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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1919
Page
6
The Laredo Times lists daily and weekly subscription options for U S Mexico and Canada. Rates include one month one year and shorter periods with postpaid mail delivery and in advance payment required.
The Associated Press text appears as a licensing notice stating AP retains rights to news dispatches and local stories in the Daily edition, dated from Monday.
Reports state two Americans and one Englishman are among prisoners taken at Muzquiz. Ransom set at 10 000 dollars per person, total tied to eleven captives. Carranza forces appear unable to stop Villistas who seized towns and disrupted rail lines amid mounting international concerns.
A California congressman proposes anti radical teaching in public schools to shield poor children from extremist influence. The piece argues that home and community shape youth and warns that socialism and radicalism threaten American freedoms, urging uniform, patriotic instruction.
The fragment lists deaths of Catherine of Aragon descendant Izaak Walton Mrs Sarah Trimmer and Hannah Adams with birthdates. It also notes John W. Daniel elected US senator Virginia. Military items include Austrians crossing the Carpathians, Haig’s British command, Verdun gains and 11,000 prisoners, and the Brest-Litovsk armistice in 1917.
An old cold or cough is urged to be treated promptly with Dr King’s New Discovery. The standard remedy claims to relieve cold symptoms, cough, grippe, and croup quickly and has sold for over fifty years at the typical druggist price of 60 cents to $1.20 per bottle.
Advertising copy touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a safe laxative solution. It claims to promote free bile flow and gently cleanse the system of waste and fermenting foods while boosting energy for work and recreation. Sold by druggists for 25 cents.
S W Forrester a Wichita oil operator who recently bought Catarina ranch in Dimmitt county arrives in Laredo with a party including Joseph F Green Mrs Chas P Taft and E M Taft. The group tours Santa Rosa farm and Nuevo Laredo as guests of Consul Robertson and M T Cogley before heading to Catarina ranch.
Office of Deputy Collector of Customs Port of Laredo Texas December 1 1919 notice of public auction for cash on December 22 1919 at ten oclock at the Customs house featuring three boxes face pew acy two lots silver dress one diamond ring opal jewelry eight bicycles ten pieces lace seized for violation of section 3082 Revised Statutes A de Kahn Deputy Collector of Customs
All pool halls in Laredo shut their doors after District Attorney John A. Walls ordered closures while awaiting a pool law measure decision. The action affected a large number of local halls and was carried out yesterday afternoon and last night.
The 1920 motor vehicle license must be obtained before January 1 1920. Operation with no 1920 seal after that date violates the law. H LIGARDE Tax Collector Webb Co Texas 12 15 15t
Four small Mexican boys were arrested yesterday morning in the city on theft charges for taking a new Ford car owned by Denike & McKinney from in front of J. Denike’s home on Saturday night. The youths, taken in Laredo after a roundabout trip to Pulafax, were found in the car with another vehicle’s license and assorted accessories. They are jailed on theft charges, with possible additional counts.
Mrs. Clay Fry of Ferguson Station Missouri extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a splendid medicine for her family noting quick relief for croupy symptoms and rapid recovery from coughs and colds after a few days use.
A Sunday cold wave in Laredo drives temperatures to 26 degrees above zero and coats exposed water with ice. Farmers report cabbage and onions wilting but no lasting damage while hardier crops escape harm. experts note this as the severest pre Christmas cold in years.
The Laredo Cotton Gin Co on the Heights reports 1 685 bales ginned by Saturday night and manager R M Johnson says only about fifteen bales remain before season end. Total output about 1 700 bales in its first season. Prospects for a larger 1920 crop are bright, with increased acreage and plans for a double ginning load next year. Zapata county had no gin this year but expects a modern facility next year.
Laredo projects a prosperous 1920 with several large building programs under way. An oil refinery plant valued at 300000 dollars, a 50000 dollar office and theater, a 40000 dollar salesroom and garage, a 20000 dollar salesroom, plus numerous modern residences and cottages signal growth as the old year ends and new construction plans for 1920 unfold including a 75000 dollar Elks lodge home.
The law offices of Dodson and Smith now operate from the Milmo National Bank Building. Attorneys J. D. Dodson and Asher R. Smith announce the relocation dated December 12, 1931.
Office details for Dr. G. C. Hiatt and H. L. Jackson Funeral Director are provided along with multiple names in music and piano instruction. Flora Dilgarde Anderson and Julian m. De Villar are listed as organist choirmaster and piano teacher respectively with studio and residence numbers.
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