01 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1888
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment lists multiple names and titles such as Antonie Joseph and Wm. Breeden alongside scattered terms like Constable and attorney references. The text is largely incomprehensible, with broken names and misspelled words, offering no clear event or action.
Territorial notes report rising hop prices in Colorado and favorable conditions in New Mexico. Key items include Fox Senator Tabor selling the Vulture mine to English capitalists for 900,000, Lordsbury promoting Grant county as fruit land, and Prof Bibikov sending winer samples to San Francisco. Mine developments: San Pedro copper output rising, Hila shaft nearing completion, and 158 workers employed. Santa Fe Copper company to ship copper matte soon. Other items cover immigration circulars, alfalfa and beef projects, iron ore shipments, and various mining ventures in Silver City, Pinos Altos, and surrounding areas.
A vivid 1884 account contrasts French military presence in Algiers with traditional Arab marriage norms. It describes husbands beating wives as a sign of mastery and cites a Constantine case where a Cadi ruling supported a wife's protection, provoking a claim that men remain masters in their households.
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