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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
1
A Roswell report recounts a union meeting sermon by Dr. Alexander asking who is a Christian beyond church membership. It highlights a growing religious movement, choir plans, and a notable wedding of Mr. Spencer and Miss Fairchild with a lively departure by train amid a city crowd.
Fruit and shade trees available from Artesia Nursery owner J S Higasmita. Call or write for a good assortment. Artesia, New Mexico 49120.
Promptly at four o clock yesterday the words making Edward M Spencer and Miss Eda Margaret Fairchild man and wife were spoken. The ceremony took place at the bride’s parents home at Sixth Street and North Sea Avenue in the presence of about seventy five friends. Rev H Van Valkenburgh conducted the Methodist Episcopal church ring ceremony as Mendelssohn music played. The bride wore crepe de chine over messe line with pearl trimmings and carried roses and carnations. the maid wore Nile Green Swiss. After congratulations dainty refreshments followed. Gifts included silver serving sets, framed pictures, cut glass, oak furniture and substantial checks from groom’s mother and bride’s sister.
A brief advertisement notes a 10 cent cigar and a five cent item from the Wigwam and Smoke House. The fragment cites athletic or promotional language aligning with small town shop notices. No dates or places specified beyond the business names.
Readers learn that soprano Melba Sembrich headlines a transcontinental tour under Loudon Charlton with performers Francis Robers and Frank La Forge. The piece praises her voice art and character, notes her retirement from opera, and highlights audience enthusiasm across regions.
Washington January 13 The House Committee on Territories completed and ordered reported the New Mexico and Arizona statehood bill. Washington January 13 The Federal Corporation Bill faces strong congressional push for full discussion and amendments including a forfeiture clause and possible shift to compulsory incorporation.
Boston hosts a major conference with presidents of Massachusetts colleges discussing aligning college training with business and commerce. Harvard President J well delivers the principal address stressing a university must emerge from and serve its surrounding community or risk withering, citing state universities as leaders in community impact.
Real estate and fire insurance firm Parsons and Lawrence advertises a valuable Main Street property at a bargain for quick sale. Also offers East 5th street residential lots at a low price close in. They urge readers to investigate, noting Parsons knows details.
In a Boston address, speakers urge learning from Wisconsin and expanding cooperation among Massachusetts educational institutions. They note urban challenges, call for unified efforts across science schools and colleges for a stronger community model. Delegates from all Massachusetts scientific schools and colleges participate.
Advertises a 10 cent cigar named Joan of Arc offered as a Friday special for shoppers looking for a bargain. Limited detail provided about store or duration.
A Boston Y M C A building in the Back Bay district, among the nation's finest, burned this morning. The loss is reported at two hundred thousand dollars. Its chemical laboratory was ranked next to Harvard's and MIT.
In St. Petersburg on January 13 1919 Russians from the great White Czar to humble peasants observe New Year's Eve. Greek church calendars mark tomorrow as the new year making Russia two weeks behind Europe. After forty days of Christmas fasting Russians prepare to enjoy vodka before Lent resumes.
Los Angeles January 13 Louis Paulhan the French aviator who became a world hero yesterday by breaking high flight records may attempt a flight to San Diego over a hundred miles south in an airline. Official report shows rise to nearly five thousand feet. San Diego visitors presented a silver cup and invited him to visit. He suggested Pasadena or a flight to that city as an alternative. Weather risk rain and brisk wind but aviators continued tuning for upcoming trials.
Marshfield Oregon January 13 Aboard the steamer Czarina which struck a coast bar yesterday and wrecked two men of the 31 aboard have been rescued with six more including Captain Dugan and Harold Millis believed saved. Harold Kentzell the first assistant engineer was found unconscious and second assistant engineer J Robinson washed ashore. By morning several men clung to the rigging of the remaining mast as colossal waves lashed the vessel and life lines could not reach. The rigging is thought to include Captain Dugan Harold Millis Purser Hedges and First Officer Hughes.
For sale a set of office furniture including a L C Smith typewriter. All in useable condition and nearly new. View in Room 11 Oklahoma block any afternoon. Call 92 for prices, 6614.
Kansas City Missouri January 13 cattle hog and sheep receipts show steady to higher trends. Cattle steady with diverse classes listed including native steers southern cows stockers and feeders and calves. Hogs rise with bulk sales near 8.15 to 8.55 while sheep pace holds with muttons and lambs quoted against fed western stock.
Upstate farmers say they have not shared milk trust profits, despite New York City investigations showing big milk distributors’ profits doubling. Dairymen testifying during the Albany hearings, opening today and continuing to Saturday, air grievances against the so called trust that allegedly cornered the New York market.
St Louis report says Ray Lamphere admitted guilt as death neared in Indiana prison for complicity in the Belle Gunness farm murders. He claimed to have helped dispose of three men bodies at the Gunness home in 1907 and to have plotted further acts with a woman, chloroforming Mrs Gunness and her children.
Lamphere testifies that Mrs. Gunness used chloroform on sleeping victims and, if not fatal, severed their heads with an axe. He recounts seeing one man fatally wounded and helping to bury all three, after the men left a burning house behind.
The National Live Stock Association voted overwhelmingly for federal control of the open range and a range lease law under that system. The Denver meeting saw bitter exchanges between Murdo MacKenzie and E M Ammons as resolutions praised Pinchot and targeted the Payne tariff while boosting Interstate Commerce Commission powers and a stock train speed limit. Jastro MacKenzie Carey were re-elected and Fort Worth was chosen for next year’s convention.
London observes novelist Mrs. Arthur Stannard known as Joan Strange Winter celebrate her fifty-fourth birthday and reach a milestone of 100 books in 28 years. Her bestseller Beatles' Baby remains her standout work and her latest release marks her hundredth title.
Princess Wal deamr sister-in-law to the King was honored in a grand memorial service attended by the royal family and Denmark’s chief nobles. The observance fell on her birthday January 13, 1865. She left four sons and a daughter surviving.
Memphis on the Mississippi will hear the first public bow of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. the conductor makes his debut as the ensemble opens a program touted as one of the most ambitious by a southern symphony society. The premiere follows long effort and support from local music lovers and business groups aimed at making the orchestra famous.
Ice jams along the Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio rivers cause flooding and structural damage across several states. In Hermann Missouri the Missouri river gorge broke last night and the river near St Louis neared flood stage. Venice Illinois ferry sunk. Kansas river bridges at Willard Vallence Lecompton swept away. Lawrence reports wag on bridge loss and a damaged wag on. Ohio river danger rises with Brandenburg Kentucky ice gorge piling fifteen feet high over fifty miles.
The Wool Market at St Louis reports no change in overall tone. Territory and western mediums show 25 to 28 cents, fine mediums 20 to 24, fine 12 to 21. Prices reflect varied fiber quality and market demand on this trading day.
Local U S Weather Bureau observation for Roswell New Mexico at 6:00 a m reports a high of 57 degrees a low of 33 and a mean of 45 with 0 precipitation and a 7 mph wind from the northwest. Forecast calls for fair and colder conditions tonight and Friday.
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