William Biggio operated for appendicitis at Mercy Hospital
Friday notice from Columbus Day observances in Larédo with banks and post office closed, Knights of Columbus class exemplification planned. local ads list services from Zinnias to a public stenographer and a theater feature with Anita Stewart in Rose o the Sea. other notices include a ballet school opening, florists, gas prices, and a rain hope in Laredo.
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William, Biggio
C. C. Biggio
Mercy Hospital
Tommie Simpson
Larédo
Post Office
Knights of Columbus
Zinnias
Mia
P. F. Tarvin
Montrose
Anita Stewart
Royal Theater
Miss Stewart
Green
Phone Crockett
Avenue CG
8Th St
San Antonio
Texas
Carolina-Texas
Cole
Laredo
B. Juarez
Sheriff sale to satisfy Ward judgment in Webb County
By order of sale issued by the Webb County District Court, J. W. Ward pursues execution against A. Huhn Manufacturing Company. The auction on November 6, 1923, will offer three grain driers and related machinery valued around 1000 dollars to satisfy a 435.52 dollar judgment plus costs. A. J. Condren, Sheriff, Webb County, Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Webb County
J. W. Ward
Land A. Huhn Manufacturing Company
District Court
J. C. Netzer Company
San Ygnacio Avenue
Laredo
Texas
A. Huhn Manufacturing Company
A. J. Condren
J.L. Fierros
French Olympic Committee tests finish line camera for 1924 games
Paris reports the French Olympic Committee is trialing a mechanical finish line camera to record races at the 1924 Games. A camera over the finish line, a release string, and a clock system will snap photos and log times to one-twentieth of a second, with negatives developed in two minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Belgium
Sun Never Sets on American Legion Worldwide Posts
Indianapolis October 12 reports confirm the American Legion operates chartered posts in 17 foreign countries and five US territories, alongside 48 states and DC. About 500 members, Mexico department leads foreign divisions with posts in Argentina, Brazil, the British Isles, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, and Turkey, plus Alaska, Canal Zone, Hawaii, Philippine Island, and Porto Rico.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
Legion
United States
States
District of Columbia
Mexico
India
Japan
Korea
New Zealand
Poland
Turkey
Alaska
Canal Zone
Hawaii Philippine Island
Porto Rico
Electric scoreboard mirrors Ruth Ward and Meusel homeruns at Rialto
Enthusiastic Rialto Theater crowd saw Babe Ruth Ward and Meusel homeruns displayed on the electric scoreboard. The device’s clear tallying made spectators feel as if they were in the New York grandstand watching the game unfold.
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Rialto Theater
Babe Ruth
Ward
Meusel
New York
Students Musical by Milton Junior Classes at High School
Friday event features a students musical performed by Mrs. Cc Milton's junior classes at the High School Auditorium at 4 PM. Saturday gathering of the D A R at Mrs W W MacGregor's home at 3 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cc. L. Milton
W. W. MacGregor
Touch of Time and Quiet Grace in Aging Homes
A prose verse notes how time and vines refine a plain house into beauty. The article then lists local notices: Mrs. W. 10. Buller and daughter Ann Elise depart for San Antonio. Mr. Ramon Hernandez visits. Mrs. A. H. Magnon and Miss Aloisa Cardenas travel to San Antonio. Church groups meet, charity sewing, and announcements include a Requiem Mass for Jose Merriweather’s first anniversary and a convent library benefit dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Gregory
Rosebud
Sergi
M. F. Przybysz
Fort Mcintosh
Jean
Lucile
San Agustin
Jose Merriweather
Missionary Work Shared At Women's Club Tea
Mrs. J. B. Westbrook presided over a tea with silver service while Mrs. George Winch served coffee. Mrs. Phillips received a spray of rose buds and spoke about her experiences as a missionary in Jalapa. About twenty women attended the afternoon gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Keith
H. L. Guinn
Clingenpeel
Mesdames Clingenpeel
Allbright
Graves
Wright and Guinn
Harry Phillips
The
Presbyterian Church
Jalapa
Vera Cruz
Mexico
F. M. Ramsay
J. 8. Westbrook
George Winch
Phillips
Suspected Jail Breakers Named Pete Shaves and Dee Dodson
Two men identified as Pete Shaves and Dee Dodson are jailed in Barleaville Oklahoma amid suspicions they aided Edward Lockhart the bandit who escaped from the Jay Oklahoma jail last week with five masked men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
Ark
Pete Shaves
Explosion Kills Twelve In Moscow Hunting Goods Store
A powerful blast on a main Moscow street today killed twelve people and injured several dozen. The explosion shattered two buildings and hurled exploding cartridges at passersby. Crowded apartments above the shop were damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Slayer Search Spurs Montreal Minister Son Probe
