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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1920
Page
11
Friday’s report from Bucharest notes Romania enjoys a postwar boom with Parisian flair. Streets bustle with luxury goods, theaters full, and fashionable crowds as Transylvania Bessarabia and Bukovina boost wealth. Agriculture sustains 85 percent of the population with crops set to reach historic highs.
Berlin reports the creation of a new State Economic Council seen as a business and professional parliament of experts. It will examine and pass on major economic measures, draft laws, and meet with provisional authority alongside the Reichstag. The body lists 326 members from diverse sectors and includes 12 members each appointed by the Reichstag and the government.
Tonight and Saturday expect clouds with possible showers. Fort McIntosh reports a 99 degree high and 75 degree low with south winds. Approximately 2,000 delegates attend the first annual St. Louis United States Junior Chamber of Commerce convention promoting youth citizenship training.
Friday brings a Community Singing session at the Service Club in Fort McIntosh in the evening. Saturday features Mrs H W Johnston hosting the Tuesday Bridge Club at 9:30 o clock in the morning.
Local society records show Mrs. A C Hamilton traveling to Beaumont to visit her parents Judge and Mrs Hal Greer, while Keevan Young joined his company in Houston ahead of Fort Oglethorpe duty. Numerous circles, clubs, and church groups met, hosting Bible study, dining, and social gatherings, including a bridge party hosted by Mrs. C M Fish and a birthday party for Katherine Keithley with lawn games and cake.
Berkeley Calif June 18 Many of the Wests best tennis players gather for the Pacific Coast championship tournament to begin tomorrow at the Berkeley club. A large entrant field and high standard of play promise spirited competitions as title events are decided.
In June 1916 Honolulu reports a male and female kangaroo that escaped from a private menagerie are roaming the Oahu foothills with three young. Sightings have stirred interest but no capture efforts have begun.
In Ballinger Texas on June 18, Richard Holbrook four feet four inches tall and weighing 153 pounds married Ina Middleton who stands three feet eleven inches and weighs less than her husband. The ceremony joined the unusually small pair, unalike in size yet united in marriage.
Queen Alexandra admits Yorkshire pudding is her favorite dish while many London moneylenders are women. In Korea a girl’s name was once considered unnecessary. Alice M Hoberson seeks the Republican nomination in Oklahoma's Second District. London tea room waitresses threaten a striking union action. Wealthy Frenchwomen reportedly use extra-dry champagne as hair shampoo for reddish gold highlights. Elsie Southgate will wear overalls in future engagements to curb clothing costs. Esther Glyn favors purple in writing space and attire.
Augusta June 1822 voters prepare for statewide primaries in Maine with main contests in the Republican gubernatorial race and the First district congressional nomination. Carl J. Milliken seeks a third term. opponents include Frederic E. Parkhurst John Percy Deering Louis A. Jack and other candidates. Republican incumbents in three districts are unopposed for renomination. Democratic nominees listed for all four districts.
Natives of the Aland Islands between Sweden and Finland push for reunion with Sweden. About 12,000 people seek self determination after Sweden held the islands for centuries before Russia annexation 120 years ago. A 96 percent island vote backed the plea for a referendum, and King Gustave received a delegation in Stockholm as Sweden presses Finland to submit the issue to the islanders.
Texas Railroad Commission statistics show eleven people died in March railroad crossing accidents across the state. Fifteen were injured in sixteen total crashes with seven autos, two wagons, one motorcycle, and pedestrians involved in three cases. The deadliest wreck occurred north of Comal on the San Antonio Seguin road where seven members of a San Antonio family were killed when a train struck their car on Sunday March 28.
The annual meeting of stockholders will be held at the company's office in Laredo Texas on July 10 1920 at 5 p m to elect directors and transact business. The Board of Directors will meet immediately after adjournment of stockholders. 8 9 301 Ped ares.
