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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1935
Page
5
A historic Roswell newspaper entry notes publication details for Roswell Daily Roswell Baily Rereard, issued by RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY. It lists offices, society editor and advertising rates, dated May 10, 1903, with Associated Press affiliation and copyright notes.
The passage analyzes high prices and prosperity, noting how wages, work, and living costs affect real benefits. It envisions a machine age with short hours, universal work, cheap necessities, and abundant leisure, while acknowledging divergent views on utopia and the gradual path to a brighter future.
A U S Biological Survey report shows 1 153 324 acres in New Mexico treated with poison grain in 1934 35 rodent control aiding stockmen by reducing predators. Estimated savings to landowners reach 620 155 60 dollars while predators tallied include coyotes bobcats wolves lions dogs and other animals. Administration totaled 26 716 63 dollars with 2115 coyotes 195 bobcats 4 lions 60 wild dogs and 1321 others accounted for. Mrs Henry Russell of Roswell New Mexico earns a Better Homes and Gardens Recipe Endorsement for Angel Food Cake with a signed certificate and six copies.
The piece surveys the forty-fifth annual reunion of United Confederate Veterans in Amarillo September 3 to 6, notes few veterans remain fit for travel, and mentions preparations, while also covering the first New Mexico American Legion convention in Carlsbad August 9 to 11 and broader veteran and relief policy debates. It also touches CCC age limits, New Mexico welfare, Elks picnic plans, crime probes in Lea County, Carlsbad Caverns attendance, Roswell socialist donations, and local agricultural and social security news.
A private party at Violet Elderbank’s home ends with her murder by chloroform and the theft of jewels. Suspects include guests June and Jimmy Kirkman, tenant Glenn Thurber, and others as investigators probe a twelve twenty one call from Thurber’s line and a staged blackout during Roger’s Zulu dance. Police use fingerprinting and interviews to build a case, with Thurber under intense scrutiny as the night unraveled.
The article discusses a shift toward a more educated and spiritually primed public, ready for broader social coercion. It notes recent heat waves in the West, with California and Arizona experiencing extreme temperatures and deaths in Yuma and Southern California, while New Mexico towns Roswell and Carlsbad offer contrasting beach access and fees at state sites like Bottomless Lakes.
The Santa Fe State Park deserves attention alongside Bottomless Lakes as Roosevelt county farmers report rehabilitation checks five months overdue and missing, hindering crop planting. Washington is blamed for the delay. Roswell plans a future American Legion junior baseball team to boost youth sport and potential district or national play opportunities.
Hundreds of workers start remodeling existing buildings for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition to open June 6 in Dallas with demolition of some State Fair structures and construction planned for the architectural group and a civic center area featuring an Art Museum Aquarium Sports Building and Natural History Building. The fair grounds will expand by condemning adjacent blocks and creating a cultural district as part of a statewide celebration. Several historic Texas shrines will host events through 1936 with dates listed for July.
Senate debates AAA amendments as lobby investigations seek more evidence on burning of anti utility bill telegrams. House takes up miscellaneous legislation while Rules Committee continues lobby oversight.
A lobby committee reopened hearings after yesterday’s defeat of a bid to remove price fixing from the AAA bill and tabled the resolution for adjournment on July 23.
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