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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1926
Page
2
A Wednesday editorial condemns police use of coercion to extract confessions, arguing the English common law presumes innocence until proven guilty and warns that the state should not torture prisoners. It calls for reform and cautions against sensational radio pranks and legal overreach.
A Kiwanis entertainment chair in one town announced 2,000,000 radio listeners but the microphone was disconnected rendering speeches unheard. Officials pursued charges with no applicable law, while a State's Attorney noted radio still lacks slander coverage leaving limited redress.
An appeased pastor delivers a fiery sermon to a packed Se Ero church audience about hell. The preacher jokes that God made the world round with two axles at the poles and that sinners mine wells in many states to steal oil, promising a hot day for the axless.
Gloria Swanken stars in Malame Sana Gene a Paramount picture recounting a French laundress who befriended Napoleon in poverty and was remembered by him in power. The cast includes Charles de Roche and Emile Drain with other notable French stage and screen performers.
The Depot Market offers baby beef spring lamb and veal with Armour guaranteed Government inspected Veribest quality. A Monday shipment of corned beef and vinegar-pickled pigs feet will arrive.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art draws daily crowds to its American Wing. Exhibits span American decorative arts from the 17th to early 19th century in rooms with original woodwork and famous pieces by Washington Franklin Lafayette and Sargent. Egyptian, European collections and Rodin works also attract visitors, despite some beliefs about tourist origins.
The ad touts Black and White Ointment and Soap as trusted fixes for pimples and skin blemishes. It warns against unproven treatments and urges use of proven products sold by all dealers.
Gentle springtime nears, with gardens full of flowers and fruit trees in blossom. In the Laredo area the season shines due to favorable weather, with crops maturing and wildflowers brightening prairies while preparations for Easter fashion rush await.
Buyers and shippers of Bermuda onions organized the Association of South Texas Onion Shippers at a Laredo Chamber of Commerce meeting. Eleven members elected officers Joseph Rosenblum president and Charles Mumm secretary treasurer. A committee will draft by laws and report next Tuesday.
Information from Superintendent Fite of Byrd Brothers Construction Co notes the Nuevo Laredo Mexico to Monterey highway project is advancing. Grubbing crews reduced from 1200 to 390. 11 km graded northward to Monterey and 7 km graded southward to Nuevo Laredo with 25 km left to grade within 30 days.
Cotulla High School baseball visits Laredo High next Friday at Legion Park for a 4 p.m. start. It is Cotulla’s first game of the season after a no show by Fort McIntosh last Saturday. Cotulla remains undefeated after several prior matches.
A collection of short advertisements and notices including church service at Christ Church on Feast of Annunciation, a prescription by a veteran registered pharmacist, aluminum kitchenware and Singer appliances, radio service and library reads, stenography job seek, onion shipping leadership, office building for sale or rent, honey delivery, Star Car hens and incubators, hemstitching machine, dressmaking rates, and public library reading/rest room mentions.
Washington March 24 Memories of the republics sea days return as the frigate Constellation sister ship to the Constitution is taken from Newport to Philadelphia for the sesquicentennial celebration. The ship's long service included anti piracy actions and wartime cruises with Farragut and Perry. objections by Rhode Island lawmakers were dropped when assurance of return to Newport was given.
Two thousand native veterans of U S dependencies or their beneficiaries receive World War I compensation from the Veterans Bureau. Among these, 2,080 have death or disability compensation and 651 hold death or disability insurance. The Philippines lead dependencies with 417 disability and 387 death cases. Porto Rico has 330 disability and 323 death. Hawaii 73 disability and 35 death. Virgin Islands 2 disability and 4 death. Canal Zone has 4 disability cases. Porto Rico also tops with 205 insured, the Philippines second with 185, Hawaii 84, and Guam and Panama eight each.
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