Release of Consular Agent Yorkins Highlights Government Resolve
The ransom paid by the Mexican government freed Consular Agent Yorkins, signaling a shift from watchful waiting to accountability. The incident raises concerns over banditry and Mexico’s obligations while urging avoidance of foreign intervention and emphasizing continued efforts toward pacification and safety for citizens.
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Yorkins
Mexico City
Jenkins
Carranza
Philadelphia
Mexico
Mr. Jenkins
The President's Veto on Prohibition Ends Wartime Policy
President Wilson vetoes wartime prohibition not from opposition to prohibition but because the wartime ban has no use after the war. The attorney general says the wartime act remains until peace treaty ratified, yet Wilson could end it by executive order if desired. Prohibition supporters hailed it as victory, but it was a wartime measure, not a moral or economic reform.
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Congress
Texas
Wilson
Senate
Anniversaries Chronicle Include Kings and Pioneers Across Centuries
Read list of notable birth and death dates from 16th to 20th centuries. Figures include Alexander Lameth born Paris 1760 died 1829, Erastus Fairbanks born Brimfield died 1864, and Queen Victoria opening the Royal Exchange in 1848. Also notes earthquakes, marches, political shifts, and wartime events through 1917.
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Alexander Lameth
Paris
Erastus Fairbanks
Vermont
Brimfield
Mass
St. Johnsbury
Queen Victoria
Royal Exchange
London
Marrison Gray Otis
U. S. Senate
Boston
Japan
Yorktown
Northwest Territory
Wurtemberg
Bavaria
Isonzo
Marina
Irish
Lieut. Harden
All Saints and All Souls Day Observed in Laredo Cemeteries
On Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2, thousands in Laredo visit cemeteries to decorate graves for All Saints and All Souls. Families prepare wreaths and flowers, sharing meals at gravesides, illustrating that death honors all—rich and poor alike.
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Laredo
Birthdays on October 23 Spotlight Notables
Today marks birthdays for Rev. Joseph F. Hanselman head of the Jesuits in America born in Brooklyn New York 63 years ago. Joseph W Polk ex governor of Missouri born in Brownsville Tennessee 63 years ago. Joseph W Witer ex governor of Illinois born in Staunton Virginia 79 years ago. Richard Folsom Cleveland son of Grover Cleveland born in Princeton New Jersey 22 years ago.
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Joseph F. Hanselman
Jesuits In
America
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joseph W. Polk
Missouri
Brownsville
Tenn
Joseph W. Witer
Illneis
Staunton
Richard Folsom Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Jury Selection Underway In Liquor Case At Courthouse
The judge announces a jury pool is being drawn for a liquor selling case. Men crowd the courthouse, eager to serve as jurors. The oldest map known, a Byzantine mosaic in Malaba Palestine, depicts part of the Holy Land and is about 1700 years old.
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Malaba
Palestine
Holy Land
Laredo Port Imports Include Beer Bas kets Ixile And Silver
A dated clipping notes yesterday at Laredo port import movements from Mexico: one carload beer one carload baskets five carloads ixile two carloads miscellaneous and 2385 bars of silver. The itemization is part of a miscellaneous run through the border port. Also listed are local business notes on hunting cars and bar gains in used autos, postal censorship moves, a concert accompanist FloraDil gard Anderson, a court session in Texas, a gasoline ad for Flashlite, Halloween notices, plumbing services, local real estate and a diverse set of small advertisements from 1912 to 1971 era.
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Mexico
Laredo
Citizens Auto Co
Laredo Postoffice
Federal Building
Postoffice
Flora Dilgarde Anderson
Music League of America
New York
Christ Church (Episcopal
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Brooks
Hallowe’en
Kid Poncho a Rising Texas Boxing Champion in Laredo
Youthful Texas boxer Poncho visits Laredo with manager Guy Turpin. At 16 he is billed as Texas 105 pound champion with over fifty fights and many knockouts. He supports his widowed mother and hopes to build a home, aiming for future world title contention.
