Buy a bale of cotton at ten cents a pound
A Houston Post endorsed plan urges buyers to invest 50 dollars by purchasing cotton at 10 cents per pound to support farmers through downturns and to sustain future demand. It argues war costs shift newsprint, supply chains, and manufacturing, and notes President Wilson reportedly backs the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston Post
Georgia
South
Texas
Germany
Great Britain
Central America
United States
Cent Tv
Post
Houston
Wilson
Progreso Editor Defends Customs Post Amid Nepotism Claim
Mr Villareal replies to Progreso editorial criticizing his appointment as customs collector. He recounts reform after a chaotic office, clashes with military leaders, and a staged return from Monterey. He accuses rivals including El Progreso owners of nepotism while detailing personnel removals, audits, and wage disputes to justify his tenure. He cites rising cargo receipts from 33,000 to 225,000 and urges public judgment.
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Progreso
Monterey
Venustiano Carranza
Che
Mgr
Melquiades Quarcia
Laredo
Texas
el Progreso
Emeterio Flores
Donaciano Lassaux
Treasury Department
Great fair opens in Boston. notes on history and rail disruption
A wide dated transcript lists events from 1850 to 1898 alongside a note on train service between Laredo and Saltillo. Trains now run irregularly due to unrest in Mexico City, with reports of daily casualties and delayed arrivals at northern stations.
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Alo Widuarreal
Laredo
Sept
Boston
Bunker Hill Monument Fund
California
Statehood
Saltilo
Mexico
Ntt
Saltillo
Mexico City
War and the newspapers mislead public on war profits
A historical column argues newspapers gain little from war as profits decline due to costly front reports. It notes papers work hard and print fewer ordinary events while news agencies spend heavily for war coverage, causing neglect of routine matters and public dissatisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prin
Outwitted At His Own Game In A Laredo Auto Tale
A Laredo Auto Sales Co. sells an Overland to Mauro Gonzales of Nuevo Laredo who defaults. The car is seized on the streets, then salesman and demonstrator stage a sensational Labor Day chase crossing the river. Pelton, now with Applewhite, is forced to leave the Buick, then the pair recover the car by racing back to the American side, leaving Gonzales outwitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo Auto Sales Co
Overland
Mauro Gonzales
Nuevo Laredo
Gonzales
Laredo
W. H. Pelton
John A. Applewhite
Pelton
Gongales
Applewhite
Folloo
Po-Do-Lax Advertises Pimple and Illness Cure
An old advertisement touts Po-Do-Lax as a pleasant laxative that cures indigestion and related ailments. It claims to tone the liver purge the blood and improve complexion and nerves while promising money back if not satisfied. Available from druggists for 50 cents.
Stoan's Liniment Relieves Rheumatic Pains Fast
A testimonial from Mr Chas Wentworth California proclaims Stoan's Liniment cures rheumatic pains by penetrating to the joints without rubbing. It claims to help pains bruises cuts sore throat neuralgia chest pains and infection prevention with a 25 cent bottle guaranteed through druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoan
Chas
Wentworth
Calfornia
Railroads Hire TO ATT Locomotive Firemen
The Laundry Workers International Union reports 51 local unions in its structure while American railroads employ TO ATT locomotive firemen.
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Laundry Workers’ International Union
Notice to Onion Growers Over Seed House Error
J Blake Alexander issues a correction to yesterday's onion growers notice regarding Leonard Seed House of Chivaso. He explains a material error by misreporting Crystal Wax as purchased but receiving an unknown yellow product, and he cannot identify it despite years in the onion business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard
Chivaso
J. Blake Alexander
El 16 de Septiembre Celebrations Mentioned In Local Notes
Local column notes upcoming Mexico holiday events and multiple small town notices. Mentions pie and cake sale at Sanitary Grocery, a laundry move, found bicycles returned, new home and office address updates, dairy products and seafood offerings, currency warnings from Mexico City, local clothing sale, and a Ninth Infantry Band performance on Martin Plaza with concert details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Infantry
Martin Plaza
Times
Death of Dr Miguel Mireles in Nuevo Laredo
Dr Miguel Mireles aged 48, a Linares, Mexico physician who recently moved to Nuevo Laredo to lead the military hospital there, died yesterday at 2 45 pm. His remains were sent to Linares for interment. He was affable and had many friends in Nuevo Laredo. Illness a week earlier was followed by carpanels on his body, believed to have caused his death.
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Miguel Mireles
Linares
Mexico
Nuevo Laredo
Mireles
Bin
Burdette Mineral Wells Ad for Health Tonic
Burdette Mineral Wells promotes a tonic for constipation stomach troubles kidney and liver complaints rheumatism malaria brights disease female complaints and nervous troubles. The water is carbonated or plain and can be shipped nationwide. For particulars contact Burdette Mineral Wells and Hotel Co Burdette Wells via Lockhart Texas. 6-27-tf.
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United States
Burdette Mineral Wells
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Ment
Canada
Europe
Norway
Sweden
South America
High Water
France
Turkey
Constantinople
Carpathian
Hungary
Kiel Canal
English
Pelins
Ence
Washington
MR. Villareal
Sebastopol
Victor Emmanuel
King of
Italy
Tanooga
Eugenie
England
Ciro
Arabi Pasha
Francois Jules Paul Grevy
Mr. Gladstone
House of Lords
Spain
WAR
Tlee Ie
Methodist Church
Sanitary Grocery
CAT —Laredo Abstract Company
Waltery Brown
Farragut Street
Fernave IL
Gonzalez
Hidalgo Street
Kenney
Helena Kenney
Matamoros Street
St. Peter's Church
Riverside
Eugene Area
Blue Stand
Ile
Riverside Dairy
Saft’s
Advi
Laredo Music
Uplands
Jewelry Co
City Teachers’ Institute
Uest
Cape
Cadillac
J. Nieto
Jarvis Plaza
Ist Hospital
San
San Antonio
Laredo Mtuslo and Dewalry Co
Avent
Magers
Chids
Pelix de la Rosa
Coke Street
Bautista
Ladies of
A. Robertson
Wigaherd M. Sprague
Blocks Noseng
Isa Val- Richter
Boom 7, Inc
Laredo Electric & Railway Co
John B. Morton
Earnest & Bunn CO
Chevrolet and
Grant Automobiles
F. M. Ramsay
Oo. H. Guinn
Sanitary Grocer
Laurel Y. Gonnell the Great
Risa Joiberator
Lone Star
Tone Star Brewing CO
S. N. Johnson
Chichester
Crcggises
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