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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
6
A special Commer cial club meeting is set for this evening at the club rooms to discuss freight rates to Albuquerque. Business leaders are invited to attend and voice opinions on securing favorable rates comparable to Denver and El Paso, impacting the city’s key interests.
The Republican convention names Kaward Pinney for treasurer and Melville Bumimers for assessor in Bernalillo County. Professor A hh. Stroup is chosen to continue as county school superintendent. A. D. Ogie is their nominee for county surveyor. Governor Curry says mounted police will uphold law at doubtful polls next Tuesday.
A fragmentary line suggests a deadline approaching in a week with warnings of a country’s move to “retire a down to business death,” implying a decisive or catastrophic outcome. The text lacks concrete details like names, places, or actions.
Governor Curry has the attorney general prepare a compendium of territory election laws for public information and for election boards. The notice emphasizes enforcement without regard to person or party and summarizes rules on notices, polling places, challengers, voter qualifications, ballots, and penalties.
Chaffin predicts the defeated party after November 3 will disappear and the two major parties will realign on the prohibition issue. He asserts the prohibition candidate will win in 1912, stressing Roosevelt and Bryan as pivotal figures shaping the race. Both old parties will endure despite reverses and history.
An English writer argues scientific methods should reform housekeeping and organization, noting domestic management remains backward. He cites the Illinois Central ordering seven hundred steel cars as a sign of industrial progress and hints at broader changes in education and student activism.
A collection of editorial snippets from the Southwest press. The El Paso Times notes a camphor smell hinting at airing last winter’s clothes while the San Marelat Standard laments political dreams fading as milk prices become a public pulse issue in the current climate.
The New York expert warns there are enough microbes on a pauper dollar to scatter an epidemic, yet the speaker says they will not fear dollars and will face epidemics as long as tears stain the bills.
A fragment urges good citizenship and polite conduct to strangers while criticizing the writer as a failure and unhappy with surroundings, suggesting a cynical view of people and governance in a town context. The text reads as an incomplete reflection on civic duty and personal sentiment.
A muddled anecdote from the Logan Leader features a Melrose enterprise theater ad insulting advertising as useless. A millionaire merchant quarrels with a man in old clothes and a Native American comparison ends with a jest about a feather bed and a stone plank.
The Bernalillo county Tribune endorses a full slate of good, strong and reliable candidates. It praises them as honest and unblemished by doubt and urges voters to elect the ticket with a large majority.
Tucson women praise the telephone hour a scheduled weekly time when callers can reach them by wire. The method ensures friends can contact the woman at a fixed time and has become widely adopted. Inventor unknown, but the idea gains popularity and is said to work like a charm.
Ossiah M Mutten was shot and killed by Jesse Pierce of Mesa in Phoenix Monday evening. Pierce is under arrest. The second annual Quay county fair at Tucumcari drew large eastern New Mexico crowds. Charles A Shibell of Tucson, a candidate for Pima county recorder, died during the week. Bisbee property owners approve a 250000 bond for streets and fire department upgrades. John Scanton, a miner, robbed of about 75000 tied to mining sales while intoxicated in Tucson. Duncan Arizona Arizonian office burned with 2500 loss. Las Vegas Justice H H Brown, 63, found dead from apoplexy after twenty years there. Shannon, a bogus check artist, jailed in Socorro after bilking Gem City merchants.
The report notes J B Knox fatally shooting his bride of seven months in Phoenix and a failed suicide attempt. It covers trial dates for former Governor M A Otere in Roswell on liquor violations and the Military Institute students, and the hearing for J B R Humphreys, alias Nigger Arkansas, in Las Vegas for Wells Fargo robbery complicity.
The Monteugl reports raids on Japanese schooners at the Russian sealing grounds in the northern Pacific. The Bostanure was seized off the Russian shores. six men were left ashore and later found. Another schooner on Great Bantal Island was burned after the crew deserted and fled. In San Diego, the colliers Justin and a Pacific fleet support coaling near Magdalena Bay, with six torpedo boats to join later.
Lansing physician Dr Alexander McMillan reports three tested cases of Herpicide producing good results. The remedy claims to destroy dandruff germs by targeting microbes in the hair bulb. Sold by druggists with samples available by mail to The Herpicide Co Detroit. Also note Pachion cafe dinner hours and Velocke price.
Pierce, marked for a Texas trial, is set to appear in Austin to answer charges of false swearing. Judge Mer Clay of At. Lone advised Governor Campbell that Pierce will be in Texas by November to stand trial.
The second trial of William Montgomery, former Allegheny Bank cashier, was given to the jury this afternoon in Pittsburg. The state withdrew the third and eleventh counts of the indictment charging embezzlement and abstraction of bonds from the bank by the local brewing company.
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