11 Jul 1883
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1883
Page
1
Albuquerque area fraternal organizations list meeting times and locations in the Childers Building and surrounding halls. Includes Albuquerque Lodge No 1 F and AM Widow’s Benefit details and Knights Templar presence with descriptions of visiting rules and regular convocations.
A long, garbled OCR page mixes rental ads with scattered notices and telegraphic items. It cites addresses, street names, and various public notices along with brief news blurbs on crime, politics, and world events, albeit in a disjointed form.
The article describes the Zuni Ornaleva Festival of Victory with a large dance where about forty dancers perform while participants shout and share meat and ceremonial loaves. It notes a controversial moment when two Dadiain medicine men receive portions and the ceremony is halted after Vip steps. it also covers Mescalero Apache rites for maidens maturing into womanhood and the belief that demons attack during a four day vigil. The piece also reports on the ongoing Santa Fe exposition activities, race results, and local notices at the territory fair.
In Washington a probe into Bartlett Hayward & Co reveals inflated charges for heating apparatus plans used at Chicago and St Louis plants. Testimony covers vouchers, contract awards, and payrolls amid vascular postmaster and health office moves as yellow fever cases surface on a New Orleans bound steamship.
Washington reports reveal a pension fraud probe leading to arrests of clerks J L Atle and J C Bilmott for defrauding pensioners. Treasury warns drafts checks and stamps will be canceled and destroyed after redemption to combat misuse.
A jumble of overseas notices reports the English Channel tunnel project progress and parliamentary votes, plus updates on Jewish trials in Hungary and various global crimes, with details on cases in London, Newport, and Philadelphia and brief mentions of other international affairs and disasters.
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