After the big wind Laredo eyes charter reform and relief
The town praises calm after a gale like blow. It notes few injuries but widespread property damage and washed streets. Laredo calls for a charter amendment to finance needed improvements and attract investors. Corpus Christi links deepen, and a coordinated relief drive forms through the chamber of commerce and churches to aid the stricken city.
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Laredo
Unti
Texas
Fort McIntosh
H. M. Austin
Chamber of Commerce
Laredo Mobilizes Aid For Corpus Christi Need
A call for help from Corpus Christi reaches Laredo and other district cities urging food clothing and bedding donations. Residents quickly assemble supplies and dispatch a relief train while pledging ongoing support for the storm stricken city.
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Laredo
Corpus Christi
International Farm Congress set in Kansas City with global exhibits
Fourteenth International Farm Congress to convene in Kansas City next week alongside the International Soil Products Exposition. Julius H. Barnes and cabinet members expected to speak. Attendance projected at 3,000 to 6,000 with 15,000 dollars in prizes and a large state exhibit cup contested by 15 states. Seager Wheeler’s wheat rivalries loom over the sweepstakes championship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Julius H. Barnes
United States Grain Corporation
Arthur Capper
Kansas
A. J. Grenna
North Dakota
Congress
George Albert Smith
Salt Lake City
Nebraska
Seager Wheeler
Saskatchewan
Kansas State Agricultural College
Wheeler
Notice to Truck Owners in Laredo for Renewal
Notice to truck owners engaged in public hauling in Laredo states licenses expired August 1 and owners must call City Hall to obtain a new license for the year ending August 1, 1920.
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City of
Laredo
Oil reserves may exhaust in United States by 1936
At the current rate of increase in consumption and production, experts estimate that the known U.S. oil fields will be exhausted by the year 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Dream of a spotless town and Salvation Army help
A dream of a neat town where all are fed and housed by Salvation Army centers. The message appeals for donations to the home campaign to fund rescue services, work programs, and shelters for the poor, unemployed, and wayward.
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Salvation Army
Today’s anniversaries of notable events and births
September 16 marks births such as George Prescott 1830 who introduced the quadruplex telegraph. William Samford 1844 a congressman and governor. and events like 1870 submarine cable Jamaica Cuba. 1891 St Clair River tunnel opening. 1907 battalion explosion. 1914 German move on Vilna. 1916 fighting in Carpathians. 1917 Kerensky proclaims Russian republic.
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George Bartlett Prescott
America
Kingston
N. H
New York City
William J. Samford
Congress
Alabama
Greenville
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Jamaica
Cuba
St. Clair River
United States
Canada
Vilna
Carpathians
Volhynia
Kerensky
Russia
Birthdays Today in Public Life and Letters
Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law born in New Brunswick 61 years ago today. Seldom P Spencer US Senator from Missouri born Hiie Pa 57 years ago. Hamlin Garland novelist born West Salem Wisconsin 59 years ago. Alfred Noyes English poet born 39 years ago today. Allen T Treadway Congressman from First Massachusetts district born Stockbridge Massachusetts 52 years ago.
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Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
New Brunswick
Seldom P. Spencer
United States
Missouri
Hiie
Hamlin Garland
West Salem
Wis
Alfred Noyes
Allen T. Treadway
Congress
Massachusetts
Stockbridge
Mass
Cardui touted by Gladwell as life changing tonic
In Watoga West Virginia Mrs S W Gladwell testifies she suffered severe headaches backaches and fatigue from age 15. After taking Cardus she improved quickly and continued use led to health and strength now with three children and no doctor for female trouble. The ad urges nervous or weak women to try Cardui recommended by physicians and claimed over 40 years in use.
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Watoga
W. Va
S. W. Gladwell
Cardus
Ardmore Rotary Lions Host Col George Wood
Lt Col George Wood spoke at Ardmore in a joint Rotary Lions Chamber of Commerce meeting. Ardmore boosters increased the home service fund quota from 10000 to 25000 dollars to build corps barracks with the money.
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George Wood
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Rotary
Lions’ Resuls
Chamber of Commerce
Home Service Fund
Man of Nerve Energies Wins Admiration Worldwide
A description praising a man of nerve energy who stands out for his successes. He possesses strong nerves and rich blood, enabling rapid thinking, steady hands, and swift work. The piece highlights his clear eye and active brain as keys to his accomplishments.
Sir Esme Howard Named British Ambassador to Spain
Sir Esme W. Howard, announced as the British Ambassador to Spain, is noted for his Washington tenure as Acting Ambassador after Sir Mortimer Durand. His career began in 1885 as assistant private secretary to the Earl of Carnarvon and included roles in Rome Berlin Crete and as Consul General in Crete. He married in 1898 the daughter of the Earl of Newbury, a descendant of King Edward I.
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Esme W. Howard
Spain
Washington
Mortimer Durand
Esme
Earl of Carnavon
Ireland
Rome
Berlin
Lord Kimberley
Crete
Earl of Newbury
Edward I
International and national events mark today’s observances
Mexico celebrates its independence anniversary while Washington hosts Pershing’s visit and a high level dinner in New York honors Hoover. Pennsylvania holds a general primary and Winnipeg hosts the Dominion Chartered Accountants convention. Canada and Britain are represented by Masons and ambassadors as large gatherings span Baltimore to Birmingham.
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Mexico
eThe District of Columbia
General Pershing
Viscount Grey
New York
Washington
Pennsylvania
Dominion of Chartered Accountants
Winnipeg
Herbert C. Hoover
New York City
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
National Shoe Workers’ Union of America
Canada
St. John
N. B
Sovereign Great Priory of
James Watt
Birmingham
Hug
Odd Fellows
Union
Austalia
Baltimore
American Odd Fellowship
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Corpus Christi Seaside City Hit by Devastating Hurricane
A Texas Gulf coast city, Corpus Christi, suffers massive destruction after a Sunday hurricane. Reports estimate 25 dead and 3,000 to 4,600 homeless with property losses between three and four million dollars as relief efforts mobilize across Laredo and Nuevo Laredo.
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Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Bay
Texas
Jeff McLemore
Galveston
Naples
Gulf
Robstown
Laredo
Delicatessen Stand Opens at Sanitary Grocery
Delicatessen line bought out and operated separately from the store offers fresh roasts cooked daily veal loaves home baked hams bacon tongues sausages cheese and desserts like pies cakes and jelly rolls after 4 p.m on select days call 666 or 665 for the Delicatessen Man cash only
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Delicatessen
Sanitary Grocery
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International Farm Congress
Wta
Emery Tetas
Rary
P.A
P. A
Prince Albert
Sawhill
R.J. Reyno Ka Tobacco Co
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem, N. C
Wood
City Drug Co
Corpus S
Roy Miller
Beaumont B. Buck
Iman
Colonel Buck
Texas-Mexican Railroad
J. F. Maillaily
S. W. DeWolf
Texas-Mexican Ry. Co
W. L. Guyler
Corpus
Egeland
Thirty-seventh Infantry Regiment
Thirty-seventh Infantry
Relief Committee At Work
Laredo Chamber of Commerce
McComb
Relief Committee of
Fred W. Mally
Quanyor
Nuevo Laredo
San Agustin Ave
Heights
Leo M. Purwin
R. L. Bobbitt
Convent Ave
August C. Richter
A. Deutz
Juarez Ave
Sam Mackin
F. A. Lattig
W. J. Sames
B. G. Salinas
I. Rodriguez
Carlos Garza Cantu
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