Las Vegas Experiment Demonstrates Dry Farming Viability
The Campbell System Farming Association conducts a Las Vegas farm test on 640 acres to prove dry farming on upland Las Vegas grant lands. A 25 horsepower Reeves engine powers plowing pulverizing packing and planting at 40 acres daily, aiming to conserve annual rainfall and boost crop stability across semi arid New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Campbell
High Menn
Las Vegs
Las Vegas Grant
Campbell System Farming Association
New Mexico
Work of One Man In 1881 Booker T Washington Founded Tuskegee Institute
A 1881 start by Booker T Washington formed Tuskegee Institute with an abandoned church and limited funds. By 1893 it grew to 2,100 people including 156 staff, with 2,300 pupils and eighty plus buildings, endowment around 1.01 million dollars, and 22,500 acres of public land. Agriculture and skilled trades dominate the curriculum, with both sexes admitted. The annual per capita course cost runs about 117 dollars and the institute earns nearly 30,000 annually from horses and mules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Industrial Institute
Alabama
Tuskegee Bistitute
Sayath Globe Democrat
Tuskegee
Congress
Hospitality of early Californians noted by Pittsburg Dispatch
The Pittsburg Dispatch praises early California hospitality, describing welcoming homes, fresh clothing, and generous humbleness toward travelers. A narrator recalls a family of fourteen with a daily twenty five cent wage and a justice of the peace case about adopting a deceased woman’s six children, illustrating frontier charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Dispatch
Justices of the Peace
Prcific
Restraints on Investigations and Labor Strife in News Text
The article surveys widespread calls for restraint amid many investigations into beef, oil, railroads, insurance, and corporate relations. It argues rail speed outpaces safety, cites immigrant labor tensions, and predicts economic shifts from coal camps to broader production. It notes Texas influence in Pecos Valley and Carlsbad politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iife
New York Mn
Facts on Earthquakes Through History and Recent Crises
A review in the New Orleans Picayune surveys seismic history from New Madrid and Charleston to San Francisco. It details causes, famed quakes in Portugal, Italy, and South America, and notes vast loss of life, city destruction, and large financial costs across centuries and continents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Picayune
San Francisco
United Biazon
United States
New Madrid
Teulfoot Lake
West
Tennessee
Charlexton
8. C
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
Virginia
California
Sierras
Chicago
New York
Calabela
Italy
Lisbon
Portugal
Alps
Sweden
Scotland
South America
Carcas
Venendola
Quito
Ecuador
Lima
Peru
Callao
Andes
Chili
Community notices of clubs churches and reunions
A collection of local society items lists church and club meetings. It notes a regular meeting of the Dangsore of Rebelah at 2:30, a Woman's Christian Temperance Union gathering at Mrs Dordés’s home, and a Grand Army of the Republic post meeting before Decoration Day. Also mentioned are a high school outing to Bear Canyon, an Eagles hall gathering, a Woman's club progress on a new club building, and a Presbyterian lecture at Menaul Medical School with related ceremonies and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobe P. Haines
New York Society For the Prevention of
Haines
Feason
Peru
Lowa
G. K. Warren
Grand Army of the Republic
G. Caldwell
W. W. Mcdonald
Bom
John R. Gass
5 Presbyterian Church
Menaul Med School
AL Cag
San Francisco
First Methodist Church
Casey
Gollon Gate City
J. J. Kelly
Silver City
Elite Cafe Ad Promotes 66OD Table Board Deal
An old newspaper ad touts Elite Cafe on West 18th Street offering a 66OD table board for one dollar per Citizen Week copy. Mentions J. D. Silver Avenue near Post Emmons, the Furniture Man, and an office location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Citizen
Emmons
Elite Cafe
West 18
J. D
Silver Avenue
Postemmons
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Prompt New Agent Garcia
San Francisco earthquake and fire coverage by SSS Silvestor B Garcia acts as agent for complete story. Leave orders at Briggs drug store located at the corner of First Street and Gold Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SSS
Silvestor B. Garcia
San Francisco
Briggs’ Drug Store
First Street
Gold Avenue
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. T. McCreight
San Francisco Chronicle
Hawaii
South
Dawnon
Colfax
Commonwealth
Arison
Roswell
Pecos Valley
Carlehid
Fifeen
Texas
Arlen
Arequipa
Caloocha
Pnt
Ibra
Ottovalia
Arica
Bis
San Franciso
London
Constantinople
Givn Varley
Boston
Wayeletty
J. A. Hobbs
T. W. Degker
Geveral
Bear Canyon
Red Men's Hall
Selock
Fairview Cemetery
L. TJ
EB. Henry Westerfeld
W. ©. Grimmer
Woman's Club
Commercial Dub
Tme
West Gold Avenue
St. Louis
Ste
Kansas City
Southers
James Mills
Pittsby Post
Mhy
Waeiimnon
John Cyreon
Whitewell
le Vir
Wekmeyer
Conan
Zenin Lockhart
D. Emmons
Lund
M. Mandell
Wm. Chaplin
Shoe Store
Railroad Ave
The
Springfield
A. J. Harding
Springfield Fire and Marine Insurline Company
Mass
A. E. Walker
W. L. Trimble & CO
Second Street
Melini & Eakin
Tigue
Givar
Yellowstone
Moet & Chandon
B.C
Bohemian
Jos
Schutz Milwaukee
South First Street
Albuquerque
Smith
Remingtons
Remington
Densmore
Sholes Dewet Lambert
Manhattan
Chica
Fox
Underwood
G. S. Ramsay
West Railroad Avenue
Jemez Hot Springs
United States Mall
Addreaa
W. L. Trimble , Co
N. M
Perea NM
Highland Jersey Dairy
Colo
C. W. Strong's
Undertakers
Superintendenta
Fairview Santa Barbara
N. Second St
Grand Central Hotel
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