Local notices and ads from Laredo era August items
Import restrictions and transport notes from Laredo port list carloads of lead hoofs beer and ore. Local ads include Violin lessons at 1602 Flores Avenue and phone numbers. Movie listings and theater promos. Band concert at Soldiers' Club roof garden 8 30 p m. English classes Lincoln Street. Jewelers opticals and plumbing ads. Twilight baseball game Laredo vs Nationals at Caliike Park 6 p m. Notary public and contact details.
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Mexico
Laredo
Flores Avenue
Riis
Rio Grande
Olympia Candy Co
Laredo Optical Co
Thirty Seventh Infantry
Soldiers’ Club
W. A. Thomas
Washington Street
Lincoln Street
J. Ke, Fowler
Laredos
Nationals
Caliike Park
Will W. Gregg
Notary Public
Times Office
Farragut Street
Regular meeting of Laredo Lodge No 1018 Elks Tonight
Elks announce a regular meeting of Laredo Lodge No 1018 B P O Elks this evening at 8 30 led by Secretary A B Muller. The notice urges attendance by members and notes the time.
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Elks
Laredo Lodge No. 1018
B. P. O. Elks
A. B. Muller
Sailors Celebrate After World Champion Osburn Win
Galveston Aug 24 sailors aboard the destroyer Schenk No 159 celebrate news from Antwerp that Commander C T Osburn U S N earned the world championship at the Olympic games. They joked of rushing ashore at twenty five knots and nearly spilling Gulf water as the ship docked returning from duty in Mexican waters.
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Associated Press
Galveston
Tex
C. T. Osburn
U. 38. N
Antwerp
Schenk
Gulf of Mexico
Mexican
Mexican Interest Grows for Dallas Fair Exhibit
Mexico City reports strong national interest in the Dallas Texas fair October 9 to 24. Mexican farmers merchants and manufacturers are sending many articles for display at the event. General M Pina war office chief clerk has offered the staff band for use at the Dallas show.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Dallas
Texas
Jacinto B. Trevisio
Industry, Commerce and Labor
M. Pina
War Office
Trevisio
Prince of Wales Leaves Quebec for Toronto One Year Ago
One year ago today on August 24 the Prince of Wales departed Quebec for Toronto. An incident reported from Camp Sherman notes that twenty German prisoners escaped from the Chillicothe area, leaving authorities to pursue the breakout.
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Prince of Wales
Quebec
Toronto
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Violet & Qberfeldt Society Social Calendar
Tuesday band concert and dance at the Service Club Fort McIntosh in the evening Wednesday moving picture show at the Service Club in the evening.
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Service Club
Fort McIntosh
Notable Birthday List From Historical Figures
Rear Admiral John C. Watson U S N retired born in Frankfort Kentucky 78 years ago today. Roberts Walker president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company born in Rutland Vermont 46 years ago today. Rt Rev Albion W Knight D D chancellor of the University of the South born in White Springs Florida 61 years ago today. Rev Samuel A Eliot longtime president of the American Unitarian Association born in Cambridge Massachusetts 58 years ago today.
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John C. Watson
Spain
Frankfort
Roberts Walker
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
Rutland
Albion W. Knight
D. D
University of the South
White Springs
Fla
Samuel A. Eliot
American Unitarian Association
Cambridge
Maass
A Song of Life and Local Notices in Laredo
A poetic piece on life and renewal leads a column of social notes from Laredo. The item lists numerous locals visiting relatives in Temple Corpus Christi San Antonio and other nearby cities plus a health tip about digestion and a brief mention of a band concert and dance at the club.
A Traveling Man's Experience
A Louisville traveling salesman recounts a 1888 cholera morbus attack. He paid a porter to buy Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhea Remedy, took the recommended double dose, and slept until five the next morning, then boarded a train feeling well.
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W. H. Ireland
Louisville
Tasker L. Oddie Seeks Nevada Senate Nomination
Tasker L. Oddie, former Nevada governor, announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for U S senator. A Brooklyn native who came to Nevada in 1898, he helped develop Tonopah mines, served Nye County district attorney 1900–02, then four years in the state senate, was elected governor in 1910, and has since failed twice more to win the governorship.
