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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1920
Page
5
A collage of last night arrivals, job ads, theater notices, and social updates. A newborn girl at Rodolfo Aldape home and local workers on the job at the Times. Public notices include pastures wanted, theater features and city social notes with names and moves among residents.
Train No. 1 to Corpus Christi leaves at 9 55 a m and No. 2 arrives from Corpus Christi at 3 36 p m International and Great Northern fast train to St Louis leaves 8 30 a m arrives 4 p m Night Train departs 9 p m arrives 8 a m Rio Grande and Eagle Pass trains run daily except Sunday with Minera connections in both directions.
Bury will entertain the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church at the church tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. All church members are invited. Red Cross instruction classes formed with morning 9:30, afternoon 3:30, and evening 7:30 times. A few vacancies remain in each class.
Rt. Rev. Charles P. Anderson marks the 20th anniversary of his consecration as Episcopal bishop of Chicago. A busy day features a national Legion auxiliaries meeting in Washington and a soil products expo opening in Winnipeg. An international teachers conference meets in Cleveland, Chicago Aldermanic primaries set for non-partisan April election, and U.S. House hearings reopen on packer legislation.
Mrs Kate Lee Able of Rossville Georgia describes her husband an engineer who injured his abdomen while lifting and suffered severe pain and weight loss. After failing with three doctors and repeated castor oil, he took Thedford's Black-Draught, fainted briefly during relief, then recovered.
Louise Can tril, a Los Angeles music teacher, says Tanlac restored her appetite, sleep, and weight after kidney trouble and weakness that left her near fainting. She reports regained health, energy, and strength, calling Tanlac the best medicine.
Ancestry style list notes events tied to February 24 including the Drury Lane Theatre fire in London 1809 and notable births and deaths such as Charles Inglis 1734, John Keats 1795, Marie Seebach 1397, Grant Allen 189%, plus early 20th century items like U S House funding for a food inquiry in 1917 and a 1918 shipwreck loss near Caupd Race.
The article notes that chronic constipation often results from overuse of mineral waters and strong cathartics that dehydrate the body. It endorses Chamberlains Tablets as a mild laxative tonic that produces gentle, nearly unnoticed bowel movements and is less likely to lead to further constipation.
In Webb County Texas sheriff and constables are ordered to publish for twenty days a probate notice for the estate of Refugio Gutierrez deceased. Clarence Jef feries administrator has filed a final account and application for discharge to be heard at the County Court term beginning on the third Monday of May 1920. Interested parties must appear to contest. Witness J A Rodriguez Clerk Webb County. Inland notice dated February 19 1920. 224-20t
A newspaper note urges counting the cold’s cost in dollars and cents, suggesting men push through illness. It cites ten days to recover with common treatment and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as shortening that time and a wise winter house investment.
Federal prohibition chief Major Dalrymple arrives with 18 armed assistants to clean up Iron County Michigan. He pledges to arrest state county and Iron River City officials who interfered with a federal seizure of contraband wine last week as the liquor rebellion subsides with his approach.
Fort Worth, Feb 24. The American Legion Texas division opposes the Wadsworth bill's approach to universal military training. It favors training through guard units, condemns memorials for dead soldiers, and notes thousands of living soldiers, including 7,000 Texans, lack aid for tuberculosis. A convention host is Houston, August 21 to 24, and a telegram to National Commander Poller denounces the bill.
A temporary injunction was issued by Judge Calhoun of the Fifty third district court shielding the board of managers of the Southwestern Insane Asylum from interference by the board of control. The judge ruled the managers are provided by the constitution and cannot be deprived of their office over protests.
Frankfort Kentucky February 24 A Mitchell Palmer attorney general in President Wilsons cabinet has accepted an invitation to deliver an address before the Kentucky legislature tomorrow He will be the first among potential Democratic presidential candidates to be heard by the Blue Grass State lawmakers
Private James Kelly of the Marine Corps on Parris Island, South Carolina, amazed comrades by escaping a sea hammock lash after applying old-time Marine knots. A St. Louis native just enlisted, Kelly is noted for breaking ten-penny nails with his teeth and chewing electric light bulbs.
Laredo Lodge No 1018 B P O E calls for a regular meeting this evening at 8 30 Initiation to take place A B Muller serves as secretary and will record proceedings
In 1919 women gained full voting rights in Sweden Holland Luxemburg Roumania Serbia Uruguay Rhodesia South Africa and British East Africa, reflecting a sweeping wave of political expansion. The milestone marked a broad shift in gender equality across multiple regions and political systems within the year.
London reports state the allied supreme council will not recognize the Russian soviet government until Bolshevist horrors are ended. Trade relations may resume. mutual engagements on aggression were agreed after conversations. Premier Millerand fears united Russia threatens Western Europe while Lloyd George and Nitti say a broken Russia is not dangerous. Berlin reports burglars plunder Charlottenburger castle mausoleum and steal from royal tombs and crowns.
Associate Justice Bailey of the District of Columbia supreme court signed a formal injunction today blocking the Shipping Board from selling 29 former German liners. The move was brought by William Randolph Hearst in the proceedings.
In Waco on February 24 Citizens Exchange Bank of Troy reported a robbery last night stealing 5000 dollars in Liberty Bonds and 400 in cash. Suspects forced entry by smashing the vault door with a sledge hammer.
Washington reports Sonora state authorities have been instructed by the Mexican federal government to release American aviators Usher and Wolf who were held after being forced to land in Mexico.
A survey of women in history and society notes Semiramis as the first queen with sovereign authority in 2017 BC. It mentions openness to women at the University of Georgia, equal pay laws for Norwegian civil service and teaching staff, Belgian girls’ lace schools, superstitions of fishermen’s wives with black cats, Hoover family mentions, and studies on women prompters versus men in theater.
President Wilson will not immediately act on the compromise railroad bill passed yesterday by the Senate. Labor representatives and railroad workers urge a veto due to labor provisions. A conference of workers warned of potential splits in railroad employees' organizations over the wage settlement proposal.
Bryn Mawr Pa editor notes use of surplus smoke making materials from war to signal Mars. Associate professor James Crenshay, ex chemical warfare staffer, says wide smoke screens could cover Pennsylvania and be more detectable to Martians than geometric designs once proposed by Sir Oliver Lodge.
From Excelsior, a touching story of Dr Y Takabatake a Japanese physician living in Mexico City who wed a Mexican woman. He is moved to Salina Cruz where a Japanese warship awaits likely return to Japan for alleged political offense as a Korean revolutionary. News notes sleeping sickness in Monterrey with a 14 year old girl in lethargic meningitis after influenza, and calls for Universal to reveal a gambling patron in Tacubaya. Public health department criticized for influenza handling.
Tonight unsettled and colder with a Wednesday likely fair. Fort McIntosh observations show a 24 hour period ending 7 am with a maximum of 89 and a minimum of 61. Winds from the south and clear skies accompany the report.
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