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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1919
Page
9
A year end message from Goodman’s Guarantee Shoe Store dated 12 23 21 extends greetings for health happiness and prosperity. The note thanks customers for past favors and expresses hope for the good to come as Old 1919 becomes history.
Captain Maurice Kelly of the U S Army Sanitary Corps toured his old Laredo home and visited sister Mrs T J Guernsey yesterday. A Laredo native, he served as trumpeter in Troop K First Texas Cavalry during the Spanish American War and later rose to regimental bugler and finally captain in the medical corps. He left for San Antonio last night. His friends in Laredo wish him continued success.
Christmas Day nears as Santa plans a midnight flight to deliver gifts to children and soldiers at Fort McIntosh. Families and groups organize trees and entertainments for Christmas night, with troops to receive socks and gifts despite long separations.
This morning a girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ludovico Volpe. The Strand and Royal Theaters plan feature plays for Christmas week while Laredo shops stay open late for holiday shoppers. Post office handles many Christmas cards and greetings, with eggnog noted as scarce this year.
The Shahady family of 1104 San Agustin Avenue faced pmomaine poisoning after beans eaten for supper on Sunday. Maurice Shahady aged nine died last night and Mitchell Shahady aged eleven died this morning. Parents and a Mexican servant girl remained seriously ill but expected to recover.
Members of Malta Commandery No 32 K T are ordered to assemble at the Asylum Christmas morning at 10 15 for business and the annual toast at 11 o clock sharp. Visiting Knights are invited. Commander John Colman delivers the address.
Christmas Eve services at Christ Church feature a long choral program with processional verses offertory and Adeste Fideles. James Richter from Virginia joins holiday visitors. local residents and guests from San Antonio and Little Rock are noted among attendees. A basketball game and school events follow, as district court recesses for Christmas vacation.
The county clerk issued five marriage licenses yesterday afternoon and this morning. Lorenzo Benard Bond weds Marta Imadalupe Escamilla, Rafael Gonzales weds Maria de Jesus Vega, J. W. Potts weds Ernesto Hironimus, Frederick Hugo Swedberg weds Mrs. Thomas McWilliams, Enrique Foster weds Josefa Valero.
New owner takes over Mateo Lopez barber shop on the south side of Market plaza in the Laredo National Bank building. Promises a strictly first class and modern shop and invites friends and customers to visit. Contact phone 1171.
A festive American Legion Christmas event featured bells holly and vines in red and green. The Royal orchestra under Mrs Macdonald provided music for about 150 Legion members and guests. A midnight reception followed while the Ensigns Mosers Wormser Moser Hanchett Biskamp Mulled and Bobbitte chaired the committee.
Manley editor of the Cotulla Record was among visitors in Laredo yesterday.
A birth notice reports yesterday morning as the time of birth for a baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. M. Boston. The parents are named in the notice and the event marks a family addition recorded in the local paper.
Mrs. Clay Pry of Ferguson Station Missouri extols Chamberlains Cough Remedy as splendid for croupy children and lung colds. She says a few doses relieve a cough or cold and a few days cure the illness.
The Webb County American Red Cross chapter announces a basic hygiene and care of the sick course led by Miss Mildred M. McKnight of San Antonio. Beginning January 5 the program requires only a four cent text and offers free other costs funded by the chapter.
The state department cabled explanations to foreign capitals about the Buford deportation. It says safe conduct and humane treatment are requested from authorities of jurisdictions the detainees will pass through en route to Soviet Russia.
Interstate Commerce Commission releases change in Memphis to Oklahoma freight charges. The order widens most rates between Memphis St. Louis and Oklahoma while upholding no discrimination against intrastate levels. It signals Arkansas intrastate rates may rise per Shreveport precedent and Supreme Court support.
Crown and foreign law officers meet to frame an indictment against the former German emperor. Paris reports quick ratification of the German peace treaty impossible as German delegates return to Berlin to confer. D Annunzio leaves Fiume as Rome notes. British forces occupy Batumi and Baku to check Turkish advance in the Caucasus.
A Smyrna dispatch to Le Temps reports Mustapha Kamal, head of the Turkish nationalist movement in Asia Minor, assassinated. The Moscow wireless despatch also notes Petlura’s anti Bolshevist troops surrounding Soviet forces near Berditchefel in Kiev province.
Henry White, a Fort McIntosh Thirty seventh Infantry soldier, was sentenced to one year in the county jail for assault with a prohibited weapon. After the verdict, he bolted from the courthouse, was fired upon, escaped to a Texas Mexican station, boarded an express wagon, and was recaptured with the jury pursuing him down the sidewalk. Deputy Zapata and driver aided in the arrest.
The American oil tanker John D Flockefeller is aground at the shore end of the jetty in Tampico Mexico. A high sea prevents communication with the vessel until conditions moderate.
General Pershing to be entertained today at Laclede Missouri his birthplace. The $16 submarine to launch today at the Lake plant Long Island. Maryland DA RR to unveil a bronze tablet of the American's Creed in Annapolis marking Washington's resignation anniversary.
Mrs A Leichhardt of 901 Rosario St says a cold settled on her kidneys causing back pain and vision issues. After using four boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills bought at City Drug Store, her back pain eased and kidney function regulated. Price 60c. Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY promotes the remedy.
These tablets are designed for indigestion and constipation. They ton e up the stomach and help it function naturally. They gently affect the liver and bowels to restore a healthy condition. When you feel dull and constipated, give them a trial for a pleasing effect.
The Times carries the daily forecast from the United States Weather Bureau in New Orleans. Tonight and Wednesday will be partly cloudy with the Fort McIntosh observation showing a high around 66 and a low near 36. Winds aat and generally clear conditions.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages by acting through the blood to the mucous surfaces. The ad claims a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio with druggists selling the remedy.
The Honorable Arthur Meighen emerges as a potential successor to Sir Robert Borden as Canadian premier. A veteran public servant, he has served as Minister of the Interior Solicitor General and Secretary of State. Known for his eminence in law and close trust with Borden, he joined Ottawa’s inner cabinet during the war. Born in Ontario, Meighen studied at the University of Toronto and began his career in Portage la Prairie Manitoba.
Mrs. Sarah J. Tabor, 80, accuses Joseph Virgo of performing an illegal operation on Maude Tabor. The linguist’s body was found in a trunk in her basement as Assistant Prosecutor Glenn Warner released the statement in Lawton Michigan.
Seven to ten mines with about 8 000 miners idled amid a strike protesting U S District Judge Anderson sending Alexander Howat to jail. Officials in Pittsburg Kansas and Indianapolis denied knowledge of a Kansas strike action.
Andrew Ott, a 23 year old salesman, was shot and killed by his wife on a busy Dallas street today. The incident occurred in a commercial area as bystanders looked on. Police were alerted and are investigating the domestic homicide.
In New York two burglars robbed Mr and Mrs Aloysius Brod erick of Dallas in a Knickerbocker Hotel apartment, escaping with 4000 dollars worth of jewelry. Police later arrested the two suspects in the hotel grill room.
General Pershing laid aside military formality and visited Laclede Missouri his birth place and boyhood home on December 23. He stepped from his special car to a crowd of boyhood friends and locals who rushed to shake hands as he greeted old acquaintances.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. Women of St. Paul organize a citywide budget system to promote thrift. The article notes that women preachers were more common in the U S fifty years ago. Elizabeth Johnston, sister of Mary Johnston, becomes probation officer in Winston Salem NC. The first American woman in dentistry was Mrs J H Taylor who entered Cincinnati dental college in 1864.
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