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Tasker L. Oddie
Nevada
Mr. Oddie
Brooklyn
N. Y
New York
East Orange
N. J
New York University
Tonopah
Nye County
State Senate
Why Put Up With Rats for Years Writes N Windsor Farmer
A farmer recounts rats harming his property until using RAT-SNAP. He claims it is a safe, sure rat killer. Advertises three sizes 35c 65c and 1.26 and notes sales through A Deutz & Brother City Drug Co and Sanitary Grocery.
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N. Windsor
A. Deutz & Brother
City Drug Co
Sanitary Grocery
Sergeant Dan Daly Retires to Civilian Life
Galveston Tex Aug 24 Sergeant Dan Daly a twice awarded Medal of Honor and recipient of the Medaille Militaire Croix de Guerre and Distinguished Service Cross has quit soldiering for the counting house Corporal Spell reports Daly who served in Belleau Wood and won honors in the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Haiti Fort Riviere action is transitioning to civilian work.
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Galveston
Tex
Dan. Daly
Marines
France
Spell
Daly
Belleau Woods
China
Fort Riviere
Haiti
The Best Physic Promoted For Gentle Relief
A brisk advertisement touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a pleasant physic that is easy to take and mild in effect. It claims they are highly prized by those who know their good qualities and notes a price of a quarter.
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Miss Content McKnight
Mexico
Club Events And Motivational Notes From Local Meeting
Wednesday evening moves pictures and a dance at the club in the evening. Friday offers a dance at the Sol diers Club Roof Garden on Saturday. Miss Carolyn Brennan hosts a dancing party Wednesday at 8 o clock honoring Misses Marian and Dorothy Jackson of Austin. Club leaders pledge simplified work and rural focus to aid country life and women. Mrs Winter promotes electricity to farms in Idaho and the Dakotas and urges sane thinking and consecrated action for clubwomen nationwide.
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Carolyn Brennan
Misses Marian
Dorothy Jackson
Austin
Winter
Idaho
Dakotas
Texas
America
Chautauqua
Marin B. Fenwick
San Antonio Express
Ohio State to open season with Ohio Wesleyan in Columbus
Ohio State will start its gridiron season October 2 at Columbus facing Ohio Wesleyan. The report also notes numerous sports items across baseball boxing and boxing match schedules, with regional leagues and notable players mentioned.
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Ohio State
Ohio Wesleyan
Columbus
Grand Rapids Apears
Ontario
New
Provincial Athletic Commission
Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy Endorsement
A Dupuyer Montana hotel man F H Dear extols Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy noting four years ago he used it with wonderful results and has since recommended it to friends in a testimonial that highlights the product's merit.
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Chamberlain
F. H. Dear
Dupuyer, Mont
Express Company Seeks Intrastate Rate Increase
The Texas railroad commission opens hearings on American Railway Express Company request for a 12 percent rise in intrastate class and commodity rates and equalization of intrastate express rates for milk and cream with higher interstate rates. If approved, the new rates would take effect September 1 alongside interstate increases.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
American Railway Express Company
Will Prove Charge Says Governor Cox
Governor Cox of Ohio says he will prove charges about the size of Republican campaign funds. He plans to present the information in a Pittsburgh address next Thursday night and to notify Senator Reed that he will submit the material to the Senate committee on campaign expenditures before the Chicago meeting.
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Charlie White
Chicago
Pat Moran
New Orleans
East Chicago
Ind
Pacific International League
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Harry Greb
Pittsburgh
Tony Melchoir
Benton Harbor
Mich
Associated Press
Dayton
Ohio
Cox
Harding
Reed
Senate Committee
Pursuing Zamora In Mexico City Clash With Captors
Mexico City dispatch says government troops press pursuit of pandit chief Zamora who is said to be abducting American and British captives from a raid on Cuale in Jalisco state on August 7.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Zamora
Cuale
Jalisco
Poles Capture Towns Near Warsaw in Push
Polish forces seize Przasnysz and Mlawa as major Soviet formations, including most of the Fourth Army and the entire Third Cavalry corps, are cornered or surrounded in the advance near the capital.
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Warsaw
Prsasnysz
Mlawa
Texas Auto Registration Totals Rise to 388900
Austin August 24 The state highway department reports motor vehicle registration up to August 11 reached 388900 with a weekly gain of 3226. Year to date 1919 totals stand at 331310. Dealers licenses issued 38146 motorcycles registered 388 chauffeurs licenses 18688 transfers 85249. Expected annual total may reach four hundred thousand vehicles.
