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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1917
Page
2
The Carlsbad News announces editor and manager W H Mullane. It notes second class post status and publication daily except Sundays. Subscription rates shown include five dollars yearly, one dollar for six months, and one dollar for one month with sample copies offered.
Readers offer items for publication, calling it a burden to editors and claiming it helps improve the paper. The piece argues news must be paid for and cautions against nonpaying tips channeled into the pages.
A New Mexico reader charges the Federal Land Bank at Wichita with delaying and downgrading loan applications. He alleges officials blocked loans to New Mexico farmers, pressured reductions, and reshuffled personnel to favor political interests, leaving no loans issued in the state for months.
The Rosewell News asserts observers believe President Wil wants farmers to gain from the law rather than from shallow political figures, suggesting a need for genuine representation on the Wichita bank board.
Si Hoes from Avalon spent Sunday with Lakewood folks. First home grown cantaloupes arriving Tuesday with shipping planned by Saturday. Mrs EB Hester of Avalon visited Jas M Wood and son Bertram in Lakewood. They returned from Mineral Wells after a month for J M J's health.
The State Museum in Santa Fe notes the rise of the pueblo on Inscription Rock and the addition of the site to the national monument by presidential proclamation. Three Laguna paintings by Walter Jat Launa were praised as among the year’s finest American works, with the Palace of the Governors image highlighted as a gem. The four works will tour eastern exhibitions this winter.
A garbled account describes Superintendent White promoting a free evening meal and a deported figure nearby. It mentions a professor and a hovering end near the lawn, with an alive gal picked up by Professor White.
An old New Mexico piece extols hot springs on the Rio Grande west bank near Sierra, 5 miles southwest of East Buttedar and the B. M. Hall reservoir. It notes mineral content, suggested cures, and cautions about tuberculous and heart conditions, while describing local life, land claims, and town growth driven by visitors and real estate pressures.
A 16 year old girl driving a wagon near Coyote Lake collapsed when the dashboard broke. The wagon wheels passed over her, and she died en route to Roswell. A inquest ruled accidental death. The funeral was set for this afternoon in Roswell. A young Mexican worker, Andres Nejeres, was crushed by machinery at Picacho and died shortly after. His body was prepared for burial in Picacho.
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