Webb County Good Roads Meeting Aims at Countywide Highway Plan
The Webb County Chamber of Commerce Board schedules a 3 p m Saturday session to discuss expanding roads countywide and creating a Military Highway along the river from Eagle Pass to Brownsville. Stanley Copeland leads the highways committee and invites experts and written outlines for broader county cooperation.
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Webb County
Chamber of Commerce
Stanley Copeland
Committee On
Eagle Pass
Brownsville
Dr H Stow Garlick Reopens Eye Ear Nose Throat Practice
Doctor H Stow Garlick, specialist in eye ear nose and throat diseases, has reopened offices in the Richter building and resumed practice. Office hours are 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. Phone 699%. 2-16-10t.
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H. Stow Garlick
Richter
Carnival draws crowds in Laredo shows all week
The C A Wortham Shows in Laredo attract strong patronage with nightly crowds since Saturday except Sunday rain. Soldiers enjoy tent attractions and rides as M P patrol grounds, aiding city police and deputies in maintaining order during the carnival week.
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C. A. Wortham
Laredo
Soldier Boys
M. P
Getting Rid of Colds With Simple Home Care
The text advocates Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a proven cold cure and stresses rest. It warns against catching a second cold before recovery and advises a middle aged man to stay in bed until fully recovered, suggesting three days of bed rest initially.
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Chamberlain
Law firm captains recalled to practice after discharge
Captains Charles M. Dickson and Robert L. Bobbitt of Hicks Phelps Dickson Bobbitt have been honorably discharged from the United States Army and resume practice with the firm. Dickson will be in the San Antonio office and Bobbitt in the Laredo office.
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Charles M. Dickson
Robert L. Bobbitt
Hicks, Phelps, Dickson, & Bobbitt
United States Army
Dickson
San Antonio
Mr. Bobbitt
Laredo
Violet Oberfeldt Society Editor Note
Mrs Violet Oberfeldt, society editor, is mentioned with contact numbers 70 and 43, indicating a social pages or announcements snippet from a 20th century newspaper. The fragment suggests a column header or contact line rather than a full item.
Social calendar events and meetings gathered for the week
Wednesday evening features a dance at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association Hall at 8 15. The Parish Guild of Christ Church meets at the Rectory with Mrs C W Cook for its Auxiliary at 4 pm Thursday. The four circles of the B M U hold their regular weekly meetings in the afternoon. The Married Ladies Social Club is hosted by Mrs Joe Vidales at 3 30 pm.
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Young Men's Hebrew Association Hall
Christ Church
C. W. Cook
Married Ladies Social Club
Joe Vidales
Our Boys and Our Dead Gentlemen at War News
Capt. S. M. Barlow to Washington after family visit. Alfred Murphy returns from Fort Worth. Mrs. M. P. Cullinan heads fifth District motion picture censorship. J. H. Haynes party from San Antonio visiting. Mora family from San Antonio en route to Puebla, Mexico due to illness. Correspondence from Mrs Geoffrey J. Giles in New York shares Texas ties. Henry Borchers in San Antonio. Dr. Harold Hiltz visits before going to Laredo for government service. Heights Civic Club hosts Colonial Party at Cullinan home. Play Our Boys to benefit Laredo Woman's Club on April 4 at Royal Opera House. Standing Room Only likely. Mrs. Polkinhorn praised. cast strong. Mrs. Joe Vidales hosts Tuesday Bridge Club with rose décor. Thrift Stamps prizes awarded.
Mountain charity drive and church活动 notes
Painted tally cards marked a Junior Auxiliary meeting at Christ Church Rec tory with members and guests present. A work session made marble bags and dolls for a Missionary box to send fifty gifts to mountain children near Asheville, North Carolina, followed by a church service about North Carolina mountain children and a community singing at Soldiers Club led by Mrs. Goodman, featuring a saxophone quartet and a dance by Carlotta Floyd.
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Christ Church
C. W. Cook
Martha Anderson
San Antonio
Asheville
North Carolina
George
Bobby
Horace
Elinor
Jack Kehl
John Robert
Joe Fasnacht
Evans
Jack Younkin
Woody
Nettie Bunn
Elizabeth
Charline
Miles Nye
Evelyn Randolph
Mary
Helen MacDonald
Edna Tarver
Jack
Ethel
Alta Gracia Poster
Victor Louis Sielski
Ralph Cook
Anita
Ethel Lane
Soldiers Club
S. Goodman
T. A. Austin
Miss Dallmer
Msenco
Collata Tee Josephine Daiches EE
Flynn
Halpin, Mackey, Goreyka
Tomascheck
Miss Carlotta Floyd
Hornish
Personal Notes From San Antonio Visitors At The Hamilton
Lloyd Pipes of San Antonio guests at the Hamilton. Otis Peaslee from San Antonio arrived yesterday aboard the Texas Mexican. Collector of Customs T. A. Coleman and Treasury special agent H. B. Creighton spent yesterday in Laredo on business.
