Old Time Elks Presided At Meeting Last Evening
A well attended regular bi monthly meeting of the Laredo lodge of Elks was held at their hall last evening an old timer meeting with the oldest officers present. After the meeting members dined in the reception room on two long decorated tables. Secretary G R Weber was toastmaster and called on local and visiting members to respond to toasts. Talks covered the lodge foundation progress and future expectations. The gathering emphasized Elkdom brotherhood and membership obligations.
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Laredo
G. R. Weber
The
Elks Lodge
Brotherhood of Elkdom
Order
Important Change in Mexican Entry Regulations
Consul Melquiades Garcia reports the old rule requiring foreigners to wait twenty days after passport application before entering Mexico has been revoked. Now travelers may obtain a visa by presenting their passport to the Mexican consul in Laredo and leave the same day. The change will ease delays for those with business at Mexican points.
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Mexico
Melquiades Garcia
Laredo
Publicación por citación judicial en Webb County 1919
Se cita por publicación a Marcial Benavides Hermenegildo de la Garza y Tomas Perez Jr. para responder en el juicio No. 4765, con sede en Laredo, fecha de 2ª lunes de marzo de 1919. Se detallan accionistas, testamento de Porfirio Benavides y derechos de herencia, con requerimiento de contabilidad y posible repartición de bienes.
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Texas
Webb County
Marcial Benavides
Hermenegildo de la Garza
Tomas Perez, Jr
49Th Judicial District
Laredo
A. D
Dario Sanchez
Rev. P. J. Nussbaum
Porfirio Benavides
Paris, Sanchez
Marcelino Sanchez
C. M. de la Garza
A.D
Local Society Notes and Visits In Late Week
Mrs J M Slaughter returns from San Antonio where she visited her daughter. Lieut Col Rutledge and Lieut Maloy of Kelly Field spent weekend in the city. Mrs Eri Burr and son Aufus of Newburg Missouri plan to arrive later this week. Miss Ruth Lara of Pleasanton visited Mr and Mrs J B DaCamara. Mrs J R Moore and Mrs T A Austin host a gathering on the 22d honoring Mrs A S Williams. The Thursday Bridge Club meets at Mrs J C Martin’s home. Junior Auxiliary members worked on missionary box at the Rectory. Community Singing at Soldiers' Club enjoyed by many. Tuesday Music and Literary Club meeting featured letters from the club's orphan and a program on composers. Weekly dance by Woman's Club entertained soldiers with band music.
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Eri. H. Burr
Aufus
Newburg
Missouri
W. C. Burr
A. P. Nye
Ggersen Vases in Wooly Emmy Me Mre Violet 8
Violet 8. Oberfeldt Society Editor Phone 70. Phone 42.
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Ggersen
Mre
Violet
Oberfeldt Society
Euphrasian Society Opens Season With Music And Reading
The Euphrasian Literary Society of Holding Institute hosts an open chapel session at 7:45 p.m. with a varied program. Performers include Adelaide Geb hardt Macdonald in song, new numbers by Ethel Mackin, Helen Dixon, Wright, Martin, and Garza, plus Flynn and Jack Adair with a banjo act. The program lists readings, violin and vocal solos, and a Miles Standish play with cast and characters.
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Adelaide Gebhardt Macdonald
Ethel Mackin
Helen Dixon
Miss Wright
Miss Martin
Miss Garza
Mr. Flynn
Laredo
Adelaide Macdonald
Mrs. Flynn
Euphrasian Society
Euphrasian Literary Society of
Holding Institute
Institute
J. M. Skinner
Tigger
Maria Graham
Jennie Strozzi
Curious details on trains ships and writers from history
A survey of early 20th century lore notes how locomotive headlight patterns signaled train types, ships allocate hull work, crime fell in wartime Britain, parachute safety surprises, and the elder Dumas earned and spent his fortune generously sharing gifts with friends.
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England
Britain
Dumas
Dreadful Cough Cured by Chamberlain's Remedy
Mrs. F. W. Olsen of Marysville Mo reports her son Jean suffered a severe cold and dreadful cough. After trying several medicines, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy relieved the cough immediately and cured him within one bottle, and she endorses it for children.
