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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1914
Page
1
Ofige of First Door West R of R O Church on Main Street Deming will attend all courts in Sierra County and the Third Judicial District as required by law.
A compact notice lists a practice location at Room 26 Armijo Building at the corner of 3rd Street and Railroad Avenue, indicating legal or court related activity in the Supreme County of New Mexico and Texas.
Elfego Baca an attorney from Albuquerque will appear in Bernalillo Valencia Socorro and Sierra Counties court sessions dealing in mining properties including gold silver and copper in New Mexico.
Notes advise naval volunteers that beards will be clipped to a short Vandyke style described as torpedo fashion. The flowing beard is deemed out of fashion and associated with aging and creaseless trousers.
A London auction fetched the highest price ever for an orchid, a heavily blotched Odontoglossum form, selling for $6,086 in March. A small plant was included in the lot, signaling extraordinary demand for Odontoglossum varieties in the market.
A narrator recalls a Boston youth who went to Spokane for health and fortune. He tries tailoring then gambling and, after losing both, seeks work at a railroad yard. At an employment office he misreads a board offering “Timemakers,” promising a humorous clash with a burly foreman.
A Virginia election inquiry revealed unsealed ballots at a precinct raising fraud concerns. An election judge faced questions over securing ballots while commentators mock the procedure and discuss animal acts from Lew He’s Weekly with notes on geese and turkeys.
An American tourist slips into a pond on a lakefront and is confronted by a stern official who declares bathing forbidden. The exchange highlights rigid authority and strict enforcement of local rules in France as described by a traveler.
The joint resolutions filed March 1913 seek amendments to Article VIII and Article Ten of the New Mexico Constitution. Proposals include taxation rules for tangible property, exemptions for public and charitable uses, officer ethics, two year terms for county officers, and limits on term eligibility for state officials. Provisions cover levy caps, exemptions, and public debt allocations. Continued on page 2.
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