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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
2
Local column urges a robust home celebration for the national holiday and promotes Otis creamery as a local pride note. It laments limited community patriotism, lauds Brmony and industry, and cites past fairs and peculiar quotes on government and war.
The writer argues that no iron clad international agreement can endure under all conditions. History shows nations break treaties and friends commit murder, making enforcement of peace through pacts impractical. Even alliances and treaties fail when human nature and geopolitical interests clash, questioning the value of any universal peace league.
The draft bill allows Federal loan banks under the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 to loan on farm lands within irrigation districts and projects under the Reclamation Act of 1902. Mortgages securing these loans would hold first lien on water charges and installments. Scott Etter notes strong prospects as the measure passed the house and moves to senate second reading.
In Havana on May 10 the Associated Press reports an attempt to kill President Menocal with a bomb. Nine suspects were arrested before the plot could be carried out.
Major B P Bujac received a wire from Captain C J Molinari of Company M Portales inviting him to deliver the principal address at a patriotic rally Saturday evening. The Major accepted the invitation.
Washington hosts a wartime conference with England France Italy and Russia on the European war. President Wilson Secretary Lansing and military chiefs receive full briefings from Marshal Joffre and other leaders outlining battles and the prospects for defeating autocracy and securing democracy.
The piece recounts how General Joffre led at the Marne and shaped French strategy, emphasizing his concern for troops. It notes key figures like Marquis de Chambrun and M. Simon, praising Dreyfus as a physician closely allied with Joffre, and outlines France’s wartime leadership and international ties.
An article recalls Marshal Joffre as the only man in France authorized to hear the Toarabal title since 1870 and notes his fame as "Our Joffre" amid high praise from the French chamber. It covers his early life at Ecole Polytechnique, service in 1870, and rapid rise through engineering, colonial campaigns, and the war council.
Announcements arrive of an upcoming May 16 marriage at Roswell between Miss Maydie Lucas and John Dickson. The ceremony will be at St Johns Church. The couple are long remembered locally as schoolgirl and schoolboy.
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