29 Oct 1914
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Newspaper
The Belen News
Location
Belen, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1914
Page
1
Items from Iowa Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and Minnesota report on a farm advisor search in Bloomington a child rescued after falling into a storm sewer a farmer accused of distilling silo grain juice a runaway horse incident a mail shipment of a child and other small happenings across several communities including a church egg fundraiser figs ripening and a cow's suicide after being sold or moved.
A Prairie Farmer message praises dreamers who imagine future farm improvements. The piece contrasts a boy with imagination envisioning alfalfa fields, dairy cows, and sturdy barns against a decaying hedge and crumbling cow shed, arguing for more dreamers on the farm.
A party pamphlet urges voters to back Hugh H. Williams for congress as a competent representative of New Mexico and to elect Narciso Francis Teofilo Chaves y Luna for the state legislature and Harry P. Owen for District Attorney citing experience and law knowledge. It defends Hernantes against accusations of ethnicity and emphasizes government service and impartial enforcement.
Joseph Ponzio of Switzerland sues Stag Canyon Fuel Co. in Dawson for $5,000 for injuries to his right hand and arm in a coal mine. Elmer E. Studley for the plaintiff. Judge William H. Pope presiding.
Mary Harris Jones reports coal field abuses to President as workers are mustered into state militia. She asserts women and children face brutal conditions and that state officials cannot manage. President Gompers in White House did not meet Wilson.
The Belen Citizens' Band announces a grand masquerade ball at Goebel's New Opera House tomorrow night on Hallowe'en. Music will be excellent and the floor in good condition. Attendees of previous dances praise the orderly conduct and enjoyable atmosphere.
The New Mexico Supreme Court handed down an opinion in the Curry County case Speakman v Hayden et al. from the January term 1914. The court affirmed a lower court judgment to quiet title to block 22, Lincoln Park Addition, Clovis, and held that an unrecorded mortgage assignment protects a third party only if recorded where the land lies.
In Washington on October 28 President Wilson was urged by Mother Jones and James Lord to close Colorado coal mines if operators reject the federal mediation plan. He listened and indicated he seeks a solution though doubts his authority to order a shutdown.
London reports say the West Flanders fight has paused after ten days of brutal combat. Both sides exhausted, artillery quiet along the Dutch frontier, Germans reportedly retired from their attempt to reach the channel ports, signaling a temporary halt as men lacked sleep.
A collection of quotable lines about husbands wives and family roles from a 20th century humor piece. It jests at divorce costs welfare household chaos and the quirks of mothers and fathers as social caricatures. The tone is light moralizing with playful ambivalence about gender and domestic life.
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