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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
3
The Southern Pacific company organized massive aid after the San Francisco earthquake and fire. It supplied free travel on ferry steamers, evacuated refugees, and opened information bureaus. It coordinated transports, relief supplies, and hospital support across cities, with total relief efforts surpassing a million dollars in value.
The executive led a rapid mobilization from a Coral Oakland pier location with civil and military authorities, relief committees, and daily committee meetings. The railroad spared no effort to aid San Francisco, earning praise for operating safety as no accidents or injuries occurred among passengers, a claim lauded by The New York Sun as a world record.
Special correspondence notes Latonia race meet extended to September 1 amid statewide crackdowns elsewhere. Bookmakers number around nineteen, each paying $100 daily, with purses over $150,000 and Cincinnati crowds contributing an estimated half a million dollars by meet end. The piece frames racing as a regional issue with gamblers lingering in Latonia as others close.
California faces a labor famine with 15,000 more workers needed in San Francisco. Wages are high with bricklayers at 7 to 8 dollars daily and rail work paying 2.25, while demand rises for millmen, carpenters, plasterers, and other trades due to city rebuilding and irrigation projects.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe outlines a women’s alphabet listing virtues such as amiable, charitable, diligent and joyful. The piece references resilience amid ridicule and opposition, tying ideals to a quote about a man who can stand firm in the face of danger.
Missouri plan to aid San Francisco by raising pennies to dollars from school children. Prof J Greenwood of Kansas City leads a statewide appeal with a committee chaired by the state superintendent to fund a memorial public school. коллек
A remarkable artesian well in the Great American Desert lies in the Gila valley near Hot Springs, five miles from Fort Thomas. It reportedly gushes water at about one and a half million barrels per day enough to irrigate several alfalfa farms and stock ranches or to supply a city of 75 000 to 100 000 residents and power an electric streetcar system.
Albuquerque and Las Vegas plan Labor Day celebrations but Santa Fe will not mark the day with a special observance. The New Mexican notes there are several union men in the city but only one local organization, the Typographical union. A Citizen Want ad does the work.
Spectators praised the Santa Clara Eagle dance Sunday but reports claim the event was staged by joking Santa Fe lodge of Elks members. Dancers named Edward Eble and S G Cartwright allegedly posed as Indians while crowds rose to the occasion with enthusiasm.
An old advertisement promotes a swimming pool at 504 North First Street open daily from 10 p m to 10 p m. It touts Chamberlain's Salve as instantly relieving intense itching of galt rheum and eczema and claims the salve is an unequaled cure for skin diseases, sold by all druggists.
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