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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1906
Page
3
The New Mexico territorial Democratic Central Committee adopted resolutions supporting joint statehood for New Mexico and Arizona. The document cites past party conventions in 1904 favoring statehood and notes action by the Diamond Ice Co receivership to sell assets under Hamilton enabling act No 234. A committee was appointed to manage the sale of Diamond Ice Co. property on September 4, 1906.
A tumultuous campaign scene shows support for joint statehood with R Miller in Dayton New Mexico while a letter opposing joint statehood shifts party loyalties. Widespread talk centers on Jerome accepted nomination if demand grows, amid a farmland and travel news snippet.
Colorado Springs reports the fifty second annual International Typographical Union convention with 300 delegates from 46,000 printers. President Lynch spoke as books were presented to the Amos Cummins library while plans for an eight hour day were debated and about 800000 spent on the fight. Meanwhile Theodore Stensland, son of a Milwaukee Avenue Bank president, reveals new details about his father’s flight and the massive forgery case.
F L Coombs of St Louis and D Y Tomlinson plan a Rex Rollaway rink on Richardson avenue Roswell with maple floor and toilet cloak rooms. Building to start soon, 150 pairs of skates to be bought, aiming for a classy popular venue like Texas rinks.
Minneapolis August 13 Thousands of veterans and visitors flood the city for the 40th annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment. The event runs through the week with meetings of affiliated societies. Leading candidates for commander are Capt. P H Coney R B Brown and Charles G Burton.
Classified notices advertise a good milk cow cheap if sold this week. Pipe 375 feet of new galvanized pipe offered by George Henderson. A bargain 160 acres of unimproved land near Roswell listed via P O Box 525 Roswell.
A roll containing plans and specifications of a Dayton school house is available for inspection at this office. Owner may obtain the document by calling here and paying for this advertisement.
An unidentified man shot from a back window into a crowded Bowery street crowd near Stauch's restaurant at Coney Island. He fired four more shots as he fled toward the ocean. Four people were wounded, three gravely, including Thomas Fitzpatrick 25 Brooklyn and Annie Smith 20 Williamsburg. George White 26 Coney Island. Thomas McDonald 19 New York City.
In New York on August 13 Wilson Ellenquist of Brooklyn and Jos Moss of Williamsburg, both professional aeronauts, were severely burned and contused after their hot air balloon caught fire near Flatbush. The craft collapsed from about 200 feet, but bystanders rushed in to rescue them as the flaming balloon and debris struck the ground.
Chicago reports the sudden homecoming of Charles N. Frye, former superintendent of the Chicago Normal School, who after a three year unexplained absence handed his wife a roll of five thousand dollars in hundred dollar bills and told her to ask no questions. Frye, 31 at the time of disappearance, was rumored to have earned money in the Philippines.
See Robt Ingersoll who saves you money on railroad tickets north and east. He also buys tickets for cash.
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