Mexican Military Training School details and policies
The Mexican War Department explains the Escuela Militar de Aspiranteas opened 1905 to train subordinate officers for infantry cavalry and artillery. Admission requires age 18 to 21 Mexican nationality consent of guardian medical fitness and education records. Cadets receive daily allowances and loans, live on campus, study broad military subjects, and aim to enter regular army after three six month terms followed by service commitments. The school operates under military law with 22 professors and annual exams.
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Military College
War Department
Mena
Congress
Escuela Militar de Aspirantea
Military Training School
Instituton
Santa Fe
Tlalpam
Department
Secretary of War and Navy
Army
Boas
Miguel Ruelas
Han
Department of War
A Choice Between Meat and Automobile Ends Debate
A family head states a decision point between continuing to eat meat or maintaining their automobile. His wife prompts the question, and the exchange highlights a satirical or humorous domestic dilemma. The fragment suggests a focus on changing consumption or lifestyle priorities.
Lost Twin Mines in Sonora Linked to Ancient Ore Vein
A long report details John Gullfoyle’s discovery near Nacozari Sonora of an ancient mine with ore grading 1,370 ounces of silver per ton and rich gold values. Evidence includes a buried ore ledge, old slag, stone tools, and a smelting setup tied to pre colonial workers, possibly by an Indian tribe aided by post invasion activity.
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Sonora
Mexico
San Pedro
Nacozar
Antigua
John Gullfoyle
Nacozari
Mother Lode
Guilfoyle
Materia
Old Mexico
Arizone
New Mexico
Spain
Hood Sarsaparilla advertised cure all blood humors
An old advertisement promotes Hood Sarsaparilla as a tonic claiming to cure eruptions clear the complexion create appetite aid digestion relieve fatigue and provide vigor. It touts Bursatabes tablets with 100 doses priced at 1 dollar.
Wise Family Sunday Piano Debate Sparks Neighborly Query
Mrs Wise tells neighbor it is a sin to play piano on Sunday while Mr Wise questions why Silvia was mentioned, revealing a small domestic dispute about Sabbath conduct and personal names.
Cure Claim for Cuticura Remedies Heals Child
A nurse from Litchfield Conn describes severe child skin sores spreading over a year and a half. After trying two physicians the family used Cutileura Soap and Cutleura Ointment for two months, and the sores fully healed with no recurrence.
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Clotha
Cutlcura
Egbert Sheldon
Litchfield
Conn
A Divided Family in a Physician's Reception
A six year old daughter of a physician chats with a waiting patient who asks about church and denomination. The child replies Presbyter ian for mom and dad not a stomach specialist. An advertisement for Allen's Foot-Bane promotes relief for tired feet and broken shoes.
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O Presbyterian
Allen
Olmaved
le Hoy
Proposal Sparks Grim Pun In Odd Dialogue
The exchange ponders love and mortality as a suitor threads a proposal with eerie humor. A quip about love leading to the undertaker hints at fatal seriousness behind a humorous surface.
Aren't you making a great deal of salse
An Irritable neighbor questions the patient father about noise and singing. The father replies that someone must be heard and offers the neighbor a choice, noting the baby cries whenever he stops singing.
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Salse
Washington Star
A Painted Question Wiggs Why Do They Call It Pin Money
A brief quirky note from Lippincott's questions why pin money is called so. It suggests wives save or ask for allowance, reflecting a domestic finance term.
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Lippincott’s
The Tailor Resists Pressure Over Wrinkled Bill
A tailor presses a debtor with a wrinkled memorandum of accounts. Blowpay dismisses the concern, saying he has fresh copies at home and won't mind the wrinkles.
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Slowpay
Blowpay
Judga
No Exposure, No House: Legislator Rejects Architect
A Yonkers Statesman anecdote quips about graft and a legislator facing a proposed southern exposure. The official, about to build a house, declines the architect's question, saying he will hire someone else if the project requires any exposure.
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Yonkers
That Boy Out Late With Sick Friend Excuse
A Louisville Courier Journal clipping recalls a boy coming home late claiming he sat up with a sick friend. The father’s reaction hints at familiar expectations and the old moral standards.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Walter and the drawing room wit on human faults
Eugene Walter the jingwright entertains at a dinner with a playful remark about human nature being far from angelic. A pretty young lady probes faults and is teased with a tale of a girl and her sweetheart, ending with a humorous exchange in Rochester Herald style.
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Eugene Walter
Walter
Waller
Tommy
Stochester Herald
Farmer Mangles Buggy as Fire Trucks Hit the Street
A farmer in a ramshackle buggy ignores a warning and drives into the path of a rushing fire department. The hook and ladder truck wheels crush the buggy and topple the farmer into the gutter while a bystander officer scolds him. The scene, from Everybodys Magazine, ends with the farmer blaming drunken planters for the delay.
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Fire Department Ia
Robert and Clara in a cautious rental encounter
A mother with two children, Clara aged four and Robert aged six, visits flats seeking an apartment. The janitor’s wife, acting as agent, worries about admitting children but pities Robert. He asserts he is a “far devil,” dismissing the other adult’s doubts.
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Clara
Robert
Philadelphis Ledger
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