Laredo Bridge Co plans new steel and concrete bridge
B M Alexander says submission to the Mexican government for approval will occur within thirty days. Plans are being prepared by a San Antonio construction engineer and will be sent to Mexico City for approval. Construction may begin later this year. The pontoon bridge remains in service and is now lit with a double string of incandescent lights for better night illumination.
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Laredos
B. M. Alexander
Laredo
Jamaica Sunday Jamaica Night by San Agustin Ladies
Under San Agustin parish guidance a Jamaica night unfolds on Martin Plaza at eight. Proceeds benefit the Parochial Library fund. Volunteers staffed by Jamaica veterans direct booths and amusements while Mexican Consul Arturo de Laracho funds a Nuevo Laredo band for authentic music.
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San Agustin Parish
Jamaica
Martin Plaza
Parochial Library Fund
Arturo de Laracho
Nuevo Laredo
Prominent 1912 Presidential Hopefuls Listed by State
A compilation of leading presidential contenders described by birth state age and career. Notables include William H. Taft Hiram W Johnson Leonard Wood Frank O Lowden Warren G Harding Herbert C Hoover Charles Evans Hughes Calvin Coolidge and Governor Coolidge noted for handling the Boston policemen strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H.taft
Ohio
United States
United States Circuit Court
Philippines
Roosevelt
Cuba
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Leonard Wood
New Hampshire
United States Army
Rough Riders
Spain
Central Department
Chicago
Frank O. Lowden
Minnesota
Republican National Committee
Illinois
Ilinois
Warren G. Hardings
Ohio Senate
Herbert C. Hoover
Iowa
Mexico
Australia
China
American Commission For Relief
Charles
Hughes
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Bench
Calvin Coolidge
Vermont
Northampton
Mass
Massachusetts
Senate
Coolidge
Boston
Watch THE TIMES everyday for opportunities
An offer to subscribe to The Times notes a daily watch for opportunities and promotes a 60 cent monthly rate as the subscription price.
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the Times
Expelled Missionaries in Korea Dispute Over Demonstrations
Henry Appenzeller and Miss B A Smith, American Methodist teachers, were dismissed in Korea by Japanese authorities for failing to prevent or punish student demonstrations on Korea’s independence anniversary. Appenzeller says he warned students and refused to investigate as political. police conducted a brutal inquiry, detaining a teacher and 14 students and reporting mistreatment. Smith offered no statement. authorities claim she did not warn students. The case highlights tensions between school discipline, political influence, and American guidance in Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
Henry Appenzeller
B. A. Smith
Mr. Appenzeiler
Miss Smith
Paiwhu
Appenzeller
Tatchai
Fhiimeelf
Mr. Appenzeller
State Department
Washington
Social Times and Club Sessions This Week
Mrs. Violet S Oberfeldt reports Thursday events with Mrs J W Brewster entertaining Married Ladies Social Club at 4 pm Four W M A circles meet at 6 pm Circle A with Mrs C H Bell Circle B with Mrs Judkins Circle C with Mrs B H Burr Circle D with Mrs J M Sallee at the usual afternoon hour A dance at the Service Club Fort McIntosh at 8 30 pm Mrs John M Martin hosts a splash party 8 9 pm at Bella Vista for cousin Miss Anna Knages Friday Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church hosts a fake Carnival on School Plaza at 7 30 pm.
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J. W. Brewster
C. H. Bell
Judkins
B. H. Burr
J. M. Sallee
Fort McIntosh
Fort Mciintosh
John M. Martin
Bella Vista
Anna Knages
Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church
Oo Ae
Er. F. Hamilton
Helen and
Alfreda Loyer
Elizabeth Bryan
Evelyn Randolph
Louise Lehman
Ina Moye
Katherine French
Henry Neff
Dorman Phelps
Casson McCorkle
Robert Petty
Bobby Woodul
Fort Mcintosh party honors Miss Lehmann guests
A Tuesday afternoon gathering for Miss Lehmann at Fort Mcintosh featured a swim after a refreshing party. Guests included Harry and Bettie Phillips and Doris, Laverne Leech, and Effie May Kempfer, all young friends of the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Mcintosh
Miss Lehmann
Harry and
Bettie Phillips
Doris
Laverne Leech
Effie May Kempfer
J. J. Lehmann
Lehmann
Mesdames, Westphal
B. Hensley
H. Harwood
Smith
W. Boyd
Celebrated Alone as Former Crown Prince Turns 88
The former Crown Prince Frederick William marked his 88th birthday largely by himself at Wieringen as none of his relatives attended. The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung notes that in 1882 three emperors stood at the cradle of the prince.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Frederick William
Wieringen
Berlin
Kreuz Zeitung
Lack of Certificate Hinders Ellis Island Tenor on Return Voyage
Associated Press reports Francis OBrien, famed on Ellis Island as a stowaway and promising tenor, cannot prove birth in Philadelphia due to missing birth certificate. Immigration officials deport him. he had impressed hospital staff with his singing during confinement. The piece notes many stowaways are sent back monthly, with ships bringing two to ten such cases from varied ports.
