Census Supervisor Hornby seeks enumerators in Laredo
H P Hornby census supervisor for the district arrived in Laredo at the Hamilton Hotel to meet applicants for census enumerator positions. Enumeration starts in January and Webb county still has vacancies. he aims to recruit workers to complete the local census.
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H. P. Hornby
Uvalde
Laredo
Hamilton Hotel
United States
Union
Webb County
Mr. Hornby
Bell Family to Close Engagement in Laredo Tonight
The Bell Family vaudeville troupe completes its engagement at the Royal Opera House in Laredo with strong attendance despite bad weather. Final performance tonight is expected to fill the venue to capacity as the farewell program closes the run.
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Royal Opera House
Bell
Laredo
The
Royal
Royal Theater
Bellmont
Main Ave
Grand jury ends term with thirteen indictments
The district court grand jury adjourned after a three day session returning thirteen bills of indictment. The land jury followed with four indictments and five more on Wednesday. Three felonies and one misdemeanor were included. District Attorney Walls will set the criminal docket shortly.
Laredo Schools Close Christmas Eve for Holidays
Public schools in the Laredo independent School District will close at noon December 24 for a ten day Christmas vacation. Classes resume Monday January 6. Some teachers and students plan to travel to spend Christmas with relatives.
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Wil
Laredodependent
L. J. Christen
Laredo High High School
The World Aflame at Stand Theatre Saturday
Watch Frank Eenan in the Pathe picture as a millionaire mayor fosters public utilities, unites capital and labor, and stages a courtship with the valet as secretary in an Oncaea set drama. The film promises a complete arc from courtship to evolving relations.
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Frankeenan
New Pathe
Stand
Oncaea
Laredo Foreman Ro McCullough Visits Corpus Christi
Ro McCullough of Laredo spent yesterday in Corpus Christi visiting relatives. He has lived in Corpus Civista and this part of Texas for forty years and has worked for the Mexican National and the Texas-Mexican railways throughout much of that time. He currently serves as foreman of the Texas-Mexican shops at Laredo.
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Corpus Christi
Ro. McCullough
Laredo
McCullough
Corpus Civista
Texas
Mexican National
Texas-Mexican Railways
Pastures Owners Suppress Hunting Permits Request
An official note states that hunting on the Jarral Barracito Burritos Tortuga and La Mota pastures is detrimental to cattle owners and requests that no hunting permit requests be made. Dated 10-31-2m.
Laredo Daily Notices and Local Ads Update
Items from the Laredo port include carloads of baskets and lead, a dressmaking listing, barber supply ad, razor blade sharpening, and plumbing services. Religious campaign totals rise to over 20 million with 75 million in subscriptions. marriage licenses issued for Villareal and Raymond and for Satdafa and Garza. Local theater closing, auto painting and tops offered, and a removal notice for Laredo Steam Laundry amid holiday business uptick.
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Laredo
The
Baptist
B. Juarez
Jose Villareal
Oscarina Raymond
Domingo Satdafa
Anita Garza
J. L. Fierros
Farragut Street
We Buy Rags Ad at The Times Office
We buy rags washed and brought to The Times office. Best prices paid for soft clean rags. Rags must be soft and clean. 11-138-tf.
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Times Office
Social calendar and community notices
Social events include the Married Ladies Social Club at 4:20 PM hosted by Mrs. G. W. Derby, the Thursday Bridge Club at 8:30 PM hosted by Miss Maria Mowry, and various church meetings and dances. Local obliques mention visitors and travels, with parish guild finances updated and plans to furnish the Charities Hospital.
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G. W. Derby
Maria Mowry
Ladies Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
PF. M. Ramsay
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
M. A. Harper
W. M UU
Baptist Church
Splendid Cough Medicine Ad Praised by Mother in Missouri
Mrs. Cliy Pry of Ferguson Station, Missouri extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a splendid medicine. She says it relieves her child when croupy and eases coughs or lung colds after a few doses, with a few days of use curing the cold.
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Chamberlain
Cliy Pry
Ferguson Station
Home Ice Co to Begin Ice Making December 15
Home Ice Co a new Laredo based venture formed by local capitalists will start manufacturing ice within ten days. The plant sits beside the I G N tracks and uses modern refrigeration to produce about thirty tons daily. It holds a contract to supply ice for car refrigeration to the A R T Co during the onion shipping season.
