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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1914
Page
3
Local notice from Thompson proprietor dated Friday August 44 1914. Contains subscription and advertising rate details for one year six months and local write ups with per line charges. Reads as a historic newspaper pricing fragment with errors and misprints.
Hillsboro news recounts flood damage to the K M Company store and ongoing repairs, while residents such as D B Miller and Miss Lolita Alexander are noted in daily movements. Community notes include elections, court events, tourism to Palomas Springs, real estate plans by Austin and Marr, and a sheriff’s jail incident involving an insane prisoner.
Leonard Going traveled through Kingston and NAN ranch earlier this week as Tedford and Streker scout South Percha creek. Clarence Meyers and family returned to Hillsboro and Otto Prevost and Clarence Wilson visited the Black Range from Lake Valley and White Signal. The Kennett brothers resume the local saw mill after the rainy season as mining activity rises with pending deals promising development this fall and winter. An ore shipment waits at Overlook mine but poor roads delay transport. Fred Becker visited Hillsboro early in the week.
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for any cage of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
Notice warns parties owning land to take precautions to prevent prairie fires this fall and winter due to unusual grass growth. It advises plowing fire guards and burning between guards, plus burning grass in road centers to create effective fire guards.
Sierra County New Mexico public notice calls a special election on August 14 1914 to decide on prohibiting the barter sale or exchange of intoxicating liquors within a described district. Polling at the Marshall estate house Palomas Springs with judges Herminio Aragon S P Johnson and J D Allsop and clerks Amado Gonzales Otto Goetz. Returns canvassed August 29 1914.
Farmers and dairymen are urged to increase income by a method promising safe nondrugs products. An address in East Las Vegas New Mexico, Vega P. Jagn nell 723 Main, is given with a date of May 12 for an advertisement.
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