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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
7
In New Portieres a trend toward useful yet ornamental home items is noted as buyers look for pieces with commercial value. Kris offers several suggestions from a large stock to pair beauty with practicality for gifts.
Demands for higher pay and an eight hour workday on through freight trains were filed with railroad managers in Chicago for brakemen and conductors across western systems. The wage boost could total about 8 million dollars annually. Negotiations are expected to begin in January with the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors coordinating actions.
Temple Lodge members elected officers for the year at their annual meeting. Worthy Master F H Strong, Senior Warden C C Cushman, Junior Warden Harry Braun, Treasurer Simon Stern, C Ferger, J J Bambrook listed among those chosen. Officers to be installed next Thursday with usual ceremonies. Maysard Mills offers 81.40 per 100 pounds for clean wheat in exchange for 85 pounds of flour per 125 pounds of wheat, F OB Albuquerque.
Frank Hillings was killed at the Lowell shaft Tuesday night after attempting to exit at the 1,100 level instead of the 1,000. The cage dropped to 1,200 and then lurched, leaving Hillings crushed between the cage and shaft. Coroner’s jury summoned. identity confirmed by Michael O’Keath at the International Undertaking room.
Win. Wilson Finley, born 1853 in Pass Christian Mississippi, succeeds the late Samuel Spencer as president of the Southern Railway. Finley rose from stenographer at New Orleans to top rail executive, with a long career at Texas & Pacific, Great Northern, and Southern Railway, seen as a continuation of Spencer's policy and attention to southern interests.
John Hughes from Mesilla Park, a senior agriculture student, plans holidays with his mother and notes growing enrollment and a crowded campus. He describes senior graduates, girls basketball in January, football, and a YMCA youth effort in Albuquerque. Also local ads for scalp treatment and gas coke provoke era commerce.
The York American notes that Japan experiences mirror the Chinese influx a century ago, warning of wage declines and poverty from unrestricted immigration. It cites rising Japanese counts in the U S and Hawaii, discusses assimilation hurdles if citizenship is granted, and warns of potential Chinese pressure and race tensions if limits are removed. Gas coke advertisement and bread promo follow.
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