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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1903
Page
2
Judge McMillan ruled in the contest between Abram Abeyta and Hormens G. Baca, determining Abeyta the winner and dismissing the content. He approved bonds for county officials and held both Republican and Independent Republican tickets valid and counted in the election.
The Sierra County Board of Commissioners met on January 6 1903 in Hintanono New Mexico. They appointed officers approved bonds and examined road supervisor reports and treasurer and clerk accounts. Several precinct road supervisors were named along with salaries listed and wild animal bounty certificates approved. The sheriff was authorized to hire a night guard for the jail with a $15 monthly exit gourd allowance.
An excerpt extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as strengthening nerves blood and muscles aiding expectant mothers and easing a baby's arrival. Personal testimonials claim improved well being in mothers and healthier infants, urging readers to obtain the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser and the prescription through mail order.
A notice describes a loan offer promising $1 000 in cash for a small monthly payment. It claims only $1.25 monthly interest and charges, with principal repayable at $5 per month. The wording appears to target staged repayments and concealed costs.
A seller offers assistance for securing funds to build or buy a home or to reduce mortgage costs. The offer invites readers to write or visit to learn the plan and promising a helpful explanation.
Board directs procurement of thread treeet lamps for the court hall and jail at the lowest pondible cost. Meeting adjourned to January 19, 1903. Vitranpo G, Trestr o, Chatman. Attest: Tuos, O. Hatin.
A fragment from the Anaconda Standard recounts an old mine mule kept by a Texan owner. The animal ate wood and hay, wore copper shoes, and reportedly could assay about 85 percent copper, with the owner reluctant to sell and planning smelting if the mule dies.
Mrs Johanna Soderholm of Fer gue Falla Minnesota dislocated her shoulder and a surgeon reset it. Her son bought Chamberlains Pain Balm from CT Brown which quickly relieved pain and helped her sleep after days. Brown presented a petrified fish to the School of Mines at Socorre found while cleaning a spring on the Canada Alamoga creek above Montivello-Ex.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Care. Dated by Fr. Cheney & Co as Toledo proprietors, with a closing line indicating the undersigned parties have known the product and its claims.
F. J. Cheney endorses firm integrity over 15 years and recommends Hall's Catarrh Care. The ad promotes internal remedy for catarrh, claims blood and mucous surfaces are targeted, priced at 75 cents per bottle, with druggists in Toledo and testimonials cited.
The treasury department reports United States gold and silver output for the just closed year. Arizona produced 4,155,009 in gold and 81,680,100 in silver. New Mexico yielded 688,400 gold and 295,372 silver. Texas produced 600,000 gold and 250,372 silver. US total gold output reached 80,453,070, up 2,186,370. silver output 31,040,025, up 4,352,084.
An offer promotes The Public a $2.00 16 page weekly review for democratic and republican opinions. It promises editorials cartoons and book notices, appealing to intelligent readers. Subscriptions are ten weeks for ten cents, with payment in advance and easy renewal terms.
In a Sept 12 1968 notice, partners Cucant to and Thomn plan dissolution of their firm with liquidation and division of assets. Grandjean Calnoon and others are named. ads mention involvement of Eph M Bonham and William H Llewellyn, district attorney, with practice in New Mexico and Northern Texas.
A miner reports locating the Mary Richmond Lode starting at a marked mound. The document notes a notable pitch or marker and a subterranean feature described as ground with a mound bearing a single mark, suggesting a claim site or extraction area. Further field notes indicate tentative geologic markers without full coordinates or official claim status.
Filing notices record location details for the Mary C and Mary Lode group in Sierra County New Mexico and the Elberax Quartz Mine in Apache Mining District No. 1 Dozens of porphyry stones marked 1190 1103 1116 and 1108 mark corners and monuments with mounds of stone and distances described. Notices set bounds to adjacent claims the Dukes Whiskers lode Jack H Fricke Iachel Jode and Mary Richmond Jodes and warn adverse claimants to file within legal deadlines.
Public notice lists Busang Gombe Hd B 2897 dying settler with intention to make final proof before official in Hiljebure New 1902. Names Urbano Aney Reaped and Fraveleco Say with contion euCe Ape Of weld land. Other named persons include Beno Jove Ke and Arrer 8 Mf LAB ALLEN Hoginter Pit Publication Gent Lau.
The document lists probate, treasury, sheriff, and municipal figures including Thos Murphy, V G Trujillo, Propoio Torres, Probate Judge Thos C Hall, Uleth J C Piemmons, M L Kahler Sheriff, Andrew Kelley, and Francisco Luna. It appears as a roster of officers and their titles.
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