13 Apr 1917
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1917
Page
1
President Wilson signs a congressional resolution declaring a state of war with Germany at 1 11 PM and issues a formal proclamation calling on citizens to support government measures. Vice President Marshall signs the resolution at 12 14 PM as the Navy relays the action to stations and ships.
A humorous mix reports rebels cutting queues yet failing to tuck shirts, a home for disabled poets planned, and towns eager to boost population. It notes a world record attempt with no neck injuries, a doctor promising to cure blushing, and jokes about aging by pulse. A St Paul girl travels 12 miles in 46 minutes. six thousand actors out of work. a Massachusetts physician claims to read age by pulse. A Chicago saloon fined $60 for police abuse, a burglar with $6000 jewelry theft and coal left behind, a French professor jailed for delaying a train, and a New York man repeatedly burgled within three months.
A man tells a bench to do away with a sock after the conviction book is produced, indicating it was his fifty sixth appearance in court.
A short quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson argues that a woman who demands voting rights and political equality with men should not be refused, noting that among the Shakers and Quakers there exist gendered power dynamics that support equal participation.
The state veterinarian removed a diseased dairy cow in New York and had it killed and dissected. In the stomach lay a gold watch with chain, a long-lost item from a boarder on the farm found months earlier.
A three year old friend asks Mrs C if she may have some of the pie dough marks left on Bobby’s face after he ate Jane berry pie. The brief odd social moment captures a child’s curiosity and manners in a domestic scene.
The largest whale ever captured in the area, a fifty foot creature, was netted near Santa Cruz by Fred Perez. Five launches towed it toward the pier but gear failed and the effort was abandoned.
A humorous clash unfolds as a father asks the sultor to support his daughter in her accustomed style. The sultor counters that only a different approach, not the mother’s or the father’s six month stance, will suit her.
A concise definition explains rag and bobtail as terms for a young animal such as a deer fawn at rutting time or a two year old deer herd, and the phrase describes an indiscriminate collection of sheep or deer with notes on usage and origins.
Report notes observers who stay up late may claim seeing two comets. The claim references Brooks' comet with mentions of two tall appearances, though accounts vary and some observers doubt the second sighting.
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