New York police sought a man described as the son of a Montreal minister after the body of Estelle Phillps, a department store saleswoman, was found bound and gagged in her room. Medical examiners ruled death by strangulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Estelle Phillps
Montreal
Gompers Re-Elected President at A F of L Convention
Portland articles report Samuel Gompers unanimously re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at the convention in Portland Oregon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Portland, Ore
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of
Thor
Webb County Auction of Hodges Property in 1928
By order of the Webb County District Court clerk a legal sale is set for the 4th Tuesday in October 1928 at the County House door in Laredo to satisfy a judgment of 243 dollars plus costs in favor of Charles Wiggins against E. F. Hodges. The levy covers Johnson Drawworks, a 20 inch Decker Rotary, a large Traveling Block, a Steel Crown Block, a Swivel, about 50 joints of 4 inch drill pipe and 1700 feet of 2 inch line pipe. Deputy J. L. Fierros will conduct the cash sale. October 11, 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Webb County
Charles Wreggins
E. F. Hodges
Charles Wiggins
Texas
Johnson
Hohenzollern Seeks Cash From Jewels Of First Wife
Amsterdam reports Wilhelm Hohenzollern is raising funds by selling jewels once belonging to his first wife and several paintings. Dutch firm handles pieces by French masters and Hohenzollern portraits. A pearl necklace from the late empress was sold through a Cologne jeweler. Earlier Gobelins tapestries and Dutch and German paintings moved to American buyers to finance Dutch funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Amsterdam
Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Cologne
Electric Pilot Navigation Tested by Norwegian Naval Experts
Experiments in guiding ships through fjord fairways using a sunken electric cable have been approved by a committee of Norwegian naval experts at Horten. The electric pilot tests have attracted international naval observers and are expected to influence pilotage practices globally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Christiania
Horten
Impeachment Committee Formed in Oklahoma Legislature
Speaker McBee announces an 81 member impeachment committee to probe multiple state departments. The panel, largely Democratic, aims to start work immediately and may divide into sub committees to speed inquiries. Senate delays Ku Klux Klan related legislation until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Qea
House of Representatives
McBee
Senate
Oklahoma
Slemp Seeks Better System for President’s Day
C Bascom Slemp secretary to President Coolidge devised a plan to limit meetings with the president to forenoon hours. The rest of the day is set aside for studying reports and cabinet briefings, reducing fatigue and concentrating problem analysis in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
C. Bascom Slemp
Coolidge
Giants Take 1 0 Victory In Hard Fought Pitchers Battle
In a tense 1 0 win at Yankee Stadium Nehl and Jones matched zeroes until Casey Stengel hit a seventh inning homer into the right field bleachers scoring the only run. Ruth drew two walks, Pipp broke his ankle sliding to first, and Bush relieved Scott in the ninth. Attendance reached 60 000 as the Giants prepare for the Polo Grounds rematch tomorrow.
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Neht
Giants
Jones
Yankees
Casey Stengel
Nehl
Ruth
Pipp
Bush
Scott
Yanks
Dugan
Ward
Schang
Mysterious shooting shocks Sound Beach couple
Milton Maas of Asbury Park New Jersey, an officer of a chemical firm, lies hospitalized in Stamford Connecticut after a mysterious shooting at the Sound Beach home of Ida Leslie a widow and former actress who says she is his fiancée. Maas and Mrs Leslie offered differing versions, but both named unknown assailants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Milton Maas
Asbury Park
N. J
Chemical Corporation
Stamford
Postage Stamp for Literature Circulated in Hospitals
A patient long hospitalized recovers enough to request reading material and asks for a postage stamp. A nurse delivers tapioca as the doctor says all else must be in proportion, and the patient insists on reading. The anecdote is cited from Everybody's Magazine for October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everybody's Magazine
Chancellor Moves to Eliminate Reichstag and Reform Taxes
Berlin October reports the chancellor intends to abolish the Reichstag from consideration for the moment and to enact a dictatorial tax reform. He decrees using a standard tax in place of paper mark assessments collected later in depreciated currency to salvage national finances.
