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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1939
Page
2
New York sports column satirically mocks college football hype as it chronicles a week of dramatic rumors mockingly titled Husky Brutes Are Called Weaklings. It parodies coverage of Varsity and Poly game prep with fictional names and exaggerated anecdotes.
A report on Mora county dedication of the new courthouse touches on a paved Las Vegas to Taos road, potential politics around Governor Miles and Clyde Tingley, and calls for better Roswell library funding amid broader state constitutional critique and regional development.
A short anecdote centers on three travelers stuck by a stalled car. The optimist, pessimist, and third man each respond differently until the third man fixes the car and then drives it away, revealing his name as Peptimist.
Dr. B W Haines an 83 year old dentist from San Rafael California is named in a $200000 lawsuit filed by Captain James W Willey. Willey alleges Haines alienated the affections of Mrs Willey and caused her to divorce him.
A notice thanks Miss Caroline Eston of Kansas City and reminds that the annual Red Cross Roll Call starts November 11. It states that all money raised will be used first to aid current combatants and civilian populations in Europe.
The list highlights Mt Capulin as the most perfect volcano, Carlibal Caverns as top underground wonder, White Sands as the largest gypsum deposit, Bottomless Roswell as the deepest land area in the Rockies, Carrizozo hosting the youngest lava flow, two ice caves at Grants and Johnson Mesa, Cimarron Palisades with the highest basaltic columns, Lea County housing the thickest rock salt vein, Santa Rosa with the best rock asphalt in the west, Cottonwood Lake Arthur area with a sulfur deposit, and Folsom cited as the oldest tomb in the United States.
BELLEFONTE Pa Oct 23 A mild mannered electrical engineer begins his duties as Pennsylvania's executioner and quickly puts three murderers to death in Rockview prison's electric chair. Frank Lee Wilson 37 earned 450 for Ferry and 100 extra for Redman and Bailey with a projected 700 more for two more executions. He was picked by Warden Stanley P Ashe after Elliott's death. Ashe praised the job as Wilson supervised the deaths.
Puzzle rundown lists clues for across and down entries with numbered hints. Includes themes such as barrel wool coats suffix forms and various geographic and descriptive terms. Mentions distributions by King Features Syndicate and includes an answer grid with partial, garbled letters from OCR.
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