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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
8
New Mexico land Arizona fair Friday and Saturday. Several local visits include Miss Alger heading to Los Angeles and Dr W G Herrison returning from Bernalillo. Memorial day closures noted for banks and businesses. Community notices cover temple services woman’s club meeting and a court suit over a promissory note.
The Morning Journal notes many letters arrive with no name or address from correspondents. Readers are asked to provide identifying details when sending in communications to ensure proper handling and response.
Engineer Lourenco Batea Neves has been appointed Brazil’s delegate to the Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress in Albuquerque next fall. Rev. FE McQueen Gray of the foreign representation committee received the official letter from Irving B. Dudley American Ambassador to Brazil in Petropolis. Dudley reports an official communication from Brazil’s foreign affairs minister confirming the appointment.
The government accepts the invitation and appoints Neves as its representative.
The Board of Control of the Irrigation congress and the advisory board will hold a crucial meeting at headquarters tonight to lay out a detailed campaign of work. Attendance by every committee member is emphasized as highly important.
The Fiesta of San Felipe de Neri in Old Town Albuquerque will be celebrated Sunday May 31 1908 with a solemn vesper service on Saturday evening and a grand procession on Sunday afternoon The committee urges decorations and orderly crowd control inviting residents from nearby towns to attend.
The New Mexico Automobile Club announces its first run to be held next Saturday at 2 PM. Captain Mo W Flourney will lead the event with a stag layout starting at Second street and Gold avenue. Participants will form a loop through Gold avenue Central Copper Fifth and return toward Jones ranch before rejoining the starting point.
London May 28 A new Carnegie Library at Hackney was dedicated with state ceremonial The Prince and Princess of Wales attended and the princess participated in opening exercises The household cavalry and other royal attractions were present in evidence
Theodore Whitmore of Brooklyn faces a murder trial for the alleged slaying of his wife. The defense rests its case after presenting the defendant's testimony, with the proceedings continuing toward a jury deliberation today in New York.
Court proceedings in Harrison New Jersey move toward a verdict with closing summations tomorrow. Whitmore defenses rely on alibi while testimony wraps up. jurors may decide tonight. Also: community notices invite Missionary Union tea at St John’s Rectory and local ads feature Imperial Laundry and Pratt & Co grocery offers.
Notice promotes the Grand Central Hotel as a convenient stop in the heart of El Paso four blocks from Union Station. European plan rooms priced 50 cents to 2 dollars with streetcars to the depot and nearby Walton's Drug Store and Fee's Good Ice Cream Sodas.
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