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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1919
Page
23
Mrs B J Foster and Mrs Ed Mackin host a 4 pm bridge in honor of Miss Zara Mowry, the bride of the month, with Blue Birds meeting at 4 pm with Mrs Alfred Poggenpohl on Saturday.
Terence Shand and Frank Benavides of San Antonio visit cousins and friends while many locals return from travels in France and San Antonio. A pediatric illness prompts J. P. Byrne to head Hidalgo for family concerns. A C Hamilton shows health improvement after an appendectomy and resumes work. Social calls include visits from Kerrs, Armstrongs, and Clingenpeels, with a Heights Civic Club and Child Welfare Circle meeting announced for Monday. The W M A Baptist Church circles held weekly sewing and business sessions.
Circles B C and D met with Mrs. Rodgers Miss Pullen and Mrs. Claflin for Bible studies and social ice courses. Alpha Club hosted Luisa Dickinson and Cardenas with a three course luncheon and a large guest list. A Presbyterian Ladies Aid social closed the day with ice cake and a program by Mrs Ramsay plus Miss Lee. A Y M C A mission night at Dolores featured a soldier supper after a Outpost visit. Miss Margaret Copeland hosted a splash and lawn party at Villegas pool with a large chaperoned guest list. Miss Zara Mowry honored at a bridge party with a lingerie prize and salad course.
Francis E Warren, longtime Wyoming statesman and U S senator for thirty years, is feted by colleagues on his seventy fifth birthday. A key figure since Wyoming’s territorial era, Warren served as Cheyenne mayor, territorial governor, first state governor, Wyoming treasurer, council member, and Senate president, after a Civil War service and a career in cattle interests.
Boston, June 20. The Republican Congress faces tariff matters with the National Cotton Manufacturers invited to the event. Representative Joseph of Michigan, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, will speak as guests discuss tariff issues vital to American industry.
Train No 1 on the Texas Mexican line departs for Corpus Christi at 9:00 a m. Train No 2 from Corpus Christi arrives at 3:35 p m. The International and Great Northern offers a through fast train to St Louis departing at 8:30 a m and arriving at 2:50 p m. The Night Train leaves at 9:00 p m and arrives at 8:00 a m.
Rio Grande and Eagle Pass operate Train No 1 from Laredo daily except Sunday at 8 30 a m arriving Minera at 10 20 a m Train No 2 leaves Minera daily except Sunday at 11 a m arriving Laredo at 3 15 p m
A health tip advises eating slowly and thoroughly chewing to avoid belching. If belching persists, take one Cham berlain's Tablet after supper to alleviate symptoms.
By Associated Press. Rome, June 20. A historic strike by priests occurred in Laredo after their request for improved financial conditions due to the high cost of living was denied. Priests ceased celebrating masses and other religious duties in protest.
By Associated Press in San Juan on June 20 a Mayaguez moving picture theater blaze left about 150 dead or wounded, including many children, according to reports.
Columbus hosts four week world wide Methodist centenary events beginning today to mark peace and missionary work. An international exhibit at the Ohio State Exposition features China Japan Korea and India with native villages and customs. Home mission displays cover Indians Eskimos blacks and southern mountaineers plus lumberjacks cowboys and miners. A tent city on Ohio State University grounds will shelter visitors with parking for forty thousand autos and an expected sixty thousand daily attendees.
Ten days remain until the two cent fare. One hundred years ago today the Savannah finished the first steam vessel trans Atlantic trip. Senator Francis E Warren turns 70. Cornell graduates return for semi centennial celebrations in Ithaca. Columbus hosts a great exposition and peace centenary event. Frank A Vanderlip to address New England bankers in Swampscott on unrest in business.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh through constitutional treatment. The sellers F J Cheney & Co of Toledo promise $100 for any case it cannot cure and urge sending for testimonials. Sold by all druggists at 10 cents per bottle.
Growing belief that Germany would sign the peace treaty gains support as Scheidemann's cabinet falls. Premier opposed to the treaty, while reports say Gustav Noske may lead a new ministry. Italy's political crisis follows Orlando's cabinet resignation. king has not accepted the move.
June 20 report from Weimar and Berlin confirms the fall of Premier Philip Scheidemann's government. It is believed the change paves the way for signing the revised peace terms, as Scheidemann opposed them, and implies President Ebert may also fall. A successor to Ebert is expected to be chosen by the national assembly.
An official wireless message from Paris states that the German national assembly at Weimar could not muster a majority to sign the treaty due to party divisions. It warns that all reports of changes in the cabinet remain premature.
Coblenz June 20 Gustav Noske minister of defense will succeed Philip Scheidemann as head of the German ministry and Mathias Eraberger head of the German armistice commission succeeds Count von Brockhorst Rantzau as head of the German peace delegation, per a Weimar despatch.
London dispatch reports the German national assembly in Weimar has accepted the peace treaty. The confirmation comes via an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Paris.
The council of three met in Paris on June 20 to discuss ongoing affairs and potential diplomatic steps. Delegates reviewed current tensions and outlined preliminary measures pending formal announcements from member nations.
Associated Press reports Villa declares no reprisals against American property or lives in Mexico as U.S. troops push back insurgents near the border. Mexican federal troops move toward areas housing Americans while Washington pledges protection. The border area appears unusually calm today.
In Kansas City Mo on June 20 Hale Holden regional director of the United States railroad administration says twenty thousand cars are accumulated in the district to move crops from Kansas Oklahoma and northern Texas and forty thousand more will be available by July 1 for the grain shipment program.
London’s Jewish community heads into Shekel Day with exiles from Prussia and Poland aiding Zionist funds. Each one shilling contribution votes for a delegate to the next Zionist congress as workers tour East London in a house to house canvass.
The three premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau and President Wilson meet this afternoon to di cuoise the German situation and the Italian cabinet crisis.
Paris June 20 Reuters says the Italian peace delegation has been directed from home to accept the proposition for a settlement of the Dalmatian controversy formulated by Clemenceau Lloyd George and President Wilson.
Paris June 20 President Wilson and his party arrived back in Paris following a two day trip to Brussels and battlefield sites in Belgium. The journey concluded a mission connected to wartime diplomacy and allied coordination.
Senator Shiman of Illinois warned that the league of nations could end church and state separation and subjugate the civilized world to the Vatican. He stated the Roman Catholic church is represented by 24 of 45 votes in the league assembly.
A Russian wireless despatch reports that the Russian cruiser Oleg was sunk Wednesday by a British submarine near London on June 20. The loss increases wartime naval clashes as UK forces provoke further confrontation.
A compact survey notes monarchs averaged 23 years on the throne, the Chinese speak about 70.6 million as their mother tongue, artesian wells have served China for centuries, and the Mormon Church allegedly controls one third of U S sugar. The Red Cross flag honors Switzerland where the society started in 1864. The troghopper insect threatens sugar cane in the West Indies by leaping and feeding on sap.
Alexander Kerensky, former Russian premier, arrived in London amid British Admiralty reports that German destroyers and submarines have been bottled up at Zeebrugge, signaling wartime moves and diplomatic attention.
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