Bloodshed warning voices in Irish crisis
Wednesday’s Daily reports Ramona de Valera urging Sinn Fein restraint while warning Britain’s safety is not the issue. The piece argues Irish peace hinges on Irish leaders, questions dual citizenship, and condemns external meddling through Irish American influence. It also touches on Mexico’s Obregon era reforms, oil and mineral assets, and Vera Cruz law as a model.
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Ramona de Valera
Britain
Partian T
Sinn Fein
Mr. Valera
Irish Republican Army
Valera
Great Britain
Ireland
Valeri
Ulster
Smuts
United States
Harry J. Boland
Europe
Boland
Citien
Irish Republic
A Foolish Law Ignites Mexican Worker Backlash
The Vera Cruz measure allowing worker profit sharing provokes federal alarm and industry paralysis fears. In the post Carranza era many municipalities elected labor tickets, with a seven member commission in each area to be filled by the state governor and workers, underscoring a surge of radical sentiment.
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Mexico
Vera Cruz
Carranza
Vera Craz
I. WW. W
High Class Band Concert at Fort McIntosh Tonight
The 17th Infantry Band performs a 7 to 8 20 program of high class selections at Fort McIntosh tonight. Works include National Defense Overture King Mydas The Daughter of the Regiment Farewell For a Night Scene in the Forest The Forge in the Forest Nocturne and Morning Hymn of Praise and a Fox Trot Frankie. The concert features pieces by Lampe Donizetti Michaelis Esparza and Snyder with solos and descriptive selections.
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Fort McIntosh
17Th Infantry Band
National Defense
Eilenberg
Louise Cochran
Donizetti
12Th Street
Tronoge
Bowman Mexican
Esparza
Michaelis
Atlantis
Safranek
Prince
Anna
Fox
Frankie
Snyder Nortesia
Laredo Briefs On Marriage License And Local Events
The county clerk issued a marriage license to Joseph Poteado and Munice Marion McCoy since the last report. A Rialto Theater showing The Journeys End, a non subtitled drama by Manager Daniels, serves as a Troop 8 Boy Scouts benefit. El 16 de Septiembre celebrations are planned by Mexican organizations on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Laredo gym hosts rounds of exercise at Club Cafe to ease sedentary workers. A Fort McIntosh concert by the 7th Infantry Band runs 7 to 3:20 this evening, with a repeat tomorrow at Martin Plaza.
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Joseph Poteado
Munice Marion McCoy
Rialto Theater
Rio Grande
Laredo Gymnasium
Fort McIntosh
7Th Infantry
Martin. Plaza
Pound Notice Auction for Stray Animal in Laredo
Pound notice states one sorrel mare picked up for violation of stray animal ordinance is in the pound and will be sold at public auction in front of City Hall on Friday morning August 19, 1921 at 10 o'clock unless the owner calls before then and pays all accrued costs. City Marshal M Brennan. Laredo Texas August 16 1921.
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M. Brennan
Laredo
Texas
Queen of Vamps Claire Brey Stars at Rialto Laredo
Claire DuBrey billed as Queen of Vamps appears in A Light Woman at the Rialto Theatre Laredo. The tale touts her as a sedate siren and star Wyndham Standing leads The Journey's End with Mabel Ballin and George Bancroft. Earthbound with Milton Sills Naomi Childers and others also screens as a benefit for Troop 3 Boy Scouts.
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Claire DuBrey
Claire Brey
Rialto Theater
Wyndham Standing
Mabel Ballin
George Bancroft
Hodkinson
Daniels
Rialto Theatre
Troop 3
Boy Scouts
Milton Sills
Naomi Childers
Alex Francis
Rio Grande Lodge Meeting Notice At Hall Corner Iturbide St
Rio Grande Lodge No 373 meets every Thursday at 8 PM at the hall on the corner of Iturbide Street and San Agustin Avenue. Visiting brothers invited. Chas M Tannenbaum N G H Walker, Secretary. Jos Netzer, Treasurer.
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Rio Grande Lodge No
Iturbide St
San Agustin Avenue
Chas, M. Tannenbaum
N. G. H. &. Walker
Jos. Netzer
Notice of indebtedness disclaimer by Elvira Gandar Staben
Notice is hereby given that from and after this date shall not be liable for any indebtedness incurred by Elvira Gandar Staben, my wife. Oscar Staben. Laredo, Texas. August 15, 1921.
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Elvira Gandar Staben
Oscar Staben
Laredo
Texas
Hot Weather Diseases Warn of Summer Bowels
During hot weather disorders of the bowels are dangerous. Protect your family with a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, which many have testified to its excellence and dependability.
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Chamberlain
Training Camp Pictures Of Williams and White Ahead Of Bout
Local cameraman records motion pictures of Sailor Williams and Tom White at their training camps. The bout is set in the Nuevo Laredo bullring next Sunday and pictures will be made for exhibition elsewhere, not in this city.
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Williams
Tom White
Nuevo Laredo
White
I Am Here to Make Terms with Acme Laundry
The washer woman WM A Dixon, proprietor of Acme Laundry at 2018 Iturbide St, announces she will provide good, clean work and invites terms. Attention Troop 3 scouts meet in full uniform at 10 o'clock tomorrow at the Rialto Theater.
