Conflicting Mexico Revolution News Questions Truth
Saturday’s Daily notes wildly conflicting reports from northern Mexico about the revolution and Tampico. It cites Monterrey and San Antonio papers, border telegraph feeds, and U.S. consular alarms as uncertainty mounts about Carranza and Sonora forces, while warning Americans to guard property and await official clarity amid market panic and press contradictions.
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Mexico
Monterrey
Laredo
Mexico City
Obregon
San Antonio
Associated Press
Douglas
Arizonsa
Agua Prieta
Sonora
United States
Carranza
Tampico
Tuxpam
Pelaez
Pablo Gonzalez
Senora
Mazatlan
Fredera
State Department
Why profiteering persists despite higher priced goods
The piece argues profiteering relies on customers who sustain the business. It cites a claim that cheaper shoes underinvest in quality, while consumers chase better value at higher prices. The text notes many buy pricier goods, suggesting profit hinges on demand for quality and perceived value.
Carnival Opens Monday For Legion Boys Benefit
The DeKreko Bros Shows, second in size to the Wortham Shows, will reach Laredo tomorrow morning and set up tents on the vacant lot between Flores and Convent Avenues south of the old Texas-Mexican station. Under the auspices of Laredo Post of the American Legion, the carnival will run for a week and provide the Legion a percentage of proceeds. The show is described as clean and entertaining for families with nothing offensive. Local residents are urged to patronize to support the Legion boys.
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DeKreko Bros
Wortham
Laredo
Flores Avenue
Convent Avenue
American Legion
San Antonio
Formal Dedication Tonight at Centro Social Fronteriza
The formal dedication of the handsome new home of the Centro Social Fronteriza in Nuevo Laredo will occur this evening with a grand bell and banquet. Attendees include numerous organization members from both Laredos and guests from both sides of the Rio Grande. The bridge will stay open for attendees to return to the American side after the ball.
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Centro Social Fronteriza
Nuevo Laredo
Laredos
Rio Grande
Onions Shipments Heavy From Laredo Hit 81 Carloads
Bermuda onion shipments out of Laredo rose to 81 carloads on Friday night as part of a season that began April 7. By Friday night a total of 602 carloads had left Laredo, with 25 via the Texas-Mexican railway and 56 via the I and G N road. Special trains and regular freights carried the onions, and demand remained strong with prices favorable. Officials expect 1,500 to 2,000 carloads this season and prices to stay solid through its end.
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Bermuda
Laredo
Texas- Mexican Railway
Public manicure engagements at City Barber Shop
To the public in general ladies and gentlemen who wish to have manicuring done please call at the City Barber Shop or phone 1103 for engagements.
Liberator film hopes to outdo rivals on Strand bill
At Strand Tuesday and Wednesday More than a year was spent in producing The Liberator. The cash outlay would cover the total cost of five average features. Sciamengo and Pastrone, famous for The Fall of Troy nine years ago, bring new effects and illusions. The Liberator is not a war picture though Maciste appears in many scenes. It is packed with action thrills stunts laughs romance and mystery with Maciste at his best from main title to trailer.
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Strand
Liberator
Sciamengo & Pastrone
Harry Raver
Maciste
Graduation Class of 1920 at Laredo High School
The Laredo High School graduating class of 1920 will receive diplomas on May 21. Seven girls and six boys comprise the 13 graduates, including John Phillip Maher Jr, Virginia Viva Pena, Maria de Jesus Gonzalez, William Ernest Heaner, Cynthia Press, Olive Mary Chamberlain, Laura Celeste Taylor, Julia Catherine MacVicar, Amelia Ochoa, Joseph Risley Strain Jr, Valentin Lawrence Puig Jr, John Joseph King, and Fred Ovid Shanks. The commencement speaker has not yet been announced.
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Laredo High School
John Phillip Maher, Jr
Virginia Viva Pena
Maria de Jesus Gonzalez
William Ernest Heaner
Cynthia Press
Olive Mary Chamberlain
Laura Celeste Taylor
Julia Catherine MacVicar
Amelia Ochoa
Joseph Risley Strain
Valentin Lawrence Puig, Jr
John Joseph King
Fred Ovid Shanks
Weather outlook and Fort McIntosh observation report
Tonight and Sunday likely showers. Fort McIntosh observations show a max of 83 and min of 69 degrees with a southeast wind. Clear conditions noted in the report.
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Fort McIntosh
Cavalry Squadrons Reach Laredo for Rest and March On
Sixteenth Cavalry under Colonel Sayre arrived last Tuesday en route from Fort Sirewn to Fort Sam Houston and rested two days at old Camp Missouri in Laredo before resuming the march to San Antonio. Fourteenth Cavalry under Colonel Brown also halted in Laredo on the way from Fort Sam Houston to Fort Brown, resting until Monday morning then continuing toward the lower Rio Grande. Tomorrow at Fort McIntosh a baseball game pits the 14th Cavalry against the 37th Infantry, an event the local public is invited to attend.
