Claims Commission Aims to Settle Mexico American Losses
The piece notes a Java convention signed today by plenipotentiaries to determine jurisdiction over American and Mexican claims. It details commissions to decide billions in losses from the Mexican revolutions with an umpire from the Permanent Court at The Hague. Some claims may be paid first while others await court redress in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Mosico
Mexico
Hague
Maxfisiiliy
State Department
Marsico
Mesico Jt
Post Office Studies Eye Strain From Freak Paper Colors
A survey by the post office department links eye strain among mail clerks to high contrast and odd color schemes in foreign and domestic mail. Prolific offenders include black on blue brown on buff purple on violet and red on red with readers urged to use legible color contrasts. Business people and efficiency experts are blamed for promoting colorful stationery that irritates clerks, especially under artificial light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rilbed
Bante
Thomson
Nak
Post Office Department
First Game of Series Contingent on Weather
Fragmented report describes a baseball series opener between the Sen Antonin Apaches and Milmas Schedived, with the afternoon game contingent on weather. The text is highly garbled but references planned action and a need for favorable conditions to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milmas
Royal Theatre Grand Opening Highlights Barrymore Line
The Royal Theatre launches with a Grand Opening on Sunday featuring the Barrymore family. Lionel Barrymore, a famed actor and painter, stars in and out of the show as audiences glimpse the renovated Royal interior and the era’s stage royalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Royal
Amerie
Prew Barrymore
John Drew
Philadelphia
Hs Hdanebber
Louise
Fack Deverceaux
Georgia
Maurice Barrymore
Paris
The
Royal
Royal Theater
Rain continues through night in Zapata region with widespread totals
Heavy overnight rain drenched Zapata, Jim Hogg, and Webb counties with about two inches in Zapata and heavier hits in oil fields. Ranchers welcome the moisture for pasture growth, onion seedbeds are recoverable, and cotton losses are manageable as Laredo watches the Rio Grande rise but no major flood threats seen yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doaredo
Zapata
Jim Hoge
Webb Couity
Mitunde
Long
Jennings
Bruni
Carolina
Laredo
Bhesun
Water Company
Webb County Teachers Finish Their Work Today
Webb County teachers completed their activities for the day at the Webb County Peachers Institute. Holl Call conducted by Mr. B Chacon covered geometry of the square with Miss J Davies and class Perception and Apperception. Mrs Cobb led Oral Composition and the Use of the Mirror. Miss Salinas taught Mensuration of Right Angled Triangle, and Miss L Garza with her class focused on Cotton Selection in School Gardens. A brief impromptu session by three institute members preceded a 1 PM recess and the day closed with registers and forms under the County Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb County
Peachers Institute
Holl
B. Chacon
J. Davies
Cobb
Salinas
L. Garza
Session
Card of Thanks for Lucinda Coronado Funeral
The Wolehits of Columbus and Comphuis & Co. employees are thanked for sympathy, flowers, and attendance at the funeral of Lucinda R. Coronado. Manuel Coronado and Family express their sincere gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolehits
Columbus
Comphuis & Co
Sra
Lucinda R. Vda
de Coronado
Manuel Coronado
Rio Grande Rises After Friday Rainfall
Heavy rains along the river’s course pushed the Rio Grande to sixteen feet by morning and it is still rising slowly. Officials expect no large surge, with the rise proceeding gradually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande
Great Mexican Violinist Here 90 Proposes Laredo Concert
Nicasio Jurado, a noted Mexican violinist recently back from Europe, is in Laredo and may be induced to give a concert. He has Paris Berlin Brussels press notices praising his violin artistry and is stopping in Nuevo Laredo while arrangements may be made for a local performance.
