Little Locals and Court News Tidy Week
Born Saturday afternoon to Mr and Mrs W C Greenstreet a girl. Webb County Democratic Executive Committee meets at five this afternoon in the district court room. Saturday night an alarm of fire from the Third ward sent Ursuline Convent firemen again. front of building damaged by faulty wiring. Grand jury reconvenes after recess and are weighing matters district attorney called to attention. five Mexican bandits in county jail and local efforts to deport vagrants. Manuel Garcia Vigil, once a Laredo editor, now Carranza army general commanding 16 three inch field pieces at Nuevo Laredo. Grand jury returns joint bill of indictment against Walter Barnet and Joaquin de la Rosa for mule theft.
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Ursuline Convent
Laredo
The
Manuel Garcia Vigil
Carranza
Vigil
Nuevo Laredo
Grand Jury
Walter Barnet
Joaquin de la Rosa
Mayor Receives Military Control at Nuevo Laredo Meeting
Saturday a city meeting to organize local defense in Nuevo Laredo was dispersed by General Reynaldo de la Garza who announced the town’s command rested with him and no other orders would be followed. He warned that arms would soon arrive to equip the citizens.
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Nuevo Laredo
Reynaldo de la Garza
Incipient Demonstration by New Laredo Inhabitants
A brief show of patriotic enthusiasm occurred yesterday afternoon when about 150 soldiers arrived by special train to bolster Nuevo Laredo’s small garrison. The crowd cheered as the soldiers marched from the station to improvised barracks, but the outburst quickly faded and the march continued.
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New Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Corporal Powell Shot In Fort Ringgold Accident
A letter from Private Charles Powell of Company J Second Texas Infantry Milmo Rifles reports Corporal W H Powell was accidentally shot in the left arm during target practice at Fort Ringgold. He received immediate medical care, is doing well, but will remain on the sick list with his arm in a sling for several days.
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H. A. Powell
Charles Powell
Co. J
Second Texas Infantry
Milmo Rifles
Fort Ringgold
W. H. Powell
Social calendar listing Tuesday gatherings and events
Christ Church Junior Auxiliary holds its regular meeting at the rectory at five o clock in the afternoon. Miriam Chapter 86 Order Eastern Star meets at Masonic Hall at eight o clock in the evening. Miss Evelyn Moore entertains with a dancing party at her home in the evening. Ladies Night at the Ninth Infantry Club also in the evening.
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Christ Church
Miriam Chapter
Order Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Evelyn Moore
Ninth Infantry Club
Laredo Society Notes and Local Weddings
Mrs. Geo W Derby and children leave for Corpus Christi Ingleside to spend summer. H G Venable hosts a box party at a theater and Plaza Cafe dinner with a guests list. Various locals travel to San Antonio Austin and San Marcos. Ursuline Convent graduation at San Agustin pro cathedral honors Fermina Guerra in gold and white with fern and Shasta daisy decor.
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Geo. W. Derby
Corpus Christi
Ingleside
H. G. Venable
Plaza Cafe
Albert Martin
C. B. Gullette
Marguerite Nelson
Lawrence Nelson
Alice Denike
J. S. Denike
Dora Gullette
Robert Muller
Cleo Pereira
H. C. Venable
Edna Brown
Ursuline Convent
San Agustin Pro-Cathedral
Laredo
Fermina Guerra
PERSONALS LIST OF VISITORS AND GUESTS IN CITY
Sid Katz of San Antonio attends the Bender event. Woodlief Thomas visits from his ranch. Geo R Alexander returns home for a family visit. W F Jones of San Antonio visits on business, guest of Mrs Wilcox. Judge George R Page returns from St Louis where he attended the Democratic National Convention. Mary Genevieve Wilcox, ill recently, shows improvement. A list of attendees for ROSs and BENDER sections includes numerous names and home towns across Texas and neighboring states.
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W. F. Jones
San Antonio
W. D. Caramero
el Paso
O. K. Hawkes
Elmira
BE. J. Hueston
R. W. Baker
J. F. Brown
New York
Dr P Ornelas Moves Practice to Laredo
Has Located in Laredo. Dr P Ornelas, well and favorably known in Laredo, who has practiced in San Antonio for many years, has moved to this city to make his home and will practice here. He will office at the Refugio drugstore, at the southwest corner of Market Plaza, dated 6 15 15.
