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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
4
London October 20 Dr Hawley Crippen to testify in his murder case to recount the disappearance of his wife Belle Elmore. Prosecutors rely on medical witnesses who insist the scar is evidence of an operation. defense argues the body may not be hers.
Sixty ninety acres of splendid level irrigated land under Hondo Reservoir with water rights. Partly fenced and under cultivation. Interested agents in Roswell may state price. contact L. H. Hallam Brownsville Texas. 76timo. d-w.
The Armory Opera House launches the FalI and Winter season starting Monday October 24 with a two night run and Tuesday matinee. Featured is comedian Albert Taylor and his company including Nell Paul in the opening play Mr Not Good Wins Greatest Success, a delightful production.
A society comedy billed as the season's real dramatic event with prices 25 50 and 75cc. Tickets on sale at Pecos Valley Drug Store Friday morning at 9 a.m. A bargain matinee Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. features He Fell in Love with His Wife. 12
Six contestants in the International Balloon Race are known to have landed two in Wisconsin one in Michigan and three in Canada. Four others are missing with no reports yet. Balloons Helvitia Azurea Busseldorf Sr and America Sr have not been heard from after more than sixty hours away from St Louis.
Record Want Ads note cattle receipts of 7 000 with steers at 5.25 to 8.30 and cows 2.75 to 4.25. Hog receipts 8 000 with prices 8.70 to 9.20. Sheep receipts 8 000 with muttons 3.50 to 4.50 and lambs 5.50 to 6.75. market steady overall.
The Royal Arch Chapter of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Mexico met in Roswell with morning business and afternoon officer installations. Current appointees include J. C. Slack as Grand High Priest and Solomon Spitz as Deputy, among others. The Knights Templar parade is planned for 9:30 tomorrow as escort to the Grand Commandery.
James Elbert Weir and Miss Mary Bernard Danson, from Monument Eddy county, married at 10 50 this morning by Elder Co C Hill in his First National Bank building office. Witness Walter Pendleton of Carlsbad. After the ceremony the couple planned to return to Monument and are guests at the Grand Central hotel.
A brief notice highlights the Record Job Office as offering premium printing services with emphasis on quality and speed for local customers. It showcases the shop as a go to source for newspapers and promotional material.
The French trans Atlantic steamer Louis iana from Havre to Havana and New Orleans is ashore on Sombrero Reef thirty miles east of Key West. About half of her 547 passengers are ashore with others believed safe. The steamer struck in the hurricane. The American schooner Edward T Stotesbury is a total loss on Pigeon Key with one man drowned. The Spanish schooner Marta from Havana is dismasted and abandoned.
A morning blaze at the Chicago and Alton freight house on the riverfront spread to adjacent structures causing an estimated half a million dollars in damage. Ten oil tanks ignited and exploded, threatening the Baltimore and Ohio warehouse and a nearby hotel and row of houses with total destruction. no fatalities reported.
The Woman's Club met in Roswell amid bad weather and strong attendance. Mrs. Veal led an English History program while a Sunday Carnegie Library open plan and a $190 budget for periodicals were approved. Civic plans for “Roswell Beautiful” next year moved ahead with block committees and Civic Department support.
Thomas G. Eckert, former president of the Western Union Telegraph Co., died today at West End Long Branch after a long illness. He was a prominent figure in early American telegraphy and served as president during the company’s formative years.
Dr and Mrs C G Duncan of So corro are in the city for a few days visit.
New York press reports bids will be opened by the Public Service Commission for a 125 million tri borough subway system with contracts to be awarded soon. Tubes could be finished in three to five years as city transit capacity remains strained and peak hour crowds battle to board and exit.
Two subway contracts were outlined one allowing private capital to bid for equipment operation and maintenance and construction the other using City money. Bids for the city funded plan will be opened next week. The proposed route would serve Manhattan densely populated areas and extend to the Bronx Brooklyn and Coney Island beyond existing lines.
Denver Oct 20 The will of Rufus Clark known as Potato Clark was admitted to probate yesterday leaving the U S Government a legacy of 3500 dollars. The will asserts that in 1863 Clark knowingly defrauded the government of that sum.
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