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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1923
Page
9
Community notices urge renewals and new signups for the Chamber of Commerce while promoting Red Cross week starting November 11. Local merchants advertise fruit cake, leather coats, groceries, and photography services as paving continues on Convent Avenue and surrounding streets.
Illness delayed some Chamber of Commerce merchant committees today but renewal notices arrive by mail and workers plan to visit remaining members tomorrow. Officials report improved trade mood and urge citizens to support the drive to sustain Laredo’s business vitality through collective effort.
The Armistice Day parade will assemble at 9:30 on Sunday morning on Matamoros Street north of Central School. Units include City Police, Ft. McIntosh troops, veterans from Civil War and 1898, World War ex-servicemen, families of fallen soldiers, Boy Scouts, St. Augustine Church Band, Laredo High School squads, Student Body, American Red Cross, civic groups, and any civic organizations wishing to participate. Submit name by letter to Marshal Elver G. Clingenpeel or Miles L. Hanchett.
AP reports arrangements for the International Advertising Convention to be held in London next July. Two thousand American delegates are expected, with national reception and sight-seeing committees formed. Delegates will tour historic sites after the convention. All advertising, publishing, printing and selling sectors back the event.
Tuesday bridge party at 3 30 hosted by Mrs Joe Vidaules and Miss Alma Pierce honoring Mrs Charles B Gatewood at their home. Junior Auxiliary meets at the Rectory at 4. Parish Guild gathers at 3. Auction Bridge Club hosted by Mrs H Forbes at 3 20 Wednesday.
A Breckenridge Texas calendar column features a long verse by F. O. Roberts followed by local society notes. Readers are informed of travel, visits, and arrivals, including Mrs. C Hippking returning from Dallas and Captain W M Ryan plus Tom Ryan arriving from Luling. Social engagements include the Les Piques Bridge Club at 3 PM and the Junior Service League meeting plus a Thanksgiving sewing sale.
Laredo report states Magnolia No 2 of Magnolia Petroleum Co on Block 11 Schott Field came in yesterday at 1935 feet and is a flowing well. It reportedly yields Th barrels per day of 45 gravity oil and oil is flowing over the derrick floor. Production estimates awaiting official figures. potential top Southwest Texas producer could boost Webb county development. Duggan No 1 in Olston Mirando City Field also expected to drill soon and shows promise.
Announcement states the opening of the White House Patio is postponed to a later date. Readers are advised to watch The Times for the new date as announced by J Williamson.
Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt assistant attorney general in charge of enforcement prosecutions told Attorney General Daugherty in her annual report that rum running is the greatest problem of prohibition enforcement. She also criticized light sentences for dry law violators in some federal courts compared with stiffer penalties in other courts.
Sofia and Belgrade reached a settlement after the attack on the Yugoslav military attaché Colonel Krotsesh. The Bulgarian government accepted the reparations terms described in Yugoslav note and is expected to comply within 45 hours.
Theodore H. Price, a New York newspaper publisher, urged a Texas centennial celebration in Teas on during his address before the Tenth district convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. The proposal seeks to advertise the state using a coordinated statewide celebration.
The report notes extensive industry shifts including shoe and chocolate production, loom of unions like the Cigar Makers International Union admitting machine operators, and a Buffalo plant for transparent cellulose products. It cites labor figures in Germany and U S production, plus a proposed transatlantic steamship service and upcoming annual meetings.
London hawkers near collapse as no fresh licenses are issued and many sellers are dead or infirm. Upon death their badges are reclaimed by police and not reissued, blamed on motor cars and taxis endangering hawker trade and public safety.
A daily watch from THE TIMES announces a recurring opportunity. The message states a price of five cents per month and promotes ongoing access to listings or updates.
Associated Press reports nightly looting of food and clothing shops in northern Berlin districts amid anti Semitic rioting in the Jewish quarter. Bands of men and youths, sometimes 300 strong, looted shops, with women joining in. Public opinion grows for a dictatorship to punish profiteers and compel farmers to bring produce to cities.
An explosion at the Lucky Bill lead and zinc mine near Entombed Miami Kansas killed three men and injured one. Names listed include Janiner Gillan Joe Laws and Walter Wathice with Albert Marney among the injured. Separately in West Virginia a Glen Rogers mine blast at Raleigh Wyom ing County may have trapped 35 to 50 miners with 12 bodies recovered and about 60 more inside feared dead.
Oklahoma City reports Governor Walton has filed for a writ of supersedeas to delay the trial over alleged contrivances and articles of impeachment. The court session was set for tomorrow as lawmakers and officials attend the proceedings and discuss the threatened attack and security concerns.
Texas Medicaid Association plans investigation at a Fort Worth meeting per State Health Officer Beasley. Reports from St Louis claim a doctored medical school diploma scheme by a group of doctors prompted suspicions of price fixing and unqualified practice in Texas.
Judge Odam denied a motion for retrial in the case involving defendants including Iso Shapesyith Benton Pratt and W McIntoeh. The alleged datesmen congretes faced proceedings after the court opened for retrial amid earlier charges related to incidents on the premises of another.
A despatch from Washington notes Prime Minister Poincare made a favorable impression in talks with Secretary of State. The message does not reveal what Mac Hughes observed in his reply or the full stance of Mr. Hughes on reparations generally and the proposed expert committee distribution.
President Coolidge's Thanksgiving Day proclamation notes two national tragedies Harding's death and the Japanese earthquake, but emphasizes testing and refining the nation. He praises material prosperity and asks citizens to gather November 29 in homes and places of worship to give thanks and seek divine guidance.
Mrs. M. Richards of 524 Lee Ave Kingsville Texas reports kidney irregularity dizziness backache and dull kidney pain eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She credits the product with stabilizing her kidneys and strengthening her back. Sold for 60 cents at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY manufactures.
The item notes November birthdays for Sir Herbert Samuel in Palestine, Ignace Paderewski in Russian Poland, John Philip Sousa in Washington D C, Dr Ernest M Hopkins in Dunbarton NH, Frank W Mondell in St. Louis and marks their ages 53 68 69 46 and 63 respectively.
A band of four armed men robbed two Indiana banks near Spencer early today. They isolated the town by cutting telephone and telegraph wires and posted guards while blowing open vaults. About $13,000 was taken and two citizens were wounded. employees were threatened and one guard fired a shot to intimidate workers. The robbers used four automobiles and escaped.
Associated Press reports from Atlanta on November 1 that Solicitor Bac hingshoed the ante county grand jury to indict Philip Fox Jr. and others. The night watchman and witnesses described a motive unclear to investigators while the seven year old son identified Fox as present at the scene. District attorney expressed that motives remain unexplained and that statements from witnesses were inconsistent.
Vy Axisyeoctuted Press reports Deon Abbott of the Smithsonian Institute developed a radio meter akin to the black and silver vanes in an optician window to measure stellar heat. He achieved measurements to the hundred millionth degree, with experiments at Wilson Hall viewed as highly important by scientists and astronomers for understanding the stars' physical nature.
November 6 report details a mine explosion near Spangler resulting in seventy seven miners dead. A DC court declares the minimum wage law for women unconstitutional, signaling a notable legal setback.
John X. Dost, who was kicked by an elephant in San Antonio a month ago, fainted on a Chicago business district street. The blow fractured his knee cap and he was taken to a hospital after seeking a physician at his home.
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