Capitan Shooting Titsworth Victim of Range of Firing
Capitan residents report a noon shooting on Main Street in Capitan involving Wills Titsworth a prominent merchant. Bessie Hurt, sixteen, is charged with attempted murder after firing at Titsworth who with Hunter Hobbs and Tom Simmer faces first degree murder charges tied to Hurt’s earlier slaying near his northeast Capitan home.
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Wills Titsworth
Capitan
Captan
Bessie Hurt
Robert A. Hurt
Titsworth
Hunter Hobbs
Tom Simmer
Hurt
Hobbs
Simer
Titworth
Buck
S'mer
T.tsworth
Carrizozo
Frisco railroad denied control of I and GN
Washington May 19 The Interstate Commerce Commission refused authority for the Frisco Railroad to acquire control of the International and Great Northern by purchasing its capital stock deeming the acquisition not to be in the public interest.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commssion
Frisco Rairoad
International & Great Northern
Body of a Slain Girl Found Near Paterson Barn
The murdered body of Jesse Reikima, 20, was found beside a barn near her Paterson home. Teeth knocked out, believed strangled after failing to return from a movie. Police search for the slayer.
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Paterson
N. J
Jesse Reikima
Kentucky Derby Crowds At Historic Churchill Downs
Large crowds gathered at Churchill Downs for the forty-ninth Kentucky Derby in Louisville on May 19. Twenty four ponies entered the race with starts after four PM central time and no clear favorite emerged as the event drew what may be the longest attendance in Derby history.
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Louisville
Churchill Downs
Scholarships At New Mexico Military Institute
The New Mexico Military Institute will award scholarships for 1923-1924 for New Mexico students. Each scholarship covers tuition and expenses with a total value about $200 less than out of state students. Eligibility requires completion of eighth grade and NM residency. Applications due by August 1, addressed to the Director, Scholarship Board, Roswell NM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico Military Institute
New Mexico
State of New Mexico
U. S
Roswell
Powers Demand China Withdraw Troops
The United States and other powers will send a note to the Chinese government demanding that government troops surrounding the Shantung bandits be withdrawn. The announcement followed reports from the American legation in Pekin about foreign prisoners.
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Washington
United States
Shantung
State Department
Pekin
Clara Phillips Confesses to Hammer Murder in Honduras
In Honduras on May 19 a detained woman confessed to being Clara Phillips, the so called hammer murderess who escaped from Los Angeles jail last year. Detectives confirmed the identity as they arrived to question the prisoner, who once attacked anyone seeking her secret.
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Thgucigalpa
Honduras
Clara Philips
Los Angeles
Amattean
Alberta Meadows
Enemies of Obregon Start Reign of Terror
Mexico City May 19. The enemies of the Obregon government have begun a reign of terror to prevent a satisfactory solution to the recognition conference in session. In addition to three attacks since the first of the month, U S officials in Mexico City have received letters threatening their lives. Police are encamped around the apartments of the American envoys at night.
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Mexico City
Obregon
United States
Commencement Program At New Mexico Military Institute
The New Mexico Military Institute opens its commencement with a Sunday sermon by Dr. A. D. Crile in Lea Hall at 10 am, featuring Knox Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and Mozart Gloria. A 3:45 memorial for Col. Willson is limited to cadets, alumni, and officers. Medalists in rifle prizes announced at 4:45 parade. Monday offers a horse show, polo game, alumni luncheon, swimming, and a cadet review ending with the Final Ball. Graduation Tuesday at 10 am in the Mess Hall with diplomas by Gov. Hinkle and address by Judge C. L. Phillips. class lists 1928 cadets.
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New Mexico Military Institute
A. D. Crile
Lea Hall
Captain Burnham
Knox
Peace of Jerusalem
Gretchen Winterrowd
Parks
Winterrowd
Campbell
Burnham
Willson
Cadet Corps
Institute
Jason W. James
Anderson
Mallory
Langford
McCollum
Ford
Clarke
D. B
Smith
Bancroft
Whee'er
White
J. P
Prunty
Nix
James
Franklin
Gilkeson
H. P. Saunders, Jr
Alumni Association
Hinkle
Board of Regents
Mess Hall
J. F. Hinkle
C. L. Phillips
Santa Fe
Harry Dewey Blake Earl Sprague Bullock, Jr
Theo. Rodenbough Bullock
Durward Bellmont Clarke
Perry Davis
Robert Horace Erskine
Abe Goldsmith
Frederick Leslie Hardison
John Thomas Logan
John Arthur Nix
Dwight Horace H.starr
Joel Bryan Stratton
Hampton Tucker, Jr
George Winship Weega
Charles Sykes ‘Wise
Pumping Plants Ad by Roswell Pump Co
Roswell Pump Co advertises American Pumps as the best on earth. They claim lifetime expert service with 28 years in Pecos Valley. Also offer John Lucas paintin stock from 110 East 2nd Street, Roswell. Phone 154.
