The Woman Vote and Suffrage Debate in 1920s Press
In a 1920s style opinion piece, the author analyzes women voters and suffrage, arguing women show broader political knowledge and independence from husbands. The piece critiques Senator Harding on women’s suffrage, discusses party alignments in ratification, and warns against treating suffrage as a strictly Republican goal while condemning socialist rhetoric and its historical violence.
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Trea
Yesteryears
Harding
Tennessee
Hhis
Congress
The Socialist Ticket and Debs Incarceration Reflections
The Socialist vice presidential candidate defends the party’s stance on wartime legislation and Debs confinement while attacking current government control of railroads and public utilities. He argues for sweeping change handing wealth and power to those least qualified, criticizing private ownership and dividend guarantees.
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Eugene Debs
Gov
Dominion Tennis Championship Opens With Strong East West Field
Wineiper Aug 6 The annual Dominion Lawn Tennis Association championship begins tomorrow in this city and runs through the week. It promises record participation with top players from both coasts entered. Local arrangements for visitor entertainments are described as highly elaborate and perfect.
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Wineiper
Man
Dominion Lawn ‘Tennis Association
Make-Up Has No Charm for This Regular Girl
Elsie Janis arrives at Strand Theatre tomorrow in A Regular Girl her first Selznick Picture. After twenty years on stage she confronts screen makeup for the first time finding grease paint and green pencil liners a harsher trial than battlefield conditions.
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Elsie Janis
Strand Theatre
Selznick
Elsie
Moser Auto Co opens in Laredo with GM lines
The Moser Auto Co composed of Joe and Aaron Moser opened today in the former Laredo Auto Sales Co quarters opposite the Hamilton Hotel. The shop will handle General Motors lines including Reo and Chevrolet cars and trucks.
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Moser Auto Co
Joe
Aaron Moser
General Motor Co
Laredo
Reo
Chevrolet
President De la Huerta closes public gambling in Tamaulipas and Coahuila
Telegrams from Mexico City ordered immediate suspension of all gambling with jefe de armas enforcing in Nuevo Laredo and across Tamaulipas and Coahuila. Roulette monte crip tables and other gambling devices were confiscated, ending public gambling in the region.
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de la Huerta
Mexico City
Nuevo Laredo
Tamaulipas
Coahuila
Jefe de Armas
The
Republic
Adolfo DE LA Huerta
Matamoros
Tampico
Victoria
Piedras Negras
New Drug Store Ideal Reopens With Modern Soda Fountain
I have bought the Ideal drug store opposite the I G N depot from A A Herrera. The shop will offer patent medicines, toilet articles, and stationery. The soda fountain will be upgraded with only top quality materials and first class ice cream. Phone 304 for quick delivery.
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The
Ideal
A. A
Herrera
New Freight Rates Raise Costs for San Antonio Commodities
The August 26 freight rate increase, compiled by the Southern Pacific Railroad, raises costs on items shipped to San Antonio. Increases range from one mill per pound for sugar to two mills per pound for lard, and from one half mill to two and six tenths cents per garment, with a detailed table showing old and new charges.
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San Antonio
Southern Pacific Railroad
San Antonio Express
Property Sale Notice in Laredo at Bender Hotel
Mrs Isora R Andrews offers portions or all of her property for inspection at the Bender Hotel in Laredo through Saturday August fifth thirty one.
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Laredo
Bender Hotel
Isora R. Andrews
War Taxes the Nerve Energy of the Country
The article urges total focus on winning the war and warns that fatigue impaired digestion irritability and forgetfulness signal a tiring nervous system. It calls for rest and measures to protect nerve health before breakdown.
Webb county builds new good roads with 32 crews
The project on Highway No. 42 from Chacon Creek to Zapata county line spans 17 miles. W T Montgomery of San Antonio handles grading and surfacing, Kroeger and Basye of San Antonio build bridges, under County Highway Engineer J G Rollins. About three quarters of a mile graded. ten teams grade toward Laredo. 32 teams now active. new pipe culverts and rapid bridge work. Next project runs from Laredo toward San Antonio to La Salle county line, ready to begin once arrangements are complete.
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Webb County
W. T. Montgomery
San Antonio
Kroeger and Basye
Chacon Creek
Zapata
J. G. Rollins
Montgomery
San Ildefonso
Laredo
Kroger & Basye
la Salle County
Romance and flight mark Gen Gonzales marriage inquiry
Immigrant officials probe Gen Ricardo Gonzales after his rapid San Antonio wedding following Mexico defeat and Rio Grande escape. He says a lost marriage certificate prompted a second ceremony for travel papers. Mrs Gonzales appeared in court with diamonds and $1,500 as two were released on $1,000 bond.
