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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1920
Page
9
A passenger aboard the French liner La Savoie, Le Compress de Turenne, is visiting friends in the country, arriving on a recent sailing.
Our daily birthday party notes figures born today including Kijuro Shidehara ambassador to the United States born in Osaka 48 years ago in Japan Hale Holden railroad president born in Kansas City 61 years ago Jarl Brewer former Mississippi governor born in Carrollton County 50 years ago Joseph Weber actor and theatrical manager born in New York City 63 years ago all observed as of today
Honorable Arthur Meighen launches his campaign with a Belleville speech in Ontario. Aaron Watkins is to receive official nomination notification for President by the Prohibition party at Germantown Ohio. Franklin D. Roosevelt begins a Chicago to Pacific coast speaking tour. The Knights D é l Epee hosts its fifth annual convention in Milwaukee from today through Sunday. A seven member Anti-Saloon League committee meets in Birmingham Alabama to publish records on Harding and Cox regarding prohibition. The U S transport Pocahontas carrying Maj. Gen. Gorgas’s body arrives in New York and will bury in Arlington.
I F M Ramsay trustee announces sale under order of Judge John C Scott in cause 43 in the Southern District of Texas Laredo. On August 14 1920 from 10 am to 4 pm at Webb County Courthouse Door, Laredo Texas, public auction for cash of two promissory notes each 25000 and a one half interest in the 12 Centenario mine along with related Mexican rights.
A telegram to District Attorney John A. Valla from R. L. Bobbitt in San Antonio reports Hon. Marshall Hicks is fast recovering after a sudden illness and recent operation. Friends in Laredo greet the encouraging news and expect him to be active soon.
Washington August 11 The Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism will convene in the city next month bringing together opponents of liquor from many countries. It will be the first time in thirty years a meeting outside Europe. The permanent body aims to study alcoholism characteristics and effects, not to crusade, and seeks to provide statistics to aid eradicating alcoholic stimulants.
An irritable disposition is linked to indigestion. A man with good digestion and regular bowels is usually good natured. For indigestion or constipation, take Chamberlain's Tablets. They strengthen the stomach and enable natural function with a gentle bowel movement.
Billings greets the Montana Elks with banners as delegates from local branches gather for a three day convention starting tomorrow. The program blends daily business sessions with entertainments for delegates and accompanying ladies.
The Heights Civic Club meets at Loma Vista at 8 PM to discuss the playground movement. Horace Watsons host a 5 30 PM gathering at Richter farm for friends. Thursday Circle A meets Mrs A H Miller at 4 30 PM and Circle D meets Mrs H L Guinn at 6 PM.
This morning Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shelby and their son returned to San Diego after a short visit to Mrs. H. D. Shelby. The Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church has discontinued meetings until September. Circle B WMA will not meet in August but resumes in September. The Christian Endeavor Society held a lawn social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ward with games and a rice cream and cake refreshment. About thirty five youths attended. A splash party at Bella Vista honored Miss Alice Maltzberger of Cotulla. Attendees included Miss Alice Maltzberger and others with chaperons listed.
An associate of Charles Ponzi in Lexington told the Associated Press that Ponzi admitted being Charles Ponsi once of Montreal. Reports tie Ponsi to a Montreal financial scheme promising large returns 13 years ago. Ponzi denied Montreal knowledge and later refused to meet reporters. A man claiming to represent Ponzi said an admission might come later.
A Dupuyer Montana hotel man recounts four years ago using Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with wonderful results and says he has since recommended it to friends, highlighting its merits and wide appreciation.
Rome reports Italy plans to ease a beet sugar shortage by placing beehives with railway workers. The National Institute for Agrarian Assistance suggests giving signalmen and other line staff a hive each, starting on lines in the province of Rome and expanding if successful.
A reflective poem describes a riverbank scene with drifting waters and nature’s quiet details. The text then lists residents and visitors in the city, including Frances Sleeper and Marguerite Sleeper of Waco visiting their sister Mrs. Harry Sames, and others such as Frank Cullinan of Cisco and Dr. and Mrs. M. P. Cullinan.
The Times presents the daily forecast from the U S Weather Bureau in New Orleans. Tonight and Thursday are expected to be partly cloudy.
Observations for the 24 hours ending 7 a m show a maximum temperature of 100 degrees and a minimum of 76 degrees. Winds from the southeast. Sky clear.
A New York trust company has leased a building in Galata Constantinople and plans a general banking business next Fall to serve American shipping lines and commercial houses active in Black Sea and Mediterranean trade.
Associated Press reports in Seoul that six hundred deaths have occurred and 3,125 cholera cases have been reported across Korea. The outbreak has prompted health officials to mobilize response and containment efforts nationwide.
