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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1917
Page
3
Local news recounts passengers traveling to Albuquerque and the UK for trade and visiting relatives. Cattle shipments from Artesia head to Kansas City. calves sent to Texas. holiday meals and family gatherings noted with turkey roasts and Hoover era references.
Dan Lucas and family traveled from Roswell to spend Thanksgiving with siblings John and George Lucas at Joho Lucas home. Mrs Nelly Gray and little Virginia accompany him in the visit to the same town.
A New York Sun tour of a refurbished liner converted into a seaplane carrier shows a vast display of aircraft from small models to three passenger planes. The scene highlights British fleet strength and cooperation with American warships guarding British shores.
A boy describes how a recruiter offered joining the Seoute and how Thanksgiving turned from hardship to help when a uniformed figure delivered a turkey and cranberry sauce, leading to a grateful family moment on November 28 at Purdy's Furniture store.
A fragmentary Cloventale notice lists local residents and families including Jomoine Stewart, John, Helen, Hester, Chas Gains, Bert, Jim Will Cox, Barney Hopkins, Joe Whitley, Master Culp, and Oliver. It mentions movements, visits, and upcoming meetings or tasks among townsfolk with several uncertain phrases and tangential details.
A garbled passage references figures like Nere bur fie opine, Graver, Areh Sanders, and Clay McGoniodl in a scattered tale of a race or contest. Mentions of farms, eateries, and streets hint at a community event with unclear details and many misrendered names.
Nice, fat young turkeys eight to ten pounds priced at 22 cents a pound delivered anywhere in Carlsbad Wednesday. Moe I D Myte advertises turkeys and fruitcakes. Nellie Cr. appears in a local note. Also mentions chocolates in Redwood boxes at Dick's Drag Store and a Crawford Theater show on Thursday November 29 featuring Mother of France by World Film Corporation.
A storage facility to store Isthmian crops will cost about 1 million dollars and be built at Cristobal. The plant will use the Gatun hydroelectric power plant area and support abundant forage facilities and vegetable storage for post harvest needs.
Women in Chicago face a drive to fill war jobs with pay and fast promotion. An applicant for a diplomatic buyer position for the Red Cross offered to manage hundreds of girls and accept less than $90 weekly, while a more senior post offered $50 weekly but required proven talent for rapid advancement.
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