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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1915
Page
5
Merchants restocking sparse inventories for the time being as Monterey faces economic stagnation and outmigration. Travel to Nuevo Laredo and San Antonio remains heavy, while Carranza money, food relief by the Red Cross, and evacuations shape a ghostly business climate likely to persist.
A collage of small items from the Laredo Times including birth announcement for Rev and Mrs R G Farias a son on June 21 1961. local farm fruit sales Claude Claflin Leyendecker Mullally Islatas grapes and peaches. mentions Dr H Stow Garlick ENT in Richter building. details on security fire company badges and Nuevo Laredo streetcar operations. plus ads for corsets posters posters for 4th of July Corpus Christi excursion and others.
An advertisement touts Po-Do-Lax as a remedy for constipation claiming a small dose overnight yields a full, painless bowel movement by morning. It states Podophyllin from May Apple arouses the liver to boost bile flow, improving digestion and eliminating gas and irritation.
Notice to the Public describes the southeast corner market building with fish oysters boiled crabs and delicates such as lunches of boiled ham Swiss brick American cheese corned beef lunch tongue pickled herring salmon sardines in oil or tomato sauce. Short orders served promptly fresh buttermilk daily. The best French drip coffee in Laredo. J. W. Hopkins Shorty 2-9-11.
A daily spectacle at the international footbridge shows wagons and drays carrying flour coffee beans sugar and other provisions from this city to Nuevo Laredo and on to Monterey and other Mexican cities. Goods are reshipped from Laredo to Nuevo Laredo loaded onto cars and sent southward by Laredo and San Antonio wholesalers. Some carloads arrive from other cities and Monterey merchants buy and reship to replenish depleted stores relieving privation from weeks past.
Madison Heights Va Mr Chas A Ragland praises Thedford s Black Draught as best medicine for indigestion and stomach trouble. Nervousness nausea heartburn and fullness after meals signal trouble and relief is found with this safe pleasant remedy. With 75 years of proven success it benefits young and old. For sale everywhere price 25c Adv Le NC 12%
Mrs. Violet S. Oberfeldt, editor, is listed with the society column and a phone number 70 for society news and social notices. The brief entry presents an informal community update and contact point.
Tuesday night sees Mr. and Mrs. M T Cogley host a dinner dance at Santa Rosa Farm for Grace Davis with a picnic at eight. Wednesday features Eva Austin hosting a going away shower for Grace Davis at nine in the morning. Ninth Infantry Band concert at Fort Mclntosh at five thirty. A June reverie poem follows. Methodist Woman's Missionary Society hosted by Mrs J O Buenz with readings and treats. Bella Vista visitors and a Stag Affair for Applewhite club ride. A morning Bunéo party honors Misses Sadie and Margaret Martin with prizes for Elvira Sanchez and Margaret Martin. Guests include numerous local names and visiting relatives. An extended piece notes Miss Myrtle Mackin's Texas City visit and Miss Anita Yeager's stay.
A list of guests and visitors staying at the Hamilton hotel includes Mr. and Mrs. A Coleman Encinal. H E Johnson and Roe Oliver en route to Mexico. L F Poston Monterey. R W Davis Dolores. Co H Page Austin. Amelia and Lucie Coleman Webb. Anna Williamson Webb. Mrs Florence F E Harding and daughter Gladys with Mrs M T Barnes and Miss Marguerite Talbot Mansfield Mass. many others from San Antonio Waco Monterey Refugio Del Luna and surrounding areas.
Mrs Hunter Harris departs for Laredo to join her husband First Lieut Harris of the Ninth Infantry. Anita Johnston leaves for Flatonia after visiting L Nelson. Carolyn Simon returns from New Orleans with Mattie Broasche and Lola Lacy as guests. Mrs Justo S Penn hosts a house party at Dolores with De la Garza Magnon and others. Mrs PD Anderson’s pupils plan a morning music program June 29 with a large list of pieces and performers listed among the attendees.
At a conference aboard the cruiser Colorado 1600 Villa troops were pledged by Mexican officers to protect foreigners in the Yaqui valley Chihuahua Market burned El Paso reports say 200 lives lost but not confirmed.
By Associated Press New York June 22 the jury for Thaw's sanity trial began today with his mother present in court Thaw expresses confidence of a favorable verdict and has planned a Panama exposition trip afterward
Governor Ferguson directs the state purchasing agent to suspend all one million dollars in contracts for supplies at the Buy It in Texas convention in Kurt Worth until he can investigate the home made goods feature. The action targets procurement and potential quality concerns as part of the convention proceedings.
New York June 22 report says the largest US surgical mission sails for England to establish a relief hospital for wounded soldiers. Thirty four surgeons and 75 nurses, drawn from Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and other schools, will work under British authority with neutral status. The party sails under Dr. K. E. Nichols of Boston and aims for a base hospital near the English Channel, with three months of surgeon work and six months for nurses, to be followed by replacements as needed.
