive.
Oklahoma City reports three separate investigations opened today into the death of Lieut. Col. Paul Ward Beck at Fort Sill. Civil county authorities will decide charges against Day. Army officers and the federal prohibition director will probe potential liquor involvement.
Dallas forms a new group named the Dallas County Citizens' Leave to oppose the Ku Klux Klan. The permanent committee led by M. M. Crane includes former Governor O. B Colquitt and others, pledging no Klan member may hold state office and to oppose supporting or voting for such candidates.
President Lewis of the United Mine Workers left Washington for New York after concluding his appearance before the house labor committee. He called the strike situation satisfactory and will join top officials in wage negotiations with operators over the anthracite mines.
Toledo Ohio April 5 Phe Oto Collieries Company the largest individual coal operating company in Ohio will not be represented in the proposed joint conference in Washington April 10.
Washington reports improved employment conditions as ten days remain before the president’s unemployment conference. Har Man Woods announced the hopeful outlook today amid plans to address joblessness nationwide.
Fatty Arbuckle took the stand in his own defense today in the third trial on the manslaughter charge tied to the death of Virginia Rappe. The case aired in San Francisco with the defense seeking to show lack of evidence and provoke doubt.
In Denison Texas on April 5 Dr W K Smith a church deacon who snatched a mask from a Klansman during a Ku Klux visit at a local church Sunday night has not revealed the man but suggests he knows him The grand jury is investigating the church melee.
A Fort Worth area man was electrocuted on April 16 after a wire struck a mobile tool on a power floor. An eyewitness report cites an audio event and the fatal accident occurred at a construction site involving a generator and utility wire.
The Senate agriculture committee voted unanimously to amend the army supply bill to provide 7.6 million dollars to restart the Wilson dam project at Muscle Shoals Alabama under army engineers.
Austin reports that Mayor Aldredge of Dallas sent a letter to Governor Neff requesting information about gambling houses and bootleggers operating in Dallas. The letter was received at the governor’s office this morning for the Dallas county grand jury.
A late yesterday storm near Hyams six miles above Natchitoches destroyed fourteen tenant houses and wrecked eight others and the Texas-Pacific freight depot, authorities reported today.
Warsaw reports a 3,030,000 mark appropriation to aid small farmers ruined by the war. Fifty percent of Polish refugees returning from Russia are petty landowners whose holdings have been destroyed.
Scientists warn that some comets could carry viable germs and that Earth might be reached by disease from other worlds via comet tails. Researchers stress the need for caution and further study of interplanetary microbial transfer.
An English accented man visited the American Legion in Mexico City claiming desire to join. Commander Louis Loeb asked for discharge papers, which revealed the man as a veteran who once earned the Iron Cross from the Kaiser, explaining his belief that the Legion included soldiers from all fronts.
An Associated Press dispatch from Austin on April 5 reports Texas attorney general rulings on women's voting status. A wife who is an alien and married to a noncitizen man is not entitled to vote while the marriage lasts. If the wife is married to a U.S. citizen she is a citizen and may vote, provided she belongs to a race eligible for citizenship.
The Trinity river crest reached Dallas today per Dr Cline of the local weather bureau. Several persons were rescued from low lands last night with no reported loss of life. Rail traffic in parts of the state is hampered by washouts but damage appears limited. Houston reports flood stages on nearly all rivers in Central and East Texas.
Memphis April 5 flood fighters maintained the upper hand as the swollen Mississippi continued to recede. Officials indicated the danger of a major overflow was rapidly diminishing as crews worked to bolster levees and monitor the river.
Cuero Texas April 6 the city was without light and power as the Guadalupe river flood cut a 60 foot channel around the plant exposing its vulnerability and cutting service.
Three Houston area properties were willed by T. V. Goss a retired druggist to the Masonic Orphans Home at Fort Worth and the Home for Aged Masons at Arlington. The will, filed in Texarkana on April 5, directs a total estate valued at about F17,000 to be used for these homes.
Chairman Jones of the Senate commerce committee advocated a flexible organization to link the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Shipping Board. The goal is closer coordination between rail and water transport for greater efficiency in the merchant marine program today during the joint hearing on the administration merchant bill.
Union officials testified before the United States Railroad Labor Board challenging railroad claims that outside industries paid lower wages than shop craft workers. They argued the carriers did not present an accurate summary of the wage differences.
The notes joke about Bert Chaplin of the Red Sox being nicknamed Charlie, and discuss a Mike Gibbons-Harry Greb fight. It notes Cubs training camp at Catalina lacks prize stories and owner Frazee’s prediction that the Red Sox will finish one two three. It comments on weather and remote sports of dog racing and ponies.
Theodore S Timby born inventor of the revolving turret for warships marks centenary. John R Booth Ottawa lumber king celebrates 96th birthday. Georgia Tech trustees plan to name a new president today succeeding Dr K G Matheson. Tuskegee Institute Founders Day includes monument unveiling for Booker T Washington. Joel Chandler Harris Jr and Dorothy Cooke Dean wed in Gainesville Georgia today.
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