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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
3
Subscriptions listed for one year and six months, with prices. Advertising rates shown for various insertions per line and per 20 cent local time stamp. The document appears to be a vintage local newspaper rates page.
Hillsboro reports a busy week with El Paso trips by local residents, a Christmas program by teachers and pupils, and social events. Advertisements promote Whitman’s chocolates and Miller & Night store offerings while notices cover civic meetings, mining interests, and a court ruling involving the Southwestern Wrecking Company and local officials.
Edward Martin joined the public school last Monday in the sixth grade. Mrs Kendall has been on the sick list but is recovering. A Christmas program is planned at the schoolhouse on the evening of the twenty third. Ada Beal and Zima Williams were absent this week from Wiley's room. Annie Harden and Ida Beal are back after illness.
An old style advertisement promotes Ppeney Whitman’s chocolates and confections as the finest sweets shipped directly from makers. It also touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a blood purifier and internal remedy, claiming physician backing, testimonials, and free samples with pricing details and product claims.
On account of poor health, I will sell my stock of merchandise and store fixtures including scales cash register show cases and safe. I may also sell or rent the buildings. WILL M ROBINS.
Public notice from the Seventh Judicial District Court of New Mexico states that described lots and parcels in Book records will be sold to satisfy a judgment if the defendant does not appear and plead by the return day of January 3 1917. The notice is signed by Judge Merritt C Mechem with the county clerk Andrew Kelley and deputy P S Kenney dated December 14 1916.
A note claims Africans and their pure blooded descendants never sneeze, even when living abroad. The assertion reflects a dated, unscientific stereotype about race and physiology rather than any verifiable fact.
A steamship recently towed a colossal raft into San Francisco harbor from the Columbia River. The raft held 9,000,000 cubic feet of piles and set a remarkable loading record for the port.
A compact reflection contrasts happiness and virtue for the poor, noting ease of being good, and asserts critics often misjudge others while remaining unaware of their own flaws. ABaltimore Run and Sanscrit Proverb tone frames a moral meditation.
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