Senator Gooding Targets Munsey Papers in Tariff Probe
Saturday’s Daily reviews Senator Gooding Idaho urging a Senate inquiry into major papers led by Frank A. Munsey New York Herald over tariff bill criticisms. It notes Munsey’s alleged foreign investments and questions the ethics of lawmakers benefiting from newspaper support while opposing measures. It also discusses import duties on chimes and the San Agustin clock as public benefits and potential exemptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Gooding
Idaho
Senate
New York Herald
Frank A. Munsey
Munsey
Europe
Tme
Mr. Gooding
New York
Mansey Uan
Cooding
United States
Gooding
Dahbar
Ig Mr. Munsey
Congress
Henee
America
Yale University
New York State
Laredo
Yale
New York Hell
San Agustin
Owithin
Father Pedro
Town Clock Arrives for Laredo's San Agustin Church
Father Pedro Bernaoa, rector, sparked a public push to install a town clock at San Agustin church. The project, praised for its beauty and utility, advances toward completion as funds near full coverage and construction proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Pedro Bernaoa
San Agustin Chrch
Onion Crop Prep In Laredo District For Bermuda Planting
North and South Laredo onion farms will clear land by late August or early September to sow seedbeds. By mid October most plants ready for transplanting, with seedbeds germinating in August. Last year’s crop shipped over 1800 warloads, 1923 estimates predict exceed 1922. New Bermuda acreage planned barring crop damage or freezes.
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South Laredo
Bermuda
Laredo
New School Nearing Completion Near Montrose Ward
A new brick ward school on the eight near Montrose is nearing completion and expected to be ready for occupancy by the start of the next term. It will relieve congestion at the Heights School.
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Ward
Montrose W
Heights
Fred Miller Takes Over Laredo Ice Factory Lease
Notice to the public that starting August 1 Mr. Fred Miller has leased and taken charge of the Laredo Ice Factory. The firm promises the purest crystalline ice in the city and aims to win broad consumer preference by offering the best service and courteous treatment to all patrons, with six to six eighth time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Miller
Laredo
Big Oil Boom Draws Kanoka No 1 as Laredo Fields Buzz
Daily digest notes Kan-Oka No. 1 produces 2,500 barrels daily and has spurred heavy activity in Laredo district oil fields. Wells like Witherspoon No. 2 Jamahan No. 4 Kan-Oka No. 2 Aviators No. 2 stir anticipation. Offsets such as Miranda City, Schott, and Mirando City fields see drilling, casing, and potential big production as leaseholders push deeper and new wells begin drilling next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Kan- Oka No. 1
Kan-Oka No. 1
Houston
Witherspoon
Miranda City
Carnahan No
Schott
Mirando City
Aviators No. 2
Aviators
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at Strand Theatre
The Cosmo politan film adaptation of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford comes to the Strand Theatre Sunday and Monday. J Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Dan use the power of suggestion to win town and investor support for their schemes in Battlesburg Iowa with Norman Kerry as Daw and Sam Hardy starring as Wallingford. Doris Kenyon is the heroine in this Paramount showcase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battlesburg
Iowa
Johnny Hines at the Rialto in Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Johnny Hines stars in Burn Em Up Barnes at the Rialto Theater Sunday and Monday. The Laughing Kid is featured in a comedy praised for the star's best performance.
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Johnny Hines
Rialto
Rialto Theater
Barnes
Johnny
Wreck injures Laredo family near Clarkwood
A car carrying Serapio Lopez's wife and four children from Laredo and a driver crashed into a ditch near Clarkwood. A girl sustained a broken collar bone and the mother a scalp wound. other passengers were badly bruised. They were treated in Robstown by Drs Williams and Clark. The driver is blamed for falling asleep.
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Laredo
Serapio Lopez
Clarkwood
Robstown
Williama & Clark
Brotherhood of St Andrew to hold corporate communion
The Brotherhood of St Andrew will hold corporate communion tomorrow at 10 30 in the morning. The Fenix Bakery can supply a dozen cinnamon rolls or Parker rolls with free delivery. Also listed are marriage licenses issued since last report and local weather notes.
