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Newspaper
Alamogordo News
Location
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1925
Page
4
Local residents and visitors frequent El Paso events and nearby towns. District Court for Otero county opens January 4 at the courthouse. Community updates include visits from Cloudcroft figures, school officials, and business activity.
Hidgs Dahlke's Market announces top market prices for beef pork turkeys and chickens. Local shoppers are informed of current rate figures and market timing.
Sheriff Denney asserts the old Indian who fled Otter jail on Christmas morning may be sheltered on the reservation with friends aiding the fugitive by supplying food. Local authorities pursue leads as the case attracts countywide attention.
President Coolidge is hopeful the United States may accept the League of Nations invitation to preliminary disarmament conference talks. He studies the Geneva invitation constructively at the White House as Senate and House members push resolutions to participate.
Instruments filed in Jefferson County Texas transfer Magnolia Petroleum and Magnolia Pipe Line properties to Standard Oil Co of New York. Total valuation 103,042,000, the largest financial transaction on record here. Three deeds cover Beaumont area assets including refinery, wharves, warehouses, and tank farms.
Rotarians enjoyed a pleasant luncheon program on Wednesday with R R Rodgers and F Rolland leading the day. New members read Rotary ethics lines, Rifton Rodgers performed Flower Song, and Rolland offered witty New Year resolutions as he read them. Vel Lane attended as a new member.
New York, Dec 28. Dr. W B Scott of Princeton University asserts Java man is a genuine link in human evolution dating to 1891. Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports a serum beef substitute from beef serum with waterproofing and adhesive uses. Harvard claims solving Mayan calendar mystery showing Central American Indians as skilled astronomers who timed events by Venus.
President Coolidge appointed board concludes no current danger of destructive air attack and not soon to be. recommends not unifying air services but adds need for assistant secretaries, flying officers in General Staff, better pay and promotion for aviators, and flying-experienced officers in control roles.
A trio of asset transfers includes the Magnolia Pipe Line system with 14 branch lines serving Texas and Oklahoma fields for 2.449 million. A separate Magnolia Petroleum property outside Beaumont territory changes hands for 26.218 million. A final sale involved extensive real estate and office holdings for 84.375 million.
The article notes Professor MacMillan of Chicago University speculates the solar system may end as smaller planets are absorbed by Jupiter leaving sun and one big planet. Mercury may fall into the sun, Jupiter being distant. He estimates the merger with Jupiter in five hundred billion years.
President Coolidge, aided by Cabinet advisors and surveys from Secretary Mellon and Secretary Hoover, predicts a year of unparalleled prosperity beginning in 1926. He notes current good conditions but acknowledges pockets of difficulty in cattle due to drought and in eastern textile mills from shifting styles.
The ad promotes Kodak finishing services at Ward's Studio with claims of low prices and simple value. It highlights two discount levels of 3% and 4% and ends with a price comparison claim intended to attract customers.
Father J. S. Ricard of Santa Clara University Observatory said a pronounced solar surface disturbance is driving North America’s cold spell. Large sunspots continually pass, predicted to continue two years with unusually severe winters. current central and western cold snap to last four to five days, Atlantic coast another week.
Religions with life in them tend to propagate and Buddhism plans preaching tours and widely distributed books in major Western languages. The note mentions a proposed statue in Central Park and cites about 138,000,000 Buddhists worldwide with strongest presence in China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Siam and Burma.
The church schedules Sunday school at 10:00, morning service at 11:00, and evening service at 7:30 with sermons on The Best Starting Point and The New Walk. From Monday Jan 4, nightly 7:30 prayer meetings of 45 minutes use Evangelical Alliance programs for a world wide Revival. Calvin A. Duncan, Pastor.
Roswell New Mexico December 28 1929 local officers seized a closed in delivery car and a truck loaded with alcohol tequila and whisky valued about 10000 eight miles southeast of Roswell. The drivers A G Walker and A E Simon both Texas residents were jailed. Authorities say the haul was the largest ever in Chaves County and the vehicles with Texas plates were bound for gulf points in Texas. Sheriff Zumwalt led the operation with deputies and city officers assisting.
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