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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1913
Page
4
Mrs Armes pays for a purchase with a counterfeit quarter rejected by a clerk at the glove counter. The cashier identifies the coin and the girl loses part of her meager wages. The incident highlights the hardship of a small shop and the risk of counterfeit money in daily commerce.
The piece discusses Henry Melggs, a defaulter who fled from San Francisco to Chile, helped build railroads in Chile and Peru, and amassed and lost fortunes before dying in exile. Though repaid his defalcation long ago, an indictment lingered. A high railroad tunnel on the Central of Peru is noted as a dramatic feature.
A 68 year New Jersey hotel resident leaves a blunt note urging marriage as the remedy for bachelor life. The column cites comic lines about platonic affection and quick remarriage while poking at social mores.
Near Pittsford a dog sacrificed its life to save two boys when a passing train frightened a farmer's team. A mail dog at Frank Tousley's farm leaped onto the reins to seize them but was struck by a wheel and killed. One boy held a rein and redirected the horses to stop.
Beavers protected by law in Manitoba resisting shooting or trapping as colonies appear on the Ochre and Turtle rivers near Dauphin. One dam is under construction near a railway bridge, attracting evening visitors. Beavers flood farmland along Turtle river, prompting government talks in Winnipeg about opening dams but not harming the animals as numbers rise.
A fragment notes two maxims about endurance and justice. An eagle can live twenty days without food while a condor lasts forty days. The quote accuses crime of remaining unpunished when many are implicated.
A naturalist recalls a large fly, twice the size of a bluebottle, trapped in a spider’s web. The spider methodically binds all legs with silk, injects poison, and after an hour the fly weakens. The next morning the fly is alive while the spider continues to feed.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange ponders a distant earthquake and public curiosity. The dialogue jokes about unnoticed events while musing on a claim about Africans never sneezing, noting the odd assertion about pure blooded descendants living elsewhere.
A steamship tied up in San Francisco harbor carrying a raft from the Columbia river containing 9,000,008 cubic feet of piles. The event marks a notable record in bulk timber conveyance to the port.
A compact quotation suggesting happiness for the poor is simple but being virtuous comes more naturally to the poor. The note frames morality as easier than pursuing happiness, attributed to the Baltimore Bun.
A Sanskrit proverb warns that critics fail to see their own flaws while they judge others. It emphasizes self awareness and humility in evaluating people and ideas.
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