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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1919
Page
5
A mosaic of holiday notices, sales, and social news from Laredo era papers. Items include Santa via modern travel, Christmas candy promotions, theater features, plumbing ads, and a long Social Calendar with local families and teachers traveling to celebrate.
District court ends session for Christmas recess until Friday morning December 26. Notable outcomes include Henry White given one year in county jail for aggravated assault after a dramatic escape attempt, and Fidela Gonzales sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary with suspended sentence for pandering.
Queen Alexandrine of Denmark born in Mecklenburg 40 years ago today. Henry H. Morgan US consul general and high trade commissioner in Belgium born in New Orleans 59 years ago. Bishop Richard G. Waterhouse of the M E Church South born in Rhea County Tennessee 64 years ago. Rt Rev Robert L. Paddock Episcopal bishop of Eastern Oregon born in Brooklyn New York 50 years ago. Emanuel Lasker renowned chess expert born Berlinchen Germany 51 years ago.
Knights Templar Malta Commandery No 32 requests all members assemble at the Asylum on Christmas morning at 14 15 for business and the annual toast at 11 o'clock. Visiting Knights invited. Commander John Colman. 12 23 21.
A community Christmas event featured a unique illuminated tree display with a piano and flute, Santa handing out nuts and fruit, and children’s games. Separate items describe a Presbyterian Cantata and a High School program with clubs Nike Nulli Secundus and Allen Poe, plus debates and declamations.
The United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans, relayed by The Times via the Telephone Co, calls for slightly colder conditions tonight and Thursday with probable frost.
Observations show a max temperature of 69 degrees and a minimum of 39 degrees. Winds are from the northeast with clear conditions prevailing.
A dry Christmas forecast is reported as William Hohenzollern and family plan a second Christmas Eve at Amerongen. Queen Alexandrine of Denmark marks her 40th birthday, Edwin M. Stanton is remembered fifty years after his death, and Pershing visits Lincoln Nebraska. The Tree of Light goes up in Madison Square and will glow nightly through New Year’s Eve. A record bonus distribution is anticipated among bank and corporate workers across North America.
An editorial reflects on the wartime ideal of victory and asks what replaces it after the armistice. It questions if the era’s driving aim shifts from pleasure and wealth to a renewed justice, urging the youth to honor a higher standard amid postwar temptations. The piece cites the Zeitgeist hovering over a generation.
President Wilson ordered a Monday meeting in Washington of the special commission to investigate wages and prices in the bituminous coal industry. The group will plan the inquiry and likely work for several weeks. In Kansas, reports say some miners who walked out yesterday do not return today as six mines remain idle.
General Tasker H Bliss, a peace delegation member, urges Europe to pool its food supply and create distribution facilities under a director general. He says the move would reduce discontent, strengthen morale, and aid new postwar governments during their formative period. He also advocates including Germany in the economic coalition to avoid regional discontent.
Mexico City reports protest resolutions by the Mexican Feminist Council against the Childhood Conservation League of the United States and its plan to spend millions on propaganda in Mexico. Sefora Elena Torres says Mexican women will judge and meet needs without outside aid. Washington also announces January 1 revocation of all pre September licenses for exporting arms to Mexico by the War Trade Board.
Moskow wireless reports Bolsheviki forces seized 15 guns 1 000 horses and 500 men after crushing the Mamontoff and Chernokofs forces in Staromisk region. Over 1 000 Cossacks were killed among them Schelokoff the despatch adds.
Word from Republican district headquarters states Gen. Leonard Wood will file formal candidacy papers with the secretary of state before January 1. The notice comes as the Republicans prepare for the coming year and potential primaries or filings.
For the first time in state history farm products and livestock rails reach a value surpassing one billion dollars. The milestone marks a record year for agriculture in Kansas, highlighting strong prices and high production across crops and livestock sectors.
The Olympia A A in Philadelphia organizes a Christmas Day boxing card with six round bouts. Joe Benjamin faces Joe Welling in a main event, Bill Brennan meets Sailor Petroskey in the semifinal, plus Joe Toplitz vs Jimmy Sacco and Eddie Fitzsimmons against Young Joe Borrell in preliminaries.
If you do not enjoy your meals your digestion is faulty. Eat moderately and thoroughly chew your food. Let five hours lapse between meals and take one of Chamberlains Tablets after supper for better meals.
New owner announces acquisition of the Mateo Lopez barber shop located in the south side of Market plaza in the Laredo National Bank building. The period promises a strictly first class and modern shop with a cordial welcome to friends and customers. Phone 1171.
Notice warns hunters that hunting in Jarral Barracito Burritos Tortuga and La Mota pastures harms cattle owners interests and advises no hunting permit requests will be entertained.
R. B. Russell, a leader in Winnipeg's general strike, was found guilty today on all seven counts of seditious conspiracy.
London reports a proposed forty mile tunnel under Jerusalem to connect the Mediterranean with the Dead Sea. Water from the sea would cascade into the Dead Sea driving turbines to generate electricity for Jerusalem and the country, with surplus water flowing into the Jordan Valley.
One year into the war, reports recount sailors exchanging fire with Republican guards in Berlin. President Wilson left Paris to join American troops for Christmas at Chaumont. Fourteen carloads of Christmas packages reached Coblenz for soldiers of the American forces.
Austin Texas Dec 24 Associated Press local officers await the Supreme Court decision on the antipool hall law. Justice Pitney granted a stay and the attorney general told prosecutors to heed the order and not interfere with pool halls until January 25 or further notice. The case concerns the law's constitutionality and is on appeal.
The weather bureau predicts real Christmas weather as Santa makes his rounds tonight across the Middle Atlantic New England and Middle Western states with snow flurries. Elsewhere, fair conditions prevail and temperatures stay cooler nationwide.
Seedy silver deposits seawater on copper sheathing of ships. Basking shark in Indian Ocean can reach fifty feet. Roquefort sheep yield thirty to forty pounds cheese yearly. Island residents live longer than mainland folk. Blind men outnumber blind women two to one globally. Lapland babies wrapped in fur and buried outside church during services. Snuff used before tobacco in West Indies. Bricks are highly durable building material. British Museum holds sun-dried bricks from Nineveh and Babylon. Simon Gratz served on Philadelphia Board of Education for fifty years. Bagdad once reported two million population, later about two hundred twenty five thousand. London children’s physician notes twenty five percent wear amulets.
A London clerk boasting of a grand lineage visits a farmhouse. The farmer to whom he boasted leads him to a willow and reveals the family tree is literally the trees and switches used by five generations, ending the feud with a sharp lesson.
These tablets aid digestion and relieve constipation by toning the stomach liver and bowels. They gently restore normal function and leave you feeling improved. Try them when feeling dull or constipated and expect pleasant results.
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