09 Oct 1914
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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1914
Page
1
Reports from Paris and Berlin describe twenty days of intense fighting with no decisive result as German and French British forces hold roughly ten miles apart. Austrian setbacks persist in Serb coverage while German and Austrian forces regroup after Galician actions.
State reports show Taos high school aim, wool storage at Roswell, and San Jon wheat yields. Edits detail notaries, postmasters, debt, road work, fair exhibits, and a planned Santa Fe trunk sewer.
The article details heavy artillery duels around Rheims and Verdun as German and French forces contend in northern France. It notes Allied and Central powers’ troop movements, aircraft activity, bombings of cities including Brussels and Antwerp, and shifting fronts across Europe with Russia and Austria-Hungary advancing on Galicia and Hungary.
Paris dispatch records violent clashes at Schooten near Antwerp and Hofstade east of Ghent as Belgians repulse German assaults. Reports note German artillery bogged in mud, Belgian counterattacks inflicting losses, and Belgian civilians evacuated from Alost as a Zeppelin patrol flies over Ghent and coast.
Deming, New Mexico, prepares a $50,000 sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. Deming Cottage Sanitarium will issue $10 par stock to fund multiple cottages on a 20 acre tract two miles southwest of the post office. A modern water system and cheerful facilities aim to attract patients soon.
OSS prisoners at the state penitentiary are housed as guests of Landlord J. B McManus. The latest arrival is Anastacio Vigil from Clayton Union county serving four to five years for robbery. Total convicts now numbered around fifty four at road camps across the system.
The Albuquerque Fire Department relocates to its new home in the partially completed city hall, marking a key step in the municipal building project.
Santa Fe Game and Fish Warden Trinidad de Baca issued a game preserve license to George N. Fowler Jr of Folsom. Fowler requests a park or preserve near Dry Cimarron Caton Union County known as Crossella ranch to protect mule deer and various birds on about 60 000 acres.
Santa Fe Secretary of State Antonio Lucero sent out poll books to county clerks in all 26 counties for the upcoming fall election. Forty books were dispatched by express.
Santa Fé reports Felipe Tortillo completed his sentence at the state penitentiary and was released to begin life anew.
Alamogordo Otero county circulates petitions asking county commissioners to call an election to vote on issuing 100000 in bonds for roads The bond issue is favored arguing it avoids a local tax burden while bringing in outside money to be spent at home amid wartime funding pressures.
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