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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1917
Page
3
The Sierra County Advocate lists subscription rates and advertising charges. Base rates show one year subscriptions and six month options. Local write ups are priced per line per insertion with separate rates for locals and standard advertisements.
Local notes report repairs to the M and J K lighting plant, residents and visitors in Hillsboro, and several moves including Assessor Bourget with new deputy Amado Gonzales. Snow covered the area Saturday night, moisture benefits stockmen, and Frank Harris visits from Silver City after earning government Teddy Bear exam points. Mrs. Salen departs for Amarillo to reside with daughter Mre. J G Dawson. Harry Elliott renews Advocate subscription from Bentonville Arkansas.
At a regular meeting of Percha Lodge No 9 1 O F held last Friday night officers were elected for the ensuing term N G W Woat V G Steve Reay Treas T H Byrne Sevy L O Latham.
Ansel Cardner, a student at State College Mesilla Park, has been discharged from the army and is visiting friends.
Tom Lee repaired his Ford truck after a rear axle accident with Mr. Slease in town today. The school poll tax collector prepares for annual rounds. Mrs. Gardner left for Mesilla Valley after four months here, recalling her 1880s freighter days. Rain and snow uplift pasture prospects as livestock smile. The Pancho Flores killer case heads to Judge Keil on Saturday the 20th. Arch Latham’s son Tommy visited Hillsboro for Dr Hatcher on a broken arm. Charley Hoyle and Jim McArdie installed a larger school stove to replace the 25 year old unit as the room was divided.
Six inches of snow fell on the 14th. Mine development continues at Middle Perch Creek and Ballion Hill sites. Many residents visited Hillsboro on the 12th and 13th as Mr and Mrs G B Henderson did. Expect ongoing mining activity this year in the locality.
A quirky assemblage notes Los Angeles pronunciation as Love Ahnghayh and jokes about speech. It mentions Germany planning an 800 passenger cruiser with uncertain range, and an Indianapolis college professor’s remark on French clothing and professors, reflecting humorous early 20th century commentary.
An old style ad offers one hundred dollars reward for a cure and extols Hall's Catarrh Cure. It notes F J Cuzary Co of Toledo and a testimonial from National Bank of Commerce to vouch for F J Cheney. It claims the cure is taken internally and acts on mucous surfaces.
A metropolitan theater manager recalls a patron’s demand for an orchestra, ending with a quip about being drunk. The piece notes a Doctor Worden’s radiant infant care claims and says his barefoot children thrive in cold, noting the Good Health article that reports their health.
In Sierra County New Mexico the undersigned expend one hundred dollars on each of several mining claims Leadville Leadville No 1 Teadville No 2 Teadville No 3 Leadville No 4 Leadville No 6 in 1916. If within ninety days after publication you do not contribute your share of the expenditure and costs of averment the coowners interest will vest in the undersigned under applicable statutes. Last pub 46-17 First pub L-1-17.
A customer with an impediment asks for a clock while the shopkeeper explains cuckoo clocks are not stocked. The exchange plays on the phonetic request for a clock without the cuckoo mechanism. The humor rests in mishearing and stock limitation.
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