Beacons of Joy and Dread Cross City Halls
In Laredo yesterday Rt. Rev. Henry D. Aves and Kia Wheeler Wilcox traveled en route to Mexico City from the Detroit church convention. Local social activity fills afternoons with bridge parties and club meetings, including W. M. U. and Ladies Aid gatherings. Descriptions of entertainments, charitable sales, and a bridal shower at the Latin American Club highlight a bustling social calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry D. Aves
Mexico
Laredo
Mexico City
General Convention of the Church
Detroit
Elvira
Ofelia
Ernestina Sanchez
Luisa
Maria Ferrara
Otilia Cardenas
Cuca Zufiga
Mesdames Sauvignet
L A Lafon
Joe Martin
T. A. Leyendecker
Zulema C. Anaya
Elvira C. Saenz
Alberto Magnon
Serrano
Zenaida Salinas
Eloisa Cardenas
Cuca Zuniga
Luisita
Fidela
Lucinda de la Garza
Raquel Gurga
Angela Ottila
Maria Prado
Sara Vidaurri
Tanlac Rebuilds El Paso Man After Long Illness
Tom McClennon of 1318 Grama Street El Paso Texas says Tanlac relieved three years of suffering. He reports swollen legs and feet pain loss of appetite insomnia gas and indigestion resolved. now he enjoys steady nerves and better sleep and recommends Tanlac. All druggists sell Tanlac.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanlac
Tom McClennon
Grama Street
el Paso
Texas
Taniac
Southern Commercial Congress to Meet in Savannah
Savannah prepares for the eleventh annual Southern Commercial Congress with delegates from state governors offices and major business groups. Officials and authorities will discuss post war issues, merchant marine prospects, Latin American trade, and Southern port development as the congress expands its regional influence.
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Savannah
Southern Commercial Congress
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Geneva, Illinois, boasted a women only Methodist church and Woman as first revenue collector Mrs S M Parker served in 1873. The first U S normal school for women began Lexington 1839. Canada produced actresses Julia Arthur Margaret Anglin Viola Allen May Irwin Rose Stahl Marie Dressler. Michigan admitted women to all departments fifty years ago. Springfield Massachusetts named Dr Sarah J Williams city physician in 1872 after twelve male doctors ran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
S. M. Parker
Indiana
America
Normal School
Lexington
Mass
Canada
Julia Arthur
Margaret Anglin
Viola Allen
May Irwin
Rose Stahl
Marie Dressler
University of Michigan
Springfield
Sarah J. Williams
Pasture Access Denied for Cattle Owners in Five Ranges
An official note states that hunting in the Jarral Barracito Burritos Tortuga and La Mota pastures would harm cattle owners, and requests that no hunting permit requests be made. The position seeks to protect livestock interests across these ranges.
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Jarral
Barracito
Burritos
Tortuga
la Mota
Notable Texan Visitors Mentioned in City Notes
McMahon of Cotulla and Oscar Thompson of Hebbronville visited the city yesterday. Carlos Morton of Sabinas Mexico is in town to visit family. Juan B. Rojo the new Mexican ambassador to Japan recently served as legal adviser in Washington and arrived here en route to his post in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Thompson
Hebbronville
Carlos Morton
Sabinas
Mexico
Juan B. Rojo
Japan
Washington
Local Professional Offices Listed with Contact Details
Attorney E A Atlee operates from the New Alexander Building beside Laredo National Bank and can be reached by phone 771. Threadgill Threadgill lawyers sit over City Drug Co at Hidalgo and Flores. Dentist offices listed at Richter Building corner Market Plaza with phone 646 and another office over City Drug Co on Hidalgo Flores with phones 645 and residence 672.
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E. A. Atlee
Alexander Building
Laredo
Nat'l Bank
Threadgill & Threadgill
City Drug Co. Cor
Hidalgo St
Flores Ave
Richter
N. W
Corner Market Plaza
City Drug Co
Coercion Seen As Tool To Press Germany For Treaty
Paris reports from Dec 5 indicate that coercion is deemed the only effective means to compel Germany to sign the peace treaty protocol. In a secret Council of Five session with Marshal Foch, leaders emphasized using pressure first suggested last June, noting German delegates fled Versailles and new objections require hard measures.
