New Mexico News Review Reports War Effort and Local News
The Albuquerque Journal cites Santa Fe Red Cross fundraising reaching $1,000 as local volunteers sew garments for hospitals. It notes a rough basketball game with visiting Clovis players and mentions national war coverage, wartime morale, and editorials from multiple papers. A varied mix of society notes, travel, and opinions fills the page.
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Santa Fe
Red Cross
Capi Al--Me
Red Crom
American Red Cross
Incall
The
Bridges Over Rocky Arroyo and Seven Rivers Planned
State and county funds will finish bridges across Rocky Arroyo and Seven Rivers, with concrete floors like Jones place crossing. Lakewood run will extend from east to arroyo, but funding limits delay full completion. Judge Jones expands water access after drilling a deeper well. Secretary Etter reports Pecos Water Users’ income near 20000 for February, a record month. Toltec Oil spades a new well east of Moriarty. Roswell well reaches 3100 feet as Pankey work proceeds.
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Seven Rivers
Jones Place
Rocky
Lakewood Frome
Carlsbad Argus
Judge Jones
Splendid
Etter
Pecos Water Users’ Association
Carlsbad
Toltec Oil Company
Moriarty
Roswell
Deillinge
Carlsbad Ar
Uncle Joe Clements to lamb ten thousand ewes this spring
Roswell News reports veteran sheep man Uncle Joe Clements will lamb ten thousand ewes this year with the first lambs due on the Sth of April. He notes his ewes are strong, few over four years, and he expects good flock productivity. He belongs to a local prayer circle hoping for early rain.
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Joe
Joe Clements
Roswell
Oil Magnates Return to Portales for First Well
Portales News reports oil magnates Mayor E. B. Hawkins and Col. Jack Wilcox from Electra and Burkburnett districts returned last week with a complete drilling outfit and a skilled driller. RG. Bryant supervises the project on the ground as work starts on the first well.
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E. B. Hawkins
Col
Jack Wilcox
Portales- Electra-Burkburnett Field
Portales
RG. Bryant
Portales News
Meat Cause of Kidney Trouble
A noted authority warns that daily meat intake can form uric acid that paralyzes the kidneys in expelling it. Symptoms include dull kidney pain, headaches, dizziness, stomach sourness, coated tongue, rheumatic twinges, cloudy urine, and nightly urination. Suggestion: take four ounces of Rad Salts dissolved in water before breakfast to cleanse kidneys.
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Syé
Carlsbad Cotton Mill posts 606 bales in 1917 18 season
Carlsbad Argus reports the New Mexico Cotton Mill finished its 1917-18 season with 606 bales ginned, averaging 49.82 pounds, including roughly 1700 bales shipped from Loving and a high value crop. The season yielded about $28 per ton and 30 cents per pound for lint, with substantial local activity and shipments noted.
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Carlsbad Ging and Mill Company
Love J Otis
Loving
Carlsbad
Clovis Journal
Minneapolis
Carlsbad Argusings
Grant Chamber backs $70,000 Thrift Stamp drive in Grant county
The Chamber of Commerce launches a red hot campaign to sell $70,000 in War Savings Stamps in southern Grant county. Two teams led by Castleman and Bush will vie for prizes, including luncheons and medals, with a April deadline and promises of a banner at stake.
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Gordy
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Charles
Walshing
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Sisters of St. Joseph Acquire Lee Property in Silver City
The Sister's of St. Joseph completed a deal to possess the palatial Lee property in northern Silver City. They plan a high class boarding school for boys and girls, expanding beyond the Academy of Our Lady of Lourdes which they have run for two years. Built in 1907, the California mission style residence is a notable Silver City show place, with a glass porch encircling a flower garden and steam heating throughout.
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Lee
Academy of Our Lady of Lourdes
Silver City
Silver City Enterprise
Man Pleads Guilty to Transporting Liquor in Red Zone
P pleaded guilty before U S Commissioner B McKeyes to transporting liquor within the bar red zone around the camp. He was bound over to the federal grand jury in 750 dollars. The liquor car was loaded in Lordsburg at the Cash and Chesser store, owned by Jim Cash former sheriff of Greenlee county Arizona.
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Cash & Chesser
Jim Cash
Greenlee County
Arizona
County War Savings Drive Eyes 259260 Goal Amid Local Progress
The McKinley County War Savings Committee launches the drive to raise 259,260 dollars in 1918 with subscriptions collected at post offices and banks. A horse was fatally injured when an orderly fell into a well during the effort, but he escaped. The Majestic Theatre in Deming opens to the public this week and vaccination efforts total about 6000 at the Deming health office. Deming bankers push for a new charter and Commission Government via petitions while J W Clark’s roller mill increases flour production and spurs winter and spring wheat planting plans. E W Baumann announces a new brick-siding shop for the People’s Meat Market, costing about 4090 dollars, with modern sanitary features and 2000-dollar interior equipment. The piece notes a chase and roundup by Sheriff Nickell regarding locals in a disturbance.
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Gallup Independent
E. W. Baumann
People’s Meat Market
W. W. Barracks
Mora Preacher Buys Farm Near Solano for 100
Roy Spanish American notes that Mora preacher Selle Farm Joe Allen purchased the Rev Ford farm of eighty acres adjoining his Solano area for 100, a modest price given 1500 in improvements and a decade old well. John Weisendorfer acquired 18 acres from J W Gibson and son at 12 1 2 dollars per acre, a favorable bargain though the Gibsons may stay for Mesa development plans.
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Joe Allen
Rev. Ford
Solano
Roy
John Weisendorfer
Santa Rosa votes down water bond amid war concerns
The Santa Rosa city fathers rejected a water bond proposal, deeming it ill timed during wartime. The Rosa Voice notes the town progresses with paved streets good schools and citizenship as the community moves forward.
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Santa Rosa
Cohnta Rosa
County Board to Decide Church Services at Mountain Park
A county board of education meeting at Supt. Simms office had all members present. The chief issue was whether church sets should be held in Mountain Park schoolhouse, with disagreement among board members.
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County Board of Education
Supt. Simms
Mountain Park
Toasted cigarettes aid troops in France
Red Cross nurses in Europe distribute toasted cigarettes named Lucky Strike to boys in France. The toasted tobacco process improves flavor and shelf life, with millions produced by American Tobacco Company and sent through tobacco funds run by newspapers.
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RED Cross Nurses
Europe
American Tobacco Company
Red Cross Society
France
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