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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
1
The maguey cactus thrives on Mexico’s mesa and supplies medicine, drink, and fiber. Aquamiel from sap yields medicinal juice. fermentation produces pulque and distillation creates mescal tequila. The plant also yields tough flexible fiber used in weaving baskets and clothing.
A newly married Baltimore woman, feeling confident in household tasks, balks at the ashman’s shout Ash-ees! misunderstanding the term. She finally answers in a dignified but humorous refusal, “No, I do not care for any today.”
A memorial presented to the Swiss government by the ligue for the preservation of scenery asks that no further concessions be granted for Alpine railways. It notes public sentiment in Switzerland favors preserving beauty over railway expansion and suggests future concessions may be harder to obtain.
Scrappy lawmakers eye a challenge from John L. Sullivan supporters aiming to elect him from a Massachusetts district. If elected he would follow John Morissey who once served a New York district after a career as a prize fighter.
A Guanajuato mining camp resident letters the Mexican Herald about Guanajuato’s evolution from a silver center to a thriving gold producer. The piece notes historic mines like Valenciana, La Luz, and Rayas shifting to gold with Pinguico Carmen Naval El Monte San Nicolas Pasadena Peregrins and Villapando among key sites.
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