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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
6
The Local News Folks of Farrington urge cleanup ahead of the fair with civic pride mentioned. Items note Rev. R. C. Jackson’s marriage in the mountains, various local notices, sales, and upcoming church events.
A notice notes reduced prices at Farming ton Drug Store with a promotion giving free tickets to a moving picture show. The item also reports the birth of a baby girl to Mr and Mrs Lou Woods yesterday.
Reading through Farmington New Mexico area notices from 1913, the page records a string of social events and local updates. It mentions yellow coupons and Wednesday voting habits, travel plans by Mr and Mrs J A Bay, an August ice cream social, Mas Vida Weborgi’s travels to Durango and Laguna New Mexico, church services, booklets and sales at local stores, and the Farmington Missionary Society’s memorial resolutions for Mrs Avery Amsden. It notes cooking butter prices, queen contest questions at the fair, prayer meetings, and a Yankee Traveler lecture with moving pictures.
Report of the Condition of the San Juan County National Bank at Farmington New Mexico as of Aug 9 1913. Resources include loans and discounts 9900 overdrafts 381.25 US bonds 10000 premiums 381.25 and more totaling 107649.39. Deposits and capital details list capital stock 6000 surplus 0 undivided profits 1367.38 and deposits 81158.86 with notes and other items. Official sworn by cashier W H Harrington with notary J Milton Palmer witnessing.
Farmington Enterprise warns readers about wealth scams and urges caution. Editor Orval Ricketts frames the notice as a cautionary lesson to locals tempted by fast riches, urging prudent choices.
A statistician notes there is one and a fraction woman for each man in America. The average man wishes to marry one but cannot support the fraction, according to Col. Watterson.
Since the new reduced parcel post rates, fruit men ship twenty pound packages for twenty four cents, down from seventy five cents by express. About 7 000 pounds of mail went out from Farming ton last Friday costing around 85 dollars in stamps. Fruit mail should raise growers profits as express firms retreat and local people respond.
A Chicago Times clipping argues reformers critique poor conditions while profiting themselves. The author notes the gap between preachments and practice, and says actions carry more weight than words in judging motives and genuine reform.
Henry Watterson blasts Democratic leadership in the Louisville Courier Journal a three column editorial titled The robbery of Dramatick Diplomacy A Protest and a Warning. He decries the Nicaragua treaty policy as ambitious and warns of fate for President Wilson and Secretary Bryan calling them chasing chimera with protectorate aims.
Contemporary commentary attacks President Wilson and William Jennings Bryan, labeling Roosevelt an opportunist and questioning Nicaragua policy. The piece contrasts Wilson’s ideals with practical governance while warning against fiscal risks and political maneuvering amid domestic reform debates.
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