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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1926
Page
12
The veteran New York weather man James W. Scarr explains that predicting June 17 weather exactly is impossible. He told a caller that her wedding would be the brightest day, aiming to spare her future worry and emphasize joyful anticipation.
The column lists Kamehameha Day in Hawaii and Frobisher’s 360 year voyage, Congress creating a Declaration of Independence drafting committee 150 years ago, Bishop Conroy’s 45th priesthood anniversary, University of Chicago chapel cornerstone, War Secretary MecNider at cadet mess hall cornerstone, and Canadian troops opening Cleveland Canada Day celebrations.
General Pershing and other senior officers attended Alumni Day at the United States Military Academy in West Point. The ceremony included laying the cornerstone for a new cadet mess hall, planned at $2 million and completion in two years, a Gothic building housing 1600 seats with kitchens and staff quarters described in detail.
Paris June 10 Associated Press reports promising talks between the Athens government and an Italian promoter could transform Corfu into a grand gambling resort surpassing Monte Carlo. Planned casino is Villa Achilleion, once home to Empress Elizabeth and later favored by William II. During WWI allied forces used it as a hospital for wounded Serbs. Corfu, Ionian Island off Albania, measures about 40 by 20 miles with a varied strait separating it from the mainland.
Friday events include Miss Marjorie Low Fish hosting a morning bridge at 10 30 with Alice Leo from West Virginia. Mrs J T Halsell and Miss Emilie Halsell host at 4 pm in honor of Mrs Gerald B Sielski. A Methodist Sunday School picnic starts at 6 pm at Holding Institute grounds. A. C Hamilton hosts Merry Wives Bridge Club at 7 45 pm Saturday. DAR Lucy Meriwether Chapter concludes season at 8 30 pm at Mrs Woods home with Mrs Deutz and Mrs Woods as hostesses.
General Mendon notes multiple families headed to San Antonio Dallas and Corpus Christi for visits and meetings. Travelers include Mr and Mrs Brooking Miss Jennie May Gnallaghan Mrs J W Gallahan Mrs Robert Traylor and Georgie and R K Mims for a Texas Bankers Association event.
Dr Tehy Hsieh will speak on the Eastern Looking Westward to members of the Reciprocity of America at Springfield Mass Tomorrow marks the first national convention since the group began It seeks to promote the Golden Rule in all relationships and advance high social business and professional standards.
A Thursday bridge party hosted by Miss Odette Bunn featured a pink rose decor theme and prize winners Miss Margaret Copeland and Miss Orislee Camp. The event followed by a two course luncheon. guests included Mesdames Hamilton Sanchez Benavides and Gregg, among others. Later a church blessing of a newly completed home by Rev. C W Cook drew about thirty five attendees with musical interludes by Maria de la Garza Mendel Morgan and Bifida Vasquez.
A Norfolk Southern passenger train derailed from a bridge near Washington North Carolina killing engineer J R Shade and fireman William Harrington, both of Norfolk. A postal employee and a porter were wounded. The cause remains undetermined.
The article profiles long serving educators and editors like Dr. Homer H. Seerley with 40 years at Iowa State Teachers College and C. P. Scott nearing 80 years at the Manchester Guardian. It notes Dr. Fortunato Tita's claimed cancer cure, the Duke of Peraranda and the Duke of York with honors, M. de Groot receiving a priceless Stradivarius, and other prominent European cultural figures.
Amarillo reports a Gibson Oil Corporation gas well in south Hutchinson county has burned eight days after being ignited by lightning. The 40-foot flame spews 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas, resisting all efforts to extinguish the brine.
Joseph Grun dy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, told the senate committee he contributed 18000 dollars to the Pepper Misher Smith Woodward ticket and loaned funds during the campaign. He also lent 150000 dollars after the primary to cover deficits.
The fragmentary text provides unclear naming and a likely quotation about a Soviet statement. It lacks coherent events or distinct entities to summarize as a news item.
Associated Press reports Leon Kraemer and Jacob Whittemore were sentenced to forty years each in the state prison for robbery. Richard Whittemore, the gang leader, was sentenced in Baltimore to hang, with three others found guilty and awaiting sentencing.
Oklahoma City June 11 The possibility that M EB Trapp may hold the governor seat after succeeding Walton was upheld by the state district court. Trapp argues he acted as governor rather than serving in fact and would not be immediately eligible for succession under the constitutional rule.
Dallas Texas June 11 Thirty cent gasoline is in prospect unless ways and means are found to combat the major oil companies says GU M Proctor president of the Independent Service Stations Association of Dallas county. The Dallas organization is fostering a state wide movement of independent dealers to this end. He notes the latest price rise hurts the independent station owner as hard as the public and adds owners have not signed lease contracts that would bind them to the major companies.
Congressional action approved the Hudspeth bill to authorize a 2 million dollar flood control and irrigation dam at Red Bluff on the Pecos River between New Mexico and Texas. The measure now goes to the president for signature.
Hermosillo reports Sonora lawmakers vote to move the capital to the Magdalena capitol building about 100 miles north, making Magdalena the state capital for the summer as part of an annual pilgrimage.
Austin June 11 report states general labor conditions are excellent across the state. Commissioner B J Crocker says payments were made today and outlines plans for a permanent state free labor bureau in Amarillo if arrangements can be made.
The passage notes comments from France via Associated Press about returning figures who describe limited export of champagne to America and express indifference to questions of time, quality, and knowledge.
In San Antonio June 11 Associated Press coverage from the Texas Press Association session quotes Dick McCarty of Albany arguing the country press is the foe of despotism and must endure or the nation would fall. Victor Shoffelmayer of Dallas urges editors to back the campaign for more cotton on fewer acres.
One year ago today on June 11 Rt Rev John Gregory Murray was appointed as Roman Catholic bishop of Portland Maine.
Two small girls play together in the park one afternoon. One wonders the time and estimates four o'clock. The other cites their mother's instruction to be home at four, stating she cannot be home sooner.
A sparse clipping from Chickasha Oklahoma outlines a reported incident involving an individual named Juno Dawgon. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR, but the case is noted as a point of local interest with mentions of Lis Ril and an axle reference.
Fragmentary OCR yields scattered items noting barbers in Honolulu and a meeting of a federation club. Mentions of pneumonia, a judge, a woman purchaser, and an American jewelry market are unclear. the text is too damaged to determine a coherent news item or outcome.
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