Planning for next year's Laredo celebration needs structure
The piece argues for a permanent, year round celebration committee in Laredo to coordinate a grand Twenty-Second celebration. It cites other cities with successful fiestas, notes current crowd support and finances, and stresses broader private displays, better accommodations, and broader community involvement to ensure a memorable event next year. It also touches on industrial progress and gender roles, linking machinery to emancipation and improved living conditions.
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Orleans
San Antonio
California
Memphis
St. Louis
Mobile
Pensacola
Laredo
Washington
Moving Picture Companies
New England
Ana
Unt
Little Locals and Parade Notes From Laredo
Dr W W MacGregor, confined two and a half weeks with a sprained ankle, attended yesterday’s parade. Jitney cars offered by City Garage and ads for YEARY batteries appear. Pocahontas portrayal by Miss Courtney Slaughter with maids of honor Ruby Landrum Alma Johngy C C Sheriff. Parade details praise from Delling and aides. Local businesses advertise auto, dental, and shop services amid colorful decor and patriotic themes.
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W. W. MacGregor
Courtney Slaughter
Pocahontas
Machinery versus hands in wartime farming shift
European nations have relied on less farm machinery than the United States due to abundant unskilled labor. In Germany and elsewhere women and girls performed field work, aiding war effort as men fought. Postwar labor shortages push Europe toward greater machinery use to drive production.
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Europe
Georgia Darkey
United States
Japan
Germany
Notable Birthdays Today February 23 Sir George Cave
Sir George Cave aged 61 today is Home Secretary in the new British Cabinet. A Surrey MP since 1906 he became a minister last December under Lloyd George. Born London February 23 1866 he studied at Oxford and is a lawyer with a large practice. He has served in various government legal posts including Attorney General to the Prince of Wales in 1914 and has edited several legal treatises.
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George Cave
Sir George
Surrey
Lloyd George
London
Oxford
Chairman Kenney Leads Fort McIntosh Field Day Close
The eighteenth annual cent of the kind in Laredo concludes as Fort McIntosh field day exercises end. Joseph W. Kenney chaired the executive committee and, with good cooperation from committees and the ladies auxiliary, delivered most features despite late planning.
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Fort McIntosh
Laredo
Joseph W. Kenney
Kenney
J. B. Morton
Executive Committee
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Quick Relief Claim for HERBINE at Bedtime
An old advertisement promises rapid relief from irregular bowels using HERBINE. It instructs taking a dose at bedtime and notes you will feel better the next day. The price is stated as one, and it claims availability at all druggists.
Sloan's Liniment promises quick relief for aches
An early 20th century product claim describes Sloan's Liniment easing stiff and sore muscles after colds and exertion. It touts non staining penetration without rubbing and lists uses for rheumatism neuralgia lumbago strains sprains and bruises. Available from druggists for 25 cents.
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Sloan
Fort McIntosh Field Day Draws Large Crowds
Large crowds gathered at Fort McIntosh to witness a U S Army field day. The grand program of military events featured maneuvers and exercises by soldiers, drawing interest from local spectators as the parade grounds hosted the ongoing program through the afternoon.
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Fort McIntosh
U. S
McIintosh
Uncle Sam
Heavy cough remedy touted as curative cure-all
A health notice extols Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a dependable treatment for severe coughs and related disorders. It claims the medicine checks disease progression and aids recovery, with prices listed at 25c, 50c, and 1.00 per bottle and suggests purchase from local druggists. Detachments of the Second Florida Infantry are preparing to depart, returning from Rio Grande patrol duty near Laredo, to head home on March 9.
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Ballard
Nature
Second Florida Infantry
Florida Regiment
Rio Grande
Laredo
Ninth Infantry
Fourteenth Cavalry
War Department
National Guard
Missouri
Florida
Soldier Boys
Uncle Sam
Railroad Time Table Texas Mexican and connections
Schedule notes from the Texas Mexican line listing departures and arrivals to Corpus Christi and through connections. Through fast train to St. Louis on the International and Great Northern, Night Train on G N, and Rio Grande Eagle Pass services with Train No 1 from Laredo and Train No 2 from Minera, both daily except Sunday.