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Acme
WM. A. Dixon
Acme Laundry
Iturbide St
Rialto Theater
Important City Council session last evening considers gas rates and Convent Avenue widening
The Laredo city council met at 7 30 P M with Mayor L Villegan and eight Aldermen present. The body discussed Border Gas Company rate hikes and a plan to widen Convent Avenue from the foot of the bridge to Grant Street at an estimated 35 000 to 40 000 cost. Committees were formed to study paving, street openings, and joint action with local civic groups to push the Convent Avenue project. Judge Turner urged an ordinance to curb obscene conduct in parks, with the City Attorney to present it next meeting.
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L. Villegan
Moore
DaCamara
Henry
Leyendecker
Martin
Salinas
Brennan
Richter
Roy Jackson
W. D
M. P. Cullinan
The
Heights
Laredo
Jennings and
Cuellar
Border Gas Co
Dr. Cullinan
Messsr
Cardona
Gonzalez
Aderman Hrennan
McNeill Turner
Rio
Martin Park
Judge
Judge Turner
Turner
Martin and
Convent Avenue
Grant Street
Frm
Kiwanis
Rotary
Chamber of Commerce
Salvation Army Extends Work In Cities And Rural Areas
The Salvation Army in 1921 expands Home Service programs to strengthen city activities and reach rural districts plagued by social disorder. Backed by public generosity and County and City Advisory Board cooperation, progress is evident but work remains. The appeal calls for sympathetic social service across three states to aid the poor, the distressed, and the erring within limited facilities.
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Salvation Army
Silk tracolette colors offered by Manuel Cruz this week
Manuel Cruz announces silk tracolette in honeydew coral white silver oriole jade porcelain beige seal navy and black at 1.45 per yard. 8-15-6t. ads note To Members San Ramon Club. The San Ramon Sporting Club will meet tomorrow evening August 11 1929 at Elks Club at 8 o'clock. Secretary Albert Martin urges full attendance. Cause of Appendicitis warns about constipation and germs in the vermiform appendix and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets.
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Manuel Cruz
San Ramon Club
San Ramon Sporting Club
Elks Club
Albert Martin
Sheppard bill seeks transfer of River Islands
The Sheppard bill transferring jurisdiction of banks in the Rio Grande from the United States to Texas passed the Senate. These bancos or small islands formed by the river’s shifting bed are valued farming land, with five to ten acres each up to 100 acres, and were previously US land under a 1905 Mexico treaty. The House is expected to act before the December session.
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Washington
Rio Grande
United States
Mexican law tax on profits triggers industrial protests in Vera Cruz
In Vera Cruz a new law would require a seven employer three worker commission to audit books and split net profits with workers receiving less than 10 percent. The measure retroactive to February 6, 1917, faces embargoes fines and possible public auctions for noncompliance. Mexican press and chambers of commerce oppose it and seek federal action.
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Associated Preses
Mexico City
Vera ~Cruz
Aimst
Chambers of Commerce
Obregon
Healing the Scars of War in France Reclaims Battlefronts
From Soissons August 16 Associated Press reports rapid natural recovery across France erasing war scars beyond towns. Reforestation and vegetation have largely concealed former front lines from Nieupoort to Belfort, with sites like the Bayonet Trench at Verdun protected to preserve their memory.
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Tsy Associated Press
Soissons
France
Nieuport
Belgium
Belfort
Chemin Des Dames
Verdun
Foodstuffs Prices Rise on Moscow Market Report
Riga dispatch notes steady price gains for bread beef pork butter and eggs in Moscow with rye bread at 3600 to 4000 rubles per pound and cucumbers at 1000 to 1500 rubles. Weekly rations and factory worker wages are outlined, showing shortages even with state provisions. The Bolshevik government fixes international telegraph tolls valuing 20000 rubles as equal to one.
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Associated Pris
Riga
Latvia
Moscow
Pravda
Steam for Airships Invention by Durtnall
London Aug 17 Associated Press reports Captain W P Durtnall a former Royal Navy officer claims a steam propulsion system for airships will operate at higher altitudes than internal combustion engines. The system uses internal combustion heat to generate superheated steam in motors placed within the airship frame and driven from a central station. Heavy oil fuels the motors reducing exterior gondolas and air resistance.
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Associated Press
London
W. P. Durtnall
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
Royal Air Force
Burtnall
Rockefeller Trip to China For Medical College Dedication
New York reports John D. Rockefeller Jr and Mrs Rockefeller travel from Vancouver to China to attend the mid September dedication of the Peking Union Medical College building. The project marks the first completed work of the Rockefeller Foundation in its 15 million dollar fund for China medical efforts. An international medical conference will be held with attendees from America Europe and the Far East. Mrs Rockefeller will study YWCA work in China with companions Mabel Cratty Mary E Wooley and Margaret Burton.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Vancouver
China
Orient
Peking Union Medical College
Rockefeller Foundation
America
Europe
Far East
Peking
Mary E. Wooley
Mount Holyoke College
Margaret Burton
Association
Lantern lecture at parish event mocks Holy Land trips
A child questions why his father gives lantern lectures on holidays spent in the Holy Land but not when visiting Paris. The scene shows a parent arranging notes and slides for a parish entertainment, exposing a playful contrast in storytelling.
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Holy Land
Paris
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