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The
Home Ice Co
Laredo
Delightful afternoon of bridge and birthday party charm
Mrs M W hosted a bright afternoon with red roses and geraniums as guests enjoyed a series of bridge games. Prizes went to Mr B H Sauvignet and Mrs Shelby, both receiving rose pottery. coffee and refreshments followed. A separate party celebrated the sixth birthday of Harry Wilton Johnston with pin the tie on Buster Brown, a stag crowd and a cake with six candles.
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Mesdameg
Bueng
Brewster
Barlow
Cogley
Christen
DaCamara
Foster
Hall
Leyendecker
R. L. Muller
Martin
Penn
Sauvignet
Daiches
Lafon
Wormser
Mesdames
Shelby
Lusk
Morrow
Black
Matson
Brennan
Willie Belle Brannan
H. W. Johnston
Harry Wilton Johnston
Buster Brown
Buddy Foster
Mike Brennan
Dan Derby
Jack Denike
Tommy Mann
Newell Windrow
Werner Offer
Leonard Ernst
Leonard Morrow
Leonard Craig
Leonard Daiches
Ben Wright
Joe Martin Jr
Edmund Vidaurri
Jack
John Lawrence Condren
Jack Kehl
C. C. Biggio, Jr
Lionel
Andre Goodman
John Hagadorn
Floyd Davis
Mabray Love
Albert Sidney Williams Jr
James Penn
Sidney Lindsay
Mrs. Johnston
Mesdaniel, Fish, Witting and Williams
Marjorie Fish
Boxing and Horse Racing Bits From Havana and Boston
The WitneyStable horses will race in Havana under J W Pangle and Jimmy Wilde the English flyweight champion stands 6 ft 2 3 4 in and weighs 10 1 2 pounds. Boston fans expect a big boxing clash as Mike O Dowd meets Johnny Wilson in the Hub. The Metropolitan Golf Association now includes almost one hundred clubs in Greater New York. Kid Norfolk and Jamaica Kid plan their boxing sketch A Pair of Black Kids at Columbus this week. Jack Britton and Steve Latzo set to box ten rounds at Johnstown on December 9. Syracuse hounds upset by Indiana after New York Staters beat Colgate Pittsburgh and Brown.
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Harry Payne Witney
Havana
J. W. Pangle
Jimmy Wilde
Boston
Mike O'Dowd
Johnny Wilson
Metropolitan Golf Association
New York
Kid Norfolk
Jamaica Kid
Columbus
Jack Britton
Steve Latzo
Johnstown
Syracuse
Indiana
Sugar Railroad Strike Halts All Trains In San Juan
Associated Press reports a broad strike by trainmen shopmen and station men in San Juan halting all 4 railroad trains. Workers demand 50 percent wage increases and sugar grinding, due to begin this week, faces serious disruption without a settlement.
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Associated Press
San Juan
P. K. Dee
American Railroad
Historic French Opera House Burns in New Orleans
The historic French Opera House built in 1859 was destroyed by fire in New Orleans on December 4, according to reports from the city. The blaze ended the structure that had stood since 1859.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Fort Worth Train Derailment Injures 56 Passengers
Fifty six people were injured when the Fort Worth and Denver passenger train derailed north of Fort Worth yesterday. Officials announced today that all will recover.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Denver
Here
Secretary Lansing to be summoned on Mexico severance request
Secretary Lansing will be called before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before action on Senator Fall's resolution demanding that President Wilson sever diplomatic relations with Mexico. The committee aims to hear him late today.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Mexico
Associated Press
Washington
Seecretary
Lansing
Senator Fall
Wilson
Balloon Station to Open at El Paso on Border
Washington reports the first army airship station on the border will be organized immediately at El Paso by the Eighth Balloon Company under Lieut. Byron T. Burt. The unit will operate on border patrol duties and support the regional air defense efforts.
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Associated Press
Washington
el Paso
Eighth Balloon Company
Byron T. Burt
Government Abandonment of Sugar Control Announces by Palmar
Attorney General Palmer announced abandonment of government attempts to control the distribution and sale of sugar in a December statement from Washington. The move ends government intervention in sugar markets amid ongoing policy shifts.
