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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1920
Page
11
In a Daly weekly financial review the expectation of sharp American export losses during the recent FX break is challenged. January exports rose from December and compare well with prior year records. European demand for raw materials and food means any decline would be gradual, with credit terms easing impact.
The article outlines who must file an income tax return for 1919 wages. Singles, widowed, or separated individuals must file if net income reaches 1000 dollars. married couples must file if joint net income plus dependents amounts to 2000 dollars or more. Exemptions total 1000 for singles, 2000 for married or head of family, plus 200 per dependent under 18 or incapacitated. Returns and payments are due by March 15, 1920.
A notice warns cotton growers to avoid any seed from Louisiana due to pink boll worm found in Cameron and Calcasieu parishes. It says carloads from that district have reached Texas and urges imports only with full guarantees that seed is not from Louisiana or other infested Texas districts. It notes border counties from Laredo to Brownsville are currently free and suggests a quarantine to protect the border cotton industry.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, then fifteen, injured her spine and remained bedridden for years. The confinement spurred the writing of her famed sonnets, which became her lasting literary claim to immortality.
Mrs Violet S Oberfeldt society editor notes the Blue Birds gather at 4 o'clock at the home of Mrs Alfred Pogenpohl and later meet at the Jamaica YWCA at 5 o'clock in the afternoon for an afternoon social calendar item.
In a mood of Lent and quiet restraint, regional society notes highlight Miss Genoveva Cantu visiting in the city, and arrivals from San Antonio and Pearsall. Church groups meet for devotion, cake sales, and social tea, with Mrs. A. Poggenpohl and Miss Julia Schultz hosting a first birthday party for Mary Elizabeth Cotter of Port Aransas, including a dance by Nellie Ward.
Reynolds Marguerite Martin and other names joined a sizable group of guests at a social event. The attendees included Reba Mims Katherine Cooper Mary Genevieve Wilcox Mary Melissa Hiatt C C Biggio Jr Leonard Daiches Dudley Windrow Anna Lee Butler Anne McKinney Rebecca Biggio Nellie Ward Agnes Garcia Lasso and additional invitees Mesdames Reynolds Utterback Cotter J H Buenz John Martin Henry Ward plus Misses Julia Schultz Poggenpohl.
A compact collection of miscellaneous facts notes and curiosities including railcars for planes tobacco spending in Britain aviation related statements and a spotlight on Indianapolis car salesmen highlighting Miss Jeanette Smock Kessler’s success in the auto trade.
On March 19 1920 at 10 00 am in the Federal Court Rooms Laredo Texas cash bids will be received for seized property including pistols 32 20 Colt Army Special Police Positive and related ammunition 22 caliber cartridges and jewelry pieces such as a diamond ring earrings and a stickpin Jewelry to be sold by piece firearms and cartridges to be sold separately and in lots. Marshal J A Herring and Deputy Allen Walker announce the sale listing seizure numbers and lot details.
Jefferson City announces plans for Missouri centennial observances divided into four events. Kansas City marks the Enabling Act centenary, St. Louis hosts the state constitution anniversary, Jefferson City celebrates the first legislature, and Columbia observes Missouri’s 1821 admission to the Union under Monroe.
Governor Hobby announced as a candidate for delegate at large to the National Democratic convention and said he would not seek reelection. The move is seen as keeping the gubernatorial field unchanged until the July primaries. He stated that a rival candidate attacked the administration and pledged to let the people decide the issue.
Hoolulu March 6 report says Tokyo cable states Japan abandons Siberian expedition in line with American policy. First detachment leaves Vladivostok March 20 as last Czecho-Slovak troops depart. Soviet offer seeks Lenine government recognition and full diplomatic ties, pledging to end terrorism with Allied consent and to recognize Japan's rights in Liberia. London March 5 notes Portugal revolution rumors lacking credibility. The Hague March 6 reports Dutch refusal to deliver former German emperor to the Allies. Christiania March 65 Norway votes 100 to 20 for league adherence.
Paris reports that French officials received detailed figures placing Armenian victims in the Marash region massacre at no more than 5,000, indicating a high but limited toll for last month’s atrocity.
Houston, March 5 official count may be needed to decide the state senatorial election. Returns at noon show Davidson Democrat leading Murphy non partisan by 28 votes.
One year ago today on March 6 the President and Mrs. Wilson sailed from Hoboken to the Peace Conference. German government troops shot rioters in Berlin and cleared them from Halle in a crackdown on the Spartacans.
Washington, March 6. Efforts to assess the senate peace treaty situation focus on the Walsh reservation adopted yesterday. The change marks the first break in solid Republican ranks as they now consider congressional selection of League of Nations representatives. The program also contemplates a reservation on the reparations commission's export trade between the United States and Germany.
Fort Worth March 5. President Morris of the Texas and Western Texas league will attend Monday’s meeting in Sweetwater to organize the Far Western Texas League. San Angelo Abilene Ballinger Brownwood and Coleman will be represented.
The 1920 census figures, cabled to the insular bureau, place the Philippine population at 10,350,640. About 9,500,000 are Christians, including 6,400 Americans.
Boston March 5 Notable speakers and topics planned for the spring meeting of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers to be held in Boston next month. The three day convention includes sessions on growing and handling cotton, our stake in the Pacific, collective bargaining, group insurance for workers, cost accounting, the need for original designs, and ways to industrial goodwill. Speakers include A Mitchell Palmer Attorney General, Governor Sproul, Harvard president Charles W Eliot, Rev Nehemiah Boynton and Dr Bradford Knapp.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. A Detroit hotel for business women is planned. Wisconsin women compete in a state bowling championship at Oshkosh this month. Mrs. Minnie Srinstead, Kansas legislature member, is a Baptist minister. It marks fifty years since women entered Upsala and Lund universities in Sweden. After a hangman died in England, several women applied for his former position.
The Times carries a daily forecast from the U S Weather Bureau in New Orleans. Tonight and Saturday will be fair with not as cold temperatures, but freezing tonight.
Observations for the 24 hours ending 7 pm at Fort McIntosh show a maximum temperature of 64 degrees and a minimum of 36 degrees. The wind is from the northeast and skies are clear.
Aurora Mardiganian, an eighteen year old survivor of half a million Armenian girls displaced by Ottoman forces, stars in Auction of Souls to run at Strand Theatre starting Tuesday. The dramatic account of her two year ordeal in Turkish harems and soul markets, written by herself, follows Ravished Armenia which has sold nearly two million copies in seven months.
Fort Worth Texas March. Former Senator Bailey telegram says he will not accept Thomason challenge to leave gubernatorial bids to a party primary in their home county Cooke with agreement that the loser retire from the state race.
Chicago March 5 reports a cold wave that moved from the Middle West overnight, bringing rain sleet and snow followed by gales and driving snow as it advanced eastward and southward.
The federal reserve bank of Chicago forbids marriage for male employees earning under 125 dollars a month. A line in the employee rulebook requires such staff to discuss marriage with the chief clerk before any change in status. The banks vice governor confirms the rule is imperative.
On March 6 1770 the Boston Massacre was recalled by patriotic and historical societies across New England with school exercises. The event helped spark the American Revolution after tensions over the Stamp Act. Samuel Adams led demands for troop withdrawal prompting Hutchinson to pull back two regiments to the harbor castle.
There is more catarrh in this region than all diseases. local treatment often failed. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, is advertised as a constitutional remedy acting through the blood. A hundred dollar reward is offered for any case it fails to cure. circulars and testimonials available. Sold with Hall's Pills for constipation.
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