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Associated Press
New York
Francis O’brien
Ellis Island
High Seas
Ireland
Philadelphia
Young O'Brien
John McCormack
O'Brien
Labor delegates reject motion on nonpartisan education policy
Montreal June 10 The American Federation of Labor rejected a proposal to form an educational department to spread propaganda urging support for its nonpartisan politics stance. The convention authorized the executive council to characterize the international policemen's union when local policemen's unions reach 6,000 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Montreal
American Federation of Labor Today
Executive Council
International Policemen's Union
Policemen's Unions
Withhold Decision on Texas Community Property Incomes
Austin June 10 The internal revenue department in a telegram to Governor Hobby agreed to withhold a decision on the taxability of incomes from community property in Texas for a reasonable time pending receipt of a brief from the Texas attorney general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Internal Revenue Department
Hobby Today
Vexas
Texas Attorney General
Wave of Spiritualism Sweeps Romania
Bucharest reports a surge of spiritualistic seances with mediums claiming extraordinary messages. One medium says an attempt to reach Julius Caesar failed as the spirit is said to be commanding in Mars and thus out of reach.
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Bucharest
Romania
Julius Caesar
Mars
French embrace of American jazz dance music in France
Washington reports French public loves American jazz dance music with encores and price premiums triple those at home. American vice consuls note dancers in Nantes are starving for American music and publishers miss a golden chance amid strong rhythms and steady tempos from soldier bands.
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Associated Press
Washington
France
Nantes
Soldier Bands
Today’s anniversaries mark 1776 to 1918 milestones
June 10 notes David Garrick’s final stage appearance in 1776, Oxford beating Cambridge in 1829, Pauline Cushman born 1888, Dorothea Dix named superintendent in 1861, Richard Olney sworn in 1895, Wright brothers honored in 1909, Hughes and Fairbanks nominated in 1916, conscientious objectors tried in 1918.
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David Garrick
Oxford
Cambridge
Pauline Cushman
New Orleans
San Francisco
Dorothea L. Dix
Richard Olney
Massachusetts
Wright Brothers
Taft
Charles B. Hughes
Charles Warren Fairbanks
San Antonio
Texas
Copper, glue, seaweed alcohol and more amid new industry notes
A survey of emerging industries highlights 60 percent of world copper from America, corn cob glue, six quarts of alcohol per 100 pounds seaweed, Nova Scotia salt beds, a Formosa hydro plant plan, and Scotch distillers eyeing 80 million gallons of power alcohol yearly, with U.S. investment totals near 47.9 billion dollars and timber waste yielding several byproducts.
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America
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Nova Scotia
United States
Vienna
Japan
Formosa
Far East
Island
Scotland
Neighbors Day Proclaimed by Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Gibbons through the National Committee on Community Organization proposes June 12 as National Neighbors Day to foster neighborliness and unity among diverse residents. The effort, led by Franklin K. Lane, aims to build practical Christian charity and expose all to community needs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cardinal Gibbons
National Committee On Community Organization
Franklin K. Lane
Ohio
Wyoming
West Virginia
Arkansas
How We Cleared Our Summer Home of Rats
Mrs. Perry recounts opening a seaside home last May to a rat infestation. She used RAT-SNAP, praising its cake form, no mixing, and cleaner handling. The product is sold in three sizes 25c 50c and $1.00 by A Deutz and Brother City Drug Co and Sanitary Grocery.
