13 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
1
Bridget Flanigan described herself as a poor tone Irish widow woman when arrested for bes ting at Wells. Her belongings included tea sugar beefsteak bacon bread buns biscuits sagot onions pipes tobacco cigarettes snuff and two apples.
The Boston Browning Club session breaks as a speaker claims we can’t linger on grand words. A sudden interruption from a character in the scene prompts an immediate adjournment toward the window, creating a comic pause in the proceedings.
Farmer Corn Tossel defends investing outside the hometown claiming local pride and faith in neighbors who won’t miss real bargains, insisting the township is too smart to let good deals slip by.
A local editor offended by losing a courtship recounts the wedding in a blurted column. He accuses the neighboring groom of courting a woman of uncertain age but with a robust bank account. The piece titled Another Old Resident Gone reflects spiteful commentary on the marriage and departure.
The use of wooden flooring is rising in Italy, filling the former strong demand for marble tiling and cement. Oak, larch and pitch pine dominate the market with little maple birch or beech entering production.
A student asks the professor about discoveries on Venus, and the old professor, imagining mythic images, quips that nothing exists if the pictures are authentic. The remark appears in a Chicago News piece.
Des Moines Capital contemplates a rare figure who will stand for reformist aims beyond his own faction. The paper questions where such a universally right advocate can be found amid partisan zeal.
Tea grown in Burmah is nearly all processed into letpet a pickled tea eaten as a condiment. This practice does not impact the world supply of tea for drinking.
A dramatic exchange where a suitor pleads with a maiden who answers with a single word, Blood, revealing a dark motive. The line captures a chilling moment of desire and danger in a historical or literary vignette.
The brief notes that three month old James K. Zitek has four teeth and is expected to play piano by age two, reported in the Lincago evening ros.
A reflective line about humanity and the moral debt owed to others, arguing a society should measure burdens beyond merely financial rates and taxes. The statement warns that reducing human obligation to monetary charges would be a bad day for humanity.
A London Mail opinion note contrasts the wealthy backing to the 80 ciety with a countess patron and the lack of aid for the poor neighboring district. The piece critiques social disparity and urges greater local generosity.
Nitrate deposits were located in the foothills of the Guadalupe mountains about forty miles from Cariebad several months ago. The vein system shows six veins from ten to twenty feet wide with samples indicating around sixty percent nitrate. The Lyon Mining Company is organized to develop the mine as New York and Denver capitalists become interested and will visit soon.
Charles Dominik, an early Southwest freighter and drover, died in Golden New Mexico at age 102. Born in 1810, he remained active in freighting and draying until recently. Many of his early associates are now dead, and much of the Southwest’s early days are now largely unknown.
Deming Headlight reports Dan Hogan of San Bernardino California arrived in town and bought two heavy flannel shirts. After a night at a tavern he misplaced the shirts, leaving Hogan puzzled and asking who took them as he searched his overcoat and barrel top parcel. No trace found by press time.
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