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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1919
Page
11
A folksy note urges residents to get busy and create news by asking for their names to appear in the paper at least once a year. The message playfully encourages readers to be featured and to stay engaged with the community report.
A miscellaneous column notes curious facts about lungs and magenta’s name origin, Punta Arenas’s growth, a Swiss landslide, and Royal and museum security details. It includes verses, army notices, and local social updates about discharged soldiers, visiting officials, and families returning from France.
Judge Ham Ward of San Antonio and Hon Marshall Hicks of San Antonio attend district court in the city on legal business and for official duties. Pat Hickey of Battery D 21st Field Artillery has returned to Laredo after service in France including wounds and gas exposure and has received his discharge. Rafael Nieto Mexico minister of finance arrives and heads to Washington and New York on business, accompanied by Colonel Castro of the Mexican army.
Detroit on March 28 hosts a major AAU swim meet at the Detroit Athletic Club. Top American sprinters vie for national titles in the 150 yard backstroke, the 220 yard freestyle, and the women’s fancy diving championship.
Society editor Mrs Violet S Oberfeldt gives social notes and notes on local society events and engagements in the column.
Friday events include the Blue Bird Chapter of Camp Fire Girls meeting at Mrs Alfred Poggenpohl's home at 4 PM and Troop No 1 Boy Scouts meeting at the Methodist Church in the evening. Troop No 2 meets at Headquarters Hall at 7 PM. Saturday activity lists Sunbeam Band at 4 PM and Junior Scouts meeting in the afternoon.
Sunday to spend the weekend with his family Mr and Mrs Leonard Haynes arrived in the city from New York and will be here a few weeks. They are guests at the Hamilton Hotel. Mrs D F Anderson from New York City has accepted the position of first assistant organist in the Church of the Holy Communion. The Fifth District of T F W C Annual Convention will meet in San Antonio on April 17 and 18. Mrs R L Poster has been elected delegate from the Woman's Club. Abrego Carbajal and Miss Josefina Carbajal will be married tonight in San Fernando cathedral and will live in Laredo. Mrs W N Young is new chairman for womans work for the Fifth Liberty Loan and announces her committee. The W M A Circle C met at Mrs L L Leyendecker's for Bible study with Mrs Wilkes leading. A social hour followed with ice, cake. A general meeting of the four circles will be held next.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church met yesterday afternoon at Mrs. J. N. Worsham's home. After a brief business session a social hour followed with refreshments. Attendees included Mesdames Little, Millar, Bradford, Morgan, Keithley, Smith, Hamilton, Harper, Donnelly and Phelps. visitors Mrs. Robertson of Colorado City and Mrs. Elman of Pearsall attended.
Travel group includes Manuel A. Tamez and family from Monterey J W Lusher and M Lusher with C E Hayes and wife in Chanute Kansas Fred Hack city official C H Plase Reymonville M Lub Rallo Hartley El Paso E Cueva and family San Antonio S F Lough borough Mexico City W E Bivens San Antonio M Walters Denver A B Stinthe Raymondy'lle.
Physicians promote Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle alternative to calomel for cleansing blood bowels and liver. The ad claims clearer skin after a few nights of use and lists benefits such as elimination of bad breath dullness and constipation. Available in 10c and 25c boxes.
The Henley regatta is revived after war years and marks 80 years since its 1839 founding meeting in Henley on Thames. The Grand Challenge Cup, the event’s blue riband, originated with local funds and bears a bulrush motif and Father Thames imagery. A new base was added in 1890 for inscriptions. The report notes a Vienna railroad strike and possible spread toward a Viet republic in German Austria, plus dispatches on Red Army recruitment and Bolshevik plots in Germany.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette's birth centenary is honored as Elks Grand Lodge officials arrive in New Orleans for their new home dedication. In St Louis the National American Woman Suffrage Association wraps up its jubilee convention. Milwaukee hosts a Great Lakes manufacturers conference to restore wartime freight services.
Copenhagen reports Lettish troops have captured the town of Shlotsk, about 60 miles southwest of Riga, from the Bolsheviki in a formal announcement.
Paris reports that former Emperor William and former Crown Prince Frederick William will face trial before a high court to be created by the German National Assembly in Paris. Former Foreign Minister Zimmermann is also to be brought before the court.
London report notes a March 28 meeting of the executive body of the national organization urging swift progress toward a settled peace. Participants discuss diplomatic steps and next actions to end hostilities.
United States Senator William M Calder warns in a letter to Secretary Glass that depreciation of Liberty bonds could force banks to take the forthcoming loan unless a special congressional session is called. The piece notes the new Victory Liberty Loan terms allow deferred payments over six months from May 10 to November 11.
The Utah legislature includes four women, all Democrats, while Clarksburg West Virginia hosts a boot blacking shop run by young women. Oklahoma counties form women voters clubs and Indiana’s Woman’s Franchise League meets April 1 3 in Indianapolis. Mrs Susanna Rannells 96 registered in Battle Creek Michigan. Governor Smith New York plans to name a woman to the Niagara Reservation Commission. Des Moines forms an organization to build a modern hotel for working women. Mrs Frances M Haskell of the Washington legislature backed restoring capital punishment. A pharmaceutical canvass shows women pharmacists in the United States more than doubled in five years.
Attorney General Palmer said about 4,000 enemy aliens were interned during the war and all but about 900 will be paroled or repatriated. Those remaining are deemed dangerous and will be held indefinitely.
Tonight and Saturday fair and warmer. Observations from Fort McIntosh show a maximum 74 and minimum 60 with west winds and cloudy skies.
The 132d Field Artillery unit consisting of Texans and Oklahomans will parade in Houston next week on its way to Camp Bowie, an announcement said today.
British troops crossed the River Jordan as airmen claim 24 German aircraft down on the western front. A terrific battle raged along a 55 mile front from northeast Arras to southeast Somme with heavy fighting reported.
The Madison Square Garden spectacle shows the end of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey as two separate entities. Instead a single merged circus will tour with higher taxes and transport costs driving consolidation. The run in New York begins tomorrow for a two week engagement before touring the country.
New York hosts the national indoor championships starting tomorrow. Howard Voshell defends his national singles title after winning last year. Fred Alexander, runner up to Voshell, also enters the field seeking the title.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the socialist party and socialist members of parliament calls for completing preliminary peace negotiations at the earliest moment to prevent chaos and anarchy across Europe caused by delays in fixing the terms of peace.
In Tokio the question was raised whether the gen Hemen agreement of 1907 between Japan and the United States lasts forever. Vice Minister M Shedehara said no treaty exists. Japan issued a voluntary declaration restricting movement of Japanese to America, meaning no new emigration while those already there may bring families. the government vows to honor the declaration.
Paris reports the executive council will expand from two to three members with a labor representative likely joining, expanding participation among states in the league.
Paris reports indicate peace conference circles hope the preliminary treaty will be signed by Easter Day, possibly by April 20.
Lord Doune of the Royal Flying Corps told the court martial of Captain Chamberlain that no such squadron existed and that the superior officers Chamberlain named were not known.
A brief quip from a Houston Post piece questions the basis for a father's objection. The line, “On any grounds within a mile of our house,” frames the humor around domestic approval and social expectation.
In a jab at social etiquette a Louisville Courier Journal item notes ladies protest over members ogling. A quip suggests an Ogling Committee to fix the issue, reflecting playful clubroom chatter.
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