03 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Alamogordo News
Location
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
1
The Doctor notes better circulation with Tue News exceeding 1500 copies weekly in July. The paper is praised as bright and up to date, serving Otero county with strong ads and printing services.
The article argues for establishing two national sanitariums in New Mexico, praising dry high plateaus for treating tuberculosis. It cites climate benefits, altitude effects, sun exposure, and dust storms as enhancing respiration, increasing blood flow, and reducing tubercle bacilli viability, with a call for government action to relocate patients.
Promoters market Alamogordo as the most beautiful little city in the great Southwest. Local boosters push civic improvement and tourism to emphasize its unique character and appeal.
Fred A. Bush reports Alamogordo as a thriving infant town with electric street lights, lush parks, cottonwood lined avenues, and rapid growth. The El Paso & Northeastern railroad, new county buildings, and two massive pine mills drive employment, while Salado coal fields and a booming lumber industry promise durable prosperity for the territory.
Removal sale continues at Welch's Second Hand Store in El Paso Texas offering furniture stoves carpets matting and dishes with discounts on remaining stock through the week.
Professor Hadley returned from Cloudcroft summer school and described a cool, damp venue with fires. He called the event a success, though attendance was light, and offered a rain formation theory linking Arizona and New Mexico heating to inland moisture currents arriving from the Gulf and Pacific.
Mason's Fruit Jars offered by Meehan & Co with quart jars at 75 cents per dozen and a total of 1.25 per dozen.
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