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Nicasio Jurado
Europe
Laredo
Jurado
Paris
Berlin
Brussels
Nuevo Laredo
Deep Test Of Mirando No 2 Shows Oil And Gas Prospects
Oliver W. Killam reopened Mirando No 2 in Zapata County to deep test the Mirando Field. At 2,460 feet the drill reached a sand showing oil and gas, justifying testing the formation. A significant announcement is expected from this discovery well soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauntless
Oliver W. Killam
Mirando
Miranda Field
The Times Two Page Splash on Enemies of Women
The Times presents a two page splash in its pages four and five drawn from five time advertisers of Laredo discussing Enemies of Women. It highlights the photoplay feature at the Royal Theater grand opening tomorrow. A second splash is promised next week with a vital subject for Laterlobe readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Times
Ealo
Laredo
Royal Theater
Laterlo
Colonel Laird Leaves Laredo For St Louis Post
Col John A Laird vice president and engineer of Central Power and Light Co heads to St Louis to become premier manager of the St Louis Electrical Board of Trade. He has been in Laredo for months with John B Morton of the Laredo Electric and Railway Co during plant upgrades and street railway extension efforts. Local friends bid him farewell with warm wishes and praise for his character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Laird
Central Power & Light Co
St. Louis
Laredo Electric & Railway Co
Laredo
St. Louis I Electrical Board of Trade
Laird
12Th Engineers U.S
France
John B. Morton
City Lumber Co Reopens Saturdays All Day
Notice to the public states that because some signers violated the noon closing agreement, the company will remain open every Saturday all day from now on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Lumber CO
Cole No 3 Reports Oil and Gas Sand Showing
A report from the Cole No 3 well at 3,470 feet indicates a sand showing both oil and gas. Since then no further details have been released, and drilling was still in progress near Laredo.
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Cole No. 3
Laredo
Real Estate Bargains On Heights And Laredo Street
Six room residence on Heights across two lots near carline with garage and lawn offered at 5250 dollars part cash balance monthly payments. On Laredo Street near Orphanage three lots for 1800 dollars small cash payment balance to suit purchaser. Six room house on West Washington Street 63 by 130 lot in residence district priced at 3750 dollars part cash balance easy terms. See R C Bryant at 411 Salinas Ave for details.
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Carline
Laredo Street
Washington Street
Nice
R. C. Bryant
Salinas Ave
Local ads and notices fill Rio Grande listings
Newspaper Classified items include Miss Gage Pattern Hats at M Sallee Lincoln St, rain coats and shoes at Eduardo Cruz Dept Store, church lecture Lessons from Great Disasters, Home Ice Company ads, school supplies at Cardenas News Stand, locomotive derailment rumor, piano studio reopening Sept 17, theater opening Royal Theater Enemies of Women, dental office move to Joseph Building, fireworks and fallout ads, silk flames and Roman candles, poem lyrics and rain mentions, furniture rentals, fresh chips at Sanitary Grocery, floral shop Green, stenography services, electricals at 2 24 tf, plumbers Juarez, rain coat hoarders joke, turkey and chicken dealer Felix Hernandez, auto services by Fidel Cantu, Ye Beauty Shoppe, prize fight notes, notary Will W Gregg, sheet music at Cardenas News Stand.
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Ioyal
The
Royal
Villar
Bass
Joseph Building
Cardenas
Carolina-Texas No 5 to Resume Drilling Soon
Carolina Texas No 6 of the Carolina Texas Oil and Gas Trust in Webb county is not abandoned and will soon host active drilling. P Scott, field manager, returns to Laredo and says drilling will resume in No 5 at 3100 feet, aiming for unlimited depth. He notes rain will aid water supply for drilling and expresses optimism about oil production prospects.
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Carolina-Texas Oil & Gas Trust
Carolina-Texas
Webb County
P. Scott
Laredo
Wilmington
N. C
Times Oil
Carolina- Texas No. 5
Scott
Lois Wilson Stirred by Compliment on New York Set
Lois Wilson, Paramount star, reacts to a newspaper woman’s remark in New York while filming Only 38 at Rialto. The article notes her age looks and past roles in What Every Woman Knows and Miss Lulu Bett, highlighting the contrast with her current role title.
