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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1919
Page
11
Joe M. Vinson of Love Mississippi says a 26 mile trip to Memphis ended his stomach ills tenser nerves and headaches. He reports digesting food again sleeping well and gaining weight after taking Tanlac. Windrow Drug Co sells Tanlac in Laredo.
Rodolfo Lopez, found unconscious in an arroyo beyond Arroyo Chacon, is in serious condition after suffering facial and body wounds. He says his car overturned while backing to allow a burro cart to pass and then tumbled down the slope.
Judge M. D. Slater of Llano visits the city. William Sharkey, recently in San Angelo as tele graph censor, returns home after censorship ends. Hon. D. McNeil Turner of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Turner arrive to make their home here. Turner will practice law in Laredo.
Quote from a Baltimore American piece humorously notes a man’s alibi about being swallowed by a whale to explain his long absence at home. The gag frames a domestic inquiry with a nautical punchline.
Classified note promotes lucrative money making opportunities listed in the Times Want Ads with emphasis on potential profits and easy steps to take part.
AN ye AN ye Phone 70.
Social calendar notes the Lone Star Chapter of the Blue Birds meeting with Mrs A Poggenpohl at 4 PM Friday. Boy Scouts Troop 1 gather at the Methodist Church League Room at the usual evening hour. Troop 2 meets weekly at their headquarters at 7 PM.
A poem by Margaret T. Sangster laments how harsh words damage close ones and toll the heart. The city paper then lists short social notes: Mrs. Fannie Valentine in Houston, Mr. J. B. Morton on a San Antonio trip, Dr. H. C. Hall visiting family, Miss Kate Hickey traveling to visit a hospitalized brother, and multiple travels among local residents including Capt. David Kirk en route to New York.
A social afternoon featured girls prize to Rebecca Biggio and boys prize to William Biggio. Ice cream was served. Guests included Rebecca and Roberta Biggio, Katharine Aldridge, Iona and Anita Parker, Clare Derby, Elizabeth and Charline Nye, Theresa Fasnacht, Julia Belle and Thekla Deutz, Nellie Ward, Reba Mims, Francis Guernsey, Barbara and Rosalie Biggio, Billie Rodriguez, Edward Biggio, Jack Aldridge, Miles Nye, Joe Fasnacht, Woodie Bunn, James Ward, Tommy Harnisch, Royle Mims, and guest William Halsell Mims.
A survey shows women chemists in laboratories are more painstaking in analytical work. Miss Jeanette Leiser of Pueblo Colorado becomes a railway mail clerk hoping to be the first woman assigned to a run. London magistrates note women officers need proper evidence skills in court. Russia hires women for wood sawing and railroad work. Miss Hung Che Chen from Soochow China appears on Vassar's honor list. Wives enter rival bids in Onsted Michigan elections. Over 16 000 Chicago girls trained in social hygiene in six months. Pennsylvania bans under 18 women from public messenger service after May first. A Harlem Y W C A natatorium adds a women swimmers hair drying room. University of Pennsylvania opens Hospital to women physicians as interns. Pennsylvania teachers see 29 percent rise in pay. Mrs John B Faulde runs a semi professional baseball team in East Orange New Jersey. A million dollar mothers pensions bill is before Pennsylvania lawmakers. Western Pennsylvania Women’s Clubs to build a $100 000 clubhouse in Pittsburgh. Mrs Arthur Murphy of Toronto is novelist and national president of the Canadian Woman’s Press Club. Susan Warner centennial next July. New Jersey’s first woman marine is Private Anna May English in Paterson. England’s WWI era women workers outnumbered 25 to 1 at war end.
The Chinese monopoly on silk is broken as knowledge travels via Korea and Japan to India, eventually reaching Europe. The craft is established across Asia and later in Europe, transforming textile production centuries ago.
Dr Edwardes, after 17 years practice, claims Olive Tablets provide quick relief without calomel. The sugar coated olive colored tablets are gentle laxatives that do not force movement and may ease symptoms like dark brown mouth bad breath and dull headaches by aiding digestion and liver function.
I M S Ryan president of the Laredo Independent School District issues an election order for April 5 1919 to fill four board seats. Polling places are Central Grammar School for Precincts 1 and 2 with M A Hirsch Emeterio Mendoza and C Zagarnaga as officers and Urbahn School for Precincts 3 and 4 with P P Leyendecker J T Agan and I Martinez as officers. Polls open 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
Train No 1 departs for Corpus Christi at 9:00 am while Train No 2 arrives from Corpus Christi at 3:36 pm. The International and Great Northern runs a through fast train to St Louis leaving at 10:46 am and arriving at 7:16 pm. Night Train leaves at and arrives 42m.