Republican convention deadlocked over league of nations plank
At the Chicago gathering on June 10 the Republican convention faced a stalled process with no presidential candidate or core platform agreed. Disputes centered on three proposals Johnson Borah flat treaty opposition Crane ratification with reservations and Smoort compromise as the league of nations issue looms as a potential party split.
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Associated Press
Chicago
League of Nations
Johnson-Borah
Crane
Smoort
Convention Adopts League Plank Amid hopes for Unity
Chicago June 10 The convention opened with a tentative halt on nominating speeches as platform committee prepares. The League of Nations plank by Elihu Root is adopted by the reconciliables on the sub committee. It upholds the senate and avoids direct ratification terms. Mild reservationists, including Ogden Mills, back the compromise. A potential hitch lingers though the sub committee work seems assured. The full committee will vote on the remaining platform after a brief morning session adjourned to 4 PM.
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League of Nations
Elihu Root
Senate
Ogden Mills
League of Nations pick adopted by GOP sub committee
Chicago June 19 the league of nations pick declared by the leaders to be acceptable to everybody was unanimously adopted by the Republican resolutions sub committee apparently ending all threats of a party split.
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Chicago
League of Nations
Home Ownership Favored By Hobby In Austin Texas
Governor Hobby urged the legislature to place a homeownership amendment on the ballot for the July primaries. The measure failed in the last election. The session also discusses educational bills including a $3,000,000 school appropriation and a pink bollworm bill in the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Covernor Hobby
Democratic Executive Committee
Walton
Senate
Railway Interest Sparks Seaboard Extension Talk at Crestview
June 10 Crestview Fla reports show large parties of railroad construction engineers along Florida west coast fueling rumors that Seaboard Air Line may extend into the area. It is said Seaboard and Georgia Central are working toward Town Point opposite Pensacola where deep water and land hold promise.
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Associated Press
Crestview
Fla
Florida
Seaboard
Georgia Central
Town Point
Pensacola
Ship Loading in Galveston Ahead of Saturday Departure
Galveston Texas June 10 two hundred men began loading Mallory line ship arriving last night with a full cargo of delayed freight. Embargo on northbound traffic remains in effect and the situation is quiet as the ship is slated to depart Saturday.
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Associated Press
Galveston
Texas
Mallory Line
Nch
Blinton seeks substitute on welfare commission duties
Austin Texas June 10 Miss Annie Webb Blinton state superintendent of public instruction asks the legislature to appoint a successor to relieve her of duties as a member of the industrial welfare commission. She cites pressure from other duties as the reason for the request.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Annie Webb Blinton
Stele
Fee
Industrial Welfare Commission
Ler
Lease School Lands in Llano County Opinion
Austin Texas June 10 county commissioners courts may lease school lands for sums of money and permanent improvements by lessee an opinion of the attorney general rendered at the request of Llano County attorney reflecting the lease terms and conditions.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Llano County
Birth rate rising in England as births exceed prewar levels
London reports show births rising in eight weeks of 1920 by 1,442 over 1919. Lancashire Midwives Committee notes higher counts across districts, with London noting a large surplus of baby boys in recent weeks, suggesting population normalizing toward balance.
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Associated Press
London
Stork
England
Lancashire Midwives Committee
Ogiatrar General
Prohibition debated in Poland Diet amid war context
Warsaw reports prohibition talk in the Diet as impracticable for Poland due to liquor manufacture. A plan favors banning sale to army personnel during Poland's war with Soviet Russia. Notable female members Sophie Moczydlowski Sophie Moraczska Helena Balicki discussed influence of American women on temperance.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Poland
America
Publc
Diet
Soviet
Russia
Sophie Moczydlowski
National Popular Union
Sophie Moraczska
Helena Balicki
National Democrat
Moraczewska
British seamen lured by American marine service poster
Liverpool June 10 fear that better conditions in the American mercantile marine may draw British seamen from British to American vessels was voiced at the Mercantile Marine Service Association annual meeting. WW Bridgeman said a poster was being displayed in U S ports offering temptations to sailors to quit British service.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
American Mercantile Marine Service
Mercantile Marine Service Association
Ww. Co
Bridgeman
Board of Trade
United States
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