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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1917
Page
2
The notice calls on all citizens to subscribe to Liberty bonds before the deadline. It emphasizes federal reserve submission in Dallas and urges immediate action to ensure funds reach their destination on time.
A garbled account describes a ship named Thracia and a German submarine near Apel 27. The retelling mentions a captain, questions about route and destination, and a controversial exchange over firing. The passage is incoherent but suggests a naval confrontation and implied fate.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names and phrases with political or wartime overtones but is largely unintelligible and lacks a coherent event or context. No clear persons, places, or dates are readable to establish a factual item.
Readers are shown a German government war loan appeal that plays on Allied atrocities and enemy fear to spur subscriptions. The piece cites figures claimed by German officials, urges relatives at home to buy war bonds, and quotes from German periodicals and a frontline letter describing wartime hardships and the need to fund the war effort.
An American press visit reports Fontainebleau artillery school ready to train US officers. About 1600 American pupils are expected, with English instructors and rooms for Americans. Trainees must pass a rigid exam, learn trigonometry and physics, and receive uniforms before deployment.
Telegraph notice reports the death of Sam Blocker long time Carlsbad and Eddy county resident. He died in Tularosa New Mexico and his body will be brought here for burial. He was the sole living child of Mrs Slocker of this city and his death deeply affects his mother and relatives. Further particulars awaited.
Former Portuguese king Manuel, once King of Portugal, is named head of an orthopedic section in a British organisation based in Liverpool. He will inspect with the army’s chief orthopedic surgeon to oversee deformity treatment for wounded soldiers at the Center Hettain and related institutions.
A mountain foreman declares work will begin next Thursday as Dolph sells yearlings, steers, and heifers to an Eastern buyer. Four cowboys from Dog Canyon named Dolph Luther Johnnie and Dutch join the crew, while cattle are moved from winter pastures as dawn nears.
The narrative recalls a harsh work cycle on the range ending with a farewell to the land they roamed in freedom. Cowboys, riders, and crew like Percy, Stigall, Tom, Fuss, Ralph, and Bent are described as they herd, drive to Carlsbad, and head home. The piece closes noting the return home in one week and spring roadup ahead, dated May 27, 1917.
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