Madden accuses war surplus sellers of huge profits
Representative Madden of Illinois charged that favorites of War Department officials reap 100 to 500 percent profits from resale of surplus army supplies. Democrats pressed to name guilty parties as the Military Affairs Committee chair announced the matter would go to a special committee on war expenditures. The debate closed after the House passed a 377.25 million military budget for the next fiscal year.
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House
Representative Madden
Illinois
Republican Legislative Steering Committee
War Department
Kahn
Military Affairs Committee
Madden
Representaive Fields
Kentucky
Departent of
Justice
New Mexican views on Mexico's new regime and U S policy
The El Paso Times notes a cautious optimism about Mexico's post revolution leadership. Obregon declines provisional rule, Huerta avoids U S friction, Chihuahua's Rodriguez pledges fair treatment for American investors, and Villa is rejected by rebel leaders as a bandit. An American policy stance and investor protection are seen as key to peace and prosperity.
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Mexico
United States
el Paso Times
Rio Grande
Obregon
Armas
de la Huerta
Revolutionista
United State
Abel
Huerta
Diag
Carrangen
America
Carranza
Carranzi
Obrezon
Washington
Val
Chihuahua
Villa
Columbus
New Mexico Extension Leader WT Conway Retires after Nine Years
WT Conway leaves the New Mexico extension service after nine years of service at the state college. A pioneer in extension work, he came in August 1911 and served as superintendent of extension and assistant in agronomy through 1914. He helped launch two demonstration trains, start the College Courier, organize boys and girls clubs, host the first state club exhibit, and lead club work since 1914. He plans to move to Muskogee Oklahoma with his return to private life.
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Las Cruces
N. ML
State College
Conway
New Mexico
Santa Fe
EL PL
College Courier
Albuquerque
Hwy
Sluskogee
Okla
Howells Dies in New York After Illness
Novelist William Dean Howells died in New York today after a winter in Savannah. He contracted influenza in the South and never fully recovered.
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New York
William Dean Howells
Mr. Howells
Savannah
Murderer Watson to begin serving life sentence in Delaney case
James P. Watson, already under life sentence for the murder of his wife Nina Lee Delaney, is expected to begin serving sentence after Saturday. He confessed to killing his ninth wife and revealed his early life, aliases, and movements across Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Texas and Canada with a history of marriages and a mercantile position in Chicago.
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Los Angeles
James P. Watson
Nina Lee Delaney
Watson
Middle West
John Gillam
Paris
Kansas
Joseph
Dan Holden
Holden
Sarcoxie
Monet
Verona
Exeter
Neosho
Missouri
Eureka Springs
Arkansas
Chicago
Gillam
Oil Found Deep Beneath Dran Site During Water Well Drilling
Oil was struck at a depth of 376 feet fourteen miles east of Dran while drilling a water well. The find marks a notable subsurface pocket encountered during routine exploration.
The Scotch Lad and the Minister's Jersey Cow
A Scottish boy asks the minister if prayer can obtain a cow. The minister says faith with good reasons could work. The boy retorts that if so the minister should give him the cow and pray for another.
Oil Production Rises in Texas and Oklahoma in March
A United States Geological Survey report shows March oil output at 7,231,000 barrels in Texas, up 491,000 from February. Oklahoma led the nation with 8,641,000 barrels, while stocks declined to 151,291,000 barrels as imports from Mexico rose and exports grew to 44,255,946 barrels for March.
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EL Paso
United States Geological Survey
Texas
Peaseah
Oklahoma
California
Louisiana
Mexico
Canada
Gulf Coast
Chama oil test eyed for San Juan Basin prospects
The San Juan Basin in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico faces testing for oil potential. Exploration aims to assess yield, geology, and economic viability across this frontier oil region.
