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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
3
General Pershing appears in France as the Lyric hosts a show in Hillsboro. Local note on auctions, land sales, and defense council activity amid county draft examinations and Red Cross support. Notable names include Ervien Bojorquez Robing Wolford and Armijo.
A New York American piece titled The H. L. of L. urges households to endure rising costs by reducing consumption of milk coffee cake bread jam ham and lamb to lower prices and hurt price boosters. It predicts a glut and eventual price decline within a year.
The Santa Fe New Mexican poses a provocative question about whether aiding Germexicans to seize Texans, Arizonians, and New Mexicans would constitute an overt act. The item reflects period tension and regional concern over loyalty and identity.
The advertisement promotes Hall’s Catarrh Medicine claiming to cure all stages of catarrah through blood action and constitutional treatment. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and invites readers to obtain testimonials from Fr. Ont ary & Co. Toledo Ohio. Bold claims and pricing are noted with contact details for druggists.
A hotel parlor scene features an admired pianist who inspires requests for Mozart's Twelfth Mass with one woman noting her husband belonged to the regiment. In Quincy Massachusetts a veteran baker refreshes a wedding cake baked 26 years earlier for a silver anniversary, recalling its original creation.
Treasury notice states The First National Bank of Hot Springs in Sierra County New Mexico is authorized to commence the business of banking. Comptroller John Skelton Williams certifies compliance with federal banking statutes. seal affixed. dated June 15, 1917. publications June 29 and August 21, 1917.
An all girls quilting contest for Sierra County invites participants under 15 to make a quilt at least 60 by 72 inches. Prizes of 20, 15, and 10 dollars awarded for first to third, with mothers limited to advice. Quilts to be turned over to the Red Cross. contest closes at noon August 31 1917. quilts to be tacked not quilted. three ladies serve as judges.
Government seeks farms and fighters by opening two million three hundred thousand acres in the Oregon and California Railroad Grant Lands. A large copyrighted map shows sections, soil, climate, rainfall, elevations, and temperatures. Postpaid notice by Grant Land Leasing Co of Portland Oregon advertises the land sale and description.
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