21 Sep 1917
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1917
Page
1
A brief notice lists the location as First Door east of R O Church on Main Street Magdalena New Mexico. Attorney at Law offers practice in the Supreme Courts of New Mexico and Texas with a focus on Magdalena Hillsboro area legal matters.
A miscellany of notes on plant growth under red glass, a pigeon perched on a grate bar in Reading, and a flatiron stand to keep food warm without burning. The column mixes science curiosity with domestic tips and odd observations from urban life.
A jumble of quotations and anecdotes hints at language quirks from readers in Kansas City and Detroit. One visitor notes unfamiliar foods like fried chicken and strawberry shortcake in England, while others poke fun at stock scams, lavish offices, and political symbols. The piece captures a mosaic of small town humor and titled curiosities.
Carl Schurz words compare ideals to guiding stars not to be touched but followed as beacons. The speaker likens ideals to distant shores on a vast desert sea guiding one toward creative purpose and achievement.
Disjointed riddle like items report a Pennsylvania death linked to a rat worn in hair, a hobble-skirt fatality, a South Carolina prophet predicting the end next year, and a quip about a New York capitalist liquidating ten million dollars in three months. A Cleveland grocery store sale cites the owner’s death, mocking the theory you cannot take it with you.
A fragmented note recalls two comets observed by those who stayed up late and mentions an old deer hunter who died of natural causes in days when bows and arrows ruled, reflecting on bygone times.
Cowboy Joe Walsey found a treasure chest hidden beneath a dead tree among four boulders on the Box X trail near Solomonville, Arizona. The iron chest contained old Spanish gold coins and solid gold vessels valued at about $400,000 by experts, with intrinsic worth higher. the find was moved to Ford Ford Sap Ford? to secure and identify the former owners and motives.
Albuquerque New Mexico September addition to ten battalions of lumberjacks and foresters raised with the Forest Service. Nine service battalions will be recruited in connection with the 20th Recr Engineers Forest. Recruits needed about 15002. All recruits will be trained as volunteers and non commissioned officers removed by commanding officers. Ten percent will be sawmill and logging operators. Twenty five percent will be technical foresters. Twenty five percent will be men with military training. Minimum age for commissioned officers is 18. Continued on page 2.
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