Wool Industry Boost Signals Regional Recovery
Roswell piano of optimism centers on wool growers and local merchants as 1934 wool prices rise to about 20 cents per pound, yielding roughly $800,000 for 4 million pounds and another potential $800,000 in coming season. Home Owners Loan Corporation aids 82 local homeowners, including 59 in Roswell, with $174,965.76 loaned and $10,000 cash in repairs, boosting tax receipts and employment. Recovery appears established across the Pecos Valley.
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Home Owners Loan Corporation
New Mexico
Clark Baker
Bond- Baker Co
Uncle Sam
Washington
J. D. Herron, Jr
Roswell
Insurance man Sam Franklin leads Pecos Valley growth
Sam Franklin, Roswell district manager for Mutual Benefit Health and Accident, has built a large local agency with about 500 policies in the Pecos valley. The firm, backed by United Benefit Life, operates from 213 White Building with Hazel Franklin as secretary, serving southwestern New Mexico from Roswell.
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Sam Franklin
Pecos Valley
Mutual Benefit Company
Mutual Rbenefit Health and Accident Company of
Omaha
Franklin
Roswell
the Mutual
United Benefit Life Insurance Company
White Building
Albuquerque
Hazel Franklin
Tucson
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma roadhouse gunfight may involve Clyde Barrow
Oklahoma and Arkansas lawmen investigated a late midnight roadhouse shooting near the Oklahoma line where a man was killed. A woman identified as Marie Fields, 25, was being questioned. The proprietor Bill Harper said he held guests for about three hours before firing, and a man named H. A. Williams of Dallas claimed to be a friend’s wife Trew. A .45 pistol and about 50 rounds were taken, with $200 to $400 in the dead man’s billfold. The deceased was about 25 or 26. the woman and other details point to a potentially high profile outlaw case.
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Fortmith
Arn
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Clyde Barrow
Marie Fields
Quest
Bill Harper
Or'rhoma
Namce
H. A. ‘Willam
Dallas
Trew
Dispersado
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Allesia
Lovington
Capitan
Clovis
The
Roswell Daily Record
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L. O. Holloman
H. H. Barnard
Adv
Carthaze, Mo
Old Mission
Norman Brighton
Boston
America
Merton Millen
New York
Millen
Needham
Mass
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Associated Press
Jimmie Manager
Carrizozo
Express
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Carrizozo Pho
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