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Sixteenth Cavalry
Sayre
Fort Sirewn
Fort Sam Houston
Laredo
Camp Missouri
San Antonio
Fourteenth Cavalry
Brown Cmmanding
Fort Brown
Brownsville County
Rio Grande
Old Camp Missouri
Fort McIntosh
14Th Cavalry
37Th Infantry
Cavalry
Band Concert Tomorrow by 37th Infantry Band
Carl E. Everlof presents a Fort McIntosh concert Sunday afternoon at 4 o clock. The program includes The Bride Elect Sousa Overture Oberon The Golden Age Cocoanut Dance Cocoanuts Within the Parisian and Who Discovered Dixie.
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Carl E. Everlof
Fort McIntosh
Thirty-seventh Infantry Band
Sousa
Barnard
Creevouseveresse Fopmaid
Hoffmann
Dixie
Teachers Join Meeting to Promote School Amendment
Laredo public school teachers met at Central school to appoint committees and organize backing for a Texas school amendment urged by State Superintendent Blanton and the State Teachers Association. The effort targets parents and citizens, aiming to boost support in the next election. Committees were named to coordinate with civic clubs and assist in campaign outreach.
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Laredo Public Schools
Central School
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Blanton
State Teachers’ Association
Texas
E. Lobdell
C. M. Fish
Josephine Smith
Tarver
Heaner
Gonzalez
Diaz
O’meara
Salinas
A Great Play at the Royal Starring William Farnum
The Royal Theater presents The Adventurer starring William Farnum on Sunday and Monday. Farnum, a top screen star with a wide following, delivers one of his strongest stage performances in recent memory, in a role where he shines brightest.
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the Royal
William Farnum
Royal Theater
Wm. Farnum
Farnum
Tidewater Congress to Meet in Detroit in July
The Great Lakes-St Lawrence Tidewater congress will convene in Detroit on July 22 to 24 with delegates from fourteen northwestern states. Sessions cover industrial prospects engineering features and agriculture impacts of the waterway project. Noted speakers include Governors Steward Sleeper McKelvie and Senator Lenroot.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Nebraska
Sleeper
Michigan
Great Lakes
Special service at Christchurch and rapid progress on Ramos building
Special service at Christchurch set for Sunday at eight. Excava tion for the basement of the Ramos building at Lincoln Street and Con vent Avenue is progressing quickly, contractor Jefferies aims to finish soon. Also notes imports through Laredo, marriages, a Thirty-seventh Infantry Band concert, Fiesta attendance in San Antonio, and current district court activity.
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Christchurch
Ramos
Lincoln Street
Convent Avenue
Jefferies
Mexico
Laredo
Vatican Envoy in Japan Seeks Long Stay for Church Ties
Archbishop Fumasoni arrived in Tokio and conveyed the Pope's blessing to Catholics there. He is the third Vatican envoy to Japan, following Cardinal O Connell and Archbishop Petrelli. He may remain three years or permanently if the government extends recognition, with possible reciprocal moves by the Holy See. The archbishop, previously Apostolic Delegate in India, notes Japan’s chance for closer church ties and mentions Caroline and Marian island Catholics now under Sydney’s jurisdiction.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Archibishop Petro Pumasoni
Vatican
Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Petrelli
Fumasoni
Japan
Holy See
Yamamoto
India
Carolines
Mariannes Islands
Sydney
Sugar beet acreage to more than double in Northern Iowa
Mason City April 24 Northern Iowa will see sugar beet acreage more than double for the 1920 season versus 1919. Total area in the region has been under 10 000 acres, with mill capacity increasing from one to three. The mills will operate at Mason City Belmond and Waverly, the latter idle for about six years.
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Associated Press
Mason City
Ila
Iowa
Belmond
Waverly
Manistique River Flood Destroys Industry and Homes
A major river flood in Manistique Michigan caused over 1.5 million dollars in property damage. The Goodwill factory and a paper mill were wiped out or ruined, timber and pulp wood swept away, and a dozen homes ruined with twenty more flooded to the second floor for days amid melting snow and warm rain.
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The
Times
Manistique, Mich
Manistique
Goodwill
Lake Michigan
Here
Church societies set prayer meeting times Sunday
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church meets at 6 45 p m at the church Sunday evening. The Christian Endeavors Society of the Christian Church meets in the church at 6 45 p m. The Epworth League of the Methodist Church holds its regular meeting in the League room at 6 30 p m. The W M A of the Baptist Church meets at the church at 6 46 p m.
