Folklore Remedies and Tales From New Mexico History
A Las Cruces reader recalls a wart cure using a corn kernel and chicken, from Black Range Tales by James A. McKenna. The column also recounts Victorio the Apache’s mercy to two miners and a Wagon Mound legend of seven bloody handprints in a cave, with notes on source folklore archives.
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Las Cruces
Mesilla
James A. McKenna
Trujillo Ranch
Hillsboro
Victorio
Lake Valley
Tierra Blanca Creek
Victoria
Wagon Mound
Turkey Mountains
Folklore Archives of
Highland University
Las Vegas
John Makinovy
Vernon Welch
Hachita News Social Roundup Highlights Local Visits
Mr and Mrs Charles Yarbrough of Animal spent Monday and Tuesday with daughter Mrs Driscoll Martin. Deming visitors included Mr and Mrs T B Bennett Mr and Mrs Clem Donaldson and Mrs Driscoll Martin. Local travel included Mrs Hubert Hand returning from Wheeler Texas and families visiting relatives in Mexico and Arizona.
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Charles Yarbrough
Animal
Mrs
Driscoll Martin
T. B. Bennett
Clem Donaldson
Hubert Hand
Wheeler
Texas
Cpl
Eddie Hinson
Randolf Base
Boston
Massachusetts
R. H Shaw
Jean Martin
Hotel Dieu
el Paso
Ray Pennington
Silver City
Hachita
Bennie Jacobs
Carol’ Parker
Arizona
Silver Bell
Alfred English
Jerome English
Mexico
A. J. Fitch
Emma McKinney of
Deming
John Fitch
J. M. Heffiker
Vaughn
Maude Fowes
Soil Conservation Urged as National Must
Editor E H Tayllor argues soil is a factory for feeding plants animals and humans, stressing national must for conservation and proper soil use. The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN piece frames soil as essential to food production and ecological health.
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E. H. Tayllor
Country Gentleman
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