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Prena
Berlin
Sureseman
Reichstag
Berlin Riots Hit Dense Districts Over Food Shortages
Riots broke out in two densely populated Berlin areas today as unemployed men led raids on food shops. Police faced attacks by mobs while attempting to protect stores. numerous arrests were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Get
German miners reach return to work deal in Ruhr mines
An agreement signed by German miners unions and French authorities allows all Dorstfeld mine officials and workers to return after the occupation. A parallel pact covers the Bergfeld mine in the Ruhr region, enabling reinstatement of expelled staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dueseldorf
Dorstfeld
Ruhr
Bergfeld
Riots in German Cities Leave Several Dead and Injured
Duesseldorf reports three fatalities and many injuries from unemployment and high food price protests. Solingen saw two dead and 17 wounded before police dispersed rioters. Cologne Ware and Solingen also faced damage as houses and shops were attacked and looted.
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Duesseldorf
Solingen
Cologne
Notice to creditors for estate of W A Gamble
Letters of administration granted to John L Dannelley by Webb County Court Texas for the estate of W A Gamble deceased. Creditors must present claims within the legally prescribed period to the administrator at his address in Laredo Webb County Texas.
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W. A. Gamble
Webb County
Texas
Laredo
County of
Webb
State of Texas
John L. Dannelley
Trainmen slain in futile Idaho Oregon robbery raid
Pospsey units from Oregon and California including Oregon National Guardsmen search the Siskiyuu mountains along the border for a group that robbed a Southern Pacific train. Three trainmen and a mail clerk were killed. No loot found. Officials identify suspects as likely insiders familiar with the route near the tunnel near Ashland Oregon.
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Associated Press
Krdeding
Cal
Get
Oregon
California
Cormier
Ashland
Prisoner in Waco Cell Takes Own Life
T E L Parnell aged 49 of near Axtell was serving a diver sentence on a statutory charge in a Waco Texas prison when he cut his throat with a safety razor blade in his cell early today. He was dead for two hours before guards were notified by another prisoner. Parnell defended himself at trial without counsel and his daughter testified. He survived by his wife and three sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Waco
Texas
T. EL Parnell
Parnell
Axtell
Fatal quarrel ends in street shooting in Philadelphia
Harry Kabernagle, a chiropractic student, was shot and killed by Catherine Miller of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., after a lovers quarrel. Miller was arrested following a two block chase and charged with the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated
Philadelphia
Harry Kaberndgle
Catherine Miller
Wilkerbarre
Kabernagle
Attack on Weeks as war secretary over Muscle Shoals sale
Henry Mord issued a Detroit statement accusing Secretary Weeks of political meddling in the sale of the Gorgas steam power plant to Alabama Power. Weeks declined comment while officials say he resents the charge and plans to raise the matter with the president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weeks
Detroit
Henry Mord
War
Gorgas
Muscle Shoals
Alabama Power Company
Black and White Ointment Praised for Skin Relief
Descriptive ad proclaims Black and White Ointment as a near miracle for pimples eczema and blotches with nearly two million yearly packages sold. It asserts wide use and urges readers to buy from any dealer and notes 50 cent size contains three times the value of the 25 cent.
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G. A. Stowers Furniture Co
Zwor
Gillon
Feliz Hernandez
Fidel Cantu
Lincoln Street
Will W. Gregg
Notary Public
Times Office
Corpus Christi Street
Weide
Mra
Violet
Oberfecht Society
New York Herald
W. 10
Buller and
Uttle
Ann Elise
Ramon Hernandez
City
A. H. Magnon
Aloisa Cardenas
Charity Hospital
H. J. Leissner
J. F. Gunther
Seguin
H. A. Bading of
Rosalie Biggio
Austin
Texas University
Albert J. Biggio
Dallas
Banco
Kate Hall
Woman's Club
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Bradford
Mosamés Hodges
Keithley
Barlow
Rogers
Stowers
White
Phelps
Neff
Morgan
Laredo Times
Shoe Polistics
Gompers
J. L. Fierros
SLEMP
Daily Grind
Stengel
Chancellor
Sen
Secy. Weeks
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