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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1915
Page
7
In front of the military cuartel on the upper plaza, a dynamite bomb detonated as a sergeant and corporal toyed with it. The sergeant’s right arm and portions of his body were blown apart, the corporal killed in the blast. The arm of the sergeant later amputated. death probable.
G Lecea announces a switch from five cent jitney routes to a ten cent ride service. All cars withdrawn from the five cent route will be used for ten cent trips, ensuring prompt car availability. Contact 715 for immediate dispatch. Date 3-20-61.
An advertisement argues that good digestion and regular bowel movements are essential to health and happiness. It urges taking one pill at night to ensure a full morning bowel movement, improve appetite, and digestion, with a call to try it tonight.
Milton Gilmore the son of Mr and Mrs W H Gilmore leaves Wednesday for San Antonio to enlist at the naval recruiting station He will then go to the training school in San Francisco for four years and be entered as a marine or seaman His father will accompany him and friends wish him success and a valuable vocational training for service to his country
A reader from West Webster New York testifies after five years of use that Chamberlain's Tablets are mild in action and effective for stomach and liver disorders. He states the products are as represented and expresses high value. Sold by all dealers.
R A Bigden, noted painter, enlarges his new home on Heights lot east of W P May. He moves the three room house back and adds four rooms, creating a seven room cottage for his family.
The Laredo Chamber of Commerce annual report reviews 1913 14 efforts including a Washington delegation Samuel Mackin and a $25000 Senate survey bill for a Rio Grande border route. It notes onion grower cooperation Fort McIntosh activities new secretary Kenney membership drive and a sound financial base.
The Laredo Chamber of Commerce organized a broad campaign to fight Interstate Commerce Commission rate increases on onions lettuce cabbage and other produce with a special committee backed by Judge Sam H Cowan and Edward Byars. Funds and support spread across the valley from Brownsville to Corpus Christi while talks on waterways improvements and gravity irrigation pushed congressional and state aid efforts. The group sought to unite Southwest Texas commercial bodies to promote favorable legislation as sector growth and transportation costs loom.
A respectful notice urges housewives to protect children’s health, warning coughs and colds can lead to serious diseases. It endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as prompt, effective, pleasant, and safe for children, noting it is sold by all dealers.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw recounts a Philadelphia Bulletin remark at a city tea hosted by the Acorn club. She notes resolutions can be splendid if not priggish, recalling a childhood girl who kept all her New Year pledges only to abandon them the next day.
Washington March 22 President Wilson announced that Mexican events do not change his resolve not to recognize any government not arising from orderly elections. The policy remains unchanged, emphasizing orderly process as a prerequisite for recognition.
A killing frost did damage in the San Antonio region last night, reported by the Associated Press. The brief notice notes a sharp freeze impacting crops and local conditions in the area around San Antonio, Texas, on the night of March 22.
Trial opens here today against directors of the defunct George Alexander & Co. State Bank for 250000 dollars alleged to have been lost by depositors when the bank abruptly closed its doors last fall.
Oregon state penitentiary inmates will replace five Sunday religious services with moving picture showings in the chapel. Governor Withycombe approved the plan to substitute prayer services with films for inmates at the state pen.
Ottawa March 22 Dr Akira Yama pouchi councillor of the Japanese department of trade and commerce is completing a tour of Calgary Winnipeg and other major Canadian cities. He surveys trade details and will advise Japanese manufacturers on Canada bestsellers and Canadian products of interest for home markets.
Minneapolis news says Dan La Bar faces court for alleged swindle of James L Green of Algona Iowa through a fake racing exchange in the city. He is linked to 1913 wire tapping swindles, with Edward Dixon also indicted and fleeing under bail. La Bar allegedly took $5,000 in good faith for a bet on a race that never ran and stole a $5,000 draft from Green.