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Chama
San Juan
Colorado
New Mexico
Akron Boy Scouts Plan July Motorcade to Oyster Bay
About 80 scouts will travel by motorcade to President Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home in July. They will ride in trucks with pneumatic tires along the neon Highway, camp three days at Bear Mountain, then return via Central New York stopping at Hilgate Falls. The commissary truck will be equipped with Goodyear tires.
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Akron
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Bear Mountain
New York
Boy Scout
New
York
Hilgate Falls
Goodyear
Aaire Gos
Doctors Sheridan Berger Practice Limited to Genito Urinary Diseases
Drs Sheridan and Berger list practice limited to genito urinary diseases and diseases of the skin. Wasserman Laboratory in connection. Phone 866. Citizens Bank Building Albuquerque New Mexico. Practice in all courts of New Mexico and Arizona.
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DRS. Sheridan & Berger
Wasserman
Citizens Bank
Albuquerque
N. M
Postmaster General Burleson Seeks War Wire Losses Liquidation
The government ran a deficit of 14,005,565 in telegraph and telephone operations during the war. Burleson told Congress the deficit came from operations with over 600 million in gross revenues, a loss of less than 2.5 percent, due to labor and material cost increases and insufficient operating expenses under government control.
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Burleson
Congress
General Wire Administration
The War Materials Stockpile Wasted in Open Storage
Republican leaders plan a House resolution probing Secretary Baker’s decision to withhold sale of over 1 billion dollars of war materiel. The inventory includes machine tools, nails, lumber, desks, and more stored at camps, risking loss from weather and tying up treasury funds. Akron’s rubber industry and a city pipe incident are also noted in this era brief.
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National
Republican
Baker
House
War Department
National Army
Modern Health Banner Winners Named in New Mexico
The New Mexico Public Health Association announced ten winners in the Modern Health Crusade across the state. Hondo and La Madera earned national banners placing New Mexco third nationwide. teachers include Cecile Thompson Clovis and Ella Poser Clovis, with entrants from Carlsbad Socorro and more, as program participation topped 22 000 students.
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Modern Health Crusade
New Mexico
New Mexico Public Health Association
Hondo
la Madera
New Mexco
Jaanita Lucero
Guin Ore. E. Steere
la Maddera
Roybal
Sapelie
Cecile Thompson
Clovis
Public Health Association
National
Richards Licensed to practice in all New Mexico courts
Dr Bert D Richards is a physician and surgeon and lawyer listed at 107 W Coal Ave and 205 Coal Ave with telephone 108. He is admitted to practice in all state courts the U S District Court and U S Land Office and is a member of the Supreme Court of New Mexico and United States Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court ‘United States
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Coal Avenue
U.S. District Court
U. S. Land Office
Interest in Seven Lakes District Holdings for Drilling Bid
Prospectors seek a party to contract to drill on patented land holdings in the Seven Lakes district. We offer sale or transfer of an interest and invite terms from insured, financially capable bidders.
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Seven Lakes
Toyany Party
Havana Race Winners Highlight Goodyear Tire Trust
In Havana on April 14, famed drivers led to victory with Goodyear equipped racers. The winners across all races included notable drivers De Palma, Hamilton, Louis Chevrolet, and Joseph Boyer Jr. driving Goodyear shod cars.
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Havana
Goodyear
Ha ‘de Palma
Tormilton
Iran
Louis Chevrolet
Joseph Boyer. Jr
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Chevrolet
Dort
Maxwell
Hozair
J.R. Gaines
Wurm
Gallup
Attorneys-At-Law
Gallup, New Mexico
DR. E. Park Sellard
Optometrist
RUIZ
Arizona
Ohio
Modern Health
John C. Kitchen
Coal Ave
Tel
Edmund R. French
Bert D. Richards
T. P. Lamb
Cal
New Mexico Steel Co
Albuquerque, N. M
Albuquerque Evening Herald
Eertacesen the Ween
The
Herald
Albuquerque Evening Herald ‘Herald Building
Albuquerque, New Meggico
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