24 Feb 1905
Page 1
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1905
Page
1
An advertisement for the Pillsbury Visible Typewriter from Pittsburg Writing Machine Co. promotes a plain view writing action with universal keyboard and removable type, highlighting suitability for tabulating and invoice work. W. O. Thompson is listed as local agent in Hillsboro New Mexico.
The notice advertises direct routes to Kansas City St Louis Chicago Boston New York Philadelphia Denver Ombaa St Paul and Northern points via through trains. It promises smooth track daily tourist sleeping cars and Pullman palace sleepers on all through journeys with meals at Santa Fe Harvey Houses on trains without dining cars. W R Brown El Paso Texas.
Lake Valley Station reports the January 1 schedule change with the Lake Valley branch ceasing Sunday service. Train will run daily except Sunday, effective immediately, impacting riders and local schedules.
A humorous note extols the telephone as a cheerful aid in daily life with examples from a suburban housewife. An engineer recounts the Corinth Gulf to Aegina canal history from ancient dates to 1893, detailing costs, dimensions, construction hurdles, and early usage while noting current sea routes and future potential.
An old river man notes that despite claims of white labor replacing black roustabouts, the negro remains closely tied to steamboat life, born to river work. The piece shifts to zoological trivia about the largest of the New York Zoo’s tortoises, contrasting a 66 pound hatchling with a vast Testudo gigantea of older lineage.
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