Laredo Port Imports and Local Notices From 1920
Morning port traffic at Laredo includes two carloads of lead, three of ixile, one of beer, and seven of copper from Mexico. Local ads cover second hand furniture, a Sanitary Grocery deli, Royal and Strand theater showings, plumbing services, weather notes, Bellmont Rooms, and poll tax reminders. Jesse W. Thames resigns from the U.S. immigration service to pursue private business in Laredo.
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Mexico
Laredo
Lincoln Street
the Royal
House Peters
Peters
Kennedy
Strand
Mike Moran
Wallace Reid
A Ley
Huns
Moran
Bellmont
Main Ave
J. L. Fierros
Farragut Street
Fidel Cantu
Immigration Service
Jesse W. Thames
United States Immigration Service
Thames
Civil Docket On Trial In District Court This Week
The civil docket is again on trial in the district court with Judge Mullally calling cases as set. Both jury and non jury trials will be heard this week, while the remainder of the criminal docket will likely not be taken up at this term.
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Mullally
Run-down relief with Rocky Mountain Tea remedy
When fatigue and languor strike, sleep and appetite falter. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, nature's herbs, offered by Kerrera's Pharmacy, is recommended for immediate use to boost vitality and fend off disease germs.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Kerrera
Juvenile Choir Delights at Christ Church Service
Christ Church held a splendid service with an exceptional evening performance by the juvenile choir. Mrs Anderson, guiding the children, earned credit for the young singers. A trio led by Mrs Sue J. Smith, Mrs E B Adams, and Mrs G Woodman delivered a fine rendition and more such musical services are planned with strong interest.
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Christ Church
Anderson
Sue J. Smith
E. B. Adams
Two Marriage Licenses Issued Amid Slow Clerk Office Vibe
Since Saturday, county clerk’s marriage license line shows slow business due to bad weather. Licenses issued include Manuel Benavides with Paulina Perales, Juan Flores with Paula Soto.
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Cupid
Manuel Benavides
Paulina Perales
Juan Flores
Paula Soto
Important Meeting of Lare Ao Volunteer Fire Department
The Lare Ao Volunteer Fire Department calls an important meeting for Wednesday at 8 o clock at the hall. Election of officers for the ensuing year will be held and other matters of importance will be discussed. All active and honorary members are urged to attend.
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Lare- Ao
Social Calendar Items From Mrs Violet Oberfeldt
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church meets at the church at 4 PM. Mrs Robert McComb hosts the Nulles Club at 3 PM Tuesday. The Tuesday Bridge Club is hosted by Mrs A C Hamilton at 3 30 PM. Junior Auxiliary meets at the Rectory with Mrs W Cook at 4 PM. Sunbeam Band of the Baptist at 4 PM. Miriam Chapter No 86 O E S meets at Masonic Hall in the evening.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Robert McComb
Nulles Club
A. C. Hamilton
W. Cook
Sunbeam Band
Numerous residents return from holidays to San Antonio and area
Mrs Elizabeth Threadgill and others come back from holiday visits to relatives and cities like San Antonio Houston Brownsville Fort Worth Pearsall Eagle Pass and Cisco. Several youths rejoin St Louis College and Miss Anne French seeks Fort Worth work while family members plan visits in Austin Laredo and Dolores.
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Arthur Werner
Tallman Johnson
San Antonio
St. Louis College
Edward Biggio
Rev. J. Ward
Manuel
Carlos Cantu
Community Notes On Holiday Return And Church Meetings
Holiday guests returned home while Murt Cullinan goes back to Denver to resume school. Church groups in Laredo and San Antonio plan meetings this week, including Woman's Missionary Society, Junior Auxiliary, Sunbeam Band, Parish Guild, W M A circles, Ladies Society, Epworth League, Bue Birds, and Boy Scouts. Robert Daspit, infant son of Major and Mrs. Dwan, was baptized at Christ Church. A Y W C A session invites Laredo women to hear Miss Mocknight on Home Hygiene and Sick Care with Red Cross support.
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Cornelia Woodul
San Antonio
Robert Daspit
Major
E. J. Dwan
Chas. W. Cook
Christ Church
Alden Muller
Robert L. Muller
Sidney Jackman
Notable Historical Milestones From Januarys Past
A compact digest notes key events and deaths across years. Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Norwich, Connecticut. Emma Abbott, famed opera singer, died in 1891. Other entries mark battles and political actions from 1796 to 1916 including fort captures, interdicts, assaults, and legislative proposals.
