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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1920
Page
20
Tuesday’s account criticizes the Laredo campaign for public library funding as failing to secure broad support. It urges contributions from all, arguing reading fuels intellect and community growth, and notes Mexico’s rail recovery amid postwar challenges, urging government focus on essential reforms alongside railways.
Festivities mark the birthday of Porfirio Diaz and Mexico’s Independence Day, with parades salutes and bull fights planned in Nuevo Laredo. A featured 800-yard horse race for a $250 purse involves horses owned by Butiquio Flores Robert Alexander and F P Gonzalez.
The many friends of Mr P B Ar enimdegai will be pleased to know he has located in this city after a twenty year absence. He assumes charge of the internal affairs of Vidaurri Printing Co. as a foreman in the printing department, a position for which he is highly qualified. The firm congratulates itself on placing such an efficient typographical man in charge.
The comedy Parlor Bedroom and Bath by W Bell and Mark Swan opens at the Rialto Theatre tomorrow and Thursday under producer A H Woods. The farce follows a model husband who fakes devilishness to win his wife as crowds praise its brisk humor and earlier New York success.
Oil indications found while drilling for water near Mier Mexico opposite Roma Texas trigger a flood of interest. Leases rush, land options surge, and scouts head toward the region as Zapata field yields sixty barrels daily of lubricating oil. The Tampico formation is feared to lie between Laredo and Brownsville, with further development awaited.
The Jewish new year was observed yesterday by Laredo’s Jewish residents as the opening month’s session of the commissioners court focused on road work between Laredo and Zapata County. Merco imports passed through Laredo port including baskets lead zinc arsenic and ixile. The Nuevo Laredo American consulate will close Thursday for Mexico Independence Day with business to be transacted tomorrow.
Correction to yesterday's Times states the 37th Infantry did not lose to the High School. On Wednesday at Fort McIntosh the 47th Infantry defeated High School 26 to 2, so Saturday's Machine Gun Company game ended with High School 4, Machine Gun 2.
Dublin Virginia resident Miss Mary Alice Hughett told a visitor of her experience with Cardui a female tonic. She described monthly pain pale complexion and fatigue followed by improved eating sleeping and reduced pain after taking Cardui. She endorsed Cardui as the best female tonic and urged others to use it.
The Aero Club expects national and international balloon races from Birmingham Alabama to boost records. Fifteen contenders enter the September 25 national race for the Gordon Bennett Cup with entries from Army Air Service Navy and civilians led by Ralph Upson. The October 23 Belgian piloted Belgians and Americans face six nations as France holds distance glory.
The Royal Theatre presents The Fortune Teller with Marjorie Rambeau in the role of a mother. Critics hail her as a premier emotional actress, citing her Broadway legacy in Cheating Cheaters and Eyes of Youth. Sunday hours will be observed by the company on Thursday, Sept 16, 1920. Consumers Ice and Fuel Co. 9-14-21.
Mrs Layton wife of Leonard Layton who is jailed in Laredo on murder charges from the Saturday night killing of John Burke at the Reddick home arrived in Laredo with City Marshal Brennan. She spent about thirty minutes with Layton saying she will help him but after this time she is through with him. Layton offered no statement beyond claiming no recollection of the killing due to heavy intoxication.
The piece notes that Mexico has a grave railway problem worsened by ten years of revolution yet trains run daily to the border and freight volumes suggest the issue is manageable. It also announces the appearance of Mexico's Mineral and Industrial Review, a new monthly magazine on oils metals and industries published in Laredo by George W. Power.
An advertisement promotes subscribing to THE TIMES with a monthly rate of 50 cents.
Mrs H E Nogan wife of American Vice Consul Nolan at San Luis Potosi Mexico arrived in Laredo this morning and proceeded northward on the morning train for San Antonio.
A reader recalls using RAT-SNAP to kill a dead rat found in a cellar after six months. The product, offered in three sizes 36c 65c and 1.25, is sold and guaranteed by A Deutz and Brother City Drug Co. and Sanitary Grocery.
George P. Summerlin, the American charge d'affaires at Mexico City, is due in Nuevo Laredo Thursday morning and will move northward immediately to Washington on official business.
The army telephone service is rebuilding lines to connect Fort McIntosh and Laredo directly with Brownsville. Work is underway from this city toward the southeast, with the Fort McIntosh to Zapata sixty mile line being rebuilt and extended along the Rio Grande to Fort Ringgold, linking to the Fort Ringgold to Fort Brown line for full regional communication. A force began work this week.
September 26 proclaimed as Go to Sunday School Day in our city. Citizens are urged to attend a Bible class at a church of their choice that Sunday morning to show interest in Bible teaching for the country’s children. Walter L. Barr invites all without a church to join.
County Superintendent Prof B Richardson reports three Webb County schools Santa Rosa Espejo and Dillard have not resumed sessions due to teacher shortages. Dolores needs two more teachers. He is seeking staff but statewide material shortages may delay reopening.
Lisbon reports a dramatic gambling surge after World War I, with opulent clubs like The Majestic and Maxim's drawing aristocrats and tourists. Since Premier Baptista formed a new government, strict enforcement closed the glittering venues, driving away patrons and halting the visible prosperity that defined Lisbon’s social life for over a year.
The Latin American Club hosts a ball in their hall on September 15 from 8 30 p m to 1 a m to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. The event promises music and festive dress in observance of the date.
The nation recalls McKinley’s death and Roosevelt’s rise as a series of events unfold. The Methodist Ecumenical Conference opens in London with global delegates while Wyoming hosts its state fair and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs convenes in Washington. Louisiana adopts second choice ballots for mayor, trials proceed for Dartmouth student Meads, and Democrats in Delaware gather for state convention. Primaries roll out in several states with nomination actions for president, Congress, governor and other officers.
One year ago today on September 14 Presider and Mrs. Wilson visited Seattle. William H. Taft and other prominent Americans appealed to the Senate to ratify the Peace Treaty.
Delegates from many countries assemble in Washington for the International Communications Conference under League of Nations auspices. Sessions start tomorrow and run ten days to two weeks. The Orient shows strong interest with a ten member Japanese delegation. US representation includes W S Benson, A S Burleson, and W S Rogers.
Wesley L. Jones, completing a second Senate term, is among Washington State primary candidates today. A former ten-year House member, he entered the Senate in 1909 after building a career in Illinois and moving to the Washington Territory in 1889. He quickly rose in North Yakima politics, shaping Republican influence as he progressed to Congress.
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