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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1913
Page
9
A new pipe organ built in St. Louis for St. Peter's Catholic Church arrived yesterday. Priced at $3000, it is the latest pattern of its size. Henry Kilgen, the factory expert, will soon arrive to install it, with loft alterations already made to accommodate the instrument and choir.
The Guadalupe School in northeastern Laredo was transferred from the Sisters of the Holy Ghost under Sister Joseph to the Ursuline Convent. The Holy Ghost sisters will return to San Antonio, with the Ursulines to resume sessions next Monday alongside their two other schools St. Peter's and the Ursuline Convent.
Charles Patrick Higgins was born in St Louis Missouri on August 27 1859. He began as a telegraph messenger later becoming an operator and Washington correspondent. He served Missouri as election board chairman and excise commissioner and was a longtime Democratic figure. He was elected sergeant at arms of the Senate by acclamation at the start of the current Congress.
Bethlehem Pennsylvania hosts the fortieth annual United States Hay Fever Association meeting with hundreds attending. Attendees bring atomizers eye washes eye cups throat gargles and handkerchiefs. Prof P A Maignen of Philadelphia presents germ theory linking rose cold hay fever and asthma with similar germs.
The speedy Boston shortstop known as Rabbit Maranville dropped his first fly of the season on August 14, marking the delayed start for Boston in the races.
Chattanooga Tennessee prepares to welcome the Grand Army of the Republic for its forty seventh national encampment beginning September 15. The city embraces the historic reunion with Southern hospitality as veterans revisit Civil War battlefields and enjoy field events, hydro plane exhibitions, and regimental gatherings.
Salt Lake City Utah August 27 Throngs of visitors including many East tourists arrive for the annual carnival Words of the Wizard of the Wasatch. The regular program opens tomorrow and runs through the week with parades pageants a street fair society circus hippodrome events and athletic aquatic contests. Crowds this year are expected to be the largest ever entertained in the city.
Washington dispatch reports President Wilson outlining non intervention neutrality and firmness in protecting Americans. He rejected unconditional recognition of Huerta, urged respect for Mexican sovereignty, and warned of a definite reckoning for harm to U.S. citizens. Support from world powers was noted as the U.S. prepares to act as Mexico's friend or adviser.
Morrisburg Ontario marks the 100th anniversary of Chrysler's Farm with a schoolchildren rally and a military display. The Nov 11 1838 battle on the St Lawrence below Ogdensburg saw 1600 American troops under Gen. Boyd facing 1500 British troops under Col. Morrison, with American losses of 12 killed and 236 wounded.
C H Hines of Whitsow Ark says constipation and indigestion troubled him spending hundreds on medicines and hospital care in St. Louis and New Orleans without cure. After returning home he used Cham berlain’s Tablets for some time and is now well. Sold by dealers.
By Associated Press Christchurch New Zealand Au 7 Dr Douglas Mawson an antiroti explorer and five companions were reached in time by a government steamer they were found alive after living on hearts and tongues of sea elephants all their food exhausted they were very weak.
Toronto reports Premier Borden laid the cornerstone for Toronto's new technical high school, described as one of the most complete and best equipped institutions of its kind in America. The ceremony featured promises of accurate workmanship and notable state support.
In Sherbrooke Quebec the Thaw case sparked a dramatic pretrial skirmish as New York state lawyers sought to abandon the writ of habeas corpus. Justice cut off state counsel while spectators cheered, and the hearing continued with no resolution.
Associated Press report from California on August 27 states the board of health reports studies show the stable does not transmit infantile paralysis, addressing concerns raised by a local outbreak and overturning prior suspicions about the source and spread. The notice emphasizes scientific findings and public health reassurance from officials.
An Associated Press report from August 27 details a Black man named Jim Cox and Black person being struck in jail by a mob after defeating a white man. He was rendered insensible.
The Most Rev. Patrick W. Riordan head of the San Francisco archdiocese received many congratulations on his seventy second birthday anniversary born August 27 1841 in New Brunswick. He spent several weeks in a hospital in Chicago after a visit to the East this summer and is reported to be in excellent health now.
Walter Thomas, a Redwood City lineman, pleaded guilty to maliceously destroying Pacific Gas and Electric property during a general strike. He faces arraignment for sentence tomorrow in San Jose with a strong probation push expected. Pinkerton agents arrested him on dynamiting charges.
A patient attacked by dysentery on July 16 grew weaker despite doctors and methods. After nearly two days of decline his weight fell from 145 to 125 pounds. Following two bottles of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, he recovered permanently. For sale by all dealers.
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