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Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Christ
Fenix
Juan Garcia
Maria Flores
Mateo Vela
Cecilia
Batailla
Pedro Montalvo
Josefina
Ayala
Laredo
Legion Park
Knights of Columbus
American Legion
Milmos
Laredos
Mexico
Ixile
United States
Musical Notes Column Reminds for Saturday Submissions
Mrs Flora Dugarde Milton notes Saturday publication requires all notes be phoned by Thursday noon to 1349 1. She quotes Mary Folta on conceit and mind. Christ Church will feature Mrs James Vernon Proffitt as soloist. Methodist service offers Miss Grace Thiele piano Tore Wild Rose and Miss Nelle Thiele singing By the Waters of Babylon Howell.
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Milton
James Vernon Proffitt
Christ Church
Methodist Church
Thiele
Austin
Grace Thiele
MacDowell
Nelle Thiele
Waters of
Babylon
Howell
Violet Obertelat Society Editor Named
Mrs Violet 8 Obertelat serves as society editor with telephone No 70 and related social notes in the local paper indicating her role and contact line for society queries.
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Violet
Obertelat Society
Sunday church groups meet evenings at local churches
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church gathers at 6 46 p m at the church Sunday. The Junior B Y P U of the Baptist Church meets at 5 p m at the church. The Senior B Y P U meets at 6 80 p m at the Baptist Church. The Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church meets at 6 48 p m Sunday. Monday hosts a luncheon party and linen shower at Elks Hall honoring Mrs Walter Ferguson Doney with Mrs J A Wilson and Mrs Lott Taylor and Mrs Penn as hostesses
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Christian Indeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church
the Baptist Church
B.Y. P
Baptist Church
Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church
Meadames J
Penn
Lott Taylor
J. A. Wilson
Elks Hall
Walter Ferguson Doney
Ideal Addition to Laredo Along New Zapata Highway
An ideal country home site, Petroleum Heights, southeast of Laredo along Zapata Highway, is put on the market by Brennan & Leonard. Corner lots ask $126, inside lots $100, with each purchase including an interest in an oil or gas well. The addition sits 3,600 feet from Wormser and 6,990 feet from Moon wells, both drilling with promising indications. One mile from Market Street, it overlooks the Placid Rio Grande and offers a quiet, pleasant summer setting.
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Laredo
Moon
Market Street
Rio Grande
Puig Party Returns Home After 38,790 Mile Journey
Mr and Mrs Valentin L Fury with children Bruna Joe and Aminta Gonzalez returned to Laredo yesterday afternoon after a ten week auto journey covering 6134 miles across 24 states and Canada on the same set of tires. Puig picked up nephew V L Capitilla in Omaha Nebraska to visit for about a month.
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Valentin L. Fury
Bruna
Joe
Aminta Gonzalez
Laredo
Canada
Omaha
Nebraska
Puig
V. L. Capitilla
Smuggling Decreases At the Border Near Laredo
Six months of 1922 ending June 30 show 40 seizures at Laredo port. 4,495 quarts of contraband liquor were seized, 21 automobiles confiscated, 23 horses seized, and 57 men arrested. Wet goods held or destroyed. horses sold. some cars auctioned. some defendants tried and convicted or awaiting trial in Webb County jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Rex Shanks
Mr. Shanks
Webb County
Eastman Theater Gift Elevates Music School Status
Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, aided by George Eastman, receives a five million dollar theater for moving pictures, recitals, symphonies, and opera. The new venue features a record organ costing 96000 and a radio station to broadcast concerts, aiming to educate the masses in refined music.
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Eastman School of Music
Rochester
N. Y
George Eastman
Kodak
University of Rochester
Bohnet
Sinding
Witherspoon
Eastman
Psychological University
Eastman Theater
Society Reports and Travel Notes In Local News
Announcement requests clubs to file weekly reports with the Society Editor and to phone meeting announcements to No. 70 to keep the daily society calendar accurate. The column also shares poems and multiple notices of residents traveling, visiting relatives, or vacationing in nearby cities, with several updates on arrivals and departures from the area.
Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch Wows German Audiences
Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch wife of the pianist and daughter of Mark Twain stunned Munich by a seven evening recital surveying nearly sixty composers from folk to modern works. The program was memorized and sung in original idiom. Louis Graveure, a prominent Anglo-American baritone, is praised by critics as a revelation of vocal art though his interpretation is sometimes over cultivated. Germans appear to tire of Kultur.