Miss Maude McKnight's Sunday school class from Christchurch went to Chacon creek Saturday, spending the day picnicking. Ten boys practiced target shooting, setting notably good marksmanship records. They returned home late Saturday afternoon reporting an enjoyable outing.
Petrograd reports Przemysl surrenders to Russia today leaving Cracow as the last Austrian fortress in Galicia. The fall opens access to Austrian wheat lands, with Przemysl and Cracow blocking a Russian drive into Germany from Silesia. An official bulletin in London confirms the garrison’s surrender after a last stand depletion of ammunition. The besieging force is about 120,000. defenders were originally 80,000 and reduced by casualties.
Washington reports that the German steamer Odenwald, blocked from leaving San Juan Puerto Rico yesterday after two shots across her bows, is detained by the United States under a congressional resolution empowering the president to bar supplies from American ports to ships of European belligerents.
The United States is drafting a note to England on undisclosed aspects of the blockade order. The note will be ready in a few days. Representations to Germany for reparations for the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye are also being prepared.
Berlin reports that Russians were pushed out of Memel in Northeast Prussia yesterday. An official bulletin says Russian troops protected mobs looting German citizens property in Memel as they carried carloads of goods back into Russia.
A German correspondent reports Turkish forts in Berlin dated dispatch describing Thursday bombardment that sank three Allied warships. Smoke from exploding shells filled the air as earth and debris flew skyward, and the earth trembled for miles. Allies fired 2,000 shells without silencing a shore battery.
Constantinople reports Lieut Commander William Bricker and three American sailors were drowned when their small boat swamped in the Bosphorus Saturday night while returning to the Scorpion. The incident capsizes a routine maritime call in a foreign harbor.
Calais France reports a naval air raid Sunday morning with Zep pelins approaching from the sea. Propeller noise warned residents as aircraft guns signaled the clash. War work to continue today as Western Union officials confirm resumed operations. Bentley Broomhall and Meyer codes may be used in messages to British possessions beyond Europe alongside UK exchanges.
London dispatches dated March 22 report Copenhagen sources citing Dr Karl Lieb as a focal figure in a developing medical or political matter. Details remain fragmentary with no clear outcome or formal statement available.
The White House announced the president will not call an extra session before the regular session begins next December. No prospect of circumstances arising to compel a special session was seen, according to a March 22 Associated Press report from Washington.
A five day convention in Pittsburgh marks the Music Supervisors National Conference opening to address public school music problems. Arthur W. Mason of Columbus, Ohio, president, chaired the session with delegates from nearly every state attending.
Paris today sets the court martial of Francois Desclaux, general paymaster of the French army, charged with stealing military stores. Maitre Demange to lead the defense as sensational features are anticipated.
New York reports March 22. Cable codes that were deactivated due to the European outbreak are being reconsidered for revival. Authorities aim to restore standard communication protocols and ensure continued coverage and reliability across networks.
Knecht, a socialist figure, has been forbidden to write articles or attend political meetings due to criticism of wartime measures. The restriction underscores government limits on dissent during the conflict era.
From New York on March 22 the steamship Gascogne carried fifteen hundred horses in a record single shipment. The bridal suite was reportedly occupied by horses as the vast cargo sailed toward France.
Berlin March 22 The Overseas news agency reports Germany has secured sufficient funds in a recent loan to continue the war at least through autumn.
Foreign money markets in New York were unsettled as $18,000,000 in gold moved toward the United States to finance food and war supplies. The grain and bullion markets watched closely as the transfer impacted exchange rates and financial sentiment.
Federico Gomez, once given the death penalty for murdering his sister in law, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Ferguson. He is to be taken to the state penitentiary and is reportedly at the disposal of penitentiary authorities. A prison contractor is expected to arrive within days.
Yesterday morning near the city’s old baseball grounds two young boys out rabbit hunting were startled by an accidental gun discharge. Luciano Molina, about 18, was shot in the left side of the neck. the other boy, whose name wasn’t learned, held the 22 caliber rifle. The ball remains embedded.
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