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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1905
Page
2
The writing notes Japanese superiority in strategy and combat, and remarks that New Mexico is advancing materially and intellectually, capable of challenging Eastern critics if they possessed discernment.
A statistician claims six million dogs in the United States, but Socorro alone falls short of that figure by nearly a million. The local community notes a much smaller dog population yet highlights the humorous discrepancy in national estimates.
Report notes that the Socorro Improvement Association ladies consider building a road to the School of Mines. If they truly undertake it, the project is effectively secured and ready to proceed.
Socorro County shows strong mining output with prices for thousands of cattle trending upward and wool and sheep prices remaining high. The region’s economy appears robust as mineral yields improve and livestock values stay elevated.
In Saratoga a disputed incident centers on John Wannamaker inviting his daughter to enter a leading hotel dining room on the arm of Booker T. Washington as part of an advertising ploy for woolen goods. The scene provokes questions about social boundaries, publicity, and the era’s racial dynamics.
Wils E Curtis writes a New Mexico column in the Chicago Record-Herald while joint statehood advocates demand a stricter alignment to their position, prompting pushback against his independence of view.
Two McCracken County men traveled to La Crosse and drank from a bottle causing dizziness. One attempted to tip a dumb waiter in a restaurant while the other ran two blocks after mistaking a locomotive headlight for a lightning bug. Kansas City Journal.
Sanitary officers in New Orleans stress immediate reporting of every yellow fever case to ensure proper treatment and prevent further spread amid concerns over widespread graft exposure and ongoing health measures.
A young man visits Socorro to take advantage of the School of Mines. He notes the lack of a passable road to the school and suggests Socorro residents show little inducement for students or visitors to come.
Coronet Warrerson of the Courier Journal shares a takeaway from his long European trip. He observed that European aristocracy is of a higher grade than the American equivalent, based on his impressions abroad.
A compact reflection contrasts noble lineage with sharp wit, likening intelligence to lineage while noting social range from liquor to corporate power. The piece surveys class ideas, hinting at Standard Oil as a benchmark of influence amid cultural perception.
Thanks to the Socorro Improvement Association, a new walk connects the business district with the Santa Fe station. A broad earth embankment, well above high water, is capped with cane ers from the railroad yards, eliminating the prior danger to pedestrians on lower Manzanares avenue.
A longtime critic laments the poor condition of the road to the School of Mines, a leading territorial institution in Socorro. The writer notes the school’s notable buildings but says sand, rocks, and ruts render access nearly impossible, causing visitors to miss the existence of the institution.
A Santa Fe company plan announced to complete a trans continental line from Galveston to Los Angeles includes the Belen cut off and Rio Grande division between Belen and Rincon. The project will double train traffic through Socorro and improve passenger schedules to and from the region, a change welcomed by local citizens.
In hot weather mothers are urged to use castor oil promptly for bowel troubles in children. If needed, Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should follow, then castor oil again. The guide stresses fresh oil, no substitutes, and keeping these remedies ready for instant use. Sold by all druggists.
A clubwoman recalls five nights spent at the club last week, lamenting a heartless husband who slept through her absence and smiled in his dreams. The exchange hints at tension between spouses and social expectations of club life.
A Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets advertisement asserts bilious and dyspeptic readers can regain health and happiness. It claims the tablets invigorate the stomach and liver, strengthen digestion, and regulate the bowels, noting availability at all druggists.
A traveler notes Chinese cuisine favors sun dried cuttlefish shark fins and edible birds nests as delicacies while Yellowstone Park reports a dramatic buffalo stampede. Cavalry guards at Fort Yellowstone endure chaos as bison breach the fence, collide with trees, and are driven back into the park after hours of effort.
Obe Witmer of Joplin Missouri writes to customers that Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is unmatched for bowel complaints. He states nine of ten druggists will recommend it and that there is nothing on the market like this patent medicine. For sale by all druggists.
Dialogue shows a shopkeeper and customer disputing counterfeit money. The exchange highlights suspicion after a half dollar passes. The piece ends with a notice urging forethought and promoting Chamberlain’s Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Essay excerpts recount Frank Wol ford leading the First Kentucky cavalry with bold, barking orders and a boast that his regiment would drive any two regiments out of Tennessee. The piece extols practicality over drills, then shifts to reflections on usefulness, initiative, and taking action. It closes with short items on health cures and light anecdotes from newspapers of the era.
Boswell recounts Oglethorpe as a youth in Eugene of Savoy's company faced a prince who splashed wine in his face. He challenged with wit, declaring England makes better jokes, then hurled wine to maintain honor. The tale ends in good humor as a famed tonic advertisement follows. Mary Walters credits Electric Bitters with curing fever and stomach illness after useless doctors.
The Commercial Tribune notes the Territorial Fair in Albuquerque for September 1823 featuring a grand stock show horse racing trotting ostrich pyrotechnics Indian dances broncho busting Montesuma ball US cavalry drills baseball tournament Spanish dances marching bands motorcycle racing grand street parades confection battles with a nightly grand lurrai from 8 to 11 pm on main streets. All attractions are free.
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