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Rio Grande
Eagle Pass
Laredo
Minera
Does Your Back Ache Dean's Kidney Pills Ad
Local testimonial from Valente Gutierrez of Laredo claims Doan's Kidney Pills cured years of kidney trouble after trying many remedies. He reports relief from back pain and improved kidney function, purchased at City Drug Co. Price 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co. advertises the same remedy.
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Dean
Laredo
Valente Gutierrez
Iturbide St
City Drug Co
Mr. Gutierrez
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Eighteenth Annual Washington Birthday Celebration in Laredo
The eighteenth Washington's Birthday celebration in Laredo drew about seven thousand visitors and thousands more by excursion train. A grand civic parade featured 30,000 spectators, elaborate floats from Queen Titania to the Spirit of 76, plus band concerts on Martin and Jarvis Plazas and a long illuminated parade through the city. The event, led by J. W. Kenney and Mrs. J. B. Morton, showcased festive floats, military bands, and parade spectators, concluding with nighttime carnival and music throngs across the city.
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Laredo
Martin Plaza
Ninth Infantry Band
Jarvis Plaza
Second Florida Infantry
J. W. Kenney
J. B. Morton
Pocahontas
M. G. Delling
Brennan
Ninth U. S. Infantry Band
Valley Forge
Fort MelIntosh Foat
U. S. Age
Holding Institute
M. Joseph
Webb County
Boy Scouts
Carnival Company
Carnival
Buster Brown
Tige
Ford
Chauffeur’s Union
Pedro Trevisio & Co
Consumers Ice & Fuel Co
Dubin, la Prensa
Mucio Puentes
Magnolia Oil Co
Schwartzman Furniture Co
One Price Department Store
L. R. Martinez
Titania
Eva Austin
Myrtle Mackin
Lilian Westbrook
Lois Derby
Anna May Mussett
Marjorie Pish
Dorothy Morton
Irene Leyendecker
Polly Yates
Elsie Werner
Esther Penn
Kathryn Crutchfield
Merceil Lake
Eva Scratchley
Queen of the Shepherds
Maxime Taylor
Olivia Schultz
A Werner
Ruth
Peness
Siggio
Ninth Infantry
Second Florida
Alonzo Gray
Fort McIntosh
Fourteenth Cavalry
Washington Birthday Parade Energizes Laredo Crowd
February 22 featured a sunrise salute at Fort McIntosh and a dawn pantomime of Pocahontas. A grand 9:30 a.m. military parade followed, trimmed by war department recalls and river patrol needs. The 3 p.m. civic parade showcased Laredo’s famed street pageant amid visiting crowds.
Prominent Newspaper Men In Laredo Washington Birthday Visit
Visitors included John F. Lubben general manager of the Galveston News and Fred B. Robinson vice-president of the Waco Times-Herald. R. W. Purdon staff correspondent of the San Antonio Express and E. T. Merriman formerly of the Corpus Christi Caller were also present. The Fourth Estate praised the celebration features and especially the parades.
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Laredo
Washington
John F. Lubben
Galveston News
Fred B. Robinson
Waco Times-Herald
R. W. Purdon
San Antonio Express
E. T. Merriman
Corpus Christi Caller
Fourth Estate
Musterole on the Bathroom Shelf Helps Soothe Ailments
An old household remedy Musterole is described as a clean white ointment made with oil of mustard. It offers quick relief for sore throats bronchitis tonsillitis stiff neck asthma neuralgia headaches congestion pleurisy rheumatism lumbago and other pains. The ad notes its use for croupy children and claims it often prevents pneumonia.
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Susie
Johnny
Father
Janny
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