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Austin
Tex
State Highway Department
Cure for Catarrh Promises $100 Reward
Readers are told that catarrh can be cured in all stages by Ileal's Catarrh Medicine, which claims to act through the blood to the mucous surfaces. The ad offers $100 to any case it fails to cure and invites requests for testimonials, with J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio promoting the remedy through druggists.
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Ileal
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Tennessee Certifies Ratification of Federal Suffrage Amendment
Associated Press reports Nashville officials raced to complete ratification after Attorney General Thompson filed for a writ of certiorari and supersedes and argued before Chief Justice Lansden at his residence. A petition was granted vacating injunctions, keeping the matter open as certification proceeded.
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Gov. Roberts
Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Thompson
Tennessee
Roberts
Colby
Lansden
Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Chancery Court
Washington
Big Whisky Haul Near Chicago Seized by Agents
Prohibition agents arrested twelve men in Chicago as they prepared to unload two carloads of whiskey. Police seized whiskey valued at about 500000 dollars. The raid occurred as agents surrounded the group today.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Prohibition
Army planes arrive in Nome after 65 hour flight
Four United States army airplanes landed in Nome at 5:30 yesterday evening after a 65 hour flight from Mineola. Captain St. Clair Street, head of the expedition, announced plans to begin return hops in a few days.
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Associated Press
Nome
Alaska
United States Army
Mineola
St. Clair Street
Notices to plug drill or shoot oil wells miss filing deadlines
The Railroad Commission says many notices to plug drill or shoot oil wells reach the agency on or after the work date. The commission urges operators to file these notices several days before the scheduled start, noting this is a violation of the conservation statute and commission rules.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Railroad Commission
War on Prairie Dogs in Wilbarger County Texas
Wilbarger County commissioners at Vernon awarded a contract to a poison expert to exterminate prairie dogs over 4 592 acres. The pest menace threatens farming areas as natural enemies were removed by settlers. Poison gas has been suggested as a method.
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Associated Press
Forth Worth
Tex
Wilbarger
Texas
Vernon
North Carolina Farm Congress Opens Annual Session
Raleigh on August 24 reports the North Carolina Farm Congress meeting for a three day program at the State Agricultural and Mechanical College. The event aims to advance scientific farming for both farmers and their wives through lectures and demonstrations by agricultural and household economy experts.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina Farm Congress
State Agricultural and Mechanical College
Dancing Masters Appeal to Church Policy Eases Dance Bans
In New York on August 24 the American National Association of Dancing Masters urged the Methodist church to relax rules that bar dancers. Miss Edna Shaw of Wichita Kansas testified she was denied church membership as a dancing teacher. The group condemned the policy as contrary to John Wesley’s principles.
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Associated Press
New York
American National Association of Dancing Masters
Methodist Church
Edna Shaw
Wichita
Kansas
First Methodist Episcopal Church
John Wesley
Girls Set Fire at Houston Municipal Hospital
Four girls confined in Houston’s municipal hospital started a blaze last night after causing a distraction with music and dancing. The fire destroyed the building but all patients escaped. Charges of arson were filed against the four girls.
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Houston
Texas
Municipal Hospital
Patlagis
Sweetwater business men push for cotton factory
Sweetwater Texas August 24. With rains boosting the season, local merchants and leading farmers plan to secure a cotton factory. Agricultural experts estimate Nolan and Fisher counties will yield about seventy five thousand bales if current prospects hold.
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Associated Press
Sweetwater
Tex
Nolan
Fisher
Texas University Students Co-Op Expands Trade
The University of Texas Co-Op, a student run nonprofit corporation with a one dollar membership, reported last year’s business at one hundred thirty thousand dollars. Established in 1896, it now operates a brick building beside campus with a full stock of school supplies and more. Clerical positions are scholarships for meritorious students, and twenty five will be employed in 1920 21 as management predicts business will double.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Cooperaive
University of Texas
Weather forecast and Fort McIntosh observations
The United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans is provided by The Times. For the Fort McIntosh area, the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. showed a high of 97 degrees and a low of 75 degrees with a southeast wind. Clear conditions were reported.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
The
Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh
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