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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1920
Page
6
A Chautauqua manager keeps programs fresh as tastes change. Franklin adds a Jazz Band for 1920 featuring four versatile instrumentalists and a vocal quartet, delivering jazz time music and varied combos. Two finale stampedes close the last day.
A Kentucky born educator, Samus Justin Sparks, rising from 27 percent weekly wages at age six to elected president of Mitchell College, recounts a life of self education and perseverance. He completed studies at Valk paraiso University by age twenty one and now leads in the Chautauqua program.
A garbled overheard snippet mentions a scarce six meter accordion ex ception and a very expensive, beautiful instrument called the Graphophone. It references an owl and a young person presenting or playing it.
Will Speak Edgar 8 Kindley, noted humorist and essayist, to visit for the fourth day program. He writes humorous verse for Judge and Life and will discuss present day questions with a friendly, entertaining approach.
Dr George L Barker will give his lecture Poxel politics in Life on the first Chautauqua evening. The speaker, described as a born optimist, embraces Browning pledge God’s in His Heaven All’s right with the world.
A long hostile arc ends as Venustiano Carranza dies while fleeing from Mexico City in the Tlaxcaltecan mountains. The fate remains unclear whether battle, murder, or the “ley fuego” ended his life after anti American, anti Allied policy and the Zimmermann note era. Obregon is poised to lead as Carranza’s regime collapses amid a blood‑soaked Mexican history since Diaz.
Abigail Adams lamented shortages and soaring prices in 1777 and 1779. She cites scarce goods from colonists such as tea sugar molasses and rum and notes labor wages rising to 12 per day. The letters describe monopolies and merchant oppression amid wartime inflation in Massachusetts.
Rain began and continued for several hours in Bernalillo and surrounding Sandoval County areas. The downpour was general across the county and marked the heaviest rainfall of the season, impacting local conditions amid shifting gem values noted in the region.
Fragmentary text shows odd phrases and scrambled words about a dancing fencer and exclamations. No clear event date or names emerge, leaving a puzzling excerpt with limited readable facts.
In Paris on May 22 France's delegation outlined a distribution of indemnities with France to receive fifty five percent Britain twenty five percent and the rest to be divided among Bel lum Serbia and others. Premier Millerand spoke to the finance and foreign affairs committees explaining talks with Premier Lloyd George at Hythe.
William G. McAdoo and wife were spotted in Raton New Mexico on a pleasure automobile trip to Taos. They traveled unaccompanied except for their chauffeur and made a brief stop before continuing via Las Vegas and Santa Fe. Mrs. McAdoo appeared as charming as two years ago.
Denver. Judge Tully Scott of the Colorado supreme court announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States senator to succeed Senator Thomas. He pledges a platform endorsing the Wilson administration and ratification of the peace treaty without reservations.
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