18 Apr 1905
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1905
Page
1
The School Board selected C. D. Thompson as superintendent at 1260 dollars yearly, starting July 1 1905, after strong endorsements from Missouri and state educators. The board plans three high school teachers next year with scaled salaries and half day primary sessions, plus a committee to arrange graduation exercises.
The Ghurgh First Methodist church plans a fundraising drive to begin in June aiming to secure essential funds for building repairs and community outreach programs.
Members of the First Methodist Church have begun collecting funds to pay for a new church. They recall a past era when a wealthy member lost everything in the mines and later worked as a coachman. Fagen had stayed in Denver years, living as a remittance man and not working, with whiskey blamed for his decline.
Norfolk va april 17 thomas yandaw long a public figure in the city died in a lunatic asylum two years ago and was buried in a pauper's grave a letter from california now claims he was entitled to a estate worth over 1 500 000 left by no heirs wife dead. local authorities hear of the pending claim amid notes of probate and a daylight meeting at the five homesteads hall where claims were filed. an extended report mentions kent land office and church extension outreach in new mexico and old mexico. automobiles on their way.
A history note recounts a court action on the ten hour law while detailing a donation offer of 51 to a board that sought 25. It describes a church extension board requesting 400 from Dr Morrison’s mission, with potential returns of 500 and 2000 to fund church extension, including 1000 destined for Roswell. It also mentions Roswell Automobiles being purchased in Ohio and en route.
The Supreme Court declares New York bakery ten hour day and sixty hour week limits unconstitutional. Justices Harlan White Day and Holmes dissented. The ruling could trigger a nationwide baker strike in leading cities as the existing agreement nears its May 1 expiry. The president has been silent for three days amid other regional concerns including church donations and potential international assistance.
A cache of details emerges on the arrest of about a dozen terrorists led by a Swiss-based central group. Ka shevsky, once dismissed police prefect, captured the ring aiding bomb makers and a Grand Duke murder suspect. The report notes funds and a New York support network, plus church fundraising in Roswell and a forthcoming church cornerstone. Also covered is the U.S. Supreme Court bakers ten hour law ruling and expected bakery strikes in major cities.
Jefferson is dying as friends and relatives note his decline. The report mentions Roosevelts bear hunt, political intrigue, and a Russian Pacific squadron. The piece ties in theater legend Joseph Jefferson with varied trial snippets from Palm Beach to Jiji Shimpo.
April 18 dispatches describe Hay’s improving health and possible departure to Germany, with a railroad strike delaying a sleeping car reservation. Reports discuss neutraliy in war zones and international maneuvers involving France, Russia, and Japan, plus naval actions in Indo China and Saigon, and German mining rights in Shangtang province. A barber, S. W. Allen, announces upcoming marriage in Barstow, Texas before returning to North Main Street.
Abnormally low temperatures swept the region on April 17 with heavy frosts reaching southern Tennessee and northern Georgia and extending east through Virginia. Light frosts were noted in southern Alabama and northern Florida while snow flurries occurred in the Ohio valley. Much fruit-crop damage reported across the middle West and South.
The bodies of William A. Fagen, grandson of the Philadelphia magnate Stephen Fagen, and Herbert Gorham, from an East family, were found in a loft room at 1252 Clarkson Street Denver. They had been on a long spree and ended their lives with cyanide of potassium Gorham had traveled from Philadelphia to Denver.
Sunday school class of Parsons hosts a dessert sale featuring strawberries and cream and strawberries with ice cream on Monday afternoon and evening April 24 1905 at the H F Smith building 308 North Main Street. Regulation highway robbery prices advertised. see paper for details.
A newly built eighteen room hotel in Dayton will finish in the next ten days. It seeks tenants willing to furnish rooms with an offer to lease or rent. Farm for rent available. Inquiries directed to Ava E. Page in Roswell, wr Dicus, Frost & Co., Dexter. Judge W. W. Gatewood to travel to Lincoln tomorrow for legal matters.
U S Weather Bureau local Roswell New Mexico report records temperature highs and lows for April 18 1905. Max 79 Min 48 Mean 64 with zero precipitation and northeast wind at 8. Forecast calls for partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with local showers and steady temperatures. M Wright official in charge.
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