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Newspaper
Alamogordo News
Location
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
2
The notice records W. Morgan as editor and business manager and states the paper is entered as second class matter at the Alamogordo New Mexico post office under the 1879 act.
An advertisement offered for 50 cents a recipe to whiten hands and soften them. Instructions told girls who sent money to soak the hands three times daily in dishwater while mother rests. Railroad Telegrapher.
President Kent of the State College of Agriculture gave a talk to a Las Cruces Rotary gathering describing the Great American Desert as the waste places where people hatch schemes and fail to finish them. He urged Rotary and Rotary Anns to unite with other civic groups to improve communities.
The New York World cites an in force but unenforced ordinance banning street car conductors from shooting jack rabbits from street car platforms. The piece notes many obsolete laws linger nationwide as new ones pass yearly about 15 000. A call for legislative committees to comb statutes follows.
The piece argues for repealing obsolete laws and passing fewer laws while warning that compulsory measures by reformers breed contempt for law. It predicts a future shift toward better education and less regulatory reach, though timing remains uncertain.
The Deming Graphic laments widespread tin can dumping along highways near Alamo Gordo and Deming. The editorial mocks the habit as a failed disposal method, noting residents haul cans to roads instead of city dumps and warning of a metal-paved road if unchecked.
A humorous verse mocks the country editor with an image of Peter at the gate of Heaven. It notes the piece has circulated widely and offers a light, not fully accurate, portrait of editors of old.
The article traces the pensioned waning of weak country editors and the rise of businesslike owners. It notes necessary traits like editorial skill, community service, and tact, while contrasting old fraternal ideals with modern profitability and responsible publishing standards. It ends with a practical guide to making and using pectin from apples for jelly.
The document notes education still incomplete nationwide from elementary to higher grades. It cites rural school inefficiencies meager equipment and underprepared teachers. High schools lag behind demand, half time attendance common in cities, and many districts lack adequate options. It calls for extended higher education facilities and many junior colleges.
President Coolidge designates November 16 22 as American Education week in a proclamation. The brief notice notes the national focus on education but reads as a standard presidential proclamation with no further details on activities or participants.
Miss Grace Long of the New Mexico A and M College explains that pectin is the key in jelly making. A simple test demonstrates how pectin works to set jelly.
An advertisement outlines Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a two part remedy: an ointment to ease nasal inflammation and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over 40 years from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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