Resolute and Vanitie in the America’s Cup class clash in New York Club races off Glen Cove today. The regatta centers on the duel as potential Cup defenders, with other events overshadowed by the big showdown.
San Francisco June 22 The ownership of the steamship Great Northern credited to the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company will be investigated by a federal examiner. Complaint arose after the vessel crossed the Panama Canal with passengers, alleged to be railroad owned, violating the canal act prohibiting railroad owned vessels from using the canal.
By AP Paris dispatches report Italy seized Monfalcone and captured two incomplete super-dreadnoughts along with an incomplete cruiser and substantial ships under construction. The total value runs into hundreds of millions of francs. Italians expect to complete the vessels within a few months.
Rome June 22 Italians resist Austrian efforts to cross the Isonzo at Plava in the Trieste campaign. The Austrians push heavy guns from the eastern front while Italian forces report holding Plava firmly and claim additional successes elsewhere.
Berlin June 22 Overseas News Agency reports Russians routed before Lemberg and now fight only to save artillery and equipment.
President Wilson told callers on June 22 that no new peace efforts are underway. He noted all prior mediation offers by the United States have been officially or semi officially announced and that foreign governments know the U S is ready at any time to help bring peace.
A heavy snow storm near Brescia Italy and low mountain temperatures halted ongoing military operations on June 22 as weather disrupted battles and mobility.
London reports a German submarine gunfire sank the British steamer Carisbrook about 40 miles off the Scottish coast. Thirteen crew members are unaccounted for.
Petrograd reports Russian submarines have sunk a large Turkish steamer and two Turkish sailing vessels in the Black Sea just east of the Bosphorus. The action occurred on June 22.
German long range gun fire over 20 miles struck Dunkirk last night with 14 shells killing civilians. Belgians seized a German trench near St George with occupants killed or captured. Germans captured a French trench near Souchez amid heavy losses in the labyrinth. French gains persist in the Fecht valley in Alsace.
Berlin reports German forces have withdrawn from all positions to the eastern bank of the Feeht river in Alsace, signaling a strategic retreat in the region. The movement follows mounting pressure and aims to stabilize fronts along the contested territory.
Madrid reports the Spanish cabinet resigned today due to the financial situation. The move follows escalating economic pressures and signals a potential restructuring of government leadership.
Berlin June 22 government indefinitely suspended the Tages Zeitung where Count Reventlow published sharp critiques of the American submarine war policy.
English novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggard is 59 today born June 22 1856 at Bradenham Norfolk England. He served as secretary to William Bulwer Natal governor at 19 and led the Transvaal high court at 22. He later wrote popular books and conducted agricultural and coastal studies in England and the United States. He chairs reclamation and unemployed labor efforts for a Royal Commission and now lives quietly as a Norfolk country squire at Ditchingham House with wife and three daughters.
Water supplies for British soldiers in France and Belgium are transported across the English Channel from Dover, England, ensuring water delivery to front line locations amid ongoing operations.
An indictment charging an election conspiracy was returned by the Marion county grand jury in Indianapolis on June 22. More than a hundred people are named, including Thomas Taggart, Democratic National committeeman, with prominent figures Mayor Joseph Bell and City Attorney Fred Barrett among those indicted. The charges allege felonies under the primary and registration laws involving bribery and blackmail regarding the 1914 election and pre-election primaries. Taggart protested he did not know the charges against him, joking that he had been a regular angel.
Militia continues guarding Governor Slaton's country home in Atlanta on June 22 as a mob that formed the previous night did not appear again. Nearby, near beer saloons reopened for business this morning.
Joliet June 22 fingerprints failed to identify the convict who killed the warden’s wife. Items in her room had passed through many hands, making it impossible to determine the last person who handled them.
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company seeks to limit owners' liability for Titanic wreck claims in U.S. Admiralty Court. The action aims to settle $18 million in damages with $97,000 for salvage and passage money, while appellate rulings allow claimants to withdraw and sue White Star in English courts.
The Railway Mail Association holds a national convention in San Francisco for a week. United Commercial Travelers of America meets in Columbus Ohio. Iowa Bankers Association starts a two day convention in Devonport Iowa. Supreme Lodge Order of Vasa begins a five day biennial convention in Minneapolis Minnesota. Minnesota Music Teachers Association begins a three day convention in Albert Lea Minnesota. Prohibition Convention opens in Atlanta to back the anti liquor law for the state.
The largest class in the institution lore graduates today at Michigan Agricultural College with 228 diplomas awarded. Dr. David Starr Jordan delivered the principal oration during commencement week in Lansing, Michigan.
Meadville Pennsylvania June 22 Northwestern University President A W Harris presided at the opening session of the conference on American colleges. Leading educators attend as speakers analyze the present college and its work. Morning speakers included Prof Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago Dean Haskins of Harvard and Prof E G Conklin of Princeton.
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