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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1923
Page
8
A dated collation of light jests and social quips from Laredo humor pages. The column jokes about valentines manners gossip about spouses and bachelor life and notes on everyday sayings and observations from local life. It playfully pokes at manners slang and small town foibles with a casual tone.
Dispatch from Johnstown Pennsylvania reports local ministers favor keeping the movies open on Sundays.
On February 15 figures such as Elihu Root former Secretary of State and Senator born in Clinton New York 78 years ago today Rear Admiral Charles P Plunkett born in Washington DC 59 years ago today author Charles B Lewis M Quad born in Liverpool 81 years ago today Senator Albert B Cummins born in Carmichael Pennsylvania 73 years ago today actor John Barrymore born 41 years ago today.
Katherine MacDonald, hailed as the world’s beauty, discusses her film Refuge with villain Arthur Eidmund Carewe and hero Hugh Thompson. Hollywood notes tease casting, describe Carewe as charming yet despicable, and joke about the impossible task of hating a handsome villain.
Twenty five years since the Maine disaster in Havana Harbor claimed 266 lives and spurred the Remember the Maine slogan. Jeremy Bentham was born 175 years ago, founder of utilitarian philosophy. Maj. Gen. Crowder completes his term as Judge Advocate General. The fourth midwinter conference of U S trust companies begins in New York. Sir Frederic Kenyon visits Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio, linked to the college’s century old origin.
Mabel Normand and Hugh Thompson star in Head Over Heels at the Royal Theatre for two days beginning today. The cast includes Raymond Hatton as the press agent with playful notes in the leather bound memory book.
On Thursday the Circles of the W M A Baptist Church meet at their regular afternoon hour. Circles 1 and 2 of the Ladies Auxiliary Presbyterian Church gather at Mrs. R L Bobbitt at 3 30 pm. St Anne's Society St Peters Church meets with Mrs M T Cogley at 4 pm. The Sunbeam Band Baptist Church convenes at the church at 4 pm.
A fragment from Frank L. Stanton references another springtime rose amid rain. Local social news covers Mrs Theodore Kerr visiting Cotulla, H Ladabaum family trip to San Antonio, Baylor College efforts, and a Valentine party by the Christian Endeavor Society featuring a Sunbeam Band surprise for Mrs Smith. Also notes a masked ball at Fort McIntosh Officers Club with red heart decor and a post band.
A distorted record mentions bear behavior and warnings, suggesting harsh judgments or penalties for harm. The garbled text hints at danger from a bear and references to laws or rules governing handling or interaction.
The resignation of Colonel Charles R. Forbes as director of the veterans bureau has been given to President Harding. Officials say the president is considering appointing one of three former service men, but a quick successor is not indicated.
A guide to arranging garden colors by taste, balancing blues and purples with contrasting tones, and using pale yellows pinks and oranges to highlight favored blues. Suggestions include marigolds with ageratum, layering color from blues through purples to reds, and planting massed color groups like zinnias for dramatic effect.
Irvin V. Willat directed two simultaneous scenes for Metro's All the Brothers Were Vaciant aboard a whaling vessel. One camera captured the mutinous crew advancing from the bow, another focused on Malcolm McGregor facing them with a revolver, while a third covered both actions. Willat watched one scene, with another viewable behind him, aided by a megaphone and a suspended mirror to monitor both locations.
In Little Rock on February 15 a black man named Eddie Reason ran amuck in a residence area. He stabbed to death a man identified as Will Houston and seriously cut three white men and three white women before being shot by police and taken to a hospital in a dying condition. Authorities say the trouble began when Houston interfered in a quarrel at the home of Reason's mother-in-law.
Leon Foster and his seventeen year old son Winton escaped from the parish jail last night. Foster, convicted of assault to murder, and Winton, convicted of murder, are being pursued by sheriffs across the area as authorities mount a wide search.
