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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1913
Page
7
Four city wards total 50 votes. Ward by ward results split, with ties and small margins. State totals favoring no amendments, strongest opposition aimed at the education bond measure. District judge, salaries, and improvement bond questions defined by numbers across wards.
Mrs M J Harris of Laredo Texas reports twelve years of kidney issues and backache improved by Doan's Kidney Pills after buying at City Drug Store. The ad claims the remedy has 50 years of use and urges readers to act now to prevent Dropsy or Bright's disease. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
County Attorney Juan V Benavides and J L Dannelley filed quo warranto information with Webb County district clerk seeking removal of Emeterio Flores from the county commissioner post. Flores allegedly is not a citizen of Texas or the United States. Relators are Casimiro Martinez and Juan Paiz. Judge Mullally granted filing permission and will schedule a hearing.
Mr Randolph Robertson received a telegram from Corpus Christi announcing the death of G R Scott early Sunday morning. For thirty years Judge Scott resided in Corpus Christi and led the law firm Scott Pope and Boone. He was first vice president and attorney of the Corpus Christi National Bank. Robertson departed for Houston to attend the funeral tomorrow.
A strong Senate majority backs the President's Nicaragua protection policy. A foreign relations committee poll shows bicameral support for Secretary Bryan's treaty proposal, not binding debt provisions, per Associated Press. Governor Colquitt asks for direct Senate elections and penitentiary law provisions, with a two fiscal year appropriation looming. Ed Carter named president pro tem. initiative referendum votes face possible reversal.
Edgar West of Houston registered at the Hamilton while visitors from Dallas St Louis San Antonio and others passed through or stayed at the Hamilton Rose Hotel and nearby properties. Several residents and guests from Bruni Corpus Christi Galveston and Fort Worth were noted with social calls travel mentions and short visits including traffic officials conventions and seaside stays.
Mrs Vo rdna Henson, a Christian Scientist practitioner, faced trial in Canyon Texas on charges of illegal medical practice. The case alleges she accepted money from Daniel Lehman for treatment as eight lawyers, including a Boston defender, represented her in court.
Washington July 21 alarming reports say developments in the coming two weeks are of tremendous importance to the Huerta administration. Officials would not disclose the nature of the advices but warned of a looming crisis in Mexico affecting the regime.
Washington July 21 Martin Mulhall resumed his testimony before the senate lobby committee and presented a lengthy blacklist of congressmen supported by the manufacturers association to be driven from public life for backing labor legislation. He added another list showing Champ Clark is in disfavor for opposing Speaker Cannon.
Atlanta July 21 Dr O L Oliver leads in the First senatorial district claim victory over opponent C A Wheeler of Texarkana by nine votes with four small boxes uncounted. The report notes Oliver’s claim amid pending returns and local election activity.
Sunapee New Hampshire July 21 Arrangements completed for the annual forestry conference under the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests Sessions begin tomorrow and run through Thursday Invited speakers include Secretary of War Garrison if available Henry S Graves chief of the United States Forest Service William R Hall assistant forester and Dr George Otis Smith director of the United States Geological Survey
Philadelphia hosts the National Leather and Shoe Finders Association in its annual convention with many top trade officials attending. A banquet at Bellevue Stratford Thursday will feature noted speakers while discussions focus on the Underwood tariff measure and its likely impact on the leather industry.
In Washington on July 21 the tariff discussion opened in the senate with Senator Burton of Ohio attacking the Democratic bill. He said free trade is not timely policy for the United States and criticized the retaliatory tariff system. Senator Smoot also assailed the bill accusing a foreign lobby of influencing Democratic framing.
Buffalo reporters note the Grand Circuit horses will parade at Fort Erie this week across the Niagara River. Racing laws limit the meeting to four days but promise a generous stake program echoing Cleveland and Pittsburg showcases.
The Webb County Teachers Institute will be held at Central School in this city from September 1 to 5 under County Superintendent B Richardson. The city and county institutes will be segregated this year with the city program issued under City Superintendent and includes papers and discussions on rural school pedagogy.
W. D. Magli, a well known merchant of Whitemound Wisconsin, bought Chamberlains medicine to supply customers. After receipt he fell ill and says one small bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was worth more to him than the cost of his stock. For sale by all dealers.
Four thousand baseball enthusiasts attacked Union League baseball park after uncovering that a cam of bloomer girls was men in disguise. Three police injured as a husky youth tugged the centerfielder’s wig, revealing a male impostor and sparking a chaotic scene.
Bucharest July 21 official confirmation states Bulgaria has accepted Roumanian peace conditions and agreed to terms with Greece and Servia. The announcement covers acceptance of terms imposed by enemies as part of the broader settlement in the region.
A square mile of cotton fields near Mountain Peak was ruined by hail yesterday in Waxahachie Texas. Lightning struck Hugh McAlpine’s residence destroying it and injured the Maypear Presbyterian church which was badly damaged.
The annual Mississippi national guard encampment opened in Biloxi on July 21 with Adjutant Fridge in charge. Governors Hall of Louisiana and O'Neal of Alabama are expected to attend tomorrow. Washington has allowed two revenue cutters to add interest to the encampment.
The fourth annual clay court tennis championship began on July 2 at the Omaha Field Club in Oman Nebraska. Top U S players compete across men's singles, men's doubles, and consolation events for singles and doubles.
In Trinity Church York Harbor, Miss Natalie Jerrold Kelley daughter of Commander J D Harrold Kelley U S N retired and Mrs Kelley wed Thomas McKeown Cook Jr of Pittsburgh A large reception followed at York Harbor Country Club attended by family including sister Mrs Stansbury Brady and best man James Scully Jr. of Pittsburgh.
A statement from MiLmo National Bank shows 294.55 on deposit for the Jarvis Plaza improvement, dating from April 4 1910. The sum is a small portion of the total needed to pave and complete the project.
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