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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1920
Page
1
The Tennessee house defeated a motion to reconsider the suffrage amendment by 50 to 0 and ordered Senate Joint ratification sent back to the engrossing clerk. Thirty anti suffragists fled the state to Alabama last night. Associated Press Nashville Tenn Agr 21.
Associated Press reports the freighter Superior City sank after colliding with Willis King near Whitefish Point Michigan, with 29 lives believed lost including a woman. Four crew members were saved. Names and records were lost. Pittsburgh Steamship officials feared 28 more crew may be drowned.
The railroad commission in Austin Texas on August 21 approved intrastate freight rate hikes of 33 1 3 percent and raised excess baggage charges effective August 26. An application for a 20 percent intrastate passenger rate increase was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
Rain flooded the course delaying the Elgin National road race from noon today. Officials said a start would be impossible even if weather clears, with the same start hour and conditions slated for next Saturday.
Grass hoppers in Maple Creek area cut the twites on winter rye stocks, hindering harvesting operations as reported to the field crops branch of the Saskatchewan provincial department of agriculture.
An Am erican Numismatic Association convention features a rich coin and medallic art collection on display at the Art Institute. Collectors and dealers attend as exhibits show ancient and modern coins and early media of exchange including a large block of compressed tea leaves once used as money.
Nashville Aug 24 Chancelor James Newman issues writ restraining Governor Stevens and Tennessee leaders from certifying the woman suffrage amendment to the Secretary of State. The action follows a Nashville meeting Aug 21 where anti suffrage members left for Alabama to block a quorum, making ratification unlikely today.
More than thirty Tennessee state representatives opposed to woman suffrage vanished from hotels in Nashville early today and reportedly headed to Alabama to break a quorum and stall the suffrage amendment vote. Twenty five members arrived in Decatur, Alabama, as action loomed and suffrage leaders warned a quorum would likely fail at the 7 PM session.
Senator Joe Bailey read Neff autobiography and a Waco draft board affidavit here showing Neff did not register on September 12 1918. The claim of draft evasion drew cheers from about 7000 listeners who also heard of Neff’s attack on Bailey’s war record.
Washington reports Greenville Texas shows a population of 12,384, an increase of 3,524 people, or 29.9 percent, reflecting substantial growth for the city.
The Jefferson Hotel, famed in Kansas City's night life, has been dismantled to clear space for a new traffic way. The wartime prohibition era and reduced business earlier contributed to its decline, with the cabaret closing in July 1919 and the hotel soon following.
Paris dispatch reports French troops capture Tarsus in Asia Minor on August 12 as relief efforts for besieged workers at Adana continue. The report also notes Polish forces have taken 15,000 Soviet prisoners and claims 16,000 to 40,000 more are surrounded near Mersina and Adana, with hope for relief workers.
Paris reports six Bolshevik divisions totaling 30 000 to 40 000 men are surrounded by Polish troops between Siedle and Brest Litovak according to press despatches received here.
Chicago reports sugar is expected to fall in price by January as the beet crop allegedly rises 380 to 40 percent and the Cuban crop triples the size of the 1914 harvest, per Rus sell Poole, secretary of the city council high cost of living committee.
Louisville Aug 21 Colonel Menus McCloskey a veteran of the Spanish American War Boxer Rebellion and World War I has become commander of Camp Henry Knox Stitchton Ky succeeding Colonel George G Gatley who moved to the General Staff College in Washington.
Paducah Kentucky August 21 habeas corpus proceedings to obtain his bride were brought by A B Johnson 17 McCracken County and restored to him his fifteen year old wife Mary Brewer Johnson The mother's interference during the honeymoon caused the return Mrs Brewer Johnson fainted when the court announced its decision.
Disabled veterans of the world war will form a national organization to Cincinnati early in September if plans now under way are successfully carried out. Each Carry On club of the country is entitled to send one delegate. The convention program is being tentatively worked out by the executive board of the Cincinnati Association of Disabled Veterans.
The fragment lists capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, and reserves with figures around 200,000 to 87,864.04. It notes deposits and rediscounted items, plus listed officers including Assistant Cashier Brennan and Cashier Vidaurri, with Avet and Fasnacht as caveats.
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