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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
2
The Evening Current announces publication by the Carlsbad Burn Printing Company with editor and manager Wm H Mullone. It lists subscription rates for one year six months and one month and notes Associated Press membership and AP news dispatch rights.
The piece argues that wartime profits by the United States Corporation should be given to the government as a patriotic duty. It notes farmers receiving four times production costs, calls for contributions of surplus profits, and condemns newspapers for not providing free government space, urging readers to examine press practices and funding.
Nadine and Hobbs area residents share daily life events this week. John Mores visited, taking his brother on a shopping and family trip to Lovington. Frank Price hosts an eight pound girl. Will Terry winds through Hobbs, while Mrs JL DP McKinley and Clara Fowler shop in Nadine. J H Hughes hosts a Monday gathering. Huge rode the mail car to Toyah, Texas. The Watkins man was seen nearby as H Wine traveled to Artesia with Mrs Wise to return home.
A quirky note from Dufty West Virginia recalls Wille Merman who mailed his name on an egg with a request for a wife. The tale mentions a 4 by 24 foot potato patch between sidewalk and street yielding about four bushels and a humorous response from a woman calling him a “poor boob.”
Local notes report Chas Mi dred vaccinating about 190 head of calves and several residents traveling to nearby Texas towns for business, cattle shipments to Fort Worth and Flora, farm and ranch activity, feed shortages, and mixed weather concerns. Olin Hardin, Judge Green, J T Hawking, and many others cited with travel, vaccination, or cattle movements on the Knowles Knowles Lovington routes.
Mr and Mia Sylvester Reed and their two young daughters have moved to Durand Oklahoma to establish their future home while Mr Reed finds employment there.
The United States Marine Corps unveils a winter field green uniform prized for fit and pockets, outshining older blues. Recruitment drives push toward 90 000 enlistments as battalions serve in France and Virginia. Recruits are inspired by poster art and the famed Spirit of 1917 strikes a popular chord.
Local items record a stag party hosted by Hugh M. Gage with six plates, several visitors and guests including Joe Kimbrough and others, medical mentions, and travel to the Sacramentos. The Red Cross plans Christmas care packages for soldiers in France as the 20th century club resumes Red Cross work. Ellen Touston from Roswell expects to teach near home, while visitors from Hagerman and Artesia join hotel stays and social calls.
A condensed history of the U S Marines from 1775 to World War I era. It notes the corps as the oldest service branch, first flag-raising on foreign soil in 1808 at Derne, Chapultepec in 1847, Bull Run, Manila Bay with Dewey, and bravery at Guantanamo. It mentions entering Peking in 1900, Vera Cruz 1914, and recent actions in Nicaragua, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Europe on a noble errand.
Dixie Fruit Products seeks to repurpose an old Mobile Alabama brewery to produce watermelon sirup and stock feed. The plan includes expanding with new machinery to produce vinegar.
George Whipley of Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania reenlists in the National Army rookies at Camp Lee Petersburg Virginia after a broken back five years ago. He was once trapped beneath a falling coal tipple and wore a plaster cast for long periods but recovered to pass the army physics exam.
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