New Mexico News Briefs Highlight Local Developments
Statewide items report Albuquer que free mail delivery expected and Las Vegas electric rates cut. Roswell census shows 2500 schoolchildren, Alamogordo gains new fire truck, Capitan builds two churches, and Lordsburg reports rich mining strikes. Deming ranches, Port Sumner canning, and Port Sumner potato yields noted alongside school census shifts and a new Santa Fe hospital.
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Roswell
Alamogordo
Tolar
Chaves County
Bernalike County Grand Jury
Sin Maretal
Eli Caldwell
Las Vegas
Capitan
Lordsburg
Amp
Alburerque
Farrington
Santa Fe
Clovis
Charm and the Christian Joy of Life in Seay’s Century
A fragmentary critique by Arthur Newson discusses charm as more than surface grace. He links true charm to an eager welcome of refinement and beauty, contrasting it with unlovely greed and self-righteous shock. He invokes St. Francis of Assisi to suggest a deeper, restorative joy of life.
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Arthur Newson
St. Francis of Assisi
Easily Pleased and the Daily Beverage Trade
Fragmentary OCR note discusses Red Cross Bag Blue and a claim about a million tons of crop needed annually to supply a daily beverage for half the human race. The text is garbled but references supply, beverage, and a large crop requirement.
Old Gobsa Golde and the Suitors Fable
In May December humor, George Ade narrates Old Gobsa Golde and Tottle Footlites. The tale pivots on an octogenarian millionaire marrying a young star. a dressing room quip ends with the wife advising euthanizing humor as the best form for age.
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George Ade
Gobsa Golde
Pimples Ruin Complexion As Man Praises Cuticura
A 1914 testimonial from Chas. FE McGinn of Olney Illinois describes a pimples and blackheads outbreak that covered his face. After trying various remedies he reports relief within two weeks using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The ad promotes samples and the Cuticura line with world-wide sales.
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Ady
Judge Friedal Fry rules alimony in Wagner divorce case
In Chicago, Judge Fry fixes alimony for the wife of John Wagner at 70 dollars monthly after testimony he earns about 20,000 dollars yearly as a painting contractor. The couple had separated months earlier and he offered to show his books to prove inability to pay higher sums, while she sought at least 759 dollars monthly.
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Fry
John Wagner
East Forty-second Place
Madan
Chicago Tribune
Suspicious Action Described in Fragmentary Portrait
A jumbled, fragmentary clipping notes a tense exchange about a marriage proposal and a denied match. The text references a father, a wedding, and a peculiar facial reaction, with garbled lines suggesting a crayon on a blackboard eraser and an accompanying rumor.
Scotch National Hero Wallace Statue Dedication
One hundred years ago a colossal statue of Sir William Wallace was dedicated by the Earl of Buchan to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Wallace is celebrated as Scotland’s national hero for his years long fight to free Scotland from English rule. After a period of hopeful victory his cause failed, and on August 5, 1305 he was captured and executed in London.
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Sir William Wallace
Earl of Buchan
Hannockburn
Scotland
London
Youth who flee Russia cannot be drafted on return
A 16 year old leaving Russia and a 21 year old becoming American cannot be forced into service upon returning home. The text also mentions Dr. Pierce's Pellets advertised as sugar coated pills for stomach liver and bowels with claimed health benefits.
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Russia
Dr. Pierce
Ady
Irvin Berlin Spotlight Sparks Berlin Ragtime Talk
A brief item from Berlin highlights composer Irving Berlin and his ragtime songs drawing attention in the city. The note emphasizes Berlin as a leading figure in popular music with renewed interest around his work.
Fair at Albuquerque celebrates 34th New Mexico State Fair
Albuquerque opens the thirty fourth annual New Mexico State fair drawing exhibitors from across the region. The event showcases agr icultural livestock and race horses with premiums totaling 20000 dollars and representation from all twenty six counties. Southwest riders Navajo participants and U S cavalry vie in a frontier exhibition as attendance forecasts rise.
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Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Fair Commission
Arson Attempts Target Silver City Normal School
Unknown persons poured kerosene on the rear door and started a fire at the New Mexico Normal School in Silver City. J R Roybal and dormitory students quickly fought the blaze and stopped it before serious damage. A second kerosene incident on the second floor burned a floor and window woodwork. vandals are blamed and authorities continue investigations.
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Silver City
New Mexico Normal School
J. R. Roybal
Roybal
Acond
Dis
Deer Hunter Mistakenly Kills Man in New Mexico
Hugo Gehan becomes the first deer season fatality in New Mexico after a hunter, mistaking him for a deer, fires through the underbrush. Behan was part of a hunting party when the accidental shot was fired. The body was sent to Los Angeles for burial.
