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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1920
Page
19
London reports a peak vacation exodus as rail fares rise 76 percent. Crowded trains and scarce lodging drive thousands to beaches and island resorts. Boats fill slowly. many left behind. Bank holiday marriages add to the holiday rush with couples awaiting church service.
A collage of curious facts spans languages of Panama and the U S home market. It notes Spain's listed professionals, an Isle of Man tea tax, Bible translation timelines, aeroplane testing, Berlin airings, London transport use, the Atlantic Ocean’s vast area, Buenos Aires snow disruptions, Paris tips, a horse court martial, English medical degrees, ancient dice from a guillotine victim, a Cardinal hat’s symbolism, and its funeral placement on a coffin.
A historical note states that the air inhaled daily by a human weighs about six times the food and drink consumed in a typical day, highlighting the vast amount of air processed during ordinary activity.
A standing Social Calendar item lists dances and gatherings at the Service Club, plus frequent mentions of residents visiting family. It notes Misses Gertrude and Lucille Lent, Miss Evelyn Ryan, Miss Evelyn Moore, the Denike family relocation to 604 Main Ave, and several trips to San Antonio, El Campo, Bewelcome Miss., and other locales. It also records arrivals and departures, such as Mr. J. R. Moore, Mrs. R. M. Killingsworth, Mrs. M. Little, and Mr. Manuel M. de la Garza entering Carnegie Tech. Community members are announced as visiting relatives, entertaining guests, and hosting events.
A large crowd attended the Community Dance on the Soldiers Club Roof Garden in Laredo Saturday night. The event supports Fort McIntosh soldiers with the Soldiers Club under Mackay management, renovated for full amusements and accommodations. The 37th Inf Jazz Orchestra supplied the top music, described as the jazziest and best for dancing in Laredo. Col Ferguson’s new wife is mentioned, planning to reside in Arcadia Florida.
George W Derby of Laredo Texas filed August 24 1920 an application with the Board of Water Engineers to appropriate unappropriated Rio Grande waters in Webb County for irrigation from a pumping plant serving 118.5 acres with a 65 foot lift. A hearing is set October 4 1920 at 10 a.m. in Austin Texas. All interested may appear. The notice is dated August 26 1920 and signed by the Board of Water Engineers.
August 30 marks anniversaries for Marion LeRoy Burton new University of Michigan president born in Brooklyn 46 years ago today Fritzi Schitf Vienna actress 40 years ago today Sir Benest Rutherford New Zealand physicist 49 years ago today Henry F Hollis Concord NH former U S senator born 61 years ago today
In Shanghai Chinese officials advance plans to train own aviators for future aeronautical development sending five graduates from Nan Yuan Aviation School to Manila for advanced flying studies this summer.
Paris August 20 The Armenian Republic now has grain supplies enough for eight months according to a telegram to the United States Grain Corporation from Colonel William N Haskell Allied High Commissioner to Armenia. He left Armenia with his staff of American officers to Paris. The telegram notes harvest time will bring most of the grain with 46000 tons of flour still remaining from America.
A compendium of curious notes on lightning in Quito, crow messengers, Hindu language, nocturnal bird eyes, ancient Japanese rice wine, Bank of England note thickness, brain growth in early childhood, balm of Gilead, and a hypothetical British peer sentenced to death for a crime.
American Baptist medical missionaries and Union University Medical School students assist Chinese authorities in battling a severe cholera epidemic in Chengtu Sichuan West China. Dr Morse reports officials invited Pasteur Institute doctors and China Medical Missionary Association experts to advise and implement preventive measures. Lipphard notes hopes to expand Chengtu medical facilities and send about 85 missionaries to China missions in four years.
President Wilson approved the majority report of the anthracite coal commission, boosting contract miners' wages by 20 percent. The award sets a minimum rate of 52 1/2 cents per hour for the lowest paid workers, retroactive to April 1, 1920, with about 175,000 miners to gain an annual average increase near 85 million dollars and roughly 18 million dollars in back pay.
Belfast reports today’s riots described by police as the worst yet with five deaths confirmed up to 2 pm, including a woman and a small boy. Troops fired to clear the street in the Unionist quarter.
