Glidden Tour Contenders Reach Louisville Ahead
James W Stockard and Charley Sharp known as Roaring Bill and Alkali Skeey piloted an Ohio Car into Louisville 160 miles ahead of schedule. The Glidden Tour kicks off from Cincinnati with a 2500 mile route through Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas Texas Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska Iowa Illinois.
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James W. Stockard
Charley Sharp
Louisville
P. D. Arthur
Ohio Motor Car Company
Jimmie
Charley
Roaring Bill
Ohio
Louville
Cincinnati
American Automobile Association
Chicago
Kentucky
Tennese
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Blue Grass
Jtonisville
Nashville
Sheffield
Memphis
Meemphis
Little Rock
Texarkana
Daillas
Dallas
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Wichita
Kansas City
Omaha
Des Moines
Davenport
Chicago Motor Club
Kansas City Live Stock Market Report June 15 1920
Cattle receipts 8000 steady to 10 cents higher. Native and southern cattle bid ranges from 3.50 to 7.75 with various classes listed. Western cattle show a wide spread up to 7.75. Hog receipts 11000 up about ten cents. bulk sold 9.40 to 9.55 with heavy and light classifications. Sheep receipts 7900 lower 15 to 16 cents. muttons 4.50 to 5.00 and fed stock 4.75 to 7.50 with western ewes 4.50 to 5.50.
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Kansas City
Aviator's bold Topeka to Kansas City flight fails thrice
Topeka July 15 reports aviator J. C. Mars started at 9 14 AM aiming from Topeka to Kansas City. Treacherous winds and a defective engine forced three forced landings near Grantsville six miles out Newman fourteen miles away and Midland. He planned to reattempt but continued weather snarled progress.
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Mars
Lawrence
Kan
Midland
Topeka
J. C. Mars
Kansas City
Grantsville
Newman
Wireless Peoples Accused of Misusing the Mails
New York June 15 President Wilson and Vice President Bogart of the United Wireless Telegraph Company were taken into custody by U S Marshal at the company offices and brought before a United States commissioner to answer to charges of misuse of the mails. The charges were not disclosed earlier. United Wireless is incorporated for twenty million dollars.
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Wireless
New York
Wilson
Bogart
United Wireless Telegraph Company
U. S
United States
United Wireless
The Charlton Mystery Still Baffles Police
At Lake Como Italy on June 15 police seek the identity of the person or persons who beat Mrs Charlton and suffocated her in a trunk. A man believed to be her husband was spotted in Lucerne, while lake searches resume for Charlton’s body. Russian acquaintance Constantin Ispolanoff was again interrogated by the examining judge and treated officials with levity.
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Charlton
Como
Italy
Lake Como
Scott Castle Charlton
Lucerne
Have Your Title Examined Now for a Certificate
Rooswell Title and Trust Company offers title examination services to determine if your title is clear. Obtain a certificate indicating ownership status and any encumbrances.
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Rooswell Title & Trust Company
Secretary Dickinson Attends West Point Commencement
West Point N Y June 15 Secretary of war Dickinson participated in the commencement day exercises at the U S Military Academy presenting second lieutenant commissions to eighty two graduates.
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West Point
N. Y
U. S. Military Academy
Wir Dickinson
Lietenant
President Taft Heads to Diamond Jubilee at Marietta
President Taft arrives in Marietta Ohio to attend the diamond jubilee celebration marking 75 years of Marietta College. An official reception greets him as two thousand children with flags and flowers line his path and the national guard escorts the president to W W Miller's home amid Blossom showers.
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Taft
Marietta
Ohio
Marietta College
W. W. Miller
National Guard
Roswell Schedule for Lake Arthur Baseball Trip
Roswell hosts Lake Arthur this Friday and Saturday then Clovis in Roswell Wednesday through Friday next week. Albuquerque games set for June 25 to 27 in Albuquerque and Belen games in Roswell on June 30 with Roswell arranging games on July 4.
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Lake Arthur
Roswell
Clovis
Albuquerque
Belen
Railroads Form Southwest Traffic Interchange Deal
Chicago June 15 Frisco Railroad announced a traffic agreement for interchange of freight and passenger business between the Frisco and the Houston & Texas Central with the Southern Pacific lines in Texas The pact effective today will close the gap in the Frisco line to the Southwest left by the Friscon separation from the Rock Island It will also give the Frisco a through line eventually to the City of Mexico via connections with the National Railways of Mexico.
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Chicago
The
Frisco Railroad
Frisco
Houston & Texas Central
Southern Pacific
Texas
Friscon
Rock Island
City of Mexico
National Railways of Mexico
Maine
Augusta
Govermor
United States Senate
Obadiah Gairdner
Col
Frederick W. Plaisted
Fred Emery Beane
Democratic State Committee
Two Austrians Die in Niagara Falls Fire
Two Austrian laborers, identified only by check numbers, were burned to death in a shack at Falls View near Niagara Falls Ontario last night. They worked for Potter Development Works.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Falls View
Potter Development
Senators Say Statehood Bill This Session
Washington reports Senate leaders say passage of the statehood bill is assured but not until action on the conference report on the postal savings bank bill. A $20 million indebtedness certificate rider for reclamation projects was adopted on the administration land withdrawal bill with three senators voting no.
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Washington
Senate
Postal Savings Bank
Burton
Gallinger
Kean
Hecuse Rules’ Committee
Floods Across Europe Cause Wide Havoc and Losses
Reports from Belgrade Brussels Berne Cologne and Munich detail floods after heavy rains. Thirty five lives lost in Morava valley towns Chupria Jagodina and Svilamatz inundated. Oberammergau cut off with 600 visitors including 209 Americans. High Alpine snows promise more floods.
