Witty miscellany from The Citizen’s witty column
The Citizen in Clayton New Mexico presents a humor filled array of quips and observations. It jokes about reformed football, money, disguises for watermelons, and a Russian princess marrying a UC Berkeley historian. It notes divers reaching 210 feet in a Scottish lake and reports a large turkey crop while cautioning about cranberry prospects. It also mentions tuberculosis costs and an armored car built by a New York motorist as a playful remark on safety and progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Whea
New Mexico Assignments and Incidents in 1906
New Mexico reports list postmaster changes in Dona Ana and Rio Arriba counties, with mail moves from Hopewell and Abiquiu. Sixty-five guardians advanced in forest service, and a Roswell trial saw cowmen Locklear and others acquitted. Pension certificates issued to residents across Santa Fe, Mora, San Miguel, and Taos counties. La Plata irrigation project rejected due to Colorado diversions and high costs, despite fertile soils and grain yields in the basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldriaad
Fairview
Sierra Vie
D. C. Johnson
Telles
Dona Ana
E. B. Moreno
Hopewell
Rio Arriba
Tras
Mariana
Abiquiu
Tyain
Isa Jenry
San Miguel
Brown
G. A. Wiles
Pecos
Paul Ayres
George Roberts
William Wells
Henry Roberts
Frank Taylor
Andrew Sur
Travis
Benjamin Locklear
Eddy County
United States
Roswell
W. W. Gatewood
J. C. Cameron
Carls
E. L. Medler
United States District Attorney
Canuto Martin
Pojoaque
Santa Fe
Jose Dolores
Gonzales
Sandoval
Albino Martinez de Martinez
Cleveland
Mora County
Winin Carter
Fort Bayard
Jose E. Sandoval
Ranchos de Taos
Jose Julio Dominguez
Villa Nuevo
Charles A. Jones
Teofilo Cardon
Apple Day Proposed by Farm Groups Amid War Hero Honors
Grangers and other farm groups urge a yearly Apple Day with households serving apples in various forms. The idea envisions large scale apple consumption and notes a broader social aim beyond commerce. Meanwhile Japan honors war heroes with promoted ranks, and Savannah enforces race seating while colored riders face boycott threats over segregation.
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Grangers
New Pension Increases In New Mexico List
A New Mexico notice lists pension actions including increases and new awards for George B. Barber Lincoln to 12 dollars monthly from Sept 19 1906 Esquipula Freaques Penasco to 12 dollars monthly from Aug 15 1906 Earl W Schultz Fort Bayard 24 dollars per month from June 15 1906 and 30 dollars from Aug 25 1906 Tone Silverio Mestas Vallecitos to 12 dollars monthly from Aug 29 1906 David Flisher Pena Blanca to 6 dollars monthly from Oct 14 1906 William A Reed Central original pension unknown from Sept 24 1906 Polinario Sedillo Central to 10 dollars monthly from Sept 10 1906 John Coyne Fort Bayard to 17 dollars monthly from July 2 1906.
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New México
George B. Barber
Lincoln
William A. Reed
Central
Tone Silverio Mestas
Vallecitos
Earl W. Schultz
Fort Bayard
David Flisher
Pena Blanca
Esquipula Freaques
Penasco
Polinario Sedillo
John Coyne
Ex Prisoners Are Helped At New Mexico Meeting
At the annual New Mexico Society for the Friendless gathering in Santa Fe the board of directors and officers were elected with Judge John R. McFie as president and J. J. Hagerman among the directors. James Edward Wood was reelected superintendent and reported three discharged prisoners aided in the year, with mail averaging three letters daily. many helped were preparing for self support after discharge via programs like the American Correspondence School for inmates. The group highlighted the need for an indeterminate sentence and parole law and a juvenile court, while life members unable to attend included H W Andrews Abram Smith A McArthur and Otto Lange.