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Chamberlain
F. W. Olsen
Marysville
Jean
Sparrow nest and pups noted on roof anecdote
A native minister informs a missionary that a sparrow has built a nest on his house roof and, proudly, that the sparrow has pups. This brief anecdote from World Outlook captures a moment of language progress and rural life.
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Tellng
Notable visitors and local dignitaries in the city
M H McMahon of Cotulla and Roy Jennings from the ranch are in town for brief visits. Woodlief Thomas and Leonard Haynes returned from recent trips to lower country and Zapata county. County Commissioner D D Davis of Dolores and Dr H Stow Garlick arrived from Cincinnati. Mexican Consul Melquiades Garcia is in the city after a river trip. Judge G A Welhausen from La Salle county is visiting at Mrs Alfred Matthews’s home after arriving yesterday.
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Roy Jennings
Woodlief Thomas
Leonard Haynes
Zapata County
D. D. Davis
Dolores
H. Stow Garlick
Cincinnati
Ohio
Melquiades Garcia
G. A. Welhausen
la Salle County
Alfred Matthews
Mental Hospitality and the Open Mind
A Dearborn Independent essay extols mental hospitality as welcoming, open minded living. It contrasts conviction with prejudice, urging constant self examination to keep the mind alive, growing, and receptive to new facts and ideas.
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Beautiful
Dearborn Independent
British Honduras Hot Spot and Its Rich Resources
British Honduras lies near the equator between Yucatan and Guatemala and enjoys a hot climate year round. The land features marsh areas, the Cockscomb mountains, and fertile dry land. Mahogany logwood bananas plantains coconuts thrive. Belize, the capital, is a key port and rubber industry center reliant on well tended plantations.
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British Honduras
Yucatan
Guatemala
Jamaica
Spain
Cockscomb
Honduras
Quatemala
Belize
Chamberlains Tablets for Indigestion Relief
Take a few doses of Chamberlains Tablets as directed for indigestion and you will soon forget about your stomach troubles. Try it.
Statewide Prohibition Law Upheld by Court of Civil Appeals
Associated Press reports the Third Court of Civil Appeals sustained the constitutionality of the statewide prohibition law by granting an injunction in State vs John Ford from Travis County. In Austin the same day the house approved a bill barring dancing exhibitions at carnival shows, sending it to the governor to become law 90 days after adjournment.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Third Court of Civil Appeals
John Ford
Travis County
House
Senate
Texas Senate Advances Home Credit Amendment
Austin Feb 12 The senate moved to engrossment and third reading a house joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the state to lend its credit to heads of families for home purchases. Senator Dayton won adoption of an amendment prohibiting the state leasing land for this purpose. Voted by the people May 24.
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Austin
Texas
Senate
House
Dayton
William Wetmore Story Centenary Observances Set
New York notes mark the 100th anniversary of sculptor and author William Wetmore Story born in Salem Massachusetts and son of Chief Justice Joseph Story. Americans honor his memory with meetings nationwide. Story spent much of life in Rome and built a home at Barberini Palace while hosting Hawthorne Fuller and Harriet Hosmer.
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New York
William Wetmore Story
Story
Italy
Salem
Mass
Joseph Story
Supreme Court of
Unite States
Harvard
Boston
Rome
Mr Story
Barberini Palace
Hawthorne
Margaret Fuller
Harriet Hosmer
Barberini
Britain Rejects Brest-Litovsk Peace One Year Ago
One year anniversary notes that Great Britain did not recognize the Brest-Litovsk peace. It also recalls a French air raid on rail stations behind German lines and marks the opening of the eighth session of the longest British Parliament in modern times.
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Great Britain
Brest-Litovsk
Weimar Chooses Friedrich Ebert as German President
Weimar reports that the German people elected Friedrich Ebert, a former saddler and socialist leader, as president while bells rang to announce the historic choice. Paris notes steps toward a global debt pooling system at the peace conference, met with American resistance despite public support for allied war efforts.
