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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1903
Page
2
R A Drake urges a clear financial statement from city authorities as Socorro governance faces scrutiny for lack of elections and spending. He praises a planned driveway to the School of Mines as a worthy public improvement while suggesting H Bursum is fit to lead Republican efforts.
City council warns all overdue water rent must be paid immediately or water service will be shut off. Residents are urged to comply promptly, with enforcement assured without fear or favor.
The Good Government League of Bernalillo County remains steadfast in its drive to remove political wrecks. President Roosevelt visited Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Socorro upgrades its tax telephone system as a major public project, prompting city authorities to protect promoters and punish property damage.
The near year end looks favorable for Socorro County with a cool and productive shearing and lambing season. Range feed is better than average and the Rio Grande is running bank full, indicating ample water during this season.
A citizen lauds the county’s financial management expressing confidence that the funds are handled wisely and an accurate accounting of receipts and expenditures will be provided, giving residents strong reason to be thankful.
The Globe-Democrat notes a sharp rise in arrivals from the British islands in March 1903 with England sending 2705, Ireland 1709, and Scotland 717, while total annual immigration may top 1,000,000. It argues growth reflects renewed English-speaking influx amid general prosperity.
The hydrogen atom is imagined as a tiny solar system with about seven hundred electrons. Lodge describes electrons as ultimate charged particles, comparing their motion to a vast, impenetrable crowd within the atom and noting their speeds, suggesting a dramatic rethinking of matter’s constitution.
Sir Oliver argues that objects grow proportionally larger apart and that there is no absolute size, suggesting solar and star systems may be atoms within a larger cosmos. He imagines an atom as a sphere of motion beyond human conception, a bold, mind widening idea.
A teacher's vacation abroad inspired a toy of exchange by mail between distant students. Honolulu girls and Chicago pupils trade letters, sharing experiences from surfing to taro roots, broadening minds and widening sympathies across oceans. The piece envisions wireless links enabling instant messages between unknown friends.
A Greenville law student named H P Burbage reports a four to five year cough improved by Chamberlains cough remedy. He used two bottles of the twenty five cent size and says he was permanently cured. Sold by A E Howell Socorro W M Borrowdale Magdalena Texas is described in promotional prose as a symphony of beