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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1923
Page
12
Local column lists Robinson's Mexican Cafe reopening in Nuevo Laredo with Felix as cook and good service. C O D Grocery advertises Riverside Dairy milk delivery with phone 173. Miss Sallee's Art Shop offers place cards. Various notices cover shoe repair, plumbing, stenography, oil drilling reports, and other local services and sales.
Sir John Baird, Bonar Law era Public Works minister, turns 49 today. Sir Henry Jy Drayton, ex Dominion Finance minister, born in Kineton Ontario, is 54. John G. Cooper, Nineteenth Ohio representative, born in England at 41. Charles B. Ward, Twenty-seventh New York congressman, born Newark New Jersey, 44. Rogers Hornsby, St Louis NL infielder, born Winters Texas, 27.
Arbor Day observed in Michigan while Gen A S Crant birthday and actor William C Macready s death are noted. Americanism Day spans 11500 American Legion posts. Weeks and committees sail for tours. Hughes to address international lawyers. mining leaders meet in New York to debate industrial harmony plans.
Miss Martha Berry founded the Berry Schools in a log cabin at Rome Georgia and the 21 year old program will graduate its largest senior class at the annual commencement exercises. The institution now enrolls over 600 students from Georgia Tennessee Alabama and the Carolinas with graduates joining communities to advance education.
Washington April 27 The resignation of John R Mitchell of St Paul from the Federal Reserve Board was presented to President Harding by Secretary Mellon. The move opens a second vacancy after the death of Milo D Campbell with the private business return cited as reason. Mrs F S Lynch of El Paso is among recent arrivals in the city. Rev L H Wharton and family return to Austin after visiting Mr and Mrs Henry Borchers.
The Rock Island railroad notified the interstate commerce commission of its plan to abandon a 24 mile section running from Guthrie to Chandler Oklahoma. The report notes prior hearings and ongoing losses as the road seeks to discontinue the line.
Friday events include Mrs L A Morrow hosting the Friday Bridge Club at 3 30 PM Anne's Society meets 4 PM with Mrs John Murphy and Sunbeam fund gathers at the Baptist Church 4 PM Saturday Lacey Meriwether Chapter DAR meets out 3 30 PM with Mars S EF Woods 207 Market Street.
Johnston and Mrs. A Moore received guest prizes a pair of blue linen towels and a rose linen item. Mrs C Bigvio had the low score and received a handmade handkerchief. Reserve seats for the playground benefit at the Royal tomorrow with ticket exchanges at the Royal office all morning.
Tallahassee April 27 The Florida House advanced a bill abolishing convict leasing to private parties in amended form and sent it back to the Senate for concurrence. The reform aims to end state leasing of convicts and shift toward new oversight of prison labor.
Washington on April 27 reports the state department has made a new representation to the British government asking for cooperation to prevent British-flag vessels from engaging in the liquor traffic between American and foreign ports.
An early incident at Northwestern University caused a fatality and multiple injuries when a stair collapse or similar accident in a dormitory area led to one freshman death and several students being hurt, with women reported among the injured.
Dolores Dison withdraws her lawsuit against Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees for alleged seduction and assault. The case, filed in New York, ended today with no further action and no damages awarded.
The Standard Chemical Company of New Jersey announced a one cent per gallon cut in the price of gasoline in most of its domestic territory, with only a few points receiving smaller adjustments.
All major colleges in the Pacific Northwest gather in Seattle for a two day relay carnival hosted by the University of Washington. A tight contest is expected between Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Washington for overall supremacy, with Washington State College and the University of Idaho also anticipated to show strong performances.
A fragmented excerpt centers on wellbeing and happiness with tangled wording about keeping well to feel happy and a stray reference to constipation, reflecting scribbled notes from a chaotic page.
Austin county resident Poster Bell, sentenced to five years in the state prison for assault to murder tied to the Sealy Street battle last September, was denied a new trial by Judge James R. Hamilton. His counsel filed an appeal and the bond was set at $3,000.
A farmer near Patten Mills New York was crippled by rheumatism when C P Rayder gave him Chamberlains ointment. After a few days the man walked in straight and paid for another bottle saying it cured him and he wants it in the house all the time.
Reports from Austin detail favorable House committee action on a criminal jurisprudence bill limiting reversals on technicalities. A land oil permit measure under receivership was also favorably reported. A Klan protest of a demonstration and a tragic apartment fire in New York are noted with official remarks.
In Austin on April 27 the house introduced 13 bills to abolish the state department of markets and Warehouses the livestock sanitary commission the board of control the industrial accident board and the board of water engineers. The measures were filed before adjournment and left on the Legislature’s docket for Eastland county oil fields consideration.
In Austin Texas on April 27 President Harding and Attorney General Dausherty are urged to investigate a report from the United States Department of Agriculture said to estimate the 1923 cotton acreage and production. A senate resolution calls the report untimely and unwarranted and injurious to cotton farmers.
The senate investigating committee refused Hull Yourgblood's sworn statement about remarks he made in San Antonio regarding the legislature, deeming it an inadequate explanation.
Washington April 27 The constitutionality of the law creating the Kansas court of industrial relations was challenged in the supreme court today by the Charles Wells Packing Company of Topeka.
Washington April 27 Frederick M Ryder American consul at Vancouver has been instructed by Secretary Hughes to investigate the firing by Canadian fisheries patrol on the American schooner Siloam which killed one crewman and wounded others
The United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans predicts unsettled conditions tonight and Saturday with probable local showers.
Fort McIntosh reports 24 hour period ending 7 am with a high of 85 and a low of 73. Winds from the southeast. Sky clear.
In Haworth Oklahoma on April 27 Thomas Homimin his wife and their diary keeper Mrs Tope and her five year old daughter were shot by two horsemen who fled after the attack. The Stammilt home occupants were killed and Mrs Pope and her husband reportedly exchanged. The Pope family had moved from Red River country Texas three weeks earlier.
Lord Robert Cecil, during his American tour, urged the League of Nations to intervene in the Ruhr crisis. He said the time was ripe to discuss reparations and French demands for guaranteed safety by major powers. Earlier, five bomb explosions rocked Ruhr railroads, disrupting transport and communications. French HQ called it the worst damage since occupation began.
Topeka April 27 Kansas cream producers anticipate a yearly earnings increase of about 1 million dollars as the state runs a cream handling school taught by the Kansas Agricultural College. The program trains farmers to care for cream and teaches buyers to grade it from collection to churn.
The report notes rising flood risk with crest anticipated soon along the Brazos and surrounding areas. Observers warn of heavy rainfall compounding concerns as water levels rise and towns brace for potential impacts, with authorities monitoring developments.
An Associated Press report from Chicago on April 27 says talks for a potential bout between Jack Dempsey and Gunboat Gibbons intensified after a meeting among Jack Kearns manager Mike Collins and Roy Wohlbound representing the promoter. No decision yet, actions postponed for several days.
In Tatayette Indiana on April 27 George Baker was tried for the murder of Deputy Sheriff J W Morton last March. The crowd gathered at the jail as the execution occurred at 11 52 with the body cut down 13 minutes later. His family watched the event.
Walfish Bay South Africa reports arrival of three boats from the wrecked Portuguese steamer Mesamedes at Port Alexander Angola. The transfer suggests salvage operations progressing as authorities assess cargo and survival status.
Mol north of Pakhoi reports a British American Tobacco staffer C Rowson captured by robbers and held for 80,000 dollars according to the company to British consular authorities.
April 27 six highteen prisoners armed with iron bars and clubs attempted a dash for liberty at the city work house. They were overcome by a single guard and six inmates were taken to hospital with buckshot wounds to the legs. All are in confinement pending investigation.
A memorial to Captain Cook will rise in Whitby Yorkshire near his birth cave. A totem pole from Vancouver Island will be shipped to England, with arrangements for transport just completed.
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