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Laredo
P. Ornelas
San Antonio
Dr. Ornelas
Refugio Drugstore
Market Plaza
Graduation and wedding notices weave through San Antonio
Miss Guerra graduates in a daisies adorned ceremony led by Rev. Father Jose Coma. Miss Vada Emerson and Mr Fred Granger wed in a Shasta daisies and ferns home ceremony with Lohengrin Bridal Chorus. She leaves for New Orleans and other Louisiana trips. he works with the North American Fruit Exchange.
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Miss Guerra
Jose Coma
Ursuline Convent
Fred
Granger
Vada V. Emerson
Laredo
S. F. Huth
San Antonio
Texas
Lohentrin
Ruth Alice Wilson
el Dorado
Arkansas
James W. Orton
Kansas City
8. L. Bachelor
Love
M. M. Kime
Militia Concentrating for Border Service Nationwide
One hundred thousand militiamen from forty five states gather in armories amid mobilization orders by President Wilson. They will drill, recruit, and be mustered into federal service to guard the border, freeing 30,000 regulars for possible use in Mexico.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Mexico
U S Note On Mexican Crisis To Go To Mexico City
Secretary Lansing announced the reply to Carranza’s demand for troop withdrawal would go forward to Mexico City today. The note, expected to be 7000 to 10000 words, rebukes Carranza for alleged bad faith and maintains US policy in Mexico. Despatches show rising border irritation while the National Guard mobilizes nationwide. Wilson directed immediate dispatch of the note.
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Washington
Lansing
Carranza
Mexico City
Mexico
State Department
National Guard
Wilson
Clash Reported Between Annapolis Crew and Mexican Troops
Washington dispatches say the Mexican embassy warned the present tense situation forbids landing any men from American warships in Mexico. The notice cites a clash yesterday between a boat crew from the gunboat Annapolis and Carranza soldiers at Mazatlan and was delivered to the state department by a Mexican embassy attache.
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Washington
Annapolis
Carranza
Mazatlan
Mexico
State Department
Mexican crowd claims 300 U S soldiers forced back
Brownsville reports in Matamoros rejoicing over belief that a small Mexican band compelled 300 American soldiers to recross the Rio Grande yesterday. Today all is quiet as the rumor persists in local dispatches.
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Brownsville
Texas
Matamoros
Rio Grande
Border Gas Company Campaign to Promote Natural Gas
Border Gas Company announces an active campaign to recruit domestic customers not currently using gas. solicitors visit households to advocate natural gas for cooking and heating and request courteous reception from the public. notice dated June 18, 1931.
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Border Gas Company
Pershing Plans Quick Dashes North and South
Columbus New Mexico June 19 Gen Pershing reportedly continues plans for rapid movements inland despite Trevisio threats aiming to strike at the first sign of hostilities.
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Columbus
N. M
Trevisio
Pershing
Still Deadlocked in Verdun Battle
The German infantry attack on Hill 321 was repulsed by French forces yesterday, according to the Paris official statement. Bombardment continues on Dead Man's Hill as German actions unfold with heavy fighting reported in the Florina region and Russian advances toward Koveland. In Stokhod Star sector German counter attacks are partially repulsed, per the German war office.
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Associated Presa
Yeasterday
Paria
Dead Man's Hill
Havas
Saloniki
Florina
Monaatir
Koveland
Stokhod Star
War Office
Gays
Note to Austria Demanding Apology for Submarine Attack
Washington on June 19 outlined sending a second note to Vienna regarding the Austrian submarine attack on the American tanker Petrolite. The note is understood to demand an apology and reparation for the damage caused.
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Washington
Austria
Petrolite
Vienna
Mystic Order Veiled Prophets convenes in Detroit
Detroit hosts over 10,000 Masonic visitors as the supreme council of the Mystic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm opens a three day official session this week plus entertainments. Taft, Wilson, Scott and Sherrill headline Yale Law Alumni luncheon focusing on International Law and Tafts expanded program.
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Detroit
Mich
Supreme Council
New Haven
Conn
William Howard Taft
George Grafton Wilson
Harvard
James Brown Scott
Neutrality Board
State Department
Charles H. Sherrill
Yale School of Law
Taft
A Doctor's Remedy for Coughs and Colds
Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey blends pine tar and honey to soothe irritation and stop coughs. The remedy targets summer coughs and colds, with a 25 cent bottle advertised as proving its value at druggists.
