Oratorical Contest Fills Roswell Church to Capacity
The Southern M E church overflowed as the Higa oratorical contest drew a packed crowd in Roswell. Winners were Miss Clara Schabacker and Wille Williams for the girls and boys medals, with Dillard Wyatt winning the prize essay.
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M. E
Higa Hool
Clara Schabacker
Wille Williams
Dillard Wyatt
Dot Bell
Waener
Winnie Lee Quildll
Wao
Iss Irene Hill
Walter
Lincoln
Carie Kinsinger
Ida White
Hendrix Caldwell
Hehoes
Willie Illiams
Mark Twain
Nous
Tom Sawyer
Willie Williams
Tom
Charles Turner
New South
Harry Howard
Glass Gillespie
Curtis Hill
Curtis
Capua
Dixon Dysart
She Alazo
Baby Britt
Roswell
Year’s Accidents in Baseball Games Record
Chicago on May 10 reveals an accident tally drawn from daily papers showing numerous injuries and fatalities linked to baseball in a year. The list includes broken legs, crushed ankles, head injuries, and several deaths from balls, with several cases described as struck over the heart or by the head.
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Chicago
Home Plate
Movement Starts For Saturday Band Concerts
A subscription list circulated to fund Saturday night band concerts through the summer reports $35 pledged, monthly by subscribers. More money needed. list will stay active until the target is met. The M. W. A. band formerly Owl band will perform, with shows beginning Saturday night this week if instruments arrive. Concerts start within a week at the latest, aiming to draw crowds and boost trade.
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Owl Band
Jeffries Backset in Training at Ben Lomond
May 10 Ben Lomond reports Jeffries nursing a black eye from an unsatisfactory sparring session with Bob Armstrong yesterday. His lip was split as they exchanged blows, trainer blame the unusually hard road work in the morning for the stumble. In San Francisco Johnson shows promise in first workout. He plans light work first two weeks then increase to four sessions weekly to shed surplus weight before the fight.
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Ben Lomond
Jeffries
Bob Armstrong
Johnson
San Francisco
Jack Johnson
Wool Market Report from St Louis May 10
The Wool Market in St Louis shows higher prices. Territory and western wools. fine medians at 18 to 22. fine wools range 11 to 16. median prices around 20 to 23 in some categories.
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St. Louis, Mo
Elks Lodge Meeting Notice Roswell 969 BPOE
Regular meeting of Roswell Lodge No 969 B P O Elks is Tuesday night May 10 with lodge opening promptly at 7 30 Ballot and business of importance read by Fred C Hunt E R
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ELKS
Roswell Lodge
B. P. O. Elks
Fred C. Hunt
E. R
Federal ruling upholds bleached flour seizure question
Des Moines May 10 Judge Smith McPherson dismissed the Shawnee Milling and Updike Milling complaint seeking to bar seizure of bleached flour shipped into Iowa. The court upheld the federal ruling on bleached flour and left open whether the Alsop bleaching process is injurious, to be decided by a jury. The decision analyzes Congress power to enact a national pure food act and commerce among states.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Smith McPherson
Shawnee Milling Company
Kansas
Updike Milling Company of
Omaha
Western Milling Company
United States District Attorney
Temple
Alsop
Congress
United States
Mix-up in Meeting Teddy Embarrasses the Germans
Berlin May 10 The Roosevelts arriving from Stockholm stay as guests at the American embassy. A diplomatic mix-up caused Ambassador Hill to be late and royal carriages to arrive late, angering foreign office officials. Theodore Roosevelt seeks a throat specialist as one of his first engagements.
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Berlin
Germany
Roosevelts
Stockholm
Ambassador Hill
Foreign Office
Emperor William
Edward
Herr von Schoen
Mr. Roosevelt
Mystery as Denver Woman Found Strangled in Trunk
Police probe the records of Mrs Katherine Wilson Ridgway Wilson and her former husband John T Higgins to solve the murder of Mrs Wilson. Her body was stuffed in a basement trunk as the couple prepared to move. A Japanese helper linked to the scene is missing.
