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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1904
Page
3
A Santa Fe New Mexican summary critiques past territorial mismanagement and credits Governor Otero with stabilizing finances. It cites half a million dollars in direct tax allocations to counties for institutions such as hospitals and schools, funded by taxes and supplemented by land sales.
The piece recalls John Wilkes famed for ugliness yet famed for charisma across society. It recounts his boastful claims about winning any woman’s grace and notes his marriage to a wealthy beauty. It ends with an old testimonial about Snow Liniment curing a chin sore believed cancer in 1902 and a request for a bottle for a sister.
A temperance lecturer argues that a lifelong drinker could drink enough to float a ship. An audience member, once a whaling captain, quips the ship itself could be drunk. In a hospital scene a visitor jokes with a patient about a doctor calling him a “beautiful case.”
A conversation unfolds where the lady principal defends the college program emphasizing thorough athletic training for girls. A father questions if the education also makes Lizzie strong enough to assist her mother with dishwashing when the cook is ill.
A government study of 73 city residents in Dresden shows all sleep in closed rooms, avoid baths and drafts, and sleep eight to nine hours nightly, with these habits cited as keys to long life. Also includes a testimonial for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets helping indigestion.
Mr. George K. Babock of North Plain Connecticut was thrown from a wagon and severely bruised. He reports Chamberlain's Pain Balm gives quick relief and claims it is the best liniment for sprains and bruises. The ad extols its faster healing claims.
An attache of the Japanese legation in London cites five women who killed themselves after their husbands disgraced them in the army. The note warns of distress in remote households and urges Bucklen's Amica Salve for burns and wounds, 25c at druggists. Tickets on sale June 14 to St. Louis and Kansas City, round trip $25, limited ten days, chair cars and couches. Also contains a Notice for Publication for a Homestead Entry No. 6132 at Santa Fe Land Office dated May 21 1904 with final proof July 9 1904 by José Sanches and witnesses Manuel Sanches Juan Padilla Antonio Sunches Jesus Maria Sanches for SWE NE Nis AESEN SEL4 Sec. 6 T.3 Ne R. 8B W.
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