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Dr. Bell
Convention of Pressmen Opens at Rogersville National Home
The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America began its annual convention at the national home in Rogersville Tennessee. Sessions run a week or more as officers report thriving membership and finances.
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Rogersville
Tenn
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North America
West Virginia to Celebrate Fifty-Third Birthday State
Charleston June 19 Governor Hatfield proclaims a holiday tomorrow to mark West Virginia’s fifty-third birthday and to showcase the state’s development resources and progressive spirit. The West Virginia Board of Trade has organized a series of booming festivals across the state.
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Charleston
W. Va
Hatfield
West Virginia
West Virginia Board of Trade
Swedish Singers at Omaha Open Western Union festival
Omaha Nebraska June 19. Omaha in gala attire for the western division convention and festival of the American Union of Swedish Singers with a formal opening tonight. National colors Sweden and United States blend in decorations as five concerts unfold featuring delegations from Kansas Minnesota Illinois Colorado Nebraska and Iowa singing societies.
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Omha
Neb
Omaha
American Union of Swedish Singers
Sweden
United States
Kansas
Minnesota
Ilinois
Colorado
Nebraska
Iowa
Forethought saves expenses with a trusty remedy
BE. W. Archer of Caldwell Ohio notes his family has used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for years and always takes it on extended visits. The medicine is obtainable everywhere.
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BE. W. Archer
Caldwell
Ohio
Chamberlain
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Mrs. W. C. Greenstreet
Webb County
Democratic Executive Committee
Patrick Henry
Corporal Powell
Laredo Company
Violet S. Oberfeldt
Marion Warner Wildman
J. O. Buenz
S. D.,jackman
Louise Muller
Joe Parke
Muller
San Antonio Express
Furney Muller
Bryan
Sidney Jackman
San Marcos
Fred Netzer
Austin
University
Marcus Wormser
Maud Mussett
Harry Shelby
Little Son
H. D. Shelby
Chas. Yeager
James Gallagher
J. T. Murphy
Miss Lucile Murphy
California
Evelyn Whittman
Realties
Hannah Mathews
Philadelphia
P. L. Mathews
Minera
Mathews
Miss Mathews
City
Nancy Webber
Major Webber
U.S. A
Boston
Mass
F. E. Vidaurri
Clifford Philip Reed
Corpus
Gertrude Ross
Lettie Carroll
Iva Oatman
Ellanna Born
Hugh Sutherland
Anita Yeager
Antoinette Flasseur
Anita Mullally
Elizabeth Adams
Alice
Star Woodman
Irene Gallagher
Charlie Craig
Dollie Cleveland
Georgia Osborne
Lydia Geary
de Witt Reed
L. M. Stromeyer
Ida Muller
B. F. Wright
Pauline Harvey
Baptist Church
Sallee
Lois Stoner
Cornelia Cline
Otis Walker
Beulah Putman
Tina Salazar
Lillian Bertrand
Margaret Claflin
Rena Bertrand
Emma Salazar
Ola Hudson
Gorham Woods
Karl Payne
Clifton Payne
Richard Trout
American Red Cross
Hotel Hamilton
E. F. Salisbury
June Rose
Tasse Vidaurri
Catherine O'Sell
Mesdames Daniels and
Sorrell
Children's Party
Daniel Martin Shelby
Jack Horner
Olivia Vidales
Rebecca Mims
Helen Leyendecker
Nina Pickard
Ruth Edwards
Leland Anderson
Quintin Diaz
Antoinette Bunn
John Lowry
Harry Johnston
Mike Brennan
John Leyendecker
Sid Katz
Bender
Woodlief Thomas
Geo. R. Alexander
Mary Genevieve
Emerson-Granger
New Orleans
Louisiana
Tennessee
North American Fruit Exchange
Militia
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Army Organization
War Department
Hay
House Military Committee
Yucatan
Niles
Progreso
Northwestern Railroad
Funston
Ferguson
Galveston
Verdun
Monastir
Ments
Convention OF Pressmen
I. W. Harper
Kentucky
Moser'’s
J. J. Czar
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