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Germany
Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch
Mark Twain
Gabrilowitsch
Louis Graveure
Munich
South American Opera Season Opens at Colon Buenos Aires
The South American Opera Season begins with Mascagni conducting his own works at the Colon in Buenos Aires. Pietro You, New York based Italian organist and noted composer, named honorary Vatican organist. Walter Damrosci memoirs to run in Ladies Home Journal from October. Chicago Opera opens with The Love of Three Kings honoring Mary Garden who will sing Tiara. Schubert’s mother’s birthplace in Silesia marked with memorial tablet. Doctor Earnestine Schuman-Heink has recovered and resumes belated Middle West concerts.
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Mascagni
Colon
Buenos Aires
Pietro You
New York
Vatican
Rome
Chicago Opera
Three Kings
Mary Garden
Tiara
Earnestine Schuman-Heink
Middle West
Birthday stars mark August sixth on calendar
Blanche Bates born in Portland Maine, 49 years ago today. Dr William Guibertson born in Greensburg Pennsylvania, 37 years ago today. Clare Briggs born in Reedsburg Wisconsin, 47 years ago today. Richard Washburn Child born in Worcester Massachusetts, 41 years ago today. J C W Beckham former United States senator from Bardstown Kentucky, 53 years ago today.
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Blanche Bates
Portland
Ure
William 8. Guibertson
U. S. Tariff, Commission
Greensburg
Clare’ A. Briggs
Reedsburg
Wis
Ricehard Washburn Child
United States
Italy
Worcester
Masa
J. C
W. Beckham
Kentucky
Bardstown
Village Women Hold Club Meeting and Birthday Party
A Kentucky based community report notes a called meeting of the Woman's Club for Monday at 5 PM with emphasis on important business. The article also covers a birthday party for Miss Mary Genevieve Wilcot, with twenty-two children, individual cakes, and games. It records a Baptist Sunbeam Branch missionary meeting directed by Mrs. H L Guinn and Mrs. Fletcher Smith, listing attendees. A grand bridge party and miscellaneous shower honored Mrs. Walter Ferguson Doney, hosted by Mrs. A C Hamilton, featuring floral decor, ice course, and prize winners with a wedding-theme conclusion including a bridal party and the bride Henrietta Higgins of Beaumont.
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Mary Genevieve Wilcot
Sunbeam Branch
The
Baptist Church
H. L. Guinn
Fletcher Smith
Guinn
Betty
Louise
Bille Craig
Margaret Guinn
Lamar Smith
Louie
Jillan Simms
Margaret
Vernon
Katherine Schelper
Doney
A. C. Hamilton
Walter Ferguson Doney
J. A. Wilson
Cantrell
Maria Flores
Vernon’ Proffitt
T. A. Leyendecker
Iittla
Naida
Thelma
Diana Wafon
Anita Leyendecker
Olivia Vidales
Margaret Barlow
Minnie Dora M Martin
Dorothy
Mariel Henderson
Hitle
Modern World Events Across Nations and Elections
Today marks the 150th anniversary of Poland's first partition. Sir Auckland Geddes arrives from England to resume his post in Washington. A major international friendship conference opens in Copenhagen. Kentucky holds primaries for Congress and minor offices with most incumbents seeking renomination amid opposition from six challengers.
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Poland
Auckland Geddes
United States
England
Washington
Copenhage
Kentucky
Nomingtt
Congress
Charles F. Ogden
Diatrict
Festival of the Transfiguration Sunday Event Summary
Sunday services mark the Festival of the Transfiguration with national Independence celebrations noted in Bolivia. The Catholic diocese of Lead reaches its 26th anniversary as international aeronauts from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Switzerland compete in an unrelated event.
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Kanoka NO
Flora Dugarde
Mary Folta
New Zapata Highway
Petroleum Heights
Carol Haynes
iEverbody
Jack Hill
Dilley
Con Mims
Irwin
Cotulla
E. H. Sauvignet
Ini
Gladys
San Antonio
Sauvignet
R. L. Muller
San Marcos
Mr. Therro
Mississippi
F. W. Mally
Prof. Mally
Kirby Walker
Fort Riley
Kansas
Harry Hamilton
Ernesto Vidales
Vidales
de G. Guajardo
Melville Blake
Lena Blake
Bowling Green
Laura
Longoria
0. L. Longoria
Nuevo Laredo
Trelefives
Monterey
Rosa Gonzalez
Arturo
Raul
Yinit
Walter Damrosci
Ladies Home Journal
Schuberts
Silesian
Henderh
Woman's Club
Walter Ferguson
Pavers
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