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Newspaper
The Old Abe Eagle
Location
White Oaks, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1893
Page
3
A Pittsburgh piece reports that about a thousand women labor in iron bolt works. Girls aged sixteen to fifty perform tasks from pointing bolts to threading and packing nuts. They endure thick oil smells, heat, and risk of injury while earning fifty cents to a dollar daily with neat uniforms and rest periods.
A reflective piece on faith and exploration. It argues that a believer may travel beyond familiar paths guided by circumstance and divine trust. The text emphasizes relying on inner principles and bold action when facing unfamiliar journeys.
A San Francisco Examiner piece recounts Judge Redman using a yard of red tape to signal a sentence when a Spanish interpreter was unavailable during a Monterey murder sentencing. The crowd and prisoner groaned as the court improvised to convey the sentence. A separate note from the Eastary Argus describes a dentist reviving an almost dead sparrow after electric shocks.
A long familiar figure, called Old Bill, sells cheap eyeglasses from a small tray on a camp stool outside No. 31 Park Row. For twenty years he arrives early, shifts from winter overcoat to summer attire, and remains an anonymous, wealthy-seeming character.
The article notes Albert Koebele in Australia sending a new ladybird, Novius Kerbelei, to California to prey on the cottony cushion scale. It details its small size, lifecycle from eggs to adults, and expected rapid distribution once released, aiming to match the effectiveness of Vedalia cardinalis.
Incomplete timetable notes Eastern mail for Carthage arrives 7 a.m. with Southern mail from Negus and Wt. Stanton Lincoln and Roswell arrive 2 to 3 p.m. Southern military dispatches depart immediately after 8 a.m. on Sunday 8 p.m. to Wan. Money orders and Register Dept open until 5 p.m.
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