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Lloyd Pipes of
San Antonio
The
Hamilton
Otis Peaslee
City
T. A. Coleman
H. 8. Creighton
Treasury Department
Laredo
Color Coded Stocks Sell As Home Decor Reminders
A Brooklyn woman bought misused get-rich-quick oil and mining stock but did not examine the shares. Red yellow and green certificates she bought were useless after the company president vanished. She tried to wallpaper her kitchen with them and used an old piano box as a clothes press when the stocks failed. Color blind investors are warned to be cautious with such wildcat investments.
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Brooklyn
Fragmented Editorial Fragments From Galveston News
Pars about Irish salaries national prohibition Billy Sunday and rent Bolshevik delegates Princes Island bridges German elections copying America frictions between American and French soldiers and call to bring home troops promptly with note that human nature has not been repealed.
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Billy Sunday
Galveston News
Too Wise Boots: Seed Store Clerk and Bird Seed Gag
Chief Butler notes thieves reveal themselves by over cleverness in a local seed store tale. A clerk searches for sweet potato seed, learns it is a joke, and later warns a customer not to fool him about bird seed.
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Butler
Kaiser's Challenge at Potsdam With Edward VIII
After a grand Potsdam review the Kaiser asked the Prussian Guard commander to select a hundred men. He then escorted King Edward VIII and joked about beating them. The King replied he could find fifty who would try. The Argonaut.
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Potsdam
Edward VIII
Edward
England
The
Argonaut
Inheritance Tax Joke Sparked by Family Quip
A humorous exchange about inheritance tax in a Boston Trans cript item shows a father explaining the levy while the mother blamed him for faults. The quip captures domestic humor of the era and reflects attitudes toward taxes and family dynamics.
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Boston Transcript
Railroad Timetable Texas-Mexican Trains 1 and 2
Train No 1 departs for Corpus Christi at 9 am Train No 2 arrives from Corpus Christi at 3 36 pm
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Corpus Christi
Practice Makes Perfect Dialogue Fragment in Boston Tran Script
A brief exchange follows a proposal scene where a woman asks if the man ever spoke to a girl like that before and he responds doubtfully that it might not be possible on the first try. The fragment preserves a vintage tone and suggests a theatrical or screenplay context in Boston.
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Boston’ Transcript
Night and Day Schedules for the International & Great Northern
The fast train to St Louis departs at 10 46 a m and arrives at 7 16 p m. The night train departs at pm and reaches 1 am.
Train Schedule Between Rio Grande and Eagle Pass
Train No 1 runs from Laredo to Minera daily except Sunday departing 8 30 am arriving 10 20 am Train No 2 departs Minera daily except Sunday at 11 am arriving Laredo at 8 10 am
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Rio Grande
Eagle Pass
Laredo
Minera
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Deafness Cure
Catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and requires a constitutional remedy. The ad states the condition stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures through the blood, offering $100 for any untreatable case and free circulars.
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Hall
Circulara
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Dreadful Cough Cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
Mrs F W Olsen of Marysville Missouri reports her two year old son Jean suffered a severe cold and dreadfully persistent cough. After trying several medicines he improved immediately with one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and was cured. She notes it is very good for children.
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Chamberlain
F. W. Olsen
Marysville
Jean
Money Makers in Times Want Ads
Classified brief notes show investors or sellers seeking profitable opportunities in the Times Want Ads. The snippet emphasizes money making themes without specific items, names, or figures, reflecting a promotional or generic sales tone from the era.
Corporations May Come Back to Texas
The Texas senate passed a bill allowing foreign corporations ousted for anti trust violations to return after five years, signaling the possible return of International Harvester Company and the American Book Company. A separate bill proposes authorizing two or more Texas organized insurers to consolidate.
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Texas
Associated Press
Austin
Senate Today
House
International Harvester Company
American Book Company
Senator McNealus
Dallas Today
Opening of Parliament in Canada Signals War to Postwar Focus
Ottawa reports readiness for the second session of Canada's thirteenth Parliament with western and eastern delegates arriving. The session is expected to tackle postwar issues including housing, soldiers’ land settlement, demobilization, liquor laws, highway development, and a new Election Act. Large appropriations for 1919-20, pensions, and public works are anticipated as reconstruction continues.
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Ottawa
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Dominion
Germans Resume Invasion as Russia Faces Occupation
February 19 report states Germans resumed invasion of Russia occupying Dvinsk while Petrograd confirms seizure of Aland Islands by Swedish forces. Bolshevik leaders denounce the invasion and declare Russia ready to seek peace.