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Lois Wilson
Paramount
New York
William de Mille
Paramount Picture
Rialto Theatre
Mihs Wilson
Miss Wilson
Lulu Bett
Dean's Kidney Pills Prove Lifelong Kidney Cure
A Texas resident cites two testimonials from 1915 and 1919 praising Dean's Kidney Pills for backache sleeplessness and urinary issues. He reports lasting relief after use with no recurrence and recommends the product sold at 60 cents by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
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Laredo
Valente Gutierrez
Iturbide St
Dean
City
Duan
Gutierrez
Mr. Gutierrez
Foster-Milburn Co
Mtrs
Buffalo
N. Y
Yucatan Socialists Plan Nomination For 1924
Yucatan Socialist leaders led by Felipe Carrillo Puerto call for a nominating convention in Merida to choose a candidate for the 1924 presidential elections. Delegates from Socialist groups in Yucatan Campeche Tabasco and Chiapas will attend. Carrillo Puerto visited General P Elias Calles inviting him to attend. General Calles remains convalescing in Tamaulipas during pre recognition conference sessions.
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Py Associated Press
Merida
Yucatan
Socialist Party of the Southeast
Felipe Carrillo Puerto
Campeche
Tabasco
Chiapas
Carrillo Puerto
P. Elias
Sunday church events portico calendar
The Christian Endeavor Society meets at 6 46 PM at the Presbyterian Church. The Senior B Y P A meets at 6 30 PM at the Baptist Church. The Society of the Christian Church meets at 6 45 PM at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church
Baptist Church
Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church
Society notes urge timely weekly reports to Society Editor
Announcements of meetings should be phoned to the Society Editor at No 70 to keep the daily society calendar accurate. The piece also lists numerous social visits and travels among San Antonio, Georgetown, Austin, Tampico, and Chicago, with dates and people named such as Miss Lucy B McCail, Miss Julia Katherine Killam, Miss Leonela Villareal, and Miss Evelyn Ryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy B McCail
San Antonio
City
Julia Katherine Killam
Dam To Obliterate Village In Derwent Valley Project
In Nerbyshire on Sept 3 the picturesque village of Derwent and its ducal seat Derwent Hall will be submerged by a dam under the Derwent Valley Waterboard development. Hundreds facial residents must seek new homes while authorities plan to compensate owners. Derwent Hall remains a notable building despite the impending flooding.
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Associated Press
Nerbyshire
Derwent
Derwent Valley
Derwent Hall
Duke of Norfolk
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Opie Canis
Fry
Lionel. Barrymore
Webb
Jim Hogg
Mirando NO. 2
Colonel Laird
ST. Lou's
Miss Gage
M. Sallee
Lincoln St
Eduardo Cruz Department Store
the Baptist Church
Home Ice Company
Annette Kellerman
Elisabeth Reed
Far- Tagut Street
Reac Home Ice Company Ad
Saft’s
J. P
Cain
G. A. Stowers Furniture Co
the Florist
Phone Crockett
Avenue C
Texag
B. Juarez
Felix Hernandez Sella
Fidel Cantu
Lincoln Street
Jack Dempsey
Carpentier
Don Firpo
Will W. Gregg
Notary Public
Times Office
Corpus Christi Street
Flores Avenue
Money Makers
Texas NO. 5
Co. P. Scott
Kodak Films
Cardenas News Stand
Calles
Lester A. Wentworth
Wentworth Brothers
W. 42Nd 8T
Ost
Mre
Violet &, Oberrecht Society
Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Anya Kovalchuk
Chicago Tribune
Blofen Cardenas
Mis. A. M. Magnon
Mr. S. Kunkel
Tampico
Misa Margaret Tere
Rosalie Biggio
Leonela Villareal
Harry Chamberlain
Harry
J. M. Slaughter
Katherine Tarver
Austin
Georgetown
Winfield Killam
Columbia Mo
Paul Hill
Tennessee
Mrs
A. B. Gates
Jane Tarver
Gates Ranch
Ruth Chamberlain
Murt Cullinan
Indiana
Notre Dame College
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