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Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church
Christian Endeavors Society of the Christian Church
Epworth League of the Methodist Church
League Room
Methodist Church
W. M. A. of the Baptist Church
Social notes and varied local announcements
Mrs. E J Foster returns from San Antonio and Mrs. Mabel Cogley Barlow arrives home from Santa Rosa farm. W M Landrum visits San Antonio, with others returning home Sunday night. James Greer resigns from North American Gulf and Oil Co and practices law in Vernon. Fort Worth visitors drop in. J F Lynch returns from Eagle Pass. Auction Bridge Club to meet. Jodie Chester Fuqua and Estelle Grace Easterling wed at Christ Episcopal Church. couple to live in Atlas, Oklahoma. Woman's Club dances. Blue Birds host a social with games, scrapbooks, prizes. Fire of life as Vida Henrietta Bunn marries William Jackson. ceremony features songs by Adelaide Gebhardt Macdonald.
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Jodie Chester Fuqua
Oklahoma
Estelle Grace Easterling
la Perla Ranch
Christ Episcopal Church
C. W. Cook
Blue Birds
A. Poggenpohl
Mollie Swartzman
Mary Condren
Adelaide Macdonald
Dorothy Wilson
Evelyn Randolph
Doris Wilson
Helen Dixon
Vida Henrietta
T. A. Bunn
William Jackson
Ashmore
Illinois
Adelaide Gebhardt Macdonald
W. L. Barr
Methodist Church
Lovely wedding in dark blue with pink white roses
The bridal couple celebrated a quiet home wedding with a decorated lower floor and a dining room centerpiece featuring a wedding cake and pink white tulle. Family guests attended the cake cutting as plans shifted for a farewell before the couple leaves for Abilene and then Illinois, with friends bidding them God-speed.
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Jackson
Abilene
Texas
Illinois
Police Chiefs Meet in Detroit at June Convention
Detroit April 24 The twenty seventh annual convention of the International Chiefs of Police will be held in Detroit June 7 for four days with leaders like J M Quigley William A Pinkerton Major Richard Sylvester and Inspector Joseph Fauret on the program. Taft Landis Schwab and other officials may address the gathering which expects about four hundred delegates and three hundred wives officials and journalists.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
International Chiefs of Police
William A. Pinkerton
Richard Sylvester
J. M. Quigley
Association
Joseph Fauret
William Copeland
Taft
K. M. Landis
Charles M. Schwab
Minnesota Relay Teams Enter Drake Relays
University of Minnesota lists mile and half mile relay entrants for the Drake relays in Des Moines on April 24. Frank Kelly B F Johnson Arnold Oss K W Anderson John Holt Richard Fischer and Frank McNally chosen to uphold Minnesota honors. Oss injured foot. Penn relay trip depends on Drake performance.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
University of Minnesota
Drake
Drake University
Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Kelly
B. F. Johnson
Arnold Oss
K. W. Anderson
John Holt
Richard Fischer
Frank McNally
Leonard Frank
Minnesota
University
University of Pennsylvania
Oss
Kelly
Fischer
Anderson
Penn
Today’s Events Across America and World
Arbor Day events in Massachusetts. Marshal Petain marks 65th year. Nevada Republicans convene in Reno to select six delegates. American Medical Association prepares for its annual convention in New Orleans. Insurgent railroad strike leaders face federal hearing in Chicago. Torquato Tasso’s death anniversary observed. Minnesota Federation of Women’s Clubs celebrates silver jubilee from 1895. Daylight saving begins in Massachusetts and parts of New England. Interchurch World Movement launches a five year fundraising drive.
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Massachusetts
Marshal Petain
Verdun
Nevada
Reno
New Orleans
American Medical Association
Chicago
Torquato Tasso
Minnesota Federation of Women’s Clubs
Minneapolis
New England
Interchurch World Movement
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Lincoln
Legion Boys
United States Weather Bureau
Telephone Co
New Wo
Oliver
Wm. A. Parker Co. Distributors
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Gex
Lower
37Th Infantry Band
Tidewater Congress
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
Northwestern States
Money Makers
Estelle Grace Hasterling
Manuel B. Lopez
Celia Fernandez
Manuel B. Garcia
Teresa Gonzalez
Art McIntosh
Soldier Boys
Violet S. Oberfeldt Society
International Institute
Hal W. Greer
E. J. Foster
Mabel Cogley Barlow
Santa Rosa Farm
W. M. Landrum
Ira O'Meara
George Kenedy
Carl Utterback
James Greer
North American Gulf and Oil Co
New York
Vernon
Bailey, Randolph and Greer
Wichita Falls
Ben Utterback
Fort Worth
City
Mrs
Mr. J. F. Lynch
Eagle Pass
T. A. Leyendecker
Woman's Club
C. S. McKinney
Alfred Poggenpohl
Jackson Bunn
E. H. Sauvignet
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