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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
3
The Paige Coupe is praised for beauty and luxurious comfort with five passenger roominess. It emphasizes practicality for year-round service in any season and weather. Paige Enclosed Cars are described as among America's finest motor carriages. prospective buyers are urged to visit dealer showrooms for demonstrations before buying a 1920 motor car.
M. S. M. Johnson of Ruidoso accepts the position of executive secretary of the Lee Highway Association. The assignment links New York to New Orleans and other western routes through Roswell area. Johnson is praised for long service to national highway promotion.
May 5 opens the American Lesson carnival with a major baseball game at the new East Second Street ball park between Joyce Pruit Company and Gross Miller. Merchants close at 2 pm. fireworks, balloons, and a 2:30 pm pregame display complement the event. Admission funds go to the American Legion building fund.
The government asks the supreme court for a rehearing of the United States Steel Corporation antitrust suit decided against the government. The move renews efforts to dissolve the company and rule it a restraint of trade.
Minneapolis reports flour prices reached 15.30 a carload, the year's high, as milling authorities note a looming relief from the car shortage that has held up grain movements. Grain dealers anticipate moving millions of bushels once elevators release capacity.
In Pontiac on April 29 Anson Best disavows the confession where he admitted choking Vera Schneider to death. He says he never saw the girl until authorities showed him her body and frightened him into confessing. He will be tried for murder and plans to prove his innocence.
Judge Granville A Richardson chaired a meeting last night to appoint a planning committee for the June 3 state Democratic convention. John W Rhea will chair subcommittees. members include J D Atewood M H Ward J H McCain D P Greiner R L Bradley Tomlinson Fort and Guy Herbert. Richardson will oversee venue and housing, with the Chamber of Commerce handling visitor housing and entertainment.
Tickets for a boxing match between John Connolly of this city and Mike Baca of Santa Fe go on sale Monday morning at the Smoke House. The fight, at the Armory on Friday in May, is staged by the American Legion as a major attraction for the May Legion carnival.
New York April 30 Deadlocked after two months negotiations the sub scale committee of the anthracite miners and operators left today to resume sessions in Washington with Secretary of Labor Wilson participating They are meeting at his telegraphed request to prevent an open break.
For sale two pumping engines, one 15 HP and one 17 HP. Either may be sold. Also a 4000 storage tank. Phone 1001. 1383.
The Weekly Star is discontinued and its high week news will appear in The Record Saturday. Subscriptions transfer to The Record, enlarging the audience for advertisers and The Record’s advertising contracts will be honored.
Vera Schneider, a 19 year old telephone operator, was found strangled on the porch of an abandoned house in Pontiac. Allen Best, 24, allegedly told Prosecutor Gillespie that she asked him to kill her. He described tying a makeshift noose and slipping it around her head before leaving.
Austin April 29 Increased Texas Rangers along the Rio Grande due to Mexican bandit activity and political unrest. Units will be stationed along the border to curb incursions and protect border communities.
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