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Denver
Colo
Katherine Wilson
Ridgway Wilson
Taft railroad bill passes in the House
Washington May 10 The House approved the administration railroad bill by a 200 to 126 vote. An amendment by Mann of Illinois to let railroads acquire non competing lines failed 169 to 160. The House also adopted resolutions asking the War Department for details on Mindoro land buyers linked to the Mindoro Development Company and alleged backing by the American Sugar Refining Co.
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Washington
House
Mann
Illinois
War Department
Mindoro
Martin
Colorado
American Sugar Refining Co
Old Stetsons Made New at Lindner’s Practical Hatter
A. E. Lindner’s Practical Hatter advertises hat repairs and reshaping services next to Grand Central Hotel. It promises quality workmanship restoring old Stetsons to their original shape and fit.
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A. E. Lindner’s
Practical Hatter
Grand Central Hotel
Gilkeson to Rebuild Hotel in Roswell Vast Upgrade Planned
James E. Gilkeson has purchased The Gilkeson Hotel in Roswell for 20000 dollars from L. C. Walker of Los Angeles. Plans call for a two story cement brick H shaped expansion with a west wing, 41 by 60 feet, and a 48 foot crossbar creating more lobby space and 20 additional sleeping rooms. Modern amenities include telephone service, private baths, steam heat, a basement for coal, and modern sample rooms. Groundwork expected to start in about 30 days with plans drawn by J. W. Bates, former Colorado architect.
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James E. Gilkeson
L. C. Walker
Los Angeles
Calif
Third Street
Richardson Avenue
Gilkeson
Elk Tempe
Roswell
Fred Tharvey
J. W. Bates
Colorado
J. M. Nelson
Oklahoma
Miss May Rogers Dies at 24 in Lincoln Mission
Miss May Rogers, 24, daughter of Mrs. T. H. Rogers of Lincoln New Mexico, and sister of R. R. and W. A. Rogers, died at St Marys Hospital Monday night from meningitis. She had recently begun plans to go to Roswell.
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May Rogers
T. H. Rogers
Lincoln
N. M
R. R
W. A. Rogers
St. Mary’s Hospital
Roswell
Funeral service for pneumonia and meningitis victim held
After recovering from pneumonia she contracted meningitis and died. The funeral was held this afternoon at four from Henninger parlors with Rev. A B Currie in charge. Burial will take place at South Side cemetery.
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Henninger
Rev
A. B. Currie
South Side Cemetery
Police Chiefs Meet at Birmingham Convention
Heads of police departments from cities across the United States and Canada gather in Birmingham for the seventeenth annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Discussions will cover criminal apprehension and treatment.
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Birmingham
Ala
United States
Canada
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Local residents arrive for business in region
H A Porter of Artesia and E R Read of Texico arrived today on business. H Ronan and T C Armstrong of San Marcial NM are here for business affairs. John H Hicks, a cattle buyer from Santa Rosa, stayed briefly before leaving by auto to Vaughn en route home.
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H. A. Porter
Artesia
H. Ronan
T. C. Armstrong
San Marcial, N. M
John H. Hicks
Santa Rosa
Vaughn
Ballinger Appointment Tied to Morgan Guggenheim Interests
In the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry attorney Brandeis named Senator Pyles of Washington as the link by which Morgan Guggenheim interests allegedly influenced Ballinger's appointment as land office commissioner. The committee voted to block naming the senator, but Brandeis proceeded with a newspaper account of Senator Pyles' celebration.
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Washington
Ballinger
Morgan-Guggenheim
Brandeis
Senator Pyles
Ballinger-Pinchot
Land Office
Sutherland
Pyles
Bargains Offer Close-In Cottage and Farm Four Miles South
Parson s Lawrence Fire Insurance Real Estate Loans Accountants Notary agents offer two bargains: a modern cottage near Central School and a well improved farm four miles south of the city at a sacrifice. Phone 65 Kansas City Life 215 North Main St.
