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A brief romantic piece from Gotham centers on a wedding tale titled His Bride. The prose evokes classic urban charm and notes a couple’s vow as the city’s backdrop.
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
2
A brief romantic piece from Gotham centers on a wedding tale titled His Bride. The prose evokes classic urban charm and notes a couple’s vow as the city’s backdrop.
Miss Ama Van Deursen and Christopher Shaw, a Hong Kong based contractor, wed in Dr Henry Warren's home after meeting in the Pekin legation gardens on Independence Day. Their romance crossed continents by cable and mail before a New Year wedding and a swift departure to San Francisco.
A historical note describes how the U S Senate sometimes creates ad hoc committees when the majority exceeds the number of standing panels. The piece humorously mentions a “committee on ventilation and acoustics” named after Kenator DuPont of Delaware, noting it exists chiefly to provide rooms, clerks, and pay rather than real work.
The case involves Heautiful Runny Lawinien whose disappearance and reported murder last year stirred nationwide headlines. In county court Warren D Woodman was named conservator of her estate, with a fortune valued at $10,000 if she lives three more years, while her income is $1 from a trust.
A young girl was removed from the New York insane asylum and placed in a private sanitarium where she may receive special treatment. The hope is that she may be cured and enabled to manage her own property in the future.
Jeffersonville Ind The trade school of shoemaking inaugurated at the Indiana reformatory. Machinery installed at cost of 2000 dollars. fifteen inmates to be employed. expect twenty five pairs of shoes daily. Shoes for state institutions with surplus sold publicly. Superintendent W H Whittaker predicts earnings of about 120000 dollars annually. Seventeen shops will train inmates in shoemaking broommaking tailoring painting carpentering tiuenithing mechanical and electrical engineering laundry baking molding chainmaking shirtmaking brick masonry stone masonry blacksmithing and printing.
Willie Brown, 12, of Pleasant Grove township, won $110 and county praise for Olmstead county in the local corn growing contest. William Brown of district 102 took second prize in the state corn-rowing contest with a £100 cash award after exhibiting the corn at the county event. Forest Henry of Dover funded the local prize, and the top three local entries were taken to the Minne sota state contest, where the corn was named the second best in Minnesota and awarded $100.
Banking sources say Chesapeake and Ohio interests consider increasing capital to fund terminal upgrades in Richmond and other improvements totaling about 10 million within the next year. The financing method remains undecided by directors and major holders. Meanwhile Boulder beet sugar factory plans advance with Cleveland associates backing a Boulder based stock company and a March shipment target for mill operation next fall.
Florence and Coto report United States Oil Co faces peak orders as western trade soars. Oil sells for three cents per gallon less than a year ago amid wartime refinery pressure. Local firm holds reserve crude in field tanks and plans immediate draw. Company aims to expand France refinery into a leading regional facility with more wells soon.
The United States Land Office in Santa Fe reports for the first ten days of January 1900 strong activity. Original homestead entries reach 66 acres across counties including Colfax Guadalupe Mora San Juan and Santa Fe, while desert land entries total 12 acres distributed among districts. Final homestead entries include Guadalupe Mora and San Juan with several counties listed. Desert land entries list San Juan Torrance and others.
A.& M. College bulletin discusses winter injury to young fruit trees in New Mexico orchards. It advises maturing new wood before frost, pruning injured growth back to uninjured wood, and proper covering for wounds. The notice also lists several veterans pension actions and introduced bills authorizing monthly pensions for named individuals in various military units.
At Las Vegas Post No. 1 G. A. Te. officers were installed for the ensuing year. W. J. Burton was named commander with W. H. Kenestrick as senior vice commander and Jefferson Raynolds as junior vice commander. John Shank became quartermaster, D. W. Wean chaplain, Orlando Smith officer of the day, John O’Rourke officer of the guard.
A note promotes home made bread from the New Home Bakery while another line advertises nursery products including fruit and shade trees shrubs vines and flowers sold by a local contact at 124 South Walter Street.
The Cascarets brand describes its 1896 invention and gradual formula refinement by chemists to ensure purity quality and medicinal strength. It touts safety and reliability, cites the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, and urges readers to buy today as the leading family medicine for the bowel with all druggists carrying 10c 25c 50c boxes.
Department of the Interior notices disclose several homestead filings in New Mexico. Sant iago Grie ge of Carpenter and Lucio Ortega of Chili file five year proof for entries Nos. 10301 and 8702, with witnesses named. hearings set before United States Court Commissioner in Albuquerque on February 5 1907. Manuel R. Otero, Register.
A long notice list offers livestock horses a Jersey heifers and a fresh cow, property listings including Claude Girard property and Huning Highland lot, a large retail business stake, housing and trade propositions, farming equipment and a Jamaica testimony praising a cough remedy. Public notices include land patent declarations for Pablo Gallegos and witnesses, plus a colonist account of medical claims and a sale of patent medicine with a New Discovery.
The Evening Citizen plans a six-day canvass to gather names for a new Albuquerque city directory after a poorly received prior edition. The project aims to include city highlights, enterprises, and a complete A to Z directory plus an Old Albuquerque section with half tone illustrations. Local banks will be listed soon and canvassers will begin work.
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