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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1921
Page
8
Tuesday’s Daily reports the Chamber of Commerce prize essay contest for schoolchildren on The Anti-Mosquito Campaign. Teachers taught disease prevention, urging eradication of mosquitoes as carriers of malaria and yellow fever, shaping informed future citizens.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian revolutionary writer, pleads with the world to aid five thousand Russian savants facing starvation. He notes his own controversial return to Russia with the Kerensky era and accuses Bolshevik leadership of causing their hardship, while criticizing the term intelligence in Russia as linked to nihilism and anarchism.
The piece argues Bolshevik rule stems from survival of the fittest logic, condemning intellectuals to starvation while the mob clings to laborers’ food. It portrays a grim view of Soviet leadership, suggesting educated Russians are sacrificed asLenine and Trotzky are cited, and questions the legitimacy of nonviolent reforms.
John J. McNamara, a principal in the 1910 Los Angeles Times building dynamiting, is to be released from San Quentin today at term expiry. He was sentenced to 15 years for murder. he earned credit as a model prisoner. His brother James B. McNamara remains jailed for related murder charges.
The remains of Lic Enrique Gor rostieta a renowned Mexican jurist who died at his daughter's home in this city will be shipped to Monterrey this evening for interment in the family plot at Monterrey cemetery. The body will cross the boundary line this evening and ride the train, accompanied by two sons in law Eugenio Rivera and Luis Sada and Enrique Resendez, a family friend.
A Brockport resident reports rapid recovery from severe back rheumatism after using Chamberlains Liniment. The testimonial claims the product eased pain within moments and enabled movement, noting a prior period bedridden and unable to turn.
The awards committee visited multiple schools to announce prize winners and honorable mentions in the mosquito health campaign. Mr J A LePrince of the U S Public Health Service gave talks, with 13 short addresses delivered, and judges reported strong student essays tied to the anti mosquitos effort across High Ursuline Central Mrs Ward St Peters Urbahn Heights and private Do minguez schools.
The Laredo Chamber of Commerce authorizes a detailed awards record from Laredo public and private schools. First honors go to students across grades from eighth to second, with multiple teachers named. Honorable mentions follow, listing students by grade and school, then private institutions including Ursuline Convent and St. Peter's School, with judges Buenz, Smith, and Sauvignet signing the submission.
May 10 report on Will Crooks a leading English labor figure. From a harsh childhood in a workhouse at nine to a cooperative career. apprenticed as a blacksmith then cooper. He faced a labor dispute, wandered, then rose to power in city affairs and twenty years in Parliament as a trusted ally of ministers and the Crown.
Webb County commissioners award bonds and the Laredo to San Antonio highway contract to Wear Thomas Ratliff for 290 433 10. Construction begins in about six weeks with crews at the city limits south of the Santa Maria Avenue warehouse. City will build two miles from the Texas Mexican tracks to join the new road, forming a 38 mile link toward La Salle County and Meridian highway plans toward Monterrey.
Wedgwood Nowell stars as Arsene Lupin in the Robert son Cole super special photo play "$13" based on Maurice Leblanc novel. The film opens at Rialto Theatre today with a suspenseful mystery that holds viewer interest to the end and features a notable supporting cast.
One year ago today in Rome the ceremony of Joan of Arc canonization began while in Britain the House of Commons rejected a plan for a single Irish Parliament.
Announcement from Brennan Leonard offices states A G Whittington will resign as general manager of the N and G N in Texas effective May 15. He will join Brennan Leonard Whittington as head of Brennan Leonard Whittington firm starting May 16 and relocate headquarters to Monterey while the railroad keeps Laredo as HQ.
Confederate Memorial Day was observed in North and South Carolina with graves decorated and veteran group memorials. Raleigh offices and banks closed as ceremonies took place under veterans organizations.
ALL TIRED OUT. Weary and worn. Back and head aches. Kidney weakness blamed. Mrs. Ed Sanchez of Laredo reports dull kidney pains and dizziness, then relief after one box of Doan's Kidney Pills. 60c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y.
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