Senator Reed of Missouri blocked the senate leaders from scheduling a vote on the British debt funding bill. He warned a community of interest with Great Britain could draw the U S into war and likened the bill to a gold brick to be disposed of quickly if at all.
A famous Sheffield cutlery manufacturer claims to have produced a perfect pair of scissors 90 meters long, easily contained in a 16 millimeter ordinary thibble.
In Paso Texas Feb 14 cowboys and peace officers chased down the alleged slayers of Sheriff W L Rutherford of Otero County New Mexico. Rutherford was killed during the arrest attempt. The fugitives W G Favors and C J Smelger both of Amarillo were captured near Oro Grande. they were taken to Alamogordo for arraignment.
Austin reports the Spark man chicken theft bill was defeated in the senate while others advanced or were introduced. A House measure aims to fix ad rates at the lowest commercial level and regulate employment agencies. Censorship proposals for motion pictures were discussed along with a state bank resolution and various tax, speed limit, and government reorganization ideas.
The Texas Senate passed the Quinn bill establishing reciprocity between Texas Insurance companies and foreign firms. It bars foreign insurers from operating in Texas unless Texas companies receive similar privileges in other states.
Send your name and address with 5 cents to Chamberlain Medicine Co Des Moines Iowa for a trial package of Chamberlains Cough Remedy Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Chamberlains Salve and other family medicines. Each item addresses common coughs stomach troubles burns and skin ailments offered at a small price and available by mail.
The Associated Press reports a nationwide cold wave causing heavy damage and loss of life. Ships in distress include the Cooleha aground near Vancouver and the Nika adrift in heavy seas, with fires and rescues underway near Cape Henry and San Francisco.
The cold wave moved eastward in Texas spreading south to the Gulf Coast. Temperatures are forecast to fall to 10 to 20 above zero in the North 20 to 28 in the East and West and 26 to 32 in the South. Storm warnings were issued for the coast.
In Omaha on February 15 a blaze at the Armour plant in South Omaha raged, with losses estimated at two million so far. Firemen struggle to confine the fire to three buildings and prevent damage to two lard refineries. over 1,000 workers may be idled. The elevator motor is blamed, and sub zero weather hampers water supply and firefighting efforts.
Mrs. Belle Freeman aged 45 was burned to death in a house fire in Waco Texas. A boy, son of George Spencer, was injured jumping from a second floor window. Several residents escaped through windows in their nightclothes.
London reports that Seaarchers at the British Museum once earned comfortable livings before the war. Now wealthy patrons find it hard to fund investigations and even a skilled searcher has only three jobs in a year. American clients have dwindled as well.
The first colonial era law regulating medical practice was enacted in Massachusetts in 1649. A rifle bullet reaches its highest speed not at muzzle exit but about ten feet from the muzzle.
Abe Cimminsham reports agents and police hunted a gang that kidnapped Ed damsels a negro to Nogging him. Daniels tore a victor from a hand and shot his way free. Porter N Newnan a Wurmber was arrested and linked to the abduction. A man with a pistol wound was hospitalized as Daniels reported the case.
Paris dispatch reports American and neutral observers foresee coal stocks in Prussia and Germany exhausted by fuel starvation, predicting the Kalie struggle may end early in April. If negotiations fail, Germany would be unable to operate railways and factories, while coal shortages press France though it can buy elsewhere.
General Degoutte orders ten thousand German security police in the occupied region disarmed. The move follows alleged police hostility to occupation forces and a reported arson by a police member. German leakage of coal to unoccupied Germany is noted as a broader backdrop to tensions.
German treasury bills issued under the Belgium reparations agreement were met when due today in Brussels. The event confirms Germany’s commitment to satisfy reparations obligations and maintain financial stability amid the settlement.
Jioston reports a Chinatown informal pact to limit rent hikes and vacancies. The custom prevents new tenants entering quarters after a fellow countryman leaves, unless the departed tenant consents. Landlord rights are secondary to perceived equity, leading to many vacant tenements in Chinatown.
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