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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1920
Page
9
Local notes report voluntary earthquake relief subscriptions in Mexico near Laredo rising to $873 by last night, with post‑report totals pushing Laredo subscriptions over $1,000. The item also lists assorted local notices and advertisements from 1‑year dates and various businesses.
Advert text touts Chamberlain’s Tablets as a cure for stomach troubles. It asserts users can eat any food they crave after taking the tablets and that many have been restored to health.
Be it resolved by Home Ice Company that from and after this date body ice will only be supplied to Growers on three conditions. First on orders through the L and G N R R Co. Second on orders through any bank responsible therefor. Third where cash accompanies the order. This step aims to furnish ice at reduced rates and cut unnecessary expenses. Robert McComb, Chairman. L. J. Christen, Secretary. 1-8-6t.
Chief Deputy Sheriff F H Ligarde and Deputy Sheriff Marcial Zapata escorted four boys convicted of burglary to Gatesville for four year sentences in the State Training School for Boys. Ligarde will attend a peace officers meeting in Austin with Attorney General Cureton to discuss curb of rising auto thefts tomorrow afternoon.
Four Laredo banks held annual stockholders meetings and then chose directors and officers for 1920. Laredo National Bank re elected directors J K Beretta J Alexander J R Moore S V Edwards Dario Sanchez and A W Wilcox B M Alexander. officers John K Beretta president B M Alexander vice president Sam W Brown cashier M W Brennan A L Vidaurri J R Fasnacht asst cashiers. Milmo National Bank re elected directors M T Cogley Albert Urban A M Bruni L J Christen Y T A Austin. officers M T Cogley president A M Bruni vice president G P Farias cashier Aloysius J Notton Albert Martin Hugh B Cluck Prinz W Buttron L J Bruni asst cashiers. First State Bank & Trust Co reelected directors A Millar T C Mann with Y Benavides J T Hassell Pablo B Juarez Royle K Mims and Joe Moser. officers Royley K Mims president Y Benavides vice president L A Lafon cashier. Merchants State Bank & Trust Co directors reelected Leopoldo Villegas S E Garcia B G Salinas A G Fierros M Ferrara Volpe. officers Leopoldo Villegas president S E Garcia vice president M M Garcia cashier L G Palacios asst cashier Alvaro Pefa teller.
Violet S Oberfeldt Society Editor is listed with a phone number in a fragmentary society page notice. The text is incomplete, but indicates a social column or club contact listing.
A roundup of visits and hosts in Laredo, with repeated travel notes to San Antonio and from Hollywood, plus upcoming and recent gatherings. Announcements include a married ladies social club event on January 24, the Diocesan council meeting in Laredo January 21 22 and 25, Boy Scouts meetings, junior auxiliary activities, a bridge party at Fort McIntosh, and a probate notice in Webb County naming Geo R Page's estate with executor A M Bruni and a February hearing.
The Blue Birds entertained at the Woman's Club afternoon gathering led by Mrs. L Daiches with a program on The Revolution. Miss Genevieve Camp played piano, Miss Virginia Penn sang, and Mrs A G Macdonald accompanied. About seventy five guests, birthday cake, and a Library Fund contribution of eight dollars twenty cents marked the second anniversary.
A local notice announces a January clearance sale starting Monday featuring special values in frocks hats skirts and blouses from the nineteenth and continuing through the week with marked reductions and limited stock.
In 8 30 tonight Ing Luis G Soto will address workers at the district court room in the county courthouse. He travels with credentials from Justice Department agents and is said to advocate unity of labor and capital to solve industrial problems, denying any political aim or subversive influence.
An advertisement urges readers to try Mollister's Rocky Mountain Tea to relieve clogged bowels and headaches, claiming regular bowel action and a natural boost to well being. Herrera's Pharmacy promotes the product for immediate use tonight.
Raul Casso announces removal of office and warehouse to 1301 Iturbide Street on January 9, inviting friends and patrons to visit. 1-6-8t.
An old time advert promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable liver and bowel tonic replacing calomel. It promises pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, buoyancy and notes millions of boxes sold annually at 10c and 25c. Take one or two nightly for results.
The Supreme Court upheld the validity of the act creating the state board of control. A mandamus petition by A B Ayres to force the state comptroller to approve warrants for payments to former board of managers of the Southwestern Insane Asylum at San Antonio was overruled after abolition.
Reports that the Japanese cruiser Yakumo acted as convoy for arms landed for the Mexican government are baseless, says General Barragan, chief of the presidential staff. Pablo Gonzalez accepts presidential nomination before Democratic League convention. Senate subcommittee hears accounts of hardships and losses faced by small property holders in Mexico since Madero’s overthrow.