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Belgrade
Servia
Morava
Chupria
Jagodina
Svilamatz
Peter
Belgium
Brussels
Found Dead Riding on Pilot of Locomotive
In Akron Ohio on June 15 Charles M Webb a 35 year old farmer from near Clinton was found seated on the locomotive pilot still holding a sack of flour. It is believed he was struck by the engine as he walked the track and hurled onto the pilot.
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Akron
Ohio
Chas. M. Webb
Clinton
Night and Day Bank to reduce hours in New York
The Night and Day Bank on Fifth Avenue will end after midnight and open each morning at nine, shifting from twenty four hour service to a nine to midnight schedule. Directors cite negligible post midnight demand since 1906 founding, with Sundays and legal holidays still closed. The safe deposit company will follow the same hours.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Safe Deposit Company
P N Smith of Denver Offers Chairs and Furniture for Sale
P N Smith of Denver is in town selling school church and opera house chairs and other furniture pieces to the public.
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P. N. Smith
Denver
Man stabbed to death in Eddy County dispute
A man named Hamilton was stabbed to death with a pocket knife on Monday afternoon June 18 near Roberts post office in Eddy County. FE. House, who held an adjoining claim, is being brought to Carlsbad on suspicion of the killing. The two men reportedly quarreled over land. House has a family. Further details are lacking.
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Carlsbad
Hamilton
House
Roberts Post Office
Eddy County
Texas Line
WANTE To rent a buggy for two weeks inquiry
A note reads WANTE To rent a buggy for two weeks light use and good care. From 11 Record Office 8812 suggesting a rental inquiry and contact reference.
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Record Office
MISS NELSON AND MR ARTLEY TO MARRY SOON
Eva Nelson announced her engagement to Will Harmon Artley at a porch party in Roswell New Mexico. The couple will wed at 730 pm at the Nelson home then set up house in a Washington avenue bungalow. Friends spoke warmly of both families and the match.
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Eva Nelson
Will Harmon Artley
J. M. Nelson
North Main Street
Washington Avenue
Wiss Nelson
Roswell
Artley
Sterling Worth
Cooper & Artley
Nelson
Ruth Sarader
Roscoe Nisbet
Rooms also for light housekeeping in Sandy Mo
Rooms available at S. S. Inn 8316, with light housekeeping option. Clean, comfortable accommodations in Sandy, Missouri.
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Sandy
S. S. Inn
Telephone service alert on switchboard upgrade
Subscribers are informed that service is below standard due to installation of a new central energy switchboard. Impairment will last about six weeks, after which improved service with modern equipment is expected. The company thanks customers for patience and courtesy during the upgrade. Roswell Telephone & Mfg. Co.
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Roswell
Injury to S P Denning from flying glass eye blow
S P Denning sustained an injury to his left eye yesterday after being struck by flying glass. Doctors expect no permanent damage as the wound was bound up temporarily.
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S. P. Denning
Mulberry Business Visitor in City
A. F. Fletcher of Mulberry Florida arrives in the city as a business visitor to conduct meetings and inspect local operations.
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Mulberry, Fla
No Fight in California for Jeffries Johnson Title
San Francisco June 15 Governor Gillette ordered Attorney General Webb to stop the Jeffries Johnson heavyweight title fight in California. Webb said he would act at once and move the bout elsewhere if the governor maintains the ban. Tex Rickard indicated Salt Lake Reno and Ely Nevada as alternatives. Jack Gleason supported the plan.
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San Francisco
Jeffries
Johnson
California
James Gillett
Associated Press
U. S. Webb
Gillette
Webb
Gellett
Jeffries-Johnson
Salt Lake
Reno
Ely
Nevada
Tex Rickard
Jack Gleason
Ground cleared for addition to Citizens National Bank
Workmen clear rear ground at Citizens National Bank for a 70 by 25 foot addition that will nearly double the building’s size. The project, led by S. P. Denning, aims for completion by Christmas at an estimated cost of 25,000 dollars. The new structure will feature modern vaults, cement tiled floors, electric wiring, steam heating, and improved cashier and president rooms, with the second floor rented and most of the first floor used by the bank. The extension expands the building east to within fifteen feet of Alex Akin’s stone structure.
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Citizens National Bank
S. P. Denning
Fourth Street
Bank
Alex Akin
Roswell Roswell Weather Summary for June 15
Local weather report shows 6:00 a.m. observation in Roswell New Mexico with temperature high 87 and low 63, mean 75, no precipitation, wind SE at 1, sky clear. Compared to last year’s June 15, high 85 low 59, and 16 year extremes listed. forecast calls for partly cloudy tonight with possible showers and fair Thursday.
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U. 8S
Weather Bureau
Roswell
M. M
Imax
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Cne
J. C. Strang
Dickinson
Southwest
Niagara, Ont
Senator Lodge
Moody
Supreme Court
Switzerland
Berne
Altorf
Cologne
Germany
Ahr
Oberammergau
Munich
Bavaria
Obe
Ing
Oregon
George F. Chamberlain
Penna
Allentown
C. Larue Munson
Williamsport
William H. Berry
Chester
Webster Grim
Doylestown
Munson
Miss Nelson
MR. Artley
Finley Rubber CO
Goodrich and Fisk Tires
Bank House
U. S. Market
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