Train No 1 runs from Laredo to Minera daily except Sunday leaving at 8 30 am and arriving 10 26 am Train No 2 runs from Minera to Redo daily except Sunday leaving at 11 am and arriving at 9 16 pm
Tonight cloudy. Saturday fair and cloudy. Observations at Fort Mcintosh show a max temperature of 82 and a min of 52 with winds from the south. Clear conditions noted.
Webb County Texas invites bids for repair and reconstruction of 2 1/2 miles Aguilares road eighteen March one nine. Bids due March eighteen nineteen at noon in Laredo office of the county clerk plans and specs available there. County Commissioners Court may reject any or all bids. This notice dated March 7 1919 by J A Rodriguez ex officio clerk.
Auto Owners adverts Tire Shop at 611 Juarez Avenue promises expert examination of tires and tubes and guarantees against defective materials workmanship or mechanical defects if they repair or retread. Phone 1414. 3-10-6t.
A Cleveland theater crowded with supporters vowed that Gene Debs would not remain jailed, pledging that either he would be released or they would face imprisonment themselves. Debs had just been sentenced to ten years for espionage law violations.
Washington March 14 Few patents have aided the masses as Whitney's cotton gin. The Connecticut inventor faced theft and legal battles after his 1798 device transformed cotton processing, enabling rapid production and triggering a new era in U S industry. Whitney rebuilt after a theft and pursued rights to his invention.
Ohio legal notice states F J Cheney Co will pay $100 for each catarrh case not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Medicine. Sworn December 6 1886 before A W Gleason Notary Public Toledo Ohio. Hall’s Medicine taken internally and acts through blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists 75c. Hall’s family villa for constipation also advertised.
AP dispatch reports American marines stormed the Japanese concession in Tientsin forcing entry to the Japanese consulate and assaulting the consul. Japanese soldiers bayoneted Americans. two were wounded. Marines later paraded the area as tensions rise and consular officials seek restored order.
Archangel dispatch notes allied food commission and interior sources indicate the American people must deprive themselves of breadstuffs until the Russian question is settled and the country is on a sound agricultural basis.
Archangel reports that from February 28 to March 14 allied fighting near the Vaga river resulted in modest casualties. Bolsheviks are estimated to have at least 4500 killed, while American losses in North Russia include 75 killed, 19 died of wounds, 34 missing, 69 died of disease, and 252 wounded.
Paris on March 14 reports the supreme peace council has virtually decided the preliminary peace treaty will require Germany to relinquish its lease on Tsingtao and all properties on the Shantung peninsula. The final possession of rights will not be decided at this stage.
A report from Saloniki states Turkish troops in southern Asia Minor violate the armistice and terrorize Greeks. The Asiatic Turkkey metropolitan urges allied forces to protect the Greek population from the Young Turks.
Brussels March 14 Premier Dela croix announced in the chamber of deputies that the government will insist on revising the treaty. He outlined policy aims and warned of possible consequences if terms are not adjusted.
The passage recounts how Whitney, who developed early device technologies, faced repeated patent disputes after starting manufacturing in Connecticut. Despite a $50,600 state grant from South Carolina, he spent all funds fighting infringements and shifted to firearms production for the government, amassing a fortune before dying in New Haven in 1825.
The native minister reports to the district missionary that a sparrow built a nest on his home roof. The missionary asks if there is anything in the nest and the Indian brother replies in proud English that the sparrow has pups.
Governor Hobby issues a proclamation for a special election on April 19 in the Twelfth Congressional district to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Congressman James C. Wilson. The governor also signs a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish the fee system and place all public officials on straight salaries, to be voted on November 4.
Austin Texas March 14 The senate concurred in the house concurrent resolution fixing the adjournment of the regular session for Wednesday March 19 at 6 oclock The action marks the end of the current legislative session.
The note wishes Vice President Marshall a happy birthday while marking Italy's 75th anniversary of King Humbert I's birth. Oregon colleges send nine representatives to the state intercollegiate oratorical contest at the University of Oregon. A Paris dispatch reports Emile Cotton's court martial for the Clemenceau shooting. The National War Labor Board will hear women formerly employed on streetcars in Cleveland who lost work March 1 at the Car Men's Union's request.
Deputies report the supreme council has decided the treaty dated April 19 1834 between Belgium and Holland must be revised. The move signals potential changes in border and diplomatic arrangements.
Secretary Daniels left Washington today bound for New York to board the transport Leviathan for his forthcoming European trip.
The vicar pleads for funds and receives a $50 donation from a man who later admits he is an undertaker. The committee momentarily hesitates as the donor's identity is revealed and the vicar thanks him warmly.
In a Washington Star dialogue Senator Sorghum explains a rider as the postscript like an afterthought yet the most important part of a bill. The exchange clarifies why riders accompany legislative measures in Congress.
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