Today’s anniversaries May 7 1887 to 1918
On May 7 1887 Samuel D Meinery a longtime Louisiana senator was born in Monroe died in New Orleans 1910. 1864 Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrived at Vera Cruz to become Mexico emperor. 1870 Henry B Anthony of Rhode Island reelected president pro tempore of US Senate. 1873 United States Agricultural Congress began its first annual meeting in Indianapolis. 1878 Earl Russell British statesman died born London 1792. 1882 Three survivors of the Jeanette Arctic expedition reached New York. 1898 Funeral of Mr Gladstone at Westminster Abbey. 1918 The American Railroad Express Company organized under Government supervision.
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Samuel D. Meinery
United States
Louisiana
Monroe
New Orleans
Archduke
Maximilian of Aussia
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Henry B. Anthony
Rhode Island
United States Senate
United States Agricultural Congress
Indianapolis
Earl Russel
London
Harvard Student Wins $6000 Prize For 1920 Platform Draft
Carl Smith Joslyn, 21, a Harvard senior from Springfield, Mass., wins a $6000 nationwide contest prize for best draft of a Republican platform for 1920. He lost his father at 10, funded his studies with work and relatives, and now aims to pay debts and finish college to become an educator.
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Carl Smith Joslyn
Harvard
Springfield
Mass
Joslyn
Robbing Churches In Vienna Draws Police Alarm
Associated Press reports a shift from graveyard plunder to church burglaries in Vienna. Edifices like Mariahilf and Rochus have been entered, with robes and altar vessels stolen. Police estimate about 40,000 potential criminals in Vienna amid 1,405 burglaries in 96 days, 965 arrests, and loot recovered worth 60 million crowns.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Social Calendar Highlights Women and Military Guests
Mrs G W Derby hosts a dancing party at 8 pm honoring Miss Margaret Heye of Corpus Christi at Elks Hall. Saturday features a Fort McIntosh dinner dance at 8 pm hosted by bachelor officers for Captain and Mrs Riley and Captain and Mrs Zupann.
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G. W. Derby
Margaret Heye
Corpus Christi
Elks Hall
Fort McIntosh
Riley
Zupann
Local social notes and visits list in Laredo society page
Mrs R B Echols and baby left for San Marcos to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs L H Bruni and daughter Lamar visit. staying at the Bender. Mrs George Davis Moyer from San Antonio visits her parents in Laredo. Miss Eva Starkey of Alice visits in Laredo with Mrs Hubert Pereira. Grace Cuff to leave for points in the East. W L Guyler to Dallas for Texas Chamber meeting. Steve Simon returns from A M College after sophomore year. Mrs John Wood and daughter return to Monterey. Mrs A E B Derby leaves for Monterey Mexico for weeks. Harold Burnett back from A M College after graduation. Adolph Hatley returns from Bryan after distinguished year. Cecil Matthes returns from A M College. Mrs Briscoe West arrives from Corpus Christi visiting Miss Marguerite Yaeger. Louis Matthes goes to Philadelphia for work. Roscoe Burbank visiting relatives. Miss Vernon Peebles en route visiting Mrs C L Garcia and family. Mrs Henry Ward to visit relatives in San Antonio and Austin. Mrs David of Hebbrerville returns from week with daughter Mrs Fletcher Smith. J S Roberts progressing after operation at Mercy Hospital. There will be a dance tonight at the Service Club under Mrs Cuff. One of the features.
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Briscoe West
Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Marguerite Yaeger
Square Dance and Civic Social Pastimes Recap
Old fashioned square dance planned with bus pickup at City drugstore at 8 pm. W M A circles held a Baptist Church meeting on Mountain Missions with Circle A leading. Ladies Aid Society hosted a Roof Garden reception for Rev J E White with about two hundred guests and a punch table. Mrs Carl Westphal honored Miss Mary OFiel with a green and white tea, Shasta daisies as centerpiece. Mount St Marys Little Rock announces sixty ninth annual commencement on June fourth after eight with Rt Rev J B Morris presiding.
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Baptist Church
Circle A
Circle D
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
J. E. White
Ruth French and
Kuller
G. ©. Hiatt
R. A. Millar
J. G. White
L. H Wharton
W. L. Barr
Hodges
Phelps
Summers
Fort Mcintosh
Keathley
Ralston
Little
Mesdames FE
F. Hamilton
A. J. Neff
Carl F. Westphal
Mary O'Fiel
Cleburne
Texas
Miss O'Fiel
Robert Bell
J. Lehman
George Smith
B. Hensley
G. Harwood
Academy
J. B. Morris
Democratic nominating convention opens in San Francisco
One month hence the Democratic presidential nominating convention will begin in San Francisco. A mass meeting in Philadelphia will push for higher pay for city teachers. Lehigh University hosts the fifteenth Bach Festival at Bethlehem. Elbert H. Gary and other industry leaders speak in New York at an American Iron and Steel Institute meeting. ICC hearings in Washington study railroad rate increases in southern and western territories. A debate between Governor Henry J. Allen and Samuel Gompers on industrial relations and the Kansas Court is set for Carnegie Hall in New York.