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Samuel Huntington
Connecticut
Norwich
Conn
Windham
Bacchante
Saracen
Cattaro
Toronto
England
Canton
China
Emma Abbott
Chicago
Japan
Asquith
House of Commons
Ball playing soldiers sought by Army teams in Canal Zone
Demobilization in the Canal Zone has left gaps in the Panama league and Uncle Sam seeks players. In Texas the Bible is credited as aiding college athletics with Dana Xenophon Bible named head coach of all intercollegiate sports at Texas Agricultural College.
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Uncle Sam
Canal Zone
Panama
Alice Brady Shines In The Fear Market
Alice Brady stars in The Fear Market at the Royal Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday. Frank Losee portrays Major Stone, a scheming newspaper owner, in Realart Pictures adaptation of Princess Troubetzkoy’s powerful story.
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Miss Brady
Princess Troubetzkoy
Frank Losee
Major Stone
Alice
Brady
Realart
Royal Theatre
Red Cross Class Instructor to Lead YWCA Meeting
Miss Mildred M. McKnight, instructor for the Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick course, will speak at a Webb County Red Cross unit meeting at the YWCA tomorrow at 4 p.m. All ladies are invited and urged to attend.
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Laredo
Y. W. C. A. International Institute
Mocknight
Red Cross
Mildred M. McKnight
Webb County
American Red Cross
Weather forecast for New Orleans area
The United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans predicts tonight rain with warmer temperatures and continued rain on Tuesday. The Times carries this daily forecast supplied by the Telephone Company.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh 24 Hour Weather Report
Observations for the 24 hours ending 7 am show a maximum of 57 degrees and a minimum of 49 degrees. Winds from the north, with cloudy skies and rainfall totaling .45 inches.
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Fort McIntosh
Watch THE TIME S subscriptions offer
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Miners Delegates Begin Convention In Columbus
More than 2,000 delegates, representing 400,000 soft coal miners, assemble to discuss settlement terms and plan presenting to a three member presidential commission within 60 days to resolve all disputes. Also reports from Mexico of a destructive earthquake affecting multiple states and casualties near Mt Orizaba. Oil producers in Mexico face government actions affecting fuel oil deliveries to Texas railroads.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
United States
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Puebla
Oaxaca
Guerrero
Morelos
Jalisco
Tlaxcala
Hidalgo
Queretaro
Tehuantepec
Pacific
Mt. Orizaba
Vera ‘Crag
Tepecelo
Cougtlin
Austin
Texas
Lansing
Allison
Mayfield
Texas Railroad
Dragnet Still Out for Many Radicals
Washington January 5. The department of justice continues the nationwide dragnet seeking members of communist and communist labor groups who escaped the Friday raid. About 5,000 persons have been arrested since the latest raid began.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Justice
Today in Washington and Beyond a Packed Congressional Day
Congress returns from holiday recess as Italy launches a Victory Loan campaign and the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the beer case. Campton Moore to be installed mayor of Philadelphia. I W W murder trial in Centralia begins. UMWA convention in Columbus votes on the coal strike. Pershing resumes tour via Camp Grant. Kansas forms an industrial court bill. Republican convention plans in Chicago. Victor Berger to speak in New York City. Navy awards board reconvenes to review recent recommendations.
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Italy
Supreme Court of the United States
Campton Moore
Congress
Philadelphia
Centralia
Wash
United Mine Workers of America
Columbus
Policies Board
Lincoln
Neb
General Pershing
Camp Grant
Rockford
Ill
Kansas
A. T. Hert
Chicago
Victor Berger
Milwaukee
House of Representatives
New York City
New York
Socialist Party
Daniels
Navy Department
Board of Awards
Navy
Spannell's third trial opens in Brownwood for Alpine slayings
Brownwood Texas January 5. The third trial of Harry J Spannell begins in district court over the 1916 Alpine killings of Col M C Butler and Mrs Spannell. The case hinges on evidence linking Spannell to the double murder and involves years of legal proceedings.
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Brownwood
Texas
Harry J. Spannell
Col. M. C. Butler
Supreme Court Rules One Half Percent Alcohol Law Valid
The Supreme Court ruled constitutional the Volstead enforcement act provisions banning manufacture and sale of beer wine or other intoxicating liquors containing at least one half of one percent alcohol. Beer with two and three quarters percent is banned under the wartime act. Justice Brandeis delivered the opinion in a six to three decision.
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Associated Press
Washington
Jan
Supreme Court
Brandeis
Congress
Moore Becomes Philadelphia Mayor In January Rise
J Hampton Moore assumes the mayoralty of Philadelphia on January 5. He previously served as representative of the Third Pennsylvania district in Congress and held roles including chief of the Bureau of Manufactures, president of the National Republican League, and president of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association. He has journalistic, legal, and political experience dating from the Fifty-ninth Congress and was reelected four times.
