New York character Monk breaks toughing record in rough life
Special Correspondence from New York details Max David known as Monk of Attorney Street. For twenty years he has lived as a tramp shrugs off injuries from falls stabbings and four years of blindness. He begs for food and beer survives cold through a snow bed and even boxed a round while blind. He heads a stairway shelter at a tenement basement and remains a remarkable survivor of hardship.
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East Side
Attorney Street
Monk
Max David
Ben
Jim Corbett
John L. Sullivan
New Orleans
To Get More Strength from Your Food
Advertisment extols Cascarets as the sole natural exercise for bowel muscles to prevent constipation and improve digestion. It claims stronger digestion yields better overall strength and health, with a call to buy capsules and claim a free gift by sending stamps to Sterling Remedy Company.
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Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
New York
Tragedy at Kelvin Max Ebert Murdered at Mill
The Phoenix paper reports Kelvin max Ebert, a night watchman at the Ray mine mill, was shot by H H Courtney after a quarrel. The jury ruled unjustified homicide. Courtney claimed self defense as Ebert allegedly advanced. Ebert’s wife had just joined him before the death.
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Maximilian Ebert
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Jby H. H. Courtney
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Florence
Elbert
Ebert
Bert
Tom Briscoe
Mesa
Gas Optimist and Political Banter in a Fragmented Talk
Fragments mix political chatter and social quips about Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Ethel Barrymore, with mentions of a Dutch canal, a rock canal across the isthmus, and a riding man publicity ploy. Anecdotes include a coal operator, a night watchman, and a coach’s reflections amid wartime style bomb and rifle imagery. The piece shifts to local news about Miss Helen Higgason, a teacher named for Alamogordo, highlighting her long experience and qualifications. It ends with notices on vacation forwarding, electrical work, and a light exchange about a new member of the House attending to Uncle Joe Cannon.
Official Matters and Public Service Updates
The governor appoints notaries in Taos and other counties while a post office opens at Amery Gap in Union County served from Watergate Colorado. Therese H Mellon named postmaster as Star Service links Espanola to Ranchitas. Martin Valencia wins a $225 annual contract for six trips weekly. Internal Revenue receipts rise from 25,000 to 60,000 indicating growth in population and taxed goods. Delegates to the wool and sheep growers’ convention get 50 commissions signed by Hagerman and Raynolds. Arroyo Hondo forest fire near Santa Fe is under control with limited damage and full extinction authority granted to use all necessary means.
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Gregorio Griego
Pensaco
Taos County
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Stevens
Red Miner
Postoffice
Amery Gap
Union County
Watergate
Colo
Folsom
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Star
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Rio Arriba
Martin Valencia
Internal Revenue
W. P. Bardshar
Territory
Mexico
Wool and Sheep Growers
Albuquerque
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Raynolds
Arroyo Hondo
F. C. Dezendorf
General Land Office
Santa Fe
Frank Grygia
El Paso Sandstorm Hits City Sections and Workers
A June 25 dispatch reports a freak sandstorm in El Paso causing a cement block factory to collapse and injuring several Mexican workers, one with a broken arm buried under debris. The storm damaged only that factory, with a doorway blown off a nearby residence while downtown wind stayed around thirty miles per hour.
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el Paso
Dam repair on the Felix River north of Hagerman completed
Barnett and Morrow Irrigation Co finished repairs on its Felix River dam at a cost of 7.00 and is irrigating the Inbacre orchard four years old along with other crops. Reverend Lukens of Roswell resigns as pastor to become evangelist for children in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Barnett & Morrow Irrigation Company
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E Lukens
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Ariona
Desperately Resists Arrest by Officer in Bluffton
A man named Catarino Lobato resisted arrest by Policeman Manuel Gonzales after being apprehended for disorderly conduct near Fischer's drug store. Lobato fought hard but was eventually jailed. An unrelated Bluffton resident, M. Borrougas, praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, urging readers to stock it for summer bowel troubles.
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Catarino Lobato
Manuel Gonzales
Lobato
Fischer
Gonzales
Cupid Rakes Banks in Douglas Matrimonial Wave
A Douglas report dated June 4 notes a surge of marriages among bank officials in the city. W. B. Dixon of First National wed a Los Angeles bride, followed by W. S. Hodges, also of First National, marrying Miss Inez B. Scott of Campana New Mexico. Clarence O. Thomas of Bank of Douglas wed Miss Grace McCrosky of Kansas City, and N. Winegar of Fleet National was engaged to Miss Bess Brown with September wedding planned. George Dawe of Calumet & Arizona Smelter also married last week to Miss Martha Griffith of Douglas, with at least ten more engagements rumored before June ends.
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Dixon
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Los Angeles
W. S. Hodges
Inez B. Scott
Campana
N. M
Clarence O. Thomas
Bank of Douglas
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Kansas City
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