Kindergarten class to begin at 707 Chihuahua Street
Mrs M L Patton will start a kindergarten work class on Monday Sept 26 at 707 Chihuahua Street Heights. Interested parties should phone 1142 or visit by Friday Sept 23. 9 19 64. County marriage licenses issued include Domingo Garcia with Miss Francisco Palacios and Juan Reyes with Miss Luz Pefia. Also notes on ads, building plans, and a murder case against Santiago Amenta for the Sept 4 stabbing of Vicente Vega with grand jury indictment pending.
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M. L. Patton
the Heights
Chihuahua Street
Domingo Garcia
Francisco Palacios
Juan Reyes
Luz Pefia
Hamilton Beach
Laredo Electric & Railway Co
Laredos Take Lead After Doubleheader At Caliche Park
The Laredo Baseball League standings shifted after a doubleheader at Caliche Park. The Laredos beat the 17th Infantry 4 to 0, and the American Legion defeated the Knights of Columbus 10 to 0. The Laredos lead the percentage table with the Legion tied for second. next Sunday's games could decide the pennant.
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Laredo Baseball League
Caliche Park
Victors
Laredos
17Th Infantry
American Legion
Legion
Knights of Columbus
Laredo
Notice to Patrons From Harper’s Dairy
M A Harper reports cattle TB test results show cows free of disease. Harper's Dairy offers contact via phone 494. This notice appears in a community classifieds section with farm business updates.
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M. A. Harper
Harper’s Dairy
Laredo Water Company seeks new rates and rapid upgrades
The Laredo Water Company announces it will establish an equitable rate and proceed with urgent improvements after long council negotiations. Planned work includes a 92 by 40 foot steel reservoir on Block 552 in the Heights, new six to twelve inch mains costing about 15000, and expanded water supply geared to better fire protection and service. The company asserts state law supports a reasonable return and aims to complete projects by April next year if permitted.
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Laredo Water Company
Iit
Laredo
Lord Leverhulme Turns Seventies Amid Philanthropy
Lord Leverhulme marks his seventieth birthday as head of Port Sunlight soap works and a noted philanthropist. He advocates a six hour workday and urges public support for workers time for study and recreation. His firm improved employee conditions and Port Sunlight stands as a model town. He is a major art collector with Hampstead holdings. He entered Parliament in 1906, received a baronetcy ten years later, and was made a baron in 1917.
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Lord Leverhulme
Port Sunlight
United Kingdom
Hampstead
House of Commons
Eliza Thomas Records Eighteen Years of Marriage
Eliza Thomas of Virden Illinois is noted as eighteen years old and three times married in a brief community record. The notice highlights her marital history as recorded in local listings.
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Eliza Thomas
Virden, I
Society Social Calendar Monday Meetings At Local Churches
Monday features a Woman's Club meeting at the club room at 4 PM and the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church gathering at the church at 4 PM. Tuesday the Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church meets at the church at 6 PM.
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The
Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church
Meadow Floor and Hidden Worlds of Insects
A reflective prose excerpt extols a meadow as a pattern maker and world within a world, where ants, beetles, spiders, and crickets form an earnest insect society. The piece, attributed to Folger McKinsey in the Baltimore Sun, is followed by a long list of local society notes and travel updates about residents and visitors in Laredo and surrounding areas.
Camp Fire Girls and Bridge Club Notes in Local Social
Miriam Chapter No 86 meets at 8 in Masonic Hall Tuesday night. The Little Women Camp Fire Girls visited Mrs Poggenpohl, enjoyed a meal after an outing. Mrs Joe Vidales hosted a party for Tuesday Bridge Club with prizes to Mrs Joe Martin and Mrs Joseph. Library budget and subscriber drive outlined by Woman's Club, seeking $1,500 and 300 subscribers.
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Masonic Hall
Campire
Wirvs
Alfred Pogwenpohl
Cfferfioum
Nicen
Anne McKuimey
Rees Bryant
Josephine Daiches
Eugenia Copeland
Roberta
Rebecca Biggio
Jennie May Gallahan
Elizabeth Nye
Minnie Etta Thaison
Etta May Niehdorff
Joe Vidales
Joe Martin
Joseph
Mesdames Cluck
Bobbitt
Albert Martin
J. M. Martin
Libarry
Woman's Club
Shearmans On Trial For Shooting Prohibition Officer
C P Shearman and his sons Nell and John face a second trial at El Paso on charges related to the March 21 shooting of A C Wood, a prohibition officer, on the Shearman ranch. The first trial ended with a hung jury except for Allen Shearman and Tomas Mendoza who were acquitted.
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Associated Press
Midland
Texas
C. P. Shearman
Nell
John
A. C. Wood
Shearman Ranch
el Paso
Allen Shearman
Tomas Mendoza
License Schools Challenge Licensure Law
The Rand School of Social Science will open in New York on Sept 26 without a license to test a state law requiring private schools to be licensed by the State Board of Regents. Algernon Lee says he is ready to be a martyr. penalties include up to 60 days in jail. Morris Hillquit will defend Lee. Hillquit plans to challenge the law as unconstitutional.
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Associated Press
New York
State Board of Regents
Rand School of Social Science
Albany
Algernon Lee
New York Board of Aldermen
The Sincere Flattery Convict Trial Remark
A convict admits to flattering a rich man, saying he aimed to imitate the signature on a cheque. A prison visitor laments the ideal crime as the man explains his motive in this brief exchange.
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Tyin
National unemployment conference to meet in Washington
Washington announces the national unemployment conference will convene next Monday at 10 o clock with about 30 delegates chosen for their usefulness in addressing the problem. Hoover said sessions will be public and the group will likely organize and split into committees. delegates to be named tonight.
