Soldiers as Builders and the Calendar Reform Debate
The Recruiting News highlights army civil achievements from railways to the Panama Canal and notes figures like General Wood and Phil Kearney. It also surveys a proposed thirteen month calendar, predicting public education would be needed and congressional opposition possible before acceptance or rejection by the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adjutant General of the Army
Dodie
Erie
C Kesapeake
Ohio
Army Engineers
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Army Medical Corps
Army
Gochala
Gorgas
Walter Reed
Philppines
Wood
Cubs
Enoch Crowder
Great West
California
Phil Kearney
John Fremont
Philippines
Merritt
Peru
Manila
Zebulon Pike
Meriwether Clarke
Pento Rica
Signal Corps
Cuba
Paul Beck
Oklahoma
Santiaza
Morro Castle
Hobson
Santiago
Civiians
Congress Considers Expert Commission For A New Calendar
A bill before Congress proposes an expert commission to draft a new government sanctioned calendar. The piece notes multiple world calendars differ from the Gregorian system, including Jewish and Russian calendars, and mentions dual calendars in Muslim countries for business and religious observances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Annual Carnival of Snow Opens at Dartmouth College
The Dartmouth College winter sports carnival opens today and runs through the week. Meanwhile events mark national anniversary week for Boy Scouts and a Lee Highway Association convention in Little Rock. In New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities begin as snow and frost spice the North with winter fun. A triadic debate in Seattle features women students from Whitman College, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho on a federal education department proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
Amer Jet
John W. Geary
San Francisco
Akansas Territory
Pennsylvania
Lee Highway Association
Washington, D. C
San Diego
Calif
Little Rock
Ark
Dartmouth College
Jack Frost
Old New Orleans
Whitman College
University of Washington
University of Idaho
Seattle
Department of Education
Southern Plumbing Co lands large Hamilton Hotel contract
F. W. Sanchez of the Southern Plumbing Co of Laredo secured a contract with M. Little to handle all plumbing and gas fitting for the new Hamilton Hotel and future remodeling work. The project includes more than 100 bathrooms and eight decorative drinking and spraying fountains to be installed in the hotel’s eight Spanish patios. Work will adhere to city plumbing ordinances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Sanchez
Southern Plumbing Co
Laredo
M. Little
Hamilton Hotel
Wamilton Hotel
Uta
Phuombthe Co
Income Tax Law and Sur Tax Provisions Updated 1921
The article outlines penalties for failure or wilful refusal to file tax returns, with penalties up to 10 000 dollars or imprisonment. It explains the Sur Tax and Normal Tax structure for 1921, exemptions, and rates, including the 6 000 dollar personal exemption and graduated sur tax. It defines gross and net income and lists exemptions such as life insurance proceeds, certain bonds, worker compensation, public utilities, and military benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Revenue Act
United States
War Finance Corporation
Better School Facilities Bond Issue Planned in Laredo
A March 3 special election in Laredo will decide a bond proposal of 75000 to build a new junior high and add to three existing schools. Officials expect crowded facilities to ease and accommodate a growing student population and future expansion.