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J. Hampton Moore
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Congress
Moore
Bureau of Manufactures
Department of Commerce and Labor
National Republican League
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
United States
Fine Boy Arrived Saturday for Mr and Mrs Alexander
A telegram received by brothers and sisters of the happy father announces the arrival of a fine big boy to Mr and Mrs Ben M Alexander of St Louis Missouri on Saturday afternoon. The father is vice president of the National Bank and in St Louis for the event.
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Ben M. Alexander
St. Leuis
Alexander
The
National Bank
No Celebration This Year For Laredo Washington Birthday
A mass meeting at the Chamber of Commerce on last Saturday failed to attract a crowd to decide on a local Washington's Birthday celebration. Only two attendees. the result is a clear decision that no celebration will be held this year in Laredo.
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Chamber of Commerce
Laredo
Washington
Wallace asks supreme council to decide Paris decisions
American ambassador Hugh C C Wallace requests the Allied Powers council decide future Paris decisions using the term allied powers and not allied and associated powers. The Echo de Paris says this marks the United States’ determination not to participate officially in council decisions.
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Wy Associated Press
Paris
Hugh CC. Wallace
France
Supreme Council
Council
Echo de Paris
United States
Faces Busy Session After the Holidays
Washington January 5 Returning to work today after a two weeks holiday Congress faces one of the busiest sessions in history with many domestic matters and international questions to be settled including the peace treaties with Germany and Austria.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Germany
Austria
President Wilson to send greeting on Jackson Day
The White House announced today that President Wilson will issue an important greeting at the Democratic dinner on Jackson Day January 8.
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Wasington
Willison
Jackson
White House
Sporting notes touch many leagues across the country
Illinois to stage fifteen district amateur three cushion billiards tournaments with a Chicago final for the state championship. Eastern league raises salary cap to 8 500 next season, International league to 5 000. Rumors say money buys stars like Roger Hornsby, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins. Benny Leonard and Johnny Dundee post 3 500 forfeits each for New Haven bout January 16. Major league efforts to curb gambling progress at parks where odds peddling exists. Washington State college seeks Harvard game after beating Oregon, while California-bound Oregon trip is the sole West stop for the Crimson. Syracuse to trim post season western trip next year due to costs.
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Ilinois
Chicago
Eastern Baseball League
International League
St. Louis
Roger Hornsby
Cardinals
Tris Speaker
Eddie Collins
Benny Leonard
Johnny Dundee
New Haven
Washington State
Oregon
Harvard
Crimson
California
Syracuse
Juvenile burglars to be sent to State Training School
Jose Perez, Jesus Cuesta Ortiz, Felipe Cisneros and Jose Ma. Tellez, youths under 17, were convicted this term of district court and sentenced to four years each at the State Training School for Boys for numerous burglaries. Deputy Sheriff Ligarde will likely escort them to the institution this week.
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Jose Perez
Jesus Cuesta Ortiz
Felipe Cisneros
Jose Ma. Tellez
Mate
Ligarde
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B. Juarez
Will W. Gregg
Times Office
Violet S. Oberfeldt
Elizabeth Threadgill
Antonio B. Lafon
Luis A. Lafon
C. B. Kenedy
Brownsville
John Young
Grace Leatherwood
Adellina Thaison
Miss Leatherwood
M. Hostetter
W. Keithley
Josephine Smith
Houston
el Campo
Anne French
Fort Worth
Charles Bretherton
Eagle Pass
Ben
N. A. Miller
Dorado Arkansas
Mabel Barlow
Rosita
Our Lady of the Lake College
Sheble
St. Mary’s College
Frank Cullinan
Cisco
M. P. Cullinan
Victor Sauvignet
Mildred McKnight
City
Anita Johnson
Flatonia
Bessie Barnett
Dolores
Vera Sharkey
S. EB. Woods
A.S. Williams
M. Lish
Murt Cullinan
Denver
Woman's Missionary Society
the Baptist Church
Mra. C. Fr
W. M. A. of the Baptist Church
Ladies Society of the Christian Church
G. C. Flatt
Epworth League of the Methodist Church
M&m
Alfred Poggenpohl
Boy Scouts
Troop No. 2
Cardu
Maxey Pace
Salinas Ave
Beckelhymer
Bath
Apply Exchange Hotel
Losti
EK. A.C. Liberal
Hidalgo Street
Flores Avenue
W. H. Hotel
Baker
Hamilton
Cortez Street
Oliver
Lincolin Street
Ly Cray
Scott Street
Apply V. Mejia
Dia Ferretera del Rio Bravo
Matamoros Street
Iturbide Street
San Nduardo Avenue
A. Bertani
Phone
S. G
Hotel Hamilton
Juarez Avenue
the Heights
Rosario Street
Alice Brady
Weather Forecast
Mexican States
Mount
Orizaba
Will
Secret Service
United States Congress
Tecers
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