Washington on January 14 Col Lansing H Beach was nominated to lead the army engineers. He is the brother of Harrison L Beach publisher of the San Antonio Light.
Chicago police held 60 men for questioning after a raid on the M. C. A. Hotel as part of a larger four day round up of alleged criminals and vagabonds. About 1,000 men have been arrested as suspicious characters in that period.
J B Jones a Cubrun Kentucky druggist says Chamberlains Cough Remedy is the best cough medicine he has ever known. He reports using it in his family for seven years and recommends it to customers.
The United States weather bureau forecast for New Orleans area notes tonight and Thursday partly cloudy to cloudy with little temperature change. Fort Mcintosh observations report 24 hours ending 7 am: maximum 56 degrees minimum 44 degrees and north winds with cloudy skies.
An old time advertisement touts a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh, claiming Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures by cleansing the blood, as sufferers report better health after short use, with Toledo based Ena Cheney and Co. sending free Sentinoriase samples via druggists.
Berlin dispatch reports the government declares martial law in all sections of Germany following a mob demonstration that left 10 dead and many wounded by machine gun fire from guards around the Reichstag. The crowd, organized by extremists, protested the industrial council before the Reichstag. Guards opened fire to restore order. Paris dispatch notes the peace treaty with Hungary to be delivered to Hungarian delegates tomorrow.
A New York City bar association committee led by Charles Evans Hughes will travel to Albany likely today to provide legal support for five socialists suspended at the assembly's opening session.
Preparations are under way in Des Moines for the annual two day meeting of deans, directors and extension workers from fifteen principal agricultural colleges in the middle West. Topics include extension administration, farm bureau work, home demonstration programs, and boys and girls clubs, with plans for the coming year.
The Marquis of Lansdowne marks his 75th birthday and a long career in British government and diplomacy. From a lineage tracing to Walter Pit Otho Castellan in the eleventh century, he rose to governor general of India, viceroy, and Canada’s governor during prosperous decades. He later served as secretary of war and foreign secretary.
Pierre Loti the French author was born in Rochefort France 70 years ago today George F Pearce the Australian statesman and cabinet minister born in South Australia 50 years ago Coe Crawford a former U S senator from Kansas born in Volney Iowa 62 years ago Dr Charles Upson Clark ex director of the American Academy in Rome born in Springfield Massachusetts 45 Whiteford R Cole president of the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway born in Nashville Tennessee 46 years ago today
Today marks the birth anniversary of Robert W. Steel once governor of Jefferson Territory which later formed Colorado. The Marquis of Lansdowne, a noted British statesman and former Governor-General of Canada, is 75 today. Denver hosts elaborate events for Gen. Pershing, guest of the city.
In New Rochelle France on January 14 authorities reported more than 400 believed lost after the steamer Afrique sank in the Bay of Biscay. Only 57 survivors landed. hope for the rest faded as night fell. Sailors and French colonial soldiers were the only others to reach shore.
Investigation into the causes of the coal strike proceeds with operators and miners cooperating with the settlement commission. Daily sessions aim to reach a satisfactory agreement on miners’ wages and working conditions.
Washington reports December cotton consumption at 911,585 bales of lint and 25,050 bales of linters as announced by the Census Bureau.
Sherman Sparks, oil field driller, jailed in Wichita Falls on suspicion tied to the death of J. L. Pipkins, wealthy farm er from Willurika, Oklahoma. Pipkins’ body was found in Cotton County Oklahoma creek bottoms last week.
New York shows a large group of American boxers booking passage to Europe with France as the destination. Manager Al Lippe leads the squad including Jeff Smith Tom Cowler Frankie Brown Eddie May K O Loughlin Maxwell Williamson Johnny Alex Johnny Ligeott and Joe Mendell as they prepare in New York for potential Paris bouts next month notably a Smith versus Georges Carpentier match is hoped in Paris.
Freesees today’s anniversaries list notable dates and people from local records. The item compiles names and events tied to the community, highlighting individuals marking significant years.
A condensed timeline lists key events from 1814 to 1895 including Norway’s cession to Sweden in 1814, Marquis de Marbois’ death in Paris, 1843 Delhi’s Gates procession, Harnden’s 1812 birth in Reading and death in Boston, 1858 an assassination attempt in Paris, 1870 Governor John Barry’s death in Michigan, 1873 Louisiana governors’ inaugurations, and the 1895 start of a major Brooklyn street railway strike.
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