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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1933
Page
7
The article notes the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to the republication of news dispatches credited to it or not credited in this paper along with the social news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved by the AP.
June marks the warmest month in eastern New Mexico and western Texas as schools close for vacation. Roswell families flock to nearby mountains such as the Capitan country and White Mountains aiming for higher points like Old Baldy. Car traffic to Carlsbad Cavern and the Pacific coast rises, with roads improving annually and the New Mexico oil road hailed as a tourist asset.
Nation's Business author David J. Guy compares Muscle Shoals to the Old Hickory plant near Nashville. He notes Old Hickory operated privately for nine years, employing about 3,500 workers with taxes around 65,000 annually, while Muscle Shoals produced little, hired few workers, and cost millions in interest and upkeep.
Bart Burgess, stranded with friend Ingy on Peconic Bay, returns home to Wyattville to care for his mother after his father Trevor Burgess dies. A written confession reveals a hidden family past and Folly Island deed tied to a masked marriage and split loyalties, forcing Bart to confront a web of secrets and duty.
A satirical list targets figures and phenomena to forget after Memorial Day. It notes Warden Prather of the Kansas penitentiary was kidnapped by escaping convicts. he was to retire that day and has yet to be heard from. The piece closes with a health warning about retiring late harming nerves.
A poem printed yesterday by a contributor signed only R B spurs speculation that R B Gaines the contractor may be the author. The note asks Gaines to reveal if he is the mystery poet, urging a guilty or not guilty stance.
R. B. Gaines of Roswell, operating a filling station on the Ruidoso, was in town yesterday on business.
Readers sample a bustling Washington afternoon featuring a Chevy Chase garden tour open to the public and a stop at the Folger Shakespeare Memorial. The piece notes rhododendron buds, dogwood, wild crabapple blooms, and a heated exchange over Shakespeare relics, plus ROTC cadets and summer camp attendees including Myron Allen and Jim Baird among others.
A brief lines column by R HL titled A Line O Type or Two. The piece references drinking various beverages including three point two beer and other drinks as urban club fodder. The material presents light humor and observational tone without a clear narrative event.
Seventeen student cadets from the State College ROTC unit will depart Las Cruces New Mexico this week to report for the annual summer encampment in San Antonio Texas.
The Rev Roy L Smith presents compact sermons urging discernment between majority and right, and between minority and defeat. It frames trouble as potential hope, doubt as thinking power, fear as aid, love as life enlarger, and despair as blindness to life’s halves.
A historic broadside opens with a Prohibition era pledge, then prints a foreclosure notice from the District Court of Chaves County New Mexico. It details the 1933 sale of multiple parcels in Roswell, including descriptions of land in Sections 27 and 30 and various city lots. The Special Master will auction the property at 10:00 A M on June 12 1933 for cash to satisfy plaintiff claims with listed fees and taxes.
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