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City of
Laredo
Junnior High School
Bether
Huiting
San Marcos
Texas
Avenue C
8Th St
San An
Tania
Laredo Shoe Hospital
Lincoln St
Twenty Planes to Laredo Arrive for Maneuvers Tomorrow
Brigadier General Mitchell and twenty airplanes will reach here tomorrow morning and proceed to a range seven miles east of Laredo for flying, maneuvers, and bombing between 10 and 12 o clock. Spectators are warned to stay off the range while others may view from approved vantage points. The crowd is urged to observe safety around the base and range during the exercise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Air Service
Washington, D. C
Laredo
Rain Would Be Godsend for Webb Zapata County Area
A general rain at present would do inestimable good for the Stodymen, farmers, and oil men of Webb and Zapata counties. Water shortages have slowed drilling, crops suffer from cold, and grass is scarce on some ranges while others lack water holes. A timely, old fashioned rain would renew moisture for crops, revive pastures, speed onions, cabbage, spinach to market, and ease water supply for drilling. Prospects favor rain soon. if it comes, all will be happier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb
Zapata
Laredo
514 Per Cent Loans For Webb And Zapatit Farms
Public notice announces farm loan offers up to 10 900 dollars for farms and ranches in Webb and Zapatit counties. The Laredo National Farm Loan Association through secretary Treas Thomas H Ward lists offices in Joseph Building and a 1923 date reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb
Zapatit
Thos. H. Ward
Secy-Treas
Laredo National Farm Loan Ags'n
Joseph
Lost-Gold watch found reward offered on Houston Street
A lost open faced watch with embossed back between Post Office and Santa Clotilde Avenue offers a reward if returned to Custom House. Also notes a March 3 special election to vote on 75000 bonds for better school facilities and urges voter turnout to support the measure. The page includes various local ads and notices from 1931.
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Houston Street
Santa Clotilde Avenue
Custom House
Citation by Publication in Webb County Court
Public notice commands Luther S Foss to appear in Webb County District Court in Laredo on March 12 1923 to answer a petition filed January 21 1923 in case No 6227 by J M Garcia regarding disputed land parcels with long list of abstracts surveys and grantees and a $38263 25 promissory note repayment plan and lease terms, all to be resolved at the next regular term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Webb County
Luther S. Foss
District Court
Laredo
A. D
J. M. Garcia
Luther
Voss
T. A. Coleman
Bexar County
Texas
Srantee H. & H. M
Srantee A.B. & M
Arantee G. C. & S. F
T. C. Ry. Co
Jacinto Juarez
Geo. A. Toell
kKrantee
Luciano Rangel
Eranice Bartolo Herrera
Vendora Hien
Colerain
Coleman
Luther S. Poss
Fraet Nuvienat
M. de la Garza
Wibb County
Notice of Fire Insurance Credit Report to Policy Holders
Report seeks premiums and losses for 1919 1920 1921 through December 21 1922 to base a good fire record credit. Credit up to 15 percent for 1923 aims to save policy holders on city property in Amite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amite
That Woman at Rialto Theatre Stars Catherine Calvert
The new dramatic picture That Woman comes to the Rialto Theatre with Catherine Calvert in the lead. Plot drives the action in every scene and reaches a big climax as an old fashioned father tries to separate his son from his wife. The strange family struggle centers on parental interference and a husband at risk of losing his spouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma
AB Ginger
West Indies
Rialto Theatre
Catherine Calvert
Tella
Furniture of pasteboard heralds durable German invention
Helmstedt, Germany, Fel. Karl Abt, Helmstedt architect, has produced durable practical furniture made of pasteboard. The Bruns Wieck state values Abdachielvements and the city shows interest in this new material and its potential uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Presa
Helmstedt
Germany
Karl Abt
Bruns Wieck
British admiral and general Geddes arrives in America
Sir Eric Geddes, just arrived in America, is described as the only civilian in British history to become an admiral and general in one leap. A Scotsman by birth and brother of the British ambassador to Washington, he began schooling in Lanarkshire and joined the army after military examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Geddes
America
Britain
Eric
Washington
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Times
Drew Pruitt
Wyance
District of Columbia
Chamberlain’ Medicine Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Pound
Nottie
M. Brennan
Ity Marshal
Lincoln
National Insurance Co
Quinn & Perkins
Alexander Bldg
B. Juarez Plumbing Co
Felix Hernandez
Don la Grippe
Chisco
St. Anthony
Victoria St
Lincoln Street
P. Clover
Mrs. del Barrio
Hidalgo St
Lincoln S Treet
Boon
Woremoor Brothers
Mertrics
Hathmates
Tomn
Mucho
Nesidones
Ne la Garza
Pedro Garcta
BSG
Salinas
Bay'r
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