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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1918
Page
8
The Silver Service for the battleship New Mexico, funded last year by state appropriation, is nearing delivery. It features many emblems of New Mexico and the Southwest. A committee led by Mrs. LB Prince oversaw the project, with Messrs BM Read and JM Cot tig among others.
The Santa Fe Red Cross opens weekly sewing rooms and evening sessions at the new museum, while volunteers in Santa Fe Las Vegas Las Norias and Clayton stage knitters auctions and raffles. Reports highlight loyal service by penitentiary workers and local women, with funds supporting war relief and Liberty Loan drives.
Local clubs churches and schools report fervent war time activities. Navy League card festival at Albuquerque raises funds for sailors. Las Vegas Woman's Club aids Liberty bonds. Red Cross drives in Curry Torrance Estancia Clovis report steady support with linens garments baths and donations. Scouts organize in Artesia Carlsbad. Boy Scout units form. service star hall honors those serving. Community meetings cover nurse care library books infant supplies and public welfare.
A panel of 150 school teachers awarded the title to a farmer's wife for balancing household duties with raising a family and pursuing personal study. The winner cited a wife who cooks cleans sews and brings up children to be useful citizens while finding time for intellectual growth.
The Las Vegas Woman's Club reduced monthly meetings to devote time to Red Cross work and the council for defense. The club purchased 100 dollars in war savings stamps and sent over 100 dollars to the YMCA war funds. In the second Liberty bond issue the club bought a 200 dollar bond.
A health article advocates daily inside baths by drinking a hot water and limestone phosphate mix before breakfast to cleanse the bowels and remove toxins. It links indigestion headaches biliousness constipation and foul breath to accumulated waste and promotes internal sanitation as essential for good health.
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