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Pecos Valley
John Luncas Paintain
Roswell Pump Co
2Nd St
Community Chorus Short Rehearsal After Sunday Chau Tauqua
A brief chorus rehearsal follows the Sunday Chau tauqua at the Armory. Performers gather for a quick practice session after the event.
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Armory
Largest class at local high school graduates in ceremony
The auditorium was full as eighty two graduates were honored with Governor James F. Hinkle delivering the commencement address. Superintendent D. N. Pope noted rapid growth in city schools from 75 to over 500 students. a list of graduates followed including Ethel Barnes, Pauline Baker, Laura Ballard and many others.
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James F. Hinkle
D. N. Pope
Uating
Roswell
Moneta Allison
Pauline Baker
Laura Ballard
Ethel Barnes Oneta Bassinez
Beck Bell
Bonnie Carl Bird
Frances Boellner
Naomi Blackson
Ray Burton
Naoma Camron Lena
Chaney
Ernest Chedester
Pearl Chedester Orlin Copeland
Dorothy Cookson
James L. Davis
Nadine Diefendorf
Kyle Dunlap
Ruby Ellis
Barbara Ernst Ernst Ernst
Robert Fall Norman Fer
Wayne Foreman
Mildred Foster
Ellen Goodart
Jim Goodart
Ace Grant
Otelia Heine
Florence Henderson
Florence Henning
Nina Hickman Judson Hill
Lillian Hinkle
Elmer Horton
Janich Huff
Donald Kester
Lila Kester Russel Kinney Findley Loganetta Long Ophelia Maples
Leta Maurer
Ona Marsh Addie Miller
Elizabeth Miller
Ruth Miller
John Minton
Lucille Mulroy
Erma McCord
Della Madgwell
Lillian McKinney
Naomi McNally
Walter ‘McPherson
Harold Nagel
Catherine Newell Elizabeth Nicholas
Geraldine Ogle
Vera Parks
Louise Phery Carl Peverly
Clara Phiniy
Josephine Rasmus
George Rector
Elizabeth Redfield
Lewis Reed Ottie Reeves
Viola Roberts
Ruth Shaw
Ethel Shepherd Hallam Shepard Madge
American Cole Tear Winner of Walker Trophy
America's amateur golf team rallied in the final round at St Andrew's to beat Britain and retain the Walker Trophy. After entering day two with a 2-1 deficit, the Americans won five singles and halved one to clinch the cup, the same result as last year at Southampton.
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ST. Andrew's
Southampton
Cleveland Put, WS Dead In One Big Grave
South Carolina May 19 in a village wash of reverence the community buries seventy six dead including forty one children from a schoolhouse fire Thursday night. One cemetery mound holds sixty six bodies. ten more are to be buried today in the same tragedy.
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Cleveland
South Carolina
Beaumont Prepares to Rebuild after Record Rain
Beaumont Texas May 19 with the death of a negro and two minor injuries reported the city prepared to clean up after five hundred thousand dollars in damage to city and business property from an 18.4 inch rainfall yesterday the heaviest in the city's history.
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Beaumont
Texas
Belief Bonar Law Will Resign Soon
London May 19 Premier Bonar Law is believed certain to resign by political experts and press. The illness is more critical than thought and he is returning from Paris this afternoon with a severe throat infection. He may step down before the end of July per best authorities.
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London
Bonar Law
Paris
Federal Cord Tires Stand Rough Roads Better
An Roswell ad touts Federal Cord tires with pure rubber tubes for longer service and air retention. Roswell Auto Company offers S. & H. Green Trading Stamps with purchases.
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Roswell Auto Company
Local names listed for social notices in Clyde era page
A readable fragment lists individuals Bessie Smith Clyde Thompson Lera Vickers Jim Webb Erma Welch Tom White Charlotte Witt Gladys Wyatt, indicating a community roster or social notices fragment from the page.
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Bessie Smith
Clyde Thompson
Lera Vickers
Jim Webberma Welch
Tom White
Charlotte Witt
Gladys Wyatt
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Frisco
G. W
Larce Crowd
Sidney M. Bedford
Dexter
East Grand Plans
Grand Plains
NAM. Institute
al Ass
Appli
Southwest
War Department
Len
Hagerman Barracks
China
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Brown
Chicago
Wisconsin
Ilino
Missouri
Culver
Ellicott
Infantry
Army
Eighth Corps Area
Fort Sam Houston
Secretary of War
Tinnie Mercy Hall
T’nnie
Tinnie Mere, Co
Clara. Phillips
C. C. Jarrell
South Methodist Hospital Board
Community Chorus
Jarrell
South Methodist Church
ROM R. HL
Tsanch
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