Four third century Roman tombs unearthed in a Limburg gravel pit near Heerlen contain golden objects urns glassware pottery and bones. The find draws scientific interest and crews continue excavations.
An automatic time recorder for pay station telephone calls is installed in a Paris exchange as the government tests new devices. The program seeks to re-string copper wires and greatly enlarge telephone facilities across France and to install modern switchboards.
The senate committee opened hearings in Chicago on Republican and Democratic campaign expenditures. Will Hays George White Fred Upham and Wilbur Maresh were subpoenaed to answer Governor Cox charges of a 15 million dollar fund. Cox may be subpoenaed if he does not appear.
Pittsburgh dispatch notes Governor Cox travels home to ready his forthcoming swing around the circle in the West during the coming month.
Merion Ohio Aug 30 Plans for some speaking trips by Senator Harding near completion. Announcement soon of three or four places outside Ohio where he will deliver addresses. New York and Chicago are virtually certain to be on the list with several Middle West and Western cities under consideration.
Mexican War Department orders search for American citizens and British subjects kidnapped August 20 by bandit leader Pedro Zamora. Captives believed demoralized and in flisit. The message emphasizes pursuit and rescue efforts amid unrest in Mexico City.
One year ago today on August 30 the Socialist Party opened its national convention in Chicago as Irish delegates testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee denouncing the Peace Treaty.
Indians of the Hopi reservation have gathered snakes and prepared for the annual snake dance to be held tonight. The date is moon dependent and kept secret until shortly before. Elders say the moon should be right tonight, with the event at Hotevilla, about 130 miles north of Flagstaff. About a thousand tourists are expected, and Indian agency officials will issue permits at the reservation.
New York dispatch reports Carl Paulson who arrived from Copenhagen with his wife and 15 children to run a Minnesota farm. He said if labor falls short he will summon reserve two married daughters three married sons and nine grandchildren to help.
A Dupuyer Montana hotel man, F H Dear, recounts four years of successful use of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says he has since recommended it to friends after its wonderful results.
researchers show cobra poison injected into a frog can be detected and traced even when diluted to one in ten million, revealing the remarkable sensitivity of the tracing method and its potential for forensic and biological studies.
In a special message to Congress President Pessoa stresses urgency of housing needs in the Federal District. He denounces direct government building while proposing indirect help through low interest loans to private builders and individuals.
The Queen Candy Company, a new concern in Laredo, opened Saturday in the Walls building next to Potica del Pueblo. It will carry home made candies, chocolates, sodas, ice cream and sherbets under manager James Mataragas, a known local figure.
Secretary Colby said Italy informed Washington that Rome and Washington share the current sentiment on Hus sia and Poland as expressed in the U S note. Italy will reply after its prime minister returns from Lucerne. Poland and Russia have agreed on Riga as future peace talks location, but Latvia's consent is still awaited.
Fort Worth Texas Aug 30 The appointment of Metro Roy W McKinney of Paducah Kentucky as matron of honor for the United Confederate Veterans annual reunion at Houston October 8 was announced today by Commander in Chief Van Zandt.
Farmers in York D C are giving away watermelons and feeding them to hogs as the crop swamps the market. Three weeks earlier melons sold for 50 cents to 1.25 dollars each.
CHANGE STREET NAMES Dublin August 30 The corporation considers abolishing English origin street names including Queen's Square Townsend Street and Brunswick Street in favor of naming streets after leading Sinn Feiners indicating a political street renaming move in the city.
Perth Australia August 30. A forthcoming Parliament session will consider a bill to remove the disqualification against women offering themselves as candidates for Parliament. The measure aims to widen electoral participation and align with evolving suffrage norms.
A proposed Chamber of Deputies bill in Brazil seeks to ease paper shortages by waiving taxes and transport costs for the first three paper factories to reach 39 tons daily production by September 7, 1922, Brazil’s centennial. Native raw materials must be used as a condition.
Four telegrams from Eagle Pass report the Rio Grande at that point was on a big rise this morning. The river stage stood at 1244 feet and was rising gradually. The rise is expected to reach Laredo later today or tonight.
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