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Washington
National Unemployment Conference
Hoover
General Strike Threat Looms Over Wage Cut Across Railroads
Chicago Sept 19 Railroad shop men from six federated unions voted to strike against the July 1 wage reduction but will defer action pending proposed working rules before the railroad labor board An additional vote will be taken on the rules according to officials
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Associated Press
Chicago
Federated Shop Crafts Unions
Railroad Labor Board
Oil Men Strike Freak Letters Prices Higher On Everything
Wholesale price data show August gains led by food costs with a 13.5 percent rise over July and overall wholesale prices up 2.76 percent. Farm products, meats, dairy and fruits jump while building materials and metals fall. clothing unchanged.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Labor
Rotary Officials Meet in Waco Texas
Executives and secretaries of Rotary Clubs of Texas convene in Waco to discuss instructions from the international board in place of district governor visits. Most state clubs are represented at a banquet hosted by the local club at the Municipal Clubhouse tonight.
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Waco
Texas
Rotary Clubs of
International Board
Assurances Guard Russian Interests at Peace Conference
The state department said legitimate Russian interests will be guarded at the armsament and Far Eastern conference. The assurances were sent to the Far Eastern Republic at Chita in response to its request for representation at the conference.
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Washington
State Department
Far Eastern
Chita
Appeal for Aid From Mulford Flood Victims in Robertson County
An appeal for aid was sent to the governor today in a petition signed by 63 heads of Negro families at Mulford Robertson County. They describe their destitution after recent floods and say they have nothing to eat and will starve until farming time in January 1922 unless the state provides relief.
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Austin
Texas
Mulmford
Robertson County
Brownsville Sentinel Ends Daily Publication
Brownsville Texas September 19 The Brownsville Sentinel, once a morning daily, announces suspension of daily issues and plans to publish weekly thereafter. The change marks a shift in its production schedule for local readers.
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Associated Press
Brownsville
Texas
City Licenses Required for Public Hauling in Laredo
Public hauling trucks in Laredo must obtain city licenses before October 1, 1921. Applications and payments are accepted at City Hall, with office hours from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.
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City of
Laredo
Auction by Woman to Sell Service on Public Library Steps
Urbain Le doux announced that 25 unemployed women have asked to have their service sold at an auction on the steps of the Public Library tonight despite police labor leaders and others objections. He warned that if police intervene the defense will be a song by a former service man "The World Is Dying for a Little Bit of Love."
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New York
Urbain Ledoux
Fomer
Better Than League Naval Disarmament Report Says
The final report of the League of Nations commission on disarmament released today argues the Washington Conference may better handle naval disarmament through the consensus of great powers, rather than the league itself.
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Geneva
League of‘ Nations
Washington
League
New Football Rule Aims Pause Before Play In Shift Formations
New York reports the football rules committee received a request from coaches and officials to interpret the rules so there will be a distinct pause before the ball is placed in play in shift formations.
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Associated Press
New York
Football Rules Committee
Birthday anniversaries of notable figures born today
Key Pittman a Nevada senator born in Vicksburg Mississippi 49 years ago today. Louis Joseph Vance author born in Washington 42 years ago today. Brig Gen Hugh A Drum former chief of staff in World War I born at Fort Brady Michigan 42 years ago today. Rodolphe Boudreau clerk of Canada’s Privy Council born at St Gregoire Quebec 56 years ago today. Anthony Fiala Arctic explorer and writer born in Jersey City Heights New Jersey 52 years ago today.
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Key Pittman
United States
Nevada
Vicksburg
Miss
Louis Joseph Vance
Washington
Brig
Hugh A. Drum
Fort Brady
Mich
Rodolphe Boudreau
Privry Council of Canada
St. Gregoire
Que
Anthony Fiala
Jersey City Heights
N. J
Carpentier to Visit United States for Gibbons Bout
Georges Carpentier will come to the United States in December to begin preparations for the light heavyweight title fight with Tom Gibbons of St Paul. Trainer Gus Wilson announced the plan today.
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Associated Press
New York
Georges Carpentier
United States
Tom Gibbons
St. Paul
Gus Wilson
Attack on Monarchists in Berlin Celebration
In Berlin on September 19, a Weimar wartime anniversary celebration at Wiemersdorff was disrupted by socialists and communists. They overpowered nationalists, forced their band to play revolutionary tunes, and compelled them to Bernau where a bust of ex-Emperor William and captured monarchist banners were burned in the market.
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Ty Associated Press
Berlin
Wiiimersdorff
Tannenhburg
East Prussia
Bernau
William
Balloons in Gordon Bennett Race Tracked by Wireless Measures
Paris July 19 report shows the Eiffel tower wireless station requesting all steamers in the Eastern Atlantic English channel and bay of Biscay to watch for balloons in the James Gordon Bennett race. Marine ministry also orders lighthouse keepers from Dunkirk to the Spanish border to report sightings.
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Paris
Eiffel Tower
Atlantic
English Channel
Bay of Biscay
Brussels
Ministry of Marine
Atlantic Seaboard
Dunkkirk
National events mark days across nations and ages
Today commemorates Chile’s independence, Garfield’s death fortieth anniversary, and Gilbert Haven’s birth centennial. Washington’s Farewell Address is noted as a 125 year marker. Concurrently Detroit hosts the 22nd VFW encampment and Grand Rapids begins the West Michigan State Fair. Senate panel opens hearings into West Virginia Mingo coal field conditions at Williamson.
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Garfield
Gilbert Haven
Washington
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Detroit
West Michigan
Grand Rapids
Senate
Mingo
West Virginia
Williamson
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