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Newspaper
The Estancia News
Location
Estancia, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
8
A Northern audience learns of Iceland a half Missouri in size with no jail no court and only one policeman. The piece claims no alcohol is produced on the island and praises literacy and education, noting special areas colleges and a printing press that publishes many books each year. The report critiques unfamiliar laws and calls Iceland incomparable and independent.
The spool wood trade, centered in Maine, exports birch timber for spool production. Maine mills turn out about 800 million spools yearly worth around 1 million pounds, using white birch bars from 12 to 29-16 inches square and up to four feet long. Bars dry crosswise and season to June before manufacture. spools are produced at one per second and shipped to Rhody Island Connecticut New York New Jersey, with bars exported to Greenock Glasgow Hull and Feetwood. Bangor handles shipments up to 8 million feet in a season.
Sugar beet growing fails to attract former enthusiasm in the valley. Water is ample and soil is suitable, yet growers seek recompense for labor and capital invested. The prospect of a sugar factory continues to stimulate the locality despite waning interest.
A historical column questions who truly earns the wealth flowing to sugar makers and who bears the burden. It argues fixed high raw material prices harm independent mills, while growers feel squeezed by pricing and market power. It laments grasping profits and stresses agriculture as the republic’s foundation.
A reflective note urges morning prayer and daily civility. It stresses breathing space to bless others with kindness politeness and patience toward all, even the elderly or beggars, as a path to worthy influence.
Classified ads announce for sale cheap good year milk cows by A A Tine Estar son and 102 shocks of corn fodder at 50 cents per shock located three and a half miles southwest of Estancia. Also notes a telephone contact T S McBride or WD Was past friends should be slow to die and various quips about work and life.
Duran residents enjoyed a charity tea featuring strawberry tarts, with proceeds to a public school fund. The Union Dramatic Club hosted a reception for its members while local businessmen Cresy and Suhmoil er and E. J. Baker of Pace Mercantile were noted in town. A new ice house is under construction and the Porvall heating project nears completion, promising the town a growing commercial block. Homeseekers arrive daily as houses are moved to make way for new buildings. teacher Remere and forty four pupils are reported in Cam Tan, with bells ringing as the town moves forward.
A fragmented list of periodicals and publishers including Albuquerque Morning Journal Albuquerque Evening Citizen Las Vegas Daily Optic Roswell Daily Record and others. It mixes magazine titles with scattered excerpts on women and health advice from early 20th century sources.
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