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Associated Press
Weimar
Germany
Friedrich Kert
Ebert
Paris
Wilson
Society of Nations
America
Naval appropriation bill passes House for next year
Washington Feb 12 The naval appropriation bill carrying 721000000 for the next fiscal year and backing the three year program of ten battleships and ten scout cruisers was sent to the senate. The measure passed the House yesterday 281 to 50 with prompt Senate action anticipated.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Monumental Angel of Grief and the Story of Joseph Story
The text describes sculptor Joseph Story mourning his wife by creating The Angel of Grief, then retreating to his studio which he never reopened. It notes his death at Vallombrosa near Florence on October 7, 1895, and outlines his roles as US commissioner on fine arts to the Paris 1879 exhibition, professor at the Academy of St Cecilia, and fellow of the American Academy. It lists portrait works and busts including Joseph Story, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, George Peabody, and Francis Scott Key, and mentions honors from Harvard, Oxford, and the Legion of Honor.
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Joseph Story
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Edward Everett
Boston Public Garden
James Russell Lowell
Josiah Quincy
George Peabody
London
Francis Scott Key
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Spinach Market Report February 11 Summary
Spinach market report lists six markets. Fort Worth six cents. Boston ranges from 1.25 to 1.50 dollars. Cincinnati 1.40. Indianapolis 1.65 to 1.75. Minneapolis 0.25 to 0.50. Austin field 0.40 FOB to 1.07. Destination totals show three to New York, two to St. Louis, one to Jersey City.
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Texas
New York
St. Louis
Jersey City
Fort Worth
Boston
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Minneapolis
Austin Field
Demand Firm Policy Regarding Mexico
U S must craft a firm policy toward Mexico to bring order, speakers at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting said. Norman Bridgeman warned the current Mexican government seeks wholesale confiscation of foreign property, while Francis H. Sisson accused authorities of unchecked destruction of life and property.
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Hy Associated Press
New York
United States
Mexico
Council of Foreign Relations
Norman Bridgeman
Francis H. Sisson
Lincoln Day Events Across Cities Mark 110th Birthday
Today commemorations span Minneapolis Boston Philadelphia and Atlantic City with leaders speaking at Lincoln Day events. Governor Lowden headlines Boston's Middle Sex Club banquet while the assay commission tests 1918 coin fineness in Philadelphia. A Pan African Congress gathers in Paris urging peace delegates to internationalize former German colonies.
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Abraham Lincoln
Northern Congress
League of Nations
Minneapolis
Lowden
Illinois
Middlesex Club
Boston
Philadelphia
United States
Northern Presbyterian General Assembly
Atlantic City
Washington
Women of America
Democracy
World Organization
Paris
Africa
Unlimited money and material supply described
A report notes an almost unlimited availability of money and material, suggesting vast resources are accessible for a project or effort. The statement emphasizes ample funding and goods, implying capacity to sustain extensive operations or initiatives without constraint.
United States Accepts Japan's Siberia Railway Plan
Acting Secretary Polk announced at the state department that the United States formally accepted Japan's proposal to restore railway traffic in Siberia, outlining the government’s position and the key terms involved in the agreement.
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Washington
Polk
State Department
United States
Siberia
Americans to Use Rhine Route for Occupation Army
Paris reports bases for American occupation force will be Rotterdam and Antwerp. Deep draft barges seized in the German retreat will navigate the Rhine, replacing Bordeaux rail links and freeing 1500 to 2000 freight cars for French carloads.
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Paris
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Rhine
Bordeaux
Casualties in Siberia Reach 324 for U S Forces
Washington reports American forces in Siberia up to February 9 total 10 officers and 314 men casualties. The tally includes those killed died of wounds and disease wounded and missing in action as per the headquarters report.
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Washington
Siberia
Aaw
Weather outlook from New Orleans bureau forecast
The Times shows a daily forecast from the U S weather bureau in New Orleans. Tonight and Thursday are described as cloudy with probable rain and a drop in temperature.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
the Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh 24 Hour Weather Summary
Observations for the 24 hours ending 7 am report a maximum temperature of 42 degrees and a minimum of 32 degrees. Winds were from the southwest with clear skies throughout the period.
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Fort McIntosh
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