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Associated Press
Paris
Council of Five
Marshal Foch
Och
Versailles
Clemenceau
Foch
Czecho Slovaks Mobilizing Across Frontiers
Copenhagen reports the Czecho Slovakian government has ordered mobilization of three classes. A Vienna despatch confirms 21 divisions of Czecho Slovaks advancing toward the Hungarian frontier from Prague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Vienna
Prague
Mexican Consular Agent Jenkins Released in Puebla
The Mexican embassy informed the state department that American Consular Agent Jenkins at Puebla Mexico has been released from custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Jenkins
Washington
Dee
Puebla
Mexico
Wilson to Meet Senators on Mexican Situation Today
President Wilson will see Senators Fall and Hitchcock at 2 30 this afternoon to discuss Mexico. Fall plans to make public the evidence behind his charges about Mexican officials circulating Red propaganda. A committee was named by the foreign relations panel to confer with the president and consider the Fall resolution to sever diplomatic ties with Mexico.
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Fall
Hitchcock
Wilson
Washington
Dee. G
Senate
United States
Messia
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Mexico
White House
Tumulty
Lansing
Border mining groups prepare to withdraw American workers
Border representatives from Mexican mining interests announce plans to pull out American citizens employed below the border. They say no immediate exodus is underway, though hundreds may eventually depart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Texas
Mexico
Rumors of Allied Move to Occupy Essen and Krupp Fort
Persistent rumors from the stock exchange said the peace conference supreme council threatened Germany with occupation of Essen and Krupp fortifications if final terms were not agreed. The report ties the threat to Allied troops ready to act if terms fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essen
London
Stock Exchange
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Germany
Krankfort
Socialists Rally for Soviet System in Germany
Leipsic reports the congress of independent socialists in session here unanimously adopted a program declaring for a soviet system in Germany.
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Leipsic
Dec
Congress of Independent Socialists
Germany
Today’s events across cities and colleges
Topeka marks its sixty fifth birthday as a capital city. Sir Frederick Bridge turns seventy five. Tuberculosis Day is proclaimed in Pennsylvania schools. Actors' Memorial Day observed nationwide for the Actors' Fund. Ontario Winter Fair opens in Guelph and runs to December 1. Pershing and staff visit Camp Bragg in North Carolina. Harvard and Dartmouth debate opening season. New York city counselors meet in Albany on telephone rates. National Dairy Association convenes in Chicago. Polk and U.S. Peace Conference delegates sail from Brest to New York.
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Topeka
Kansas
Sir Frederick Bridge
Westminster Abbey
Governor Sproul
Pennsylvania
United States
Canada
Actors’ Fund
Ontario
Guelph
General Pershing
Camp Bragg
Fayetteville
North Carolina
Harvard University
Dartmouth College
New York State
Albany
America
National Dairy Association
Chicago
Polk
Brest
New York
Food riot suppression guns used in Cologne
Reports describe machine guns employed to quell food riots in Cologne as authorities tried to restore order amid shortages. The incident underscores wartime upheaval and civil unrest in occupied Germany with German forces engaged in crowd control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Paris
Golden Horn
Raid by Mexican bandits hits Texas store near Zapata
Reports to General J. Fr. Wolters say a raid occurred 11 miles south of Zapata, touching a store owned by a local merchant who was bound before looting. The number of bandits was not determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Zapata
Zapatca County
J. Fr. Wolters
Texas Cavalry
Wilde Sharkey bout set in Milwaukee ring tomorrow night
Promoters announce the 10 round contest between Jimmy Wilde and Jack Sharkey at 116 pounds. The English light heavyweight champion meets the New Yorker in a bout expected to draw a record crowd and test Wilde's skill against Sharkey's clever, hard hitting style.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Jimmy Wilde
Jack Sharkey
Sharkey
Weather forecast and Fort McIntosh observations
The United States Weather Bureau forecast for New Orleans via The Times: tonight and Saturday expect cloudy skies with local rain and warmer conditions tonight. Fort McIntosh observations show 24 hours ending 7 am: max 56, min 46, wind northeast, overall cloudy.
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United States Weather Bureau
New
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure and Reward
Readers are informed that Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure catarrh at all stages through constitutional treatment. The advert says the proprietors offer $100 for any case it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, with druggists selling the product.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Governors push coal output amid miner strike
Ten state governors seek to boost coal mining to supply domestic and essential industry needs as fuel restrictions spread from New York to the Sierra Nevada. Miners show no improvement and remain hostile to the 14 percent wage increase, in a Chicago Associated Press dispatch dated December 6.
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Associated Prep
Chicago
New York
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Governor declares martial law in six Oklahoma counties
McAlester Oklahoma December 6 Governor Robertson issues a proclamation declaring martial law in Pittsburgh Latimer LeFlore Coal Haskell and Okmulgee counties effective immediately.