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South
Guy Turpin
Poncho
San Antonio
Dallas
Houston
Pugilist
Texas
Ft. McIntosh
Laredo
Illinois Governor Joseph W. Fifer Dead at Eightieth Birthday
Joseph W. Fifer, a former Illinois governor and longtime Grand Army figure, turns eighty today. A Virginia native who moved to McLean County in 1857, he served in the Thirty-third Illinois Infantry, was wounded in 1863, then pursued law and public service including Bloomington corporation counsel, two terms as State's attorney, four years in the State senate, and the governorship in 1888 with a 1894 nomination lost to Altgeld.
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Joseph W. Fifer
Iinois
Virginia
McLean County
Illinois
Thirty-third Illinois Infantry
Jackson
Miss
Wesleyan University
Bloomington
State Senate
Altgeld
Youthful Writer Reflects on Imbecility in Essay Start
A young aspirant journalist begins an essay on superstition and imbecility with a bold claim that imbecility is not waning. The provocative opening promises a pointed critique of gullibility and societal credulity.
Webb County farmers plant diverse crops for year ahead
Prof. F W Mally reports about six thousand irrigable acres under cultivation in Webb County with vegetables and onions. Projected crops include cabbage lettuce spinach beets carrots and turnips. Onions rise to about 3500 acres with December transplanting and April May maturity. Last season’s onion price boon seen as guide for 1919-20.
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F. W. Mally
Webb County
Laredo
Bermuda
Keep Young With Dean's Kidney Pills
A Laredo man, W S Durborow of 1919 Farragut St, reports back pain relief from Dean's Kidney Pills. He says the medicine eases attacks triggered by cold and allows him to sit without pain, endorsing it after a year of no trouble and recommending it at any time. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York distributes.
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Dean
Laredo
W. S. Durborow
Farragut St
Ideal Drug Store
Mr. Durborrow
Foster-Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo, N. Y
Army Surplus Sale Offers Reclaimed Shoes Quilts Hats
At 1701 Hidalgo Street an economy salvage house offers 12000 reclaimed army shoes with new soles and heels priced 1.75 to 2.50 per pair. Also 500 army quilts at 2.00 to 2.50 and 500 service hats at 25 to 75 cents.
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Hidalgo St
Constipation Relief Praised by Kentucky Woman
Meadowsville resident Mrs. Pearl Patrick describes relief from severe constipation after trying Thedford’s Black Draught. She cites easier digestion, disappearance of sour stomach and griping, and notes it as gentle and reliable with no after-effects. The ad promotes Black Draught as a long valued laxative for stomach liver and bowel troubles.
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Meadowsville
Pearl Patrick
Watch THE TIMES everyday for opportunities
A brief notice promoting a daily newspaper subscription plan. It advertises a 60 cent price per month and invites readers to subscribe to THE TIMES for regular opportunities.
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the Times
Rheumatic Pain Relief With Sloan's Liniment Ad
A vintage ad urges keeping Sloan's Liniment in the cabinet for immediate relief from rheumatic pains. It promises quick penetration without rubbing for sciatica lumbago neuralgia and sprains with price points of 35c 70c and 1.40.
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Sloan
Dee
Yankee Doodle in Berlin Opens at Strand Theatre
A Wall Street Journal style note previews Mack Sennett’s five part comedy Yankee Doodle in Berlin opening Thursday October 20 at Strand Theatre. The piece imagines the Kaiser and Crown Prince among amused or irritated spectators to American satirical cartoons and Ford Sterling’s self parodying make up.
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Mack Sennett
Berlin
Hohenzollern
Holland
Ford Sterling
Sennett
Strand Theatre
Catarrhal Deafness Claims Cure via Constitutional Remedy
A remedy for catarrhal deafness is said to work through the blood rather than local ear applications. The ad explains inflammation of the Eustachian tube causes hearing loss and promotes a constitutional treatment from Whalli’s Catarrh Medicine, available at druggists for 75 cents.
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Whali
Cueney & CO
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Prince Albert
P. A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N. C
All Saints
All Souls
B. Juarez
Laredo Abstract Company
Walter Brown
Bertani
J. L. Fierros
Farragut Street
Guillermo Diaz Y Rosas
Bellmont
Main Ave
Leo. M
Pena
Leopoldo M. Pesia
John A. Walls
France
Walls
Leopoldo M. Pejia
Mullally
Petra
Sloan's Liniment
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