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Washington
Palmer
Treaty of London to be Respected in Adriatic Pact
Italian regulars will occupy Fiume and surrounding territory under the 1915 Treaty of London. D Annunzio volunteers withdraw from Fiume as Paris and London reach a settlement with American French and British peace negotiators. Britain ready to sign, awaiting Italian plenipotentiary in Paris. A separate note reports Leisner demanding Versailles protocol revision and Scapa Flow indemnities referred to The Hague. Milan situation described as grave with a fatal stabbing and casualties in clashes.
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London
Fiume
Italy
France
Great Britain
Russia
Rome
D'Annunzio
Miume
Paris
Polk
Clemenceau
Kurt von Leisner
Scapa Flow
Berlin
Hague
Today’s Meetings and Trials Across North America
Today in New York City the woolen and worsted manufacturers hold their annual meeting and banquet while Texas editors convene in Galveston. Harding will attend Mt. Gilead dedication as Western Sunday school workers gather in Minneapolis. Luther Worl faces trial in Marion for alleged embezzlement. Four BRT officials to stand trial in Mineola for manslaughter from the 1919 Brooklyn tunnel wreck. Life insurance leaders meet at the Astor in New York as education specialists plan to boost industrial education in Cincinnati.
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American Association of Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers
New York City
Texas Editorial Association
Galveston
United States
Warren G. Harding
Morrow County
Mt. Gilead
Presbyterian
Minneapolis
Marion
Ind
Luther Worl
Grant County
The
National Association of Practical Refrigerating Engineers
Kansas City
Alabama
Daughters of the American Revolution
Huntsville
Georgia Hotel Men's Association
Nadon
World Conference of Christian Churches
Episcopal Commission
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Hrrighton
Brooklyn
Mineola
Life Insurance
America
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Hotel Astor
United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Education
University of Cincinnati
Revolutions Sparks in Italy Leave 16 Injured in Turin
Berne reports Italy faces revolutionary disorders with a Turin demonstration turning violent. Lieut. Col. Rosal was seriously stabbed in the back and 15 others injured amid the unrest spreading across multiple cities.
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Berne
Italy
Turin
Rosal
War Era Dispatches Mark Peace Conference Move
One year ago today: President Wilson and party sailed from New York to attend the Peace Conference. Allied armies advanced into Germany territory with no incidents reported.
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Wilson
New York
Germany
Miners Officials Surrender to U S Marshals
Six United Mine Workers of America officials led by Acting President Lewis surrendered at the federal building in Indianapolis to U S Marshal Stoner on contempt of court charges filed yesterday. In Oklahoma City, Governor Robertson cancelled his request for troops after learning two negro infantry companies would be sent from Columbus New Mexico, saying they would cause conflict and confusion.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Stoner
Oklahoma City
Robertson
Columbus
N. M
Dickman
San Antonio
Ice Freezes Out Operations at Kansas Strip Pits
Weather conditions halted activities at the Kansas strip pits in Pittsburgh Kansas as misty rain fell and formed ice on impact this morning.
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Pittsburgh
Kan
Kansas Strip Pits
Toledo raid nets 130 plus in crackdown on crooks
Federal raid begins in Toledo detaining over 130 men including a city councilman. Officers say Toledo serves as a hub for prominent safe blowers burglars and confidence men in the country.
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Toledo
Ohio
Women of fifty years ago reflect on careers and culture
A snapshot of women in the era: Harriet Hosner in Paris sculpture, editors in English magazines, Maria Mitchell lecturing at Vassar, Michigan admitting women, Lydia Saxton as chaplain, Louisa May Alcott best sellers, Lotta’s NY engagement, George Sand noted, and Eugenie composing history of Suez visit. Also the American Woman Suffrage Association formed, Ottendorfer runs major German paper, Stanton tours the Midwest, and Detroit boasts a fashionable woman barber.
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Harriet Hosner
Paris
Julian Ward Howe
Maria Mitchell
Vassar
University of Michigan
George Sand
French Academy
Isabella of Spain
Eugenie
Suez Canal
American Woman Suffrage Association
Aonvention
Cleveland
Ottendorfer
New York City
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Middle West
Detroit
Weather forecast and Fort McIntosh observations
The Times carries a United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans noting tonight and Friday unsettled with scattered showers and warmer. Fort McIntosh observations for the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. today are unavailable due to a phone outage.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Times
The
Telephone Co
Fort Mcintosh
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Ethel Mackin
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Marguerite Nelson
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Washington, D. C
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Charities Hospital
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