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Silver City
New Mexico
Hugo Gehan
Behan
Pehan
Los Angeles
Clergy School Finance Opinion Sparks Denominational Debate
Attorney W. Clancy clarifies that no public funds may support any denominational school, while noting legislative appropriations for charitable institutions. The comments arise from a letter by W. Tharp of St. Vrain seeking guidance on funding limits and public support.
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Santa Fe
W. Claney
Clancy
W. Tharp
St. Vrain
Convict Escape From San Marcial Road Camp
Santa Fe reports that R. E. Eaton a convict serving forty years for murder in Grant county escaped from a road camp at San Marcial A reward has been offered for his capture
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Santa Fe
R. E. Eaton
Grant County
San Marcial
Santa Fe Civil Service Examinations Notice and Ore Theft Case
Secretary announces civil service examinations in Santa Fe with pay scales for several positions including husbandman ferryman auto machinist and linotype operator. Four people are bound over on grand jury charges of ore theft from a mine and disposal of stolen ore in Silver City.
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Santa Fe
Rardinelli
Board
Fis
Silver City
Justice of the Peace
W. H. Newcomb
John T. Ogelsby
Walter Ogelsby
Jefe Ogelsby
Frank Moreno
Jury to Decide Murder Case of Isabel King and August West
In Silver City a jury of twelve will hear the murder case of Isabel King and August West charged with killing George Hissband at the King ranch in the Mimbres July 27. Trial began after exhausting regular panels and three special Venices. Also noted are moves for the Episcopal diocese seat transfer to Albuquerque, Wildcat Leasing line plans from White Oaks to Carrizozo, and Matilda Wilson seeking damages from the city over an unprotected excavation.
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Silver City
Venices
Isabel King
August West
George Isband
King
The
Mimbres
Frederick B
Thew Episcopal
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Matilda Wilson
Suiz Albuquerque
Final Wallop From Hig Best Girl In Argument
A dramatic exchange centers on a rejected marriage proposal with accusations against the suitor. The scene shifts to a western melodrama tone as family disapproval and social issues surface, including a claim of a woman suffrage stance and a shady past. Betty’s cow anecdote adds rural humor.
Needless Advice to Benedicts About Self Knowledge
Judge Melville Carter of Baltimore reviews a disastrous Baltimore marriage. He notes that if a man is married he will learn all about himself anyway in the course of the relationship. The speech parallels biblical and Socratic guidance while highlighting marital insight.
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Melville ¢. Carter
Baltimore
Light Booze, Do You Drink It
A minister s wife recounts coffee dangers from nurse training to marriage leading to bilious attacks. She quits coffee, uses Postum for a year and feels clearer, steadier, and free of attacks. Postum products and prices are described, with a sales note that Grocers sell it.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Libby
Sacramento River
McNeill
Chicago
State News
Iof
Western Newspaper Union News Service
State Federation of Womens Clubs
State Teachers’ Association
Deming
Eaton Cattle Company of
la- Corre
Karajule Sheep Company — of
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Cimarron
M. J. Roseboro
Lincoln County
Port Sumner
Por
Otero County
Enero
Fergusson
Tony Albuquerque
Wildcat Mining Company
Roy
Wallace Chedderton
Homer Holmes
Tle
Harlan A. Wiley
J. B. Wiley
Cornelius Cousland
New Mexico Federation of Woman's Clubs
Chino Copper Company
Hurley
Carlsbad Oil and Gas Company
Emi
West
Weys
J. Ofallon Supply Company
Reeda Pou
15Th ST
Denver
Colo
Red Cross
Colorado
Tete
Onetore
Eucla Ave
Doan's
Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Carter
Brig Mall
Mall Price
Carters
Sid
Houston Post
Pierce
V. Pierce
M.D
Alu
POSG
Berlin
Irvin Berlin
Lisgatte Myers Sbacco C
Isfati
Farmore
Stockmer
Charon
Bummons
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wly
Civil Service
Emma Stolt
Erma
Pel
Corea la Grrane
Heman Bein
Bettie
Maggie
Bockies
Spohn Medical CO
Pink Eye
Epizootic Shipping
Fava
Dshen
Ind
U.S. A
Hig
Jack Billeneou
Detroit Free Press
Goldrick
Benny
Fick
Polytechnic Hospital
Hfe
Save the Baby
Betty
E. Heslop
Edmund Hesleton
E. Heolop
Dodds
Dodds Medicine Co
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Paris
Napoleon
Josephine
Benedicts
Socrates
Thermozine Company
New York
L Medicine Co
Tollet Ca
Boston
Masa
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