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Parsons & Lawrence
Fraternal conventions open across states May 10
Maine Knights of Columbus hold annual state council session in Biddeford. Niagara Falls hosts fifteenth New York state Knights of Columbus convention with three day sessions. Connecticut Knights select delegates for Quebec national convention in August. In Erie grand circle of the Protected Home Circle meets with supreme officers. New Jersey Foresters gather in Passaic from several states. Alabama Odd Fellows open convention in Birmingham. Cullman widows and orphans home site dedicated. Colorado Springs hosts Junior Order United American Mechanics state convention with banquet planned. Missouri Grand Army of the Republic encampment opens in Warrensburg for a three day reunion. Temple Fox Texas fire convention and tournament features races among Texas city crews.
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Biddeforad
Maine State Council
Knights of Columbus
Niagara Falls
St. Mary’s
New York State
New Brittan
Erie
Grand Circle
Passiac
N. J
New Jersey Foresters
Order
Birmingham
Ala
Odd Fellows of
Alabama
Cullman
Colorado Springs
Col
United American Mechanics
Warrensburg
Missouri
Grand Army of the Republic
Temple
Fox
Texas Fire
Nore
Texas
Hyde denies poisoning Swope family in trial
Kansas City, May 10. Dr. B. C. Hyde firmly denied poisoning any Swope family member or others. He testified he bought cyanide capsules only to kill insects and disinfect towels and hands. He claimed some cyanide disappeared when Dr. E. L. Stewart took germs from his office and that germ experimentation was planned as early as August 1908.
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Kansas City, Mo
Swope
B. C. Hyde
Hyde
Dull Wool Market Sees Oregon Prices and Large Supplies
Boston May 10 Interest in Oregon staple holds the local wool market as other lines stay dull. Heavy Oregon wool at 63 cents scour ed is reported with about two and a half million pounds awaiting buyers. Unwashed Ohio Velaines at 26 cents and quarter blood at 29 cents move slowly while clothing wools show occasional activity. Territorial clothing in the grease sales noted. Shearing progresses across the west. no eastern buyers in the middle west. Pulled wool remains dull and foreign product demand is limited.
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Boston
Oregon
Ohio
Middle West
Third Arbitrator Appointed in Railroad Dispute
Washington May 30 Judge William Lea Chambers of this city was named as the third arbitrator in the dispute between forty nine railroads operating west of Chicago and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
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Washington
William Lea Chambers
Fortynine
Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Twelve Inspectors Suspended Over Sugar Frauds
New York May 10 The Collect or s Loeb continues tight control of the customs service announcing twelve additional suspensions from the sugar weighing division. Nine suspended inspectors previously weighed imports of sugar figs and cheese causing excitement among about four hundred workers as investigations widen across port authorities with more suspensions anticipated.
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New York
Loeb
Customs’ Service
Kansas City Stock Market Report May 10 1920
Cattle receipts 800 including 300 southern. market steady to strong. Native steers 6.25 to 6.40. southern steers 5.00 to 7.65. southern cows 3.50 to 6.0. native cows 3.50 to 7.60. stockers 4.00 to 6.10. bulls 4.25 to 6.25. calves 3.75 to 8.50. western cattle 5.75 to 7.75. western cows 4.00 to 6.50. Hog receipts 19,000. market 10 to 15 cents higher. Bulk 9.25 to 9.45. heavy 9.49 to 9.50. packers and butchers 4.20 to 9.45. light 9.10 to 9.40. pigs 8.50 to 8.90. Sheep receipts 7,000. market steady. Muttons 5.50 to 7.75. lambs 7.25 to 9.25. fed western yearlings and ewes 6.00 to 7.25.
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Kansas City
Roswell Weather Summary May 10 Local Report
U S Weather Bureau notes for Roswell New Mexico at 6 00 am May 10 with mean temperature 73 degrees maximum 32 minimum 54 cloudiness and 7 mph southeast wind 0. Precipitation is 0. Compared with last year this date high 78 low 40. Records show extreme max 52 min 40 set in 1901 and 1909. Forecast calls for partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Roswell
N. M
Viax
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Seattle
Charley Sweeney
Sweeney
Federal Smelting Company
Guggenheim Syndicate
Cunningham
Miss May Rogers
Finley Rubber CO
Goodrich and Fisk Tires
E. R. Read
Texico
Morgan
Kansas City Life
North Main St
DR. Hyde
Baltimore
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