Federal, state, county and city officials launched a campaign against rats following the youth’s death from a diagnosis of probable bubonic plague. A committee including W. Goddard, M. Fr. Boyd, R. L. Wilson and Major G. W. Larendon was appointed to lead measures. Mexico City reports 32 plague cases and 22 deaths since Vera Cruz outbreak. no new cases in 48 hours.
Senator Harding accepted President Wilsons call for a referendum on the peace treaty. He stated the Republican party would welcome a national vote on Americas foreign relationship and that the Republican stance on preserving nationality would be widely approved.
The New York World prints a written interview with President Wilson saying his nine months illness did not daunt his spirit or intellect. He has gained over 20 pounds recently, recovery is assured, and he spoke with Wilsonian vigor for three hours. He uses a cane and has a slight limp.
By Associated Press. Austin Texas June 18. I Heidenheimer David Lowenburger and L Strassburger were indicted late yesterday by a federal grand jury on a charge of sugar profiteering. Lowenburger and Strassburger posted $500 bonds. Heidenheimer is in Europe.
London shows signs of a major rebuilding era as the city tightens up and uses wasted spaces, guided by American skyscraper ideas. Kingsway near the Strand features buildings built or designed for American occupancy amid skilled labor shortages and leasehold hurdles.
More than 700 German prisoners freed by Japanese troops in Siberia wish to work in Japan. They are graduates of technical schools with expertise in electric, mechanical, and railway fields. Japanese authorities referred their employment requests to the Tokio Chamber of Commerce for placement.
Washington June 18 Herbert Hoover said he would support the ticket named by Republicans at Chicago after a breakfast with Warren G Harding. Hoover called most of the Chicago platform constructive and progressive.
George W. Perkins prominent New York financier died at Stamford Hall Sanitarium Stamford Connecticut from acute inflammation of the brain caused by continuous overwork as stated by his physician.
Norman Oklahoma June 18 about three hundred University of Oklahoma students will seek six dollar day harvest field work. Oklahoma farmers have asked for 1 400 college men to help with the wheat harvest.
Detroit, Mich, June 18. Detroit's population rose to 993,739 in the last census, up 627,973 or 113.4 percent, exceeding Chicago's growth and ranking fourth nationwide after New York, according to the census bureau announcement.
London June 18 Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson delivered a blunt address at the Union Jack Club stating that Britain did not enter the war to end war but to save its skin. He warned of numerous ongoing wars and said the sea, land, and air command faces challenges worldwide in perilous times.
One year ago today the United States Congress adopted Daylight Saving. President and Mrs Wilson were hosted in Brussels while the State Department pressed for safety of Americans in Mexico.
Austin June 18 The Texas Legislature adjourned sine die after enacting bills and disposing of committee reports The House adopted a resolution inviting continued cooperation with the federal horticultural board in eradicating the pink boll worm and said quarantines on Texas cotton products were precautionary.
The American Federation of Labor authorized a nation wide drive to organize all telephone operators. State federations and city central bodies will begin canvassing immediately, citing Bell Company policy as oppressive to labor. The convention also rejected raising the executive council from seven to fifteen members.
A June 18 report from Tokio notes that Japanese Formosans and Koreans cannot yet marry under a new law not yet in effect. The press argues that after Prince Yi of Korea wed Princess Nashimoto of Japan, all discriminatory marriage practices should be abolished.
In Sydney June 18 the Labor Party now in power proposes appointing a commission to reexam ine the Industrial Workers of the World arson and attempted arson case. Twelve prisoners were named: McPherson Beatty Moore King Larkin Teen Hamilton Besant Grant Reeve Fagin Glynn. They set fires to four large Sydney establishments during the war, causing about 1 250 000 dollars in losses and were convicted of treason.
W F Schutt master mechanic for Cannel Coal Co. suffered a leg fracture yesterday while removing a boiler from the Santa Tomas coal mines to the Cannel coal mines at Minera. He was rushed home and received medical aid and is resting in reasonable condition.
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