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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1914
Page
1
A partial transcription notes a room or office location described as First Door West of a railway commission or related bureau. The fragment mentions an interior space possibly used for official business and file access. No names or dates are legible.
A note lists Room 2 in the Armijo Building at 8ed Street and Railroad Avenue for practice sessions in the Supreme Courts of New Mexico and Texas. The notice outlines locations and the ongoing instructional activity without further details.
Attorney and councillor Elfego Baca of Albuquerque will appear in all terms of court across Bernalillo Valencia Socorro and Sierra Counties. He deals in gold silver and copper mining properties in New Mexico.
Yucatan exports for 1908 total 597289 bales of sisal fiber valued at 29626430 Mexican dollars plus 111500 dollars in skins and 18200 dollars in chicle. Over ten years the sisal bag product has produced 297000000 in revenue.
Joseph Choate recalled a 1860s case at Lenox dinner where a workman claimed left eye blindness. A judge used a green chalk sentence, spectacles with red glass, and the man read it, leading to the diagnosis that the claimant was an impostor.
A fragment recalls a Lancaster PA scene with President elect Buchanan, Abraham N. Cassel, and a toll road tied to campaign visitors. Cassel, head of the turnpike company, promised to consult directors on toll concessions but later faced requests to deter crowds, culminating in a plea to keep the crowds away after the election.
Sewell Ford, newly moved to Rye, N Y, discovers neighbor Simeon Ford through a telephone prank. Simeon accuses Sewell of owing money and demands payment while joking that Sewell should settle Simeon’s debt instead. The exchange ends with no clear resolution and Simeon runs a hotel.
A Brockton Mass child shot a man with a shotgun and a Bangor Me child killed an infant with a load of shot. Other gun accidents have been reported, highlighting how 99 percent could be prevented by common sense. The dispatch notes guns found loaded in homes with children, marking criminal carelessness. Molly Wentington Star.
Mining activity in the Black Range centers on the Silver Monument mine and Republic mine in Phillipsburg New Mexico. Calumet Mining company supervises about twenty men, with ore trucks to Magdalenes and a shaft reaching 150 feet. Pelican Mining Group touts high grade silver lead ore, while prospects claim potential for over six million dollars in ore. The report notes mislocations and mixed attributions, with this item partially ending mid thought.
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