Budapest Aug 11. An advertisement offering a family tombstone for sale draws attention to how well to do families are selling rugs furniture and jewelry to eat. Lieutenant Bowden and Davidson of the American Relief Administration recently screened 152000 intellectual applicants to allocate 4000 relief parcels.
Texas Mexican No 1 departs for Corpus Christi at 9 66 a m. No 2 arrives from Corpus Christi at 3 35 p m. I & G N through fast to St Louis leaves 9 30 a m arrives 4 p m. Night Train departs 9 p m arrives 1 a m.
German and Dutch troops moved into the border village of Dinxperloo to curb clandestine trade. About 360000 Germans crossed to buy food and goods at high Dutch prices, trains were crowded, a German clerk was tied to a tree, and after troops arrived order returned with a manifesto restricting private store provisions and enforcing shop control.
The La Fayette wireless station near Bordeaux built by American forces in World War I has been turned over to France. It is the most powerful plant, with a range over 12,000 miles, and features eight steel towers near the Woolworth Building in height. It will be part of a system reaching French colonial points.
Geneva report says Mademoiselle Legarde, 24, has won the annual Venus de Milo style beauty prize of $5,000 from a fund left by M. Carret of Chambery. The award honors the nearest living resemblance to the famed statue despite local friends not calling her pretty. The prize was not awarded during the war as many Chambery girls were engaged in war work.
Train No. 1 leaves Laredo daily except Sunday at 6 30 a.m. arrives Minera at 10 20 a.m. Train No. 2 leaves Minera daily except Sunday at 11 a.m. arrives Laredo at 3 16 p.m.
Laredo Post No 59 American Legion will hold a regular meeting at Soldiers Club tomorrow Thursday at 8 p m Delegates to the state convention in Houston August 23 25 will receive final instructions The athletic committee reports data on continuing sports after the baseball season A large attendance is expected
Washington reports Count Lubominski announces Poland will ask immediate U S aid under the assurances in the Italy note. Poland seeks extended credits to buy surplus war stocks and maintain independence and territorial integrity. Warsaw dispatch cites Polish forces regrouping for a large counterstroke on the Warsaw front within days to drive back encircling Soviet troops.
Paris reports from the French foreign office that Russian troops hold a 24 mile stretch of the direct railway between Warsaw and Danzig, with a large force advancing across the Danzig corridor to sever the remaining line. The occupied section lies between Clechanow and Mlawa.
Paris Aug 11 France has decided to recognize General Baron Peter Wrangel as head of the de facto government of South Russia. The announcement said recognition implies rendering Wrangel all possible military assistance.
The Tennessee House began actions on August 11 to postpone consideration of ratifying the federal woman suffrage amendment. A resolution proposes deferring ratification until after a statewide mass meeting on August 21 to gauge public opinion.
Returns from yesterday's Arkansas primary show T. H. Caraway leading United States Senator W. S. Kirby for the senatorial nomination by more than 9000 votes. McRae leads eight opponents for the governorship as figures roll in.
Paris reports that despite American prohibition and higher British taxes on French wines, France's exports of food products rose by nearly 600 million francs in the first six months. The trade balance against France fell by about 6 billion francs yearly. Manufactured goods led gains with total exports at 4.688 billion francs versus 1.700 billion a year earlier.
United States deputy marshals and FBI agents searched for 212 men in Chicago who failed to register or answer draft summons. The operation, described as a DLA round-up, reportedly includes several business and professional men among those named.
Germantown Ohio August 11 Aaron Watkins and Leigh Colgin will be formally notified tonight as the prohibition presidential and vice presidential nominees.
Complete unofficial returns from two thirds of state precincts show former Cleveland mayor Harry M. Davis leading Frank Coler by about 19 600 votes for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. In the Senate race former Governor Frank Willis leads Walter F. Brown by nearly 30 000 votes.
Worcester Massachusetts August 11 Dean James P Porter of Clark College spends vacation in clerical duties at a local manufacturing firm to observe working conditions. He previously worked as a shipyard laborer last summer and shared those observations with his classes.
In Rome and Florence a large group of young nobles plan a boycott on costly clothing. They wear khaki or blue denim trousers with a shirt or blouse costing around six dollars to ten dollars, and forego jewelry, fancy cravats, silver canes, hats, and often wear sandals.
The report notes factory girls in Japan earning an average $4.67 a month, more women than men registering to vote in Wichita Kansas, early Finnish universities admitting women, Maine considering a 48 hour law for female workers, Mrs. Orra E. Carroll becoming Arkansas’s first woman bank official, and Lady Rhondda named England’s leading businesswoman as a justice of the peace.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh through the blood and mucous surfaces, with a $100 reward if it fails. Proponents claim constitutional treatment helps build up the patient and support nature's work, urging testimonials from Toledo firm F. J. Cheney & Co and local druggists.
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