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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1923
Page
9
Work on the pew and handsome building for the South western Bell Telephone Co. contract awarded to Chambers of this city. He is expected to begin soon, and Laredo will gain one of Texas' handsomest exchange buildings.
Army Munson shoes offered direct to the public at 2.75 dollars. Heavily leather uppers waterproof design with double stitched soles available in sizes 6 to 11 and all widths. Pay by money order or post receipt and money back if unsatisfied. Colt 1441 Broadway New York City.
Teodora Flors aged 81 a pioneer resident died at her home 3ue Farragut St on the night of the 3rd. She was an aunt of Dewny Shoriti UL and had lived in Laredo many years while maintaining a close home life. The funeral will be held at her home tomorrow morning at 9 30 oclock.
Loans up to 25000 dollars at BIS percent interest offered on farms and ranches in Webb Zapata and Jim Hogg counties. See Thos H Ward Secretary Treasurer Laredo National Farm Loan Association in Joseph Building. 3-12-1f.
George W. Emory of Rock Mills Alabama endorses Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets saying they relieve his longstanding indigestion without pepsin and help him eat normally again. He notes his age and previous trials with many medicines.
A local surplus sale lists items including electric grids, refrigerators, water filters, picks and shovels, typewriters, check protectors, filing cases, Burroughs adding machines, garbage cans, and other bargains.
Saturday sale by St Anne's Society offers fancy work cakes pies preserves and candles at Stowers with other local ads on gas stoves china painting and plumbing. Probate court meets Webb County. Local society events and community notices list church circles, club meetings, student contests and social activities with names and places across the area.
Dr J L Mitchell has opened an osteopathy office in Laredo. The new practice focuses on therapeutic osteopathy and patient care in the local community.
Violet 8 profile appears in the Oberfeldt Society column written by editor Violet Oberfeldt, with telephone number 70 listed for tips or submissions.
The Junior Auxiliary at Christ Church meets at the Rectory at 4 PM Tuesday. On Wednesday the Guild holds its Auxiliary Meeting at the Rectory at 3 30 PM.
Governor Neff signed multiple measures including a 3450,000 appropriation to cover state land deficits from the past two years. He filed a resolution urging Thompson to resign as Texas commissioner. A recall of the 85th district court reorganization and delinquent tax collection bills were also filed. Weather and disaster notes report a cold wave and tornado damage in the Midwest and Northwest Mississippi with fatalities and Red Cross relief.
In Austin on March 2 the question of raising the Confederate pension tax from seven to ten percent per one hundred dollars of property value will be submitted to the people under the Doyle senate resolution approved by Governor Neff and certified by the secretary of state today. The higher tax would increase Confederate pension payments accordingly.
A state authority approves a plan by Audubon Society to establish a bird reserve in Matour County near Bagdad Island in Texas for netting new boards. The bill, authorized by Governor Nett and the secretary of state, becomes effective next month.
The Associated Press reports twenty thousand dollars will be distributed among cotton farmers in Caddo and Bossier parishes as compensation for being prohibited from growing cotton in 1922 by the Louisiana pink bollworm quarantine. Inspector Stuck notes the quarantine will be lifted for 1923.
A March 20 survey reveals overcrowded housing in Moscow with about 15 square yards per person. Many workers live under crowded roofs and rely on a single bed for multiple people. Food quality has deteriorated with 80 percent of residents on nearly milkless diets. In one district 85 percent of children show tuberculosis or risk due to malnutrition.
Waco Texas March 20 Roy Mitchell a Negro was sentenced to death by a jury for the slaying of Mrs Denecamp on January 19. The panel deliberated under four minutes and he had previously been condemned for killing W K Holt. The crowd cheered as the verdict was read, and Mitchell showed no emotion. He refused to testify saying it would do no good. Three other murder trials against him are scheduled for next week.
Springfield Ohio March 20 Defense moves to suppress evidence and return seized Klan materials in the mutegas conspiracy case of WM Cortner an alleged Klux Klan member The judge allowed dismissal of the police raid evidence suggesting the case may proceed in another court if desired The raid occurred February 14 at Klan headquarters where books papers regalia and other artifacts were seized
Washington March 20 The board of consultants on hospitalization urges immediate inauguration and continuation of a study to determine future economic uses for federal hospital facilities. It proposes centralizing work in a federal office and closely scrutinizing it to avoid waste in war and post war expenditures. The report calls for federal state cooperation to standardize hospital practices nationwide and suggests transferring hospitals when no longer needed to a national home for disabled volunteer soldiers or to the public health service or to the states as health and welfare equipment.
A Tottenhall College preparatory class of 26 Staffordshire boys visited London for sight seeing and theatre outings. Officials say the trip broadened the boys’ minds through exposure to historical sites and dances.
Edward P. Miller of Abbotts town Pennsylvania endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as superior for coughs and colds. He notes that those who try the remedy seldom want another and praises its effectiveness to allay coughing and break up colds.
The forecast shows tonight will be fair and warmer. Wednesday is expected to be partly cloudy to cloudy with conditions appropriate for the area as provided by the Telephone Co and New Orleans weather office.
Observations show a maximum of 53 degrees and a minimum of 36. The wind is northeast and the sky is partly cloudy.
A bewildering report states figures like Senator Cumulus and Col. Murch warn the League of Nations would face a perilous path, fearing European dissolution rather than restoration. The dispatch cites uneasy talks on American policy and mutual guarantees amid a volatile continental crisis.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention an arrest and a warrant but lack coherent names, dates, or places. The text references a county, district or grand jury investigation, and a night-time incident, with unclear subjects and outcomes. The readable portion provides hints of an inquiry rather than a clear event.
A mother Vilbeia taréhei and her three children perished in a home fire near here on March 20. Authorities say a gas flame ignited the blaze, according to a ward report received today.
The 1922 U S cotton output is tallied at 9,729,048 running bales with 172,182 round bales counted as half bales. Texas produced 3,125,762 bales and Louisiana 346,407 bales. The final figures include 32,786 American Egyptian, 6,125 Sea Island, and 8,864 bales of other types.
Send 6 cents and your name and address to Des Moines Iowa and receive a trial package of Chamberlain remedies for coughs bronchial ailments stomach troubles and skin conditions plus Chamberlain's Salve. The sale promotes a six cent offer and urges not to miss it.
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