26 Aug 1915
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Newspaper
The Belen News
Location
Belen, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
1
Citizens urge mail order magnate to contribute to road repairs. The piece accuses a wealthier retailer of avoiding local taxes while merchants fund improvements, urging readers to write him to prove he will dig into better roads. It calls on responsible merchants advertising in the paper to set a standard.
A new movement in California led by former secretary Lyman J. Gage promotes loyalty to the country with porcupine imagery. It claims no fees or ceremonies while urging citizens to acquire military knowledge for defense and peaceable protection of homes and wealth.
The Premium Book of the New Mexico State Fair is printed with 180 pages and lists $10,000 in prizes, a 40 percent increase over prior lists. Interested exhibitors may request copies from the State Fair office in Albuquerque or await shipment to the newspaper office next week. The fair promises larger exhibits across all departments, including a notable stock show attracting exhibitors nationwide.
A local campaign urges shoppers to back dealers who offer quality and strong value with dollar for dollar savings. The appeal stresses freight and express savings as a loyalty incentive for customers and their families.
A fragmented editorial column extols record crops and national prosperity while poking fun at editors and social norms. It mocks aging wives and fashion, jokes about taxis and lies, and hints at subscription pitches with rambling humor and sly social commentary.
J A Garcia H B Henning and M L Fox of Albuquerque are summoned to appear in Santa Fe Tuesday before a panel of three lawyers appointed by District Judge William H Pope to inquire into the conduct of the law firm Marron Wood of Albuquerque in the Garcia case. Henning edits the Albuquerque Evening Herald and Fox edits the Albuquerque Morning Journal.
Col E. W. Dobson of Albuquerque is retained to defend General Jose Ynez Salazar who faces perjury charges linked to a battle at Ojinaga. Salazar escaped from the Albuquerque jail shortly before the trial.
Alamogordo police notified after a Cloudcroft woman reported about 400 dollars worth of diamonds missing around August 11 or 12. She asks officers to watch Alamogordo pawn shops and may have alerted El Paso authorities.
Mrs W T Brown wife of the Val mora sanitarium superintendent at Watrous New Mexico was struck by a Santa Fe train and killed near the sanitarium Sunday night about 25 miles north of Las Vegas She was walking on the track with other women and did not hear the approaching train The companions were unhurt The rest of the text is unrelated opinion.
A writer condemns gossip and scandal as inseparable evils in society. They are described as twin sisters feeding harm, attacking the innocent and weak, thriving in darkness, and deservedly despised by public opinion.
Governor William C. McDonald proclaims September 6 1915 Labor Day as a legal holiday in New Mexico. State offices to close and ordinary business suspended to honor workers across farms factories forests mines shops railroads and other industries. Attested by Secretary Antonio Lucero.
Las Vegas New Mexico August 23 through the efforts of Fidel Ortiz chair man of the county commissioners and Deputy Sheriff Felipe Lopez a capture has been made of what is believed to be the worst gang of livestock thieves in San Miguel County Mateo Padilla and Carlos Pino confessed stealing a calf from Ortiz and implicate in other cattle thefts Manuel Martinez seeks to plead guilty Margarito Britado and Dionicio Padilla are suspected accomplices Also note slight train dining car lunch service on Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain trains with waiters taking orders on the move.
Secretary Wiley of the Fair Commission announced they received contracts for major attractions at the San Francisco Exposition. The People hailed the act as among the best along the amusement lines during the summer fair. The association plans many more similar features to draw amusement seekers.
Readers express fatigue with continual Europe war coverage and the grim odor of sensational reporting, wishing for relief from bombardment of headlines and repeated mentions of casualties.
A fragmentary notice announces a bullies good minstrel show on September 4 and introduces Dr M C Traw a dentist moving to the city to open dental parlors to repair teeth, describing a war correspondent son and patient animals in a neighboring exchange.
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