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McAlested
Okla
Robertson
Pittsburgh
Latimer
Lefore
Coal
Haskell
Okmulgee Counties
Settlement Near as Ohio Coal Strike Talks Continue
Settlement of the Ohio coal strike appeared near, with reports reaching Governor Cox's office this Thursday in Columbus Ohio. Widening discussions and prospective agreements centered on labor terms and production resumption.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cox
Gala Inauguration Day Planned For Kentucky Governor
Frankfort awaits Edwin P. Morrow's January inauguration as Kentucky's first Republican governor in years. About 25 000 visitors expected as Louisville and Lexington clubs travel to the capital. A citywide decoration plan, a parade of clubs, carriage procession, and oath by the chief justice in front of the capitol are scheduled.
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Frankfort
Edwin P. Morrow
Kentucky
Morrow
Little Hill
Louisville
Lexington
Prince of Wales Takes Golf Balls Ashore
The Prince of Wales carried several boxes of American golf balls when he sailed home. Center College closed its football season with 485 points for and 23 against. Georgia Tech and Columbia figures show tough year with mixed results.
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Prince of Wales
Fred Fulton
Europe
Center
Pat Moran
Champion Reds
Pat
Georgia Tech
Columbia
Brown
Splendid Cough Medicine Endorsed by Missouri Mother
Mrs. Clayry of Ferguson Station Missouri lauds Chamberlain Cough Remedy as a splendid medicine. She says she gives it to her children at first signs of croup and uses it for coughs and chest colds with quick relief after a few days.
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Mrs. Violet & Oberfeldt Society
Ethel Mackin
Hugh Cluck
Marguerite Nelson
Woman’s Club
Soldiers Club
Kia Wheeler Wilcox
Mrs. George Kenedy
City
Joe C. Martin
John Martin
Marenerite Nelson
M. U. Meeting
W. M. U. of the Baptist Church
Circlebb
Minnie Burr
China
Eugene Sallee
Mesdames J. M. Sallee
J. G. Burr
H. L. Guinn
Miller
Korner
Beddoe
Clingenpeel
Bryan
Kenny
Landrum
Smith
Trout
Bell
Jennings
Shower
Phelps
Irwin
Annie Pace
McCarroll
Ladies Aid Society
Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church
F. M. Ramsay
Ilys. Windrow
H. M. Austin
Miss Lee
Mesdames Lattig
Windrow
Shoemaker
Christian Ladies Aid
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
M. A. Harper
Miss Roberts
Mesdames Millar
Mesdames Millar, Roberts, Neff, &. F. Hamilton, Phelps, Worsham, Co
F. Smith
Illedges
The
Hostess
Thursday Bridge Club
Maria Mowry
A. Wormser
Horace Hamlin
Annie
Frances Alexander
Helen
Kathryn MacGregor
Eva Levi
Josephine Sauvignet
Lucille Murphy
Mesdames O'Meara
Joe Moser
Witting
Julia Schultz
Mes
Charles
Strand Theater
Anita
Lane
Gordon
Mabel Barr
Ralph
Mary Cook
George
Horace Kehl
John Robert
Joe Fasnacht
Hunter Randolph
Harris Twiss
Ethel Lane
Mrs. Derby
G. W. Derby
Woodman
Asher Smith
Copeland
Mesdames Austin
Biggio
Brewster
Christen
Cogley
Davis
Fish
Huberich
McComb
MacGregor
Reed
Vidales
Young
Medames Bobbitt
Cluck
Colburn
Hiatt
Penn
M. W. Brennan
A. Smith
E. J. Foster
Boniger
Williams
Winn
Groff Sr
Tom M’clennon
Geneva
Ill
Meyer Brothers Drug Co
Saint Louis
Soul Kiss
McMahon of
Cotulla
Physicians and Surgeons
J. T. Halsell
MH. M. Austin
Richter Building
J. L. Crawford
Laredo National Bank
H. Stow Garlick
W. W. Shirey
J. T. Ward
Bertaii
Drs. C. F. and
H. E. Kenney
Matamoros
Hicks
Dickson
Bobbitt
Attorneys-at-Law
San Antonio
Walls
Ward & O'Meara
Alexander
A. E. McCulloch
Wilcox Block
J. K. Thompson
W. J. Wilson
A. G. Thompson
G. C. Hiatt
Salinas Ave
Brannan Building
Undertakers
H. L. Jackson
Complete Auto Equipment
Jarvis Plaza
Adelaide Gebhardt Macdonald
Royal Concert Orchestra
Flora Dilgarde Anderson
Christ Church Episcopal
Alexander Bldg
Julian M. DE Villar
San Dario Avenue
Violin Studio
A. J. Notton
Ty Associated Press
Weather Forecast
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