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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1917
Page
3
The Sihrra County Advocate edited by W C Thompson announces a Friday edition dated August 24 1917 with subscription options listed as one year and six months. The brief notice provides pricing lines indicating amounts in dollars.
Hillsboro items report bar silver price changes from 88 1 4 to 75 1 2 from twenty four years ago. Local visits include W BR Doran Dr Redal Arrey and Dr O H Brown scheduling August 27 dental work. Community mentions span dove season opening license reminders and an Albuquerque printing firm visitor.
Two major causes of heart trouble are underwork and overwork with underwork as the chief factor. Overwork causes physical strain not mental, and long distance runners or athletes can have hypertrophied hearts. studies of about 10,000 primary school children found 60 percent with physical defects including vision, nutrition, lungs, and heart ailments.
A 19th century style medical ad offers a $100 reward for any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Medicine cannot cure. It promotes internal use to affect the blood and mucous surfaces, claims constitution building, and invites testimonials, listing Toledo Ohio as the address and claiming wide availability through druggists.
State Engineer's Office in Santa Fe announces that on July 24 1917 Edward Crouch of Caballo Sierra County filed for a permit to appropriate public waters of New Mexico. The proposal is to divert from Las Anis Creek near the river and references section and range directions with geographic bearings and distances.
A notice outlines an irrigation project granting diversion rights to water from a stream for twenty acres and domestic use, with a protest deadline of October 22, 1917 and hearing options. The Treasury Comptroller certifies The First National Bank of Hot Springs in Sierra County, NM, is authorized to commence banking business under US statutes, with June 15, 1917 official signature and public notice dates.
First all girls under fifteen may enter a quilt at least 60 by 72 inches. Second quilts go to the Red Cross. Third prizes of 25, 15, and 10 dollars for top quilts. Fourth entrants must sew with minimum help from mothers. Contest closes noon August 31, 1917. Quilts to be tacked not quilted.
Government seeks two million three hundred thousand acres of Oregon and California Railroad Co Grant Lands opened for homesteads and sale. The large map shows lands by sections with soil, climate, cultivation, temperature, and other details. One Dollar Grant Land Locating Co Portland Oregon advertisement.
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