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San Francisco
Lehigh University
Bethlehem
Philadelphia
Elbert H. Gary
American Iron and Steel Institute
New York City
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Kansas Industrial Relations Court
Carnegie Hall
World’s largest rock salt deposit lies beneath Galicia
The Galicia region conceals the world’s largest mass of pure rock salt more than 500 miles long, stretching beneath the ground. The enormous seam is a vast geological treasure believed to reach deep underground, reshaping regional resource prospects.
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Galicia
Notice to Consular Agents Seeks Manifest Certification
The Consul General of Mexico Arturo de Larado in Laredo Texas announces that from June 1 any consular manifests lacking the accompanying commercial manifests will not be certified. He asserts immigration authorities in Nuevo Laredo will recognize passport holders issued by the consulate and accept them until further orders.
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Custom House
Mexico
Arturo de Larado
Laredo
Texas
Nuevo Laredo
Arturo de Laraco
Stories that aid farming from Kansas quote by Dill
In Manhattan Kansas W A Dill assistant professor urges journalism students that farm stories must show production and marketing improvements. He cites cooperative marketing by Patrons of Husbandry Lane County Oregon and the value of farmer telephones to time shipments. He criticizes excess transportation costs and notes Kansas could feed itself with better carload planning and home grown produce.
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Associated Press
Manhattan
Kan
W. A. Dill
University of Kansas
Kansas State Agriculture College
Farmers’ Organization
Dill
Lane County
Oregon
Mr. Dil
Kansas
Dakotas
River
Idaho
Ohio
Minnesota
Global Industry Trends Reported From Diverse Regions
The text notes Canada producing about 70,000 tons of asbestos annually while coal mining expands in Manchuria. Africa has less coal than other continents. An August textile industry exhibition is planned in St. Louis. The Fifth International Rubber and Allied Industries Exhibition is set for London in June next year. The global cotton output remains led by the United States, and flax has long supplied linen fibers. Linen is linked to ancient Egypt, while Japan often pays year-end bonuses. A Washington conference aims to unify U.S engineering associations. Rubber balls replace ivory in billiards, proving livelier and more durable.
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Manchuria
Africa
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
Royal Agricultural Hall
London
India
China
Egypt
South America
West Indies
United States
Japan
Washington, D.C
Several Bills Submitted in House in Texas
In Austin on May 28 an amendment to the fire insurance commission law was introduced to remove expenditure limits beyond 150000 dollars. Other bills call for county treasurer salary increases to 3600 with an assistant. W R Stockwell testified on land values declining, and farmers warned non cotton zones could cost 15000000 dollars annually.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Fire Insurance Commission
W. R. Stockwell
Alvin
Texas House Bills Outline 2.5 Million School Fund
In Austin on May 28, the Texas House introduced bills to appropriate 2.5 million dollars to bolster the school fund for the next fiscal year, allow out of state teachers to teach without examinations, and impose a six to ten year penitentiary penalty for automobile theft.
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Austin
Texas
Senate panel backs sugar export embargo plan
Washington May 28 the senate agricultural committee voted six to two to issue a favorable report on the McNary bill calling for an embargo on the exportation of sugar.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee Today
Boundary Stone Laid At Rumichaca Bridge For Peace
In Quito on May 28 the boundary dispute between Ecuador and Colombia was symbolically closed as the cornerstone for a commemorative monument was laid on the Rumichaca bridge. Presidents Baquerizo Moreno of Ecuador and Marco Fidel Suárez of Colombia met and spoke of peace and friendship amid artillery salutes and cheering crowds.
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Associated Press
Quito
Ecuador
Colombia
Rumichaca
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno
Marco Fidel Suarez
Dutch to Return German Mine Sweeper U Z 18
The Hague reports Dutch naval authorities will return the German minesweeper U Z 18 to its flotilla after internment. The crew abandoned ship at Muyden to seek a buyer, but the captain, mate and two others were arrested. The remaining crew were captured by a Dutch torpedo boat as they prepared to leave Dutch waters.
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Associated Press
the Hague
Zuiderzee
Muyden
Y M C A Planning Expansion in China Convention
In Tientsin May 28 the international Y M C A convention announced expanded work in China with many new branches planned and 100 additional secretaries to be recruited. The initiative follows the gathering and points to broader outreach across Chinese cities.