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New Mexico Society For the Friendless
Santa Fe
John R. McFie
A. T. Morrison
Frank Dibert
Jose D. Sena
William M. Adair
Tao
J. J. Hagerman
Roswell
W. Tight
Albuquerque
Jefferson Raynolds
Woolf
American Correspondence School
H. W. Andrews
Abram Smith
Dawson El Paso and Southwestern Railway Incorporation
Phelps-Dodge interests file incorporation in Santa Fe for a Dawson to Corona line via Las Vegas connecting to the El Paso and Southwestern system. Capitalization is 200000 dollars. Principal office at Alamogordo New Mexico. Directors include A C James C H Dodge James McLean J Franklin H J Simmons E L Carpenter and W A Hawkins.
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Phelps-Dodge
Santa Fe
Dawson
Colfax County
Corona
Lincoln County
Las Vegas
el Paso
Southwestern
Phelps-Dodge Company
Alamogordo
Otero County
A. C. James
C. H. Dodge
James McLean
New York City
John Franklin
H. J. Simmons
Texas
E. L. Carpenter
W. A. Hawkins
Dawson, el Paso and Southwestern
Murder at Garcia home ends in fratricide in Santa Fe
A family reunion at Juan Garcia's home preceded a deadly shooting. Juan Garcia, 55, killed his brother, 34, during the early hours after an alcohol fueled dispute. The body was found at 2 am by revelers returning from a dance. Juan then slept beside his wife, later raving in jail about alleged intimacy. The wife denies any affair.
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Santa Fe
Juan Garcia
Great Power Company to Harness Colorado Mountains
A Denver firm led by ex Governor Myron Herrick and Thomas Walsh plans to generate electric power for mines towns and railways. Capitalized at 21 million with 9 million issued a 5 percent bond will be raised 600 thousand in Colorado Springs. The project includes Gore canyon reservoir and Moffat railroad alignment. Dam costing around 6 million will power 100000 horses and feed Leadville Yak tunnel and surrounding regions.
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Denver
Myron
Moffat
Thin Canon
Leadville
Yak
Railway Building Looms Over 22 000 Miles of Track
An 1906 1907 view highlights massive railway expansion with over 13 000 miles projected in the United States and Canada poised to push totals beyond 25 000 miles. Despite losses, five major projects remain viable, signaling one of the era’s defining expansion periods in western rail history.
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American Monthly Review of Reviews
Railway Age
United States
New England
Middle States
South Atlantic
Gulf and Mississippi
Northwestern
Southwestern
Pacific States
Canada
Makes Son Private Secretary and Leap Year Privilege Tale
The text cites Lord Bruce appointing his son as private secretary following a Gladstone precedent. It then mentions a home laundry starch claim, followed by a long, archaic note on the leap year privilege for ladies from a Scottish act around 1228, detailing the penalties for a suitor not taking a proposed wife.
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Lord Bruce
Earl of Elgin
William E. Gladstone
Herbert Gladstone
Baith
Size of Heads and Hat Sizes in Historical Note
The passage asserts average head circumference around 22 inches and hat sizes around 6 percent for men. It claims smaller heads under 21 inches are not powerful, 19–20 inches indicate weakness, and under 20 inches unsuitable for marriage, with under 19 and under 18 inches tied to mental deficiency and diotism respectively.
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Aberdeen
Wealthy Countess Insane Adjudicated In New York
Grace Sterling Countess Mankowski wife of Count Ignace Mankowski and daughter of late John M. Bixby was declared insane and incompetent to manage her property valued at hundreds of thousands by a New York Supreme Court grand jury and commission. She married in 1879, lived in England, and returning to New York September last for the sanity proceedings.
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New York City
Grace Sterling
Mankowski
Ignace Mankowski
John M. Bixby
Supreme Court
New York
England
London
Countess Mankowski
September Sthlast
Nervous chatter quoted in old Asia scene on love
A fragmentary note recounts nervous chatter about a Nina charge and names Miro Beaver and Cole. It then shifts to a proverb about a young man telling a girl he would go through fire and water, but avoiding fire water. The text blends rumor and a moral line about courting.
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Asia
Nina
Miro
Beaver
Cole
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Woo
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