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San Antonio Express
Times
Ricardo Gonzales
Nuevo Laredo
United States
Ricardo
Mexico
Rio Grande
San Antonio
United States Immigration Office
E. W. Smith
Gen. Gonzales
Gonzales
Commissioner Smith
General Pablo Gonzales Visits Laredo For Pleasure Stay
General Pablo Gonzales former Carranza army major general, held in Monterrey on suspicion of rebel movement ties, arrived in Laredo with his brother Domingo Gonzales former Nuevo Laredo customs collector and will spend several days as a guest. J N Galbraith, once a Laredo railroad official now with a large oil firm, arrived from the Tampico oil field reporting renewed activity there.
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Pablo Gonzales
Carranza Army
Monterey
Laredo
Gonzales
Domingo Gonzales
Nuevo Laredo
J. N. Galbraith
Tampico
Mr. Galbraith
Thirteenth Cavalry Arrives at Laredo En Route
The Thirteenth United States Cavalry regiment arrives in Laredo from Fort Sam Houston marching overland. They encamped on the old field artillery grounds on the Heights and will rest a day or two before continuing to the Brownsville section.
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Thirteenth Cavalry
Thirteenth United States Cavalry Regiment
Fort Sam Houston
Brownsville
Laredo
Socialist Stedman letter defends party stand on war policy
Seymour Stedman of Chicago accepts the Socialist vice presidential nomination and issues an official statement criticizing wartime laws. He denounces the Espionage Act, condemns the League of Nations, and argues for self-determination, national sovereignty, and a peaceful transition to a cooperative society amid alleged capitalist control of press and government.
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Hy Associated Press
Chicago
Socialist Party
Seymour Stedman
Socialist Natorial
Despocic
Democrats
Enroute Their Stations Arrive Here Tonight War Commentary
The piece argues the European war ending exposes class conflict and promotes socialist remedies. It asserts the American party stands for civilization and progress and urges social ownership of key industries and democratic management by producers to avert capitalism's chaos. The speech emphasizes immediate actions like socializing railroads and mines and opening land for cultivation while drawing on storm imagery to claim rooted strength.
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United States
Germany
Middle Europe
Asia Minor
Russian Socialist Republic
India
Europe
Mexican Officials Pass Through Laredo on Train
A procession of distinguished Mexican officials is seen in Laredo tonight as a southbound train brings officials en route to foreign posts and San Francisco. A marriage license was issued for Antonio Coronado and Miss Deltina Coronado. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs H A Center. Rialto Theatre shows Love Without Question with Olive Tell. next two days feature The Sins of the Children with Stewart Holmes. A California oil field postcard from Los Angeles August 3 notes a trip to Yosemite Valley. Imports through Laredo include cotton seed cake ore baskets ixte.
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Laredo
San Francisco
United States
Antonio Coronado
Deltina Coronado
H. A. Center
Rialto Theater
Olive Tell
Rialto
Stewart Holmes
California
Los Angeles
C. H. Stowers
Yosemite Valley
Mexican envoy to Argentina arrives with family in Laredo
Lic Jesus Urueta the new envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Mexico to Argentina, with his wife and four children from Mexico City, Xavier Sorondo second secretary of the Mexican embassy in Argentina with his mother and sister, Julio Jimenez second secretary in Uruguay with his wife, Leonardo Wrueta third secretary in Uruguay, and Roberto Pesquiera financial agent in the United States, will arrive in Laredo tonight from Mexico City and proceed northward. Pesquiera heads to San Francisco while the others move to their posts abroad.
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Lic
Jesus Urueta
Mexico
Argentina
Mexico City
Xavier Sorondo
Julio Jimenez
Uruguay
Leonardo Wrueta
Mr. Pesquiera
San Francisco
Laredo Cotton Gin Starts Work Saturday
The 60 horsepower motor arrived this morning from Dallas after a delay and workers began installation. Officials announced that ginning would start tomorrow morning and run about eighteen hours daily at first, then continue day and night to process incoming cotton.
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Laredo
Marshall Hicks Operated On And Reported Improved
A letter to R. L. Bobbitt of Hicks Hicks Dickson Bobbitt reports that Hon. Marshall Hicks, senior member of the firm, fell ill Wednesday night and was operated on Thursday afternoon at the P and 8 Hospital in San Antonio for a trouble due to adhesion from an old appendicitis operation. The operation was successful and friends hope for a swift recovery.
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R. L. Bobbitt
Hicks, Hicks, Dickson & Bobbitt
Marshall Hicks
San Antonio
Hicks
Army Surplus Auction on Hidalgo Street
Economy Salvage House offers 20,000 Army shoes 1,000 Army wool shirts 300 Army cotton mattresses 20,000 Army leggings and many other articles plus 1,000 pairs ladies shoes new at prices below manufacture cost. Sale at 1701 Hidalgo St.
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Hidalgo St
From the dungeon to liberty call echoes in movement
The quoted passage urges a peaceful, fundamental economic readjustment beyond mere political issues. It frames the struggle as a great social problem and calls workers to respond with zeal, referencing Atlanta's Bastile and the White House as symbols of liberty and power.
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Dungeon
Liberty
White Walls
Atlanta
Bastile
White House
Washington
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New York
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League of Nations
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