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Associated Press
Tientsin
China
Young Men’s Christian Association
Obregon pledges friendly Mexico policy and border peace
General Alvaro Obregon declared that if elected he would seek amicable relations with all nations, especially those in the Americas, and would welcome withdrawal of frontier guards. In a separate dispatch from Vera Cruz, Felix Diaz notified authorities he supports the Huerta government and awaits the new regime’s decision on leaving Mexico.
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Mexico
Associated Press
Mexico City
Alvaro Obregon
Obregon
Los Angeles
Vera Cruz
Mex
Felix Diaz
Huerta
Hisuntla
Congress Falls Short on Veto Override Vote
The House failed to override the president's veto on the peace resolution, going 219 for to 152 against, 29 votes short of needed two thirds. The Senate approved the conference report on the water power bill, which now goes to the president.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Hard coal miners stay at work despite wage dispute
Wilkes-Barre Pa May 28 The anthracite miners will abide by the presidential coal commission decision to settle the wage dispute and avert any work stoppage in the hard coal region, said Thomas Kennedy president of District No 7 today.
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Associated Press
Wilkes-Barre
Presidential Coal Commission
Thomas Kennedy
Skeletons found in Virginia cave puzzle officials
In Winchester Virginia on May 28 officials seek to solve a murder mystery after two skeletons, a revolver, and eight glass eggs are found in a hard to reach rock bluff near Bluemont. Anatomists identify the remains as a man and a woman. Earlier a separate skeleton was found nearby by hunters last winter.
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Associated Press
Winchester
London County
Bluemont
Mexican Consulate Turned Over to Vice Consul
Mexican Consul Melquiades Garcia today received telegraphic instructions from Ambassador Diego Fernandez in Washington to turn over the Mexican consulate to Vice Consul Lisandro Perlia and to take a brief inventory so Garcia may be relieved before June 1 when Provisional President de la Huerta takes the oath of office.
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Melquiades Garcia
Diego Fernandez
Washington
Lisandro Perlia
Garcia
de la Huerta
Oil Field Workers Ready for Strike Movement
Wichita Falls Texas May 28 Organized oil field and refinery workers in Wichita Palis area numbering several thousand held a meeting last night over labor tensions. Labor leaders said United Oil Workers will vote soon on joining the building crafts in a general strike to protest the open shop movement. About 500 workers idle and 5 000 building craftsmen expected to strike tonight.
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Associated Press
Wichita Fails
Texas
Wichita Palis
Eaders
United Oil Workers
Limiting permits to curb liquor sales on prescriptions
Washington May 28 Commissioner Williams of the bureau of internal revenue issued a ruling to limit physicians to 100 permits each, valid for three months, with exception for good cause, in an effort to curb indiscriminate liquor sale on prescriptions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Williams
Bureau of Internal Revenue Today
Armistice Reached Between Russians and Japanese in Siberia
A Reuters despatch from Vladivostok dated Wednesday reports hostilities between Russia and Japan in Siberia ceased on May 25. The armistice commission has arrived at Khabarovsk to begin negotiations.
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Associated Press
Iondon
Siberia
Reuter
Vladivostok
Khabirovak
Germans Repatriated From Asia War Camps
Shanghai May 28 Most German prisoners held in camps in Japan and China have been repatriated. A contingent has just passed through Shanghai.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Japan
China
Nether Austria Workmen's Stores organized in Vienna
The Nether Austria Workmen's Co operative Stores has been organized in Vienna with a membership of 400000. It will extend its activities beyond usual commodities to include bakeries butcheries and dairy stations.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Workmen's Co-operative
A Heroic Deserter From Newport Receives DSC
Newport Kentucky May 28 John Sullivan of Newport earned the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism in World War I. He fled his ship to join Company A Ninth Machine Gun Battalion under the alias John Shannon, dying in his first battle defending his gun from a German assault. His father J Y T Sullivan will receive the medal as Congressman Rouse Kas had urged eliminating the desertion charge.
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Associated Press
Newport
John Sullivan
United States
Sullivan
John Shannon
J.Y T. Sullivan
Rouse Kas
Navy Department
Weather forecast from New Orleans bureau
The Times presents the daily forecast from the U.S. Weather Bureau in New Orleans. Tonight and Saturday are expected to be partly cloudy.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
the Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh Weather Report Highlights Heat Overnight
Observations for the 24 hours ending at 7 am show a maximum temperature of 92 degrees and a minimum of 74. Winds were light from the east with a partly cloudy sky.
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Fort McIntosh
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