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Russia
Dvinsk
Petrograd
Aland Islands
Bolsheviki
Clemenceau Fire Incident Shocks Paris as Assailant Arrested
Premier Clemenceau was shot at five times as he left his residence to go to the war office. He was wounded in the shoulder but not seriously. policeman Cursat was hit in the right eye. The suspect, Emile Cottin, 25, claimed Montrouge Paris origin, but authorities suspect he is Russian. Crowds beat the attacker before police removed him. In Weimar, telegrams protest the new armistice, with one from Berlin calling for a day of national mourning.
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Associated Press
Paris
Clemencceau
M. Clemenceau
War Office
Cursat
Eliots
Clemenceau
Bhima
City Hall
Emile Cottin
Creil
Montrouge
German armistice talks to be overseen by Foreign Office
Basel reports an unofficial Berlin dispatch says the German armistice commission will be placed under the foreign office with Foreign Secretary Brockdorff-Rantzau reserving the supreme direction of the parley talks.
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Basel
German Armistice Commission
Foreign Office
Berlin
Brockdorff Fantzau
Pourparlers
Esthonians Fall Back Before Bolsheviks
London reports Esthonian forces retreating in Pakoy as Bolshevik pressure increases. Official Esthonian headquarters statement issued last night confirms the withdrawal and ongoing military tension in the region.
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London
Pakoy
Two Naval Officers Face Courtmartial in District Bribery Case
Secretary Daniels ordered trial by courtmartial for two naval officers in the Third Naval District on bribery and graft charges. Investigators submitted sufficient evidence in a preliminary report to warrant immediate trials, with at least two other cases developing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Third Naval District
Daniels
I W W Convention Planned as Temporary Board Rules
Industrial Workers of the World in Chicago prepares for a general convention to review the current situation and outline future work. The temporary general executive board will meet tomorrow and issue a call for the convention likely to be held here next May to elect a permanent leadership.
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Chicago
Industrial Workers of the World
I W W
Wit and writer P F Dunne on reputation and steps
Wit and writer P F Dunne creator of Mr Dooley has many sayings. He once told John the club door porter to fetch a cab. John ran down stairs, slipped and fell, and Dunne remarked you must be more careful of your reputation. People will think you are one of the members.
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P. F. Dunne
Mr. Dooley
John
Mr. Dunne
Poindexter Opposes League of Nations Address
In a prepared Senate speech Senator Poindexter of Washington Republican warned that joining the league would surrender American rights and sovereignty, abandon the Monroe Doctrine, and violate the Constitution. He argued the entangling alliance would be a colossal burden never before conceived.
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Associated Press
Washington
League of Nations
Senate
Poindexter
Republican
United States
Senate conference on peace time army bill
Washington Feb 1 The peace time army for the year starting July 1 is fixed at 17 000 men the total authorized by the 1918 act. The Senate bill was sent to conference after House passage last night. The House refused War Department requests for about 40 000 officers and men and adopted the annual appropriation bill setting aside 107 000 000 for the war department next fiscal year. Observers doubt Senate passage of the bill.
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Washington
United States
Senate
House
War Department
Eauders
Rivers and Harbors Bill Sent to Conference
Washington report states the annual rivers and harbors bill carrying 35 million dollars in appropriations was sent to conference today to resolve Senate and House differences. The measure passed in the Senate last night after a week of debate with no recorded vote.
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Washington
Senate
House
Today’s Meetings Across North America and Winnipeg
The Pacific Coast Congress for the League of Nations meets in San Francisco while Ottawa lawmakers prepare for Parliament opening. The Manitoba Dairy Association convention starts in Winnipeg and runs through tomorrow. A three day literary congress opens in New York City ahead of the James Russell Lowell centenary. The Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association meeting in Boise is canceled due to health concerns. The National Association of Clothiers calls a special in New York City to discuss market conditions.
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Pacific Coast Congress
League of Nations
San Francisco
Dominion
Ottawa
Manitoba Dairy Association
Winnipeg
New York City
James Russell Lowell
Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association
Boise
National Association of Clothiers
United States
Getting Even in a Dining Room Visitor Mixup
A Canadian woman attempted to teach her Chinese servant proper visitor etiquette. She summoned him into the drawing room one day, then found him outside the next afternoon when the bell rang. Sing replied, You fool me yesterday, I fool you today, revealing a prank.
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Sing
The Lump Stubbed by a Humorous Roadside Scene
A motor car struck a stump and a backseat passenger, described with vivid wording, was hurled from the vehicle and landed by the roadside. She claimed no broken bones, while a masked bystander and a sworn constable exchanged terse words as a judge’s voice hints at arrest.
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Joe Martin
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Whitting
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