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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1920
Page
18
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Members of the Associated Presbyterian Church met for the quarterly gathering, with reports from committees and plans announced for the spring program. Local officials and church leaders attended, and refreshments followed the session.
The piece denounces alleged corruption in the Carranza era, accusing Luis Cabrera of treasury looting and hiding funds abroad. It charges senior officials with diverting national money, notes past regimes dissipating gold reserves, and argues revolutions abroad repeatedly confront leaders accused of personal gain. It contrasts true patriots with corrupt figures and questions the legitimacy of Mexican government.
A long call to eradicate rats in Laredo and surroundings describes a new microbe-based bait to infect and kill rats, reducing crop losses and disease risk. It cites rampant field rats threatening cotton and nopal crops, urges testing, and warns that without action rats breed, spread plague, and outpace control efforts.
J Bruce Kremer vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee will call the convention to order in San Francisco today for the nomination of a national ticket. A native of Louisville, he is 42, educated at the University of Virginia and University of Louisville Law School, admitted to the bar in 1898, and has lived in Butte, Montana since relocating there years ago. He has long played a prominent role in Montana Democratic politics.
A. Deutz & Bro ball team defeated Excelsior 6 to 2 yesterday. Batteries: Wolf and Sords for Deutz. Cornejo and Roach for Excelsior. Other items note sewing services, bakery specials, a liquor-law hearing, plumbing, realty listings, and a Cotulla Fourth of July gathering.
Texas Governor proclaims a modified bubonic plague quarantine effective June 27. Laredo faces shipment inspections from infected Mexican points, with broad coastal and border measures and rat eradication urged. Health officers to enforce rules. exemptions possible by state health officials. Public urged to aid authorities and report derelictions. Advertisements for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea follow.
Lyman J. Gage born in Madison County New York 84 years ago today former U S Treasury secretary. Dr Alexis Carrel at Rockefeller Institute born in France 47 years ago today. Frederick L. Chase astronomer Yale University born Boulder Colorado 55 years ago today. Otis Skinner famed American stage actor born Cambridge Massachusetts 62 years ago today.
Queen Victoria crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1838. 1845 Tamative Madagascar bombarded by British and French gunboats over foreign trader abuses. 1875 International court of justice opened by the Khedive of Cairo. 1876 Democratic convention in St. Louis nominates Tilden Hendricks. 1886 Prince of Wales lays People's Palace foundation stone in London. 1889 Maria Mitchell, noted American astronomer, dies. 1915 Swedish women hold a large peace demonstration in Stockholm. 1916 Karl Liebknecht sentenced in Berlin to thirty months for attempted high treason.
One year ago today Allied Powers and Germany signed the peace treaty at Versailles. President Wilson addressed the American people urging acceptance of the covenant without change or reservation.
The Taxpayers Association of New Mexico backs reducing elective state officers to a governor and lieutenant governor. If approved by the legislature and voters via constitutional amendment, the governor would appoint all other executive officers with senate consent, serving at the governor's pleasure.
A mayoral notice from L. Villegas urged residents of Laredo to prepare for Buboonic Plague after reports in Vera Cruz and suspicious cases in Monterrey and Galveston. It calls for sanitation, reporting, and a campaign to eradicate rats and mice as primary spreaders, with city inspectors to visit premises. The notice is dated June 19 and carries an official tone.
The Royal Theatre presents The Thunderbolt a First National production starring Katherine MacDonald the American beauty in a refined high class play. A strong supporting cast backs Miss MacDonald and patrons are urged to see the feature this afternoon or tonight at the Royal.
City of Laredo invites bids for a sewerage system project. Bids due July 6 1920 at 5 p m with 5000 dollar certified check. Bids opened at 8 p m July 6 1920 at regular City Council meeting. city may reject any bid.
The Rialto Theater offered Dangerous to Men and a Hallroom comedy plus a vaudeville treat with Miss Courtney Slaughter and Miss Carlotta Lloyd joining the program. Slaughter, a Laredo dancer recently with a New York company, wore a Japanese costume and sang two solos before performing a numbered dance as Miss Floyd. The act drew hearty applause from a full house. The same program repeats tonight.
An ad touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a monthly laxative to cleanse and purify the stomach and bowels. It claims decay matter in the digestive tract releases poisons to the body and urges use of the product sold by Herrera's Pharmacy.
In Nuevo Laredo last night the Second Division Military Band staged a concert at Hidalgo Plaza attracting many locals. The unit arrived days ago and will stay briefly. A detachment of fifty Yaqui Indians from Sonora accompanied the band, loyal to General Obregon, and many Yaquis remain in the newly formed Mexican army in Nuevo Laredo.
Mrs Mamie Bertel of Moberly Missouri praises Chamberlains Tablets as the best remedy for stomach trouble biliousness and constipation. She has used them for two to three years and says they relieve indigestion aid the liver and make her feel fine.
Postmaster J N Worsham reports time cards on street boxes in Laredo will show daily mail collection hours. The Times notes these are installed at post office expense for public convenience and urges mayor and police cooperation to protect the government property from defacement
The City Council on May 18 1920 authorized disposal of lots 7 and 8 in block 116 W D for not less than $5,000 each and decided to move the Corral to Old Cemetery Block 220 W D. Parties with relatives buried there are ordered to remove bodies within sixty days from the date of this notice dated June 4 1920.
Wallace Reid appears in The Lottery Man a Paramount Artcraft farce shown at the Strand Theatre next week. A Broadway stage hit, the comedy has long drawn laughs in New York and promises a brisk entertainment dose for screen fans.
A. G. Linares announces from Laredo he has left for St Louis to buy elegant furnishings for the Bender Hotel Barber Shop. He promises a July installation with top class sanitation and elegance, inviting the public to await the opening notice.
The annual meeting of the stockholders will be at the company's office in Laredo Texas on June 30 1920 at 9 00 a m for electing directors and other business. The Board of Directors will meet immediately after adjournment. A B Muller Secretary. 51 26
In Ames Iowa Intelligencer advice column, readers are urged to avoid whiskey for colic or stomach ache. The piece warns against the myth that alcohol cures such pains and recommends consulting a doctor or using Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy instead.
The Immigration Service in Laredo explains that from July 1 1920 a one dollar fee applies to each border permit card and nine dollars per card issued to Americans. Tourist passes follow the same fee pattern while regular passports will cost ten dollars. Officials urged prompt applications and noted the ten simoleons charge applies to either passport or permit.
holders of The Home Ice Company will be held at the company's office Laredo Texas July 10 1920 at 6 p m for the purpose of electing directors and the transaction of such business as may be brought before the meeting hold a meeting immediately after ad L J CHRISTEN 69 30t a
Masonic notice for Laredo Lodge No 547 A F and A M invites visiting brethren to attend the stated meeting at 8 p m. with installation of officers to follow. Fritz Werner, W M.
The Latin-American Club announces a grand ball to celebrate United States Independence Day on the evening of July 4. Admission limited to members in good standing as recorded on the club books. Committer 6-22-10t.
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