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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1905
Page
4
A newspaper opinion urges intervention for mentally deficient children in public schools, noting 1 to 2 percent nationwide and 5 000 to 10 000 in New York. It argues causes include heredity and diet, and encourages special training to prevent decline and social burden.
J Gavin at the Las Vegas good roads convention argued scenery is the territory’s most valuable asset, a claim the writer calls unfounded and weak. He warns that scenery alone won’t bring homeseekers and stresses roads, climate, and productive industries as essential for New Mexico’s growth.
The Albuquerque Citizen, amid exchanges with a New Mexican paper, discusses paid publication of county official removals in Bernalillo and critiques statehood prospects. Silverton gains electric power from Rockwood with 200 miles of wire, while a 400 mile distribution claim is cited. James J. Hill faces criticism over railroad rate control and Panam Canal talk. Curis and Willets are cited on New Mexico politics. Roswell Record and Capitan News report on statehood sentiment, territorial fair success, and Albuquerque’s growing prospects. Bernalillo county agriculture praised.
Fragmented lyric passage laments a lover’s absence and questions what might have been. The speaker, Dewar, recalls a divine longing for the beloved, imagining whether the remembered face and clasped hands could bridge life, death, and the unseen land beyond.
An Albuquesque area meeting of the Twenty-fifth New Mexico Territorial Fair committee descended into sharp town talk over finances. Secretary Sellers presented a deficit of around 41,300, with about 81,100 still to be collected, pushing total deficits near 84,000 due to prior losses. President Greer was absent. Vice President Arnot adjourned for his return while discusses considered auditing and cutting expenses.
A National Education Association session in Asbury Park discusses immigrant children in schools, urging coordinated federal action between immigration and education authorities. The piece argues for compulsory schooling to age fourteen, stronger enforcement, and protecting children from parental neglect and abuse, with calls to arrest abuse and place at risk youths in care facilities.
A Philadelphia press extract cites the 1780 examination of George Washington’s estate. It reports Washington owned 160 acres of land at age twenty seven and details sizable holdings including 680 acres in grain, 700 in other crops, 140 horses, 112 cows, 560 sheep and 250 enslaved people on the plantation.
Local figures including Io Hedeanson and Jacob H. Galaley return to city life from brief sojourns in Las Vegas and Meadow town. W. Masters and CL attend North fry New Mexico fir event and report modest gains from tele investments. Prod Talbott and Elsie Aaway marry in San Francisco then travel to Mesilla W. Talbott visits Mesilla and Fort Davis before settling in Alimesorda to pursue work with Paso & Southwestern.
A new general repair shop starts business on South Third Street behind Waltons Drug Store and invites city trade. Also for sale is Lot and shacks at 090 South Arno, with a Tuesday deadline. A rumor claims the White Elephant offers free lunch in town on Saturday nights.
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