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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
1
A local ad notes customers find Xmas meats fine fat juicy and tender here as they select their meats for the holiday feast.
Early today a wind driven fire in Cincinnati’s factory district caused about 2 million dollars in damage. Ten firms and eight buildings were burned, with the Ninth and Sycamore streets to Broadway block swept clean, one fireman dead and another white boy killed, six firemen injured. The firms burned include Krippendorf and O Neal Shoe Co Taylor Poole Leather Co Cahill Shoe Co Sycamore Street Stable Co Griess Piliezar Leather Co Victor Safe and Lock Co A J Nurre Co warehouse E O Duncan Paper Box Co Wildberg Co factory. Sapulpa Okla Dec 21 Caril Morris known as White Man s Hope knocked out former champ Marvin Hart in the third round after his backers threw in the sponge.
In New York on December 21 thirty firemen barely escaped death as a fire destroyed a building at Hudson and Vesey streets occupied by Joseph Libmann & Co. paper manufacturers. The backdraft trapped the crew but all reached safety with no serious injuries. the damage was estimated at seventy five thousand dollars.
An explosion and fire at the Little Hulton colliery in Bolton today trapped many miners after about two hundred went underground. Rescue teams recovered seven miners and a boy, then five bodies, as smoke and gas hampered operations with fate still uncertain.
Amid a coal mine explosion, eight men escaped by wedged cages hindering ventilation while gases rose to entombed workers. Fire raged as rescue teams doubted saving about 280 others. 10 bodies recovered by midafternoon.
A collision today between the Manhattan Flyer passenger train and a Panhandle switch engine on the Fifty seventh street elevated line injures twelve people, one fatally. The Flyer locomotive was derailed and the wreckage caused a fire in baggage and mail cars.
Chicago headlines report Professor Frederick Starr head of the University of Chicago anthropology department will depart tomorrow for Korea to study the inhabitants. He will be joined by Manuel Gonzales, a frequent companion on prior expeditions. Starr has previously studied Africa Mexico and Japan.
City Market advertises fat turkeys for Christmas with prices described as most reasonable and invites readers to place orders now, offering phone number 393 for contact.
New Orleans December 21 Federal authorities completed a final search to confirm the Hornet carried no military equipment before she sailed this morning on a voyage to Central American waters.
Nimitz will present Pecos Valley views shown at the Chicago exposition and Haynes Burrus singing along with the regular program of new moving pictures and vaudeville this Wednesday evening at the Nimtz theater.
President Taft asks Congress to authorize a joint resolution to nullify the New Mexico constitution over boundary changes with Texas. The Lorimer bribery report to the Senate finds no proof of personal bribery by Lorimer and disputes the credibility of bribers while upholding their votes.
Washington December 20 reports President Taft urging the rapid passage of the Humphrey ship subsidy bill which would grant five million dollars annually to private shipowners. The move faces Republican resistance but party leaders push for a swift vote, arguing political risk for opponents. The piece questions subsidies as a policy and cites trade data comparing subsidized and non subsidized routes. The report also covers related international and domestic economic debates and local political notes.
Washington reports Democrats aim to quickly organize after the holidays with all incoming Representatives meeting in January. A caucus will set plans for appointing majority committee members and revising the tariff. Speaker-elect Champ Clark leads tariff study backed by Colonel Henry Watterson.
Washington reports that clubwomen from New York and other states will urge President Taft to block acceptance of the silver service designed for the battleship Utah. They object to Brigham Young’s portrait on the plates and utensils, not his plural wives, but his stance toward Federal officials as Utah’s first governor.
A New York City reader asks Santa to return his kidnapped sister Helen Sullivan, a plea sent from Lola Sullivan and noted by newspapers amid Christmas requests. The unknown child disappeared from her father’s doorstep last June, despite efforts and a sizable reward.
Warranty deeds published August 15 1910 list Dexter Water Supply Co transferring lots 1 and 3 block 4 Tallmadge Bros addition to Dexter for one dollar and two other conveyances including I R Hart to H W Robinson Mra E L Mabry and a U S patent to James L with parcel details and values referenced.
R. L. Malone as chairman opened the registration booth today at the office of French and Malone for Precinct No. 1 as the coming election begins.
Roswell High School tennis club stages a singles and doubles championship event early next week at the Roswell Tennis Club courts at Main and Fifth streets. The event features promising players and invites public attendance with plans for future matches against N. M. M. S. and Pecos Valley High schools.
John Gist, noted sheep breeder, was fired on from rocks north of Roswell while riding home from his ranch. His horse was killed. Gist escaped, believing the shooter targeted Marley or Finch by mistaken identity. The motive remains unclear in this wild west incident.
Local report from Roswell New Mexico at 6 00 a m records Highest yesterday 55 lowest last night 31 mean 43 trace precipitation wind west 5 miles forecast generally fair tonight and Thursday colder notes on past extremes highest 74 in 1900 lowest 7 in 1909
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