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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1926
Page
12
The paper notes May arrives with foreseen changes and previews warm weather outlooks. It reports gas drilling activity rising in the Laredo district and ongoing oil prospects. Home rotogravure space is nearly full with limited downtown Montrose and Heights listings. Onion pickers pause for rain spoiled fields awaiting sun.
From this date I will not be responsible for any debts contracted for the Travelers Hotel without written order. W. L. Irwin. Laredo Texas April 30 1926. 4-30-31.
Laredo radio fans may see Al Johnson piano wizard and Fay Johnson blues singer from Houston at the Royal Theatre Sunday and Monday matinee and night. Colleen Moore in Irene will accompany the program with photoplay, fashion show, and natural color film for an entertaining bill.
London April 30 A.P. reports Benjamin Bates Bull a 79 year old who still uses quill pens to inscribe royal marriage licenses. He has worked sixty four years and when busy locks himself in to engross a license costing fifty pounds. One license requires twenty quill pens.
An American Expeditionary Force veteran faced rejection for a job at a New York paper. He joined as copy desk clerk and later boosted Laurence Stallings into prominence, with Painton noting the Legion that Stallings’ war works reveal a true war perspective.
Friday sees Mesdames Carlos Richter J J Richter and Ernst O Buenz hosting a bridge luncheon Mrs R H Traylor will entertain the Friday Bridge Club at 330 pm Saturday Club Alpha to be entertained by Miss Longoria in Nuevo Laredo Mexico in the afternoon
A poem describes a hopeful bride longing for domestic bliss. It paints a simple home with a sunny kitchen, a green yard, and a honeysuckle gate, where a waiting partner will return each day to share a kiss and life together.
Mrs J M Slaughter and granddaughter Marjorie Ellis returned from San Antonio after Fiesta travel. Several residents plan trips to Miranda City, Rogers and Dilton for business or visits. The Pan American Round Table hosts May fifth open meeting at Hamilton Hotel for Cinco de Mayo. A large bridge party and shower honors Miss Esther Penn with many guests and festive prizes.
Charles Berry of the Brooksfield quartermaster's department was found dying from two bullet wounds in the street. A pistol was recovered nearby. The incident occurred in San Antonio Texas on April 30.
Chicago soprano Margery Maxwell of Ravinia and Chicago Opera extols swimming as prime exercise for a slim figure. She urges a balanced diet, citing orange juice with evaporated milk, leafy greens, eggs and nuts, and notes the public’s demand for sylph like operatic figures.
Washington April 30 A motion to bring farm relief legislation immediately before the senate was made today by Senator Harrison Democrat of Mississippi.
Washington April 30 the house will take up right of way farm relief legislation next Tuesday with debate limited to four days under a resolution introduced today by the rules committee
NOT INDICTED, San Antonio April 30 The Austin wife charged in the slaying of Mrs Thelma Williams of Beaumont was declared not indicted by the grand jury. Williams was shot in a rooming house last week and her husband was cut with scissors.
Four balloons from the national elimination race started in Little Rock Arkansas have been heard from by today. One bag was reported near Nashville Tennessee another near Golconda Indiana and two over Bonnieville Kentucky.
Wichita Trails Texas April 30 A meeting of the Committee of Thirteen representing the senate the house and business interests of Texas will be held in Austin tomorrow for discussion of plans to validate the Texas road bonds announced by J A Kemp chairman of the committee.
James Kingsmore, held in Baltimore city jail, received five lashes with a cat o nine tails for wife beating. He faced the punishment in the first revival of the lash for this offense in five years, smiling as the sentence was carried out.
A collection of pithy maxims on gender roles, social behavior, and personal conduct. Observations touch on relationships, memory, appearance, and opportunity. The tone mimics a quotable, late era newspaper feel with concise, pointed statements.
Chicago on April 80 an order was granted for impaneling a special grand jury to investigate the slaying of William McSwiggin and all other gang killings and crime conditions in Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
Nazimova headlines the First National production My Son at the Royal Theatre playing Ana Silva a Portuguese fisher woman torn between love interests and three men. Jack Pickford portrays Tony with praised natural acting while Hobart Bosworth Charley Murray Mary Akin Jan Keith Constance Bennett and Dot Farley offer strong support as Betty Smith drives the plot with a vivid debut and dramatic climax.
A fragmented AP item conveys brief notes from a 20th century dispatch. The legible bits reference Associated Press sourcing and partial phrases, offering little concrete detail beyond agency attribution.
The Standard Oil Company No 34 tank burned with undiminished intensity through a rainy night. Flames threaten to overflow the red hot rim of the 500000 barrel capacity tank and could spread to adjacent reservoirs. Lightning struck the tank yesterday amid heavy squalls washing out dikes.
Lynch Davidson of Houston declared in Lancaster that he opposes repeal of the Volstead act and any weakening of law enforcement. He denounced liquor revival schemes and called for enforcement in every department, condemning straw votes as liquor influenced.
New York April 30 May Day is expected to pass quietly tomorrow in the United States with only a small radical group likely to observe it. The American Federation of Labor does not sanction the day and the Justice Department plans no precautionary measures, believing none are necessary despite scheduled communist demonstrations in several cities.
Washington April 30 the senate unanimously dismissed the contest of former Senator Barnum Republican challenging the seat of Senator Bratton Democrat of New Mexico.
In New Orleans an antiques auction saw a Buhl table claimed as Madame de Pompadour’s sell for 90 dollars though its authenticity dated back to 1764. Jewelry items rose with an English ring watch selling for 166 dollars, the box inscription noting maker Preval made it for King George the Third.
A damaged AP wire story describes a fatal plane crash near Jacksonville Florida during a practice field drill. It mentions Williams and Williams as victims and notes a 2 000 foot fall and fuel ignition following the aircraft overturning.
Foreign Secretary Chamberlain warned at a women’s convention that the coal situation has reached a very serious position. The remark aligns with widespread reports on negotiations to avert a coal strike set to begin tomorrow.
Washington April 80 The senate prohibition committee will be ready Wednesday to take up 16 pending bills and resolutions on the wet and dry question. Seven are administration measures for tightening enforcement and the rest include an amendment to the eighteenth amendment and a proposal for 2.76 per cent beer.
On Tuesday evening May 4 the Methodist church parlor hosts a box supper. Ladies bring lunch for two in labeled boxes while men and boys buy theirs. Musical numbers from Holding Institute and city readers are planned. Ladies boxes cost 60 cents and children's boxes 26 cents. For details call 1017.
A single day event titled Umi Demonstration marks the entire schedule with open displays and public participation. Organizers invite locals to observe performances, lectures, and tastings centered on bier piloting and community brewing traditions.
Associated Press dispatch from Cork Ireland notes a man was arrested and later brought to district justice after arriving in Queenstown aboard the steamship Adriatic.
Two hundred fifty nine fishermen and the Chichibu Maru were rescued after a wreck on Kurile rocks. Reports from April thirty list the saved sailors and state all men are accounted for.
A tentative report notes a close opening clash over river operations. Despite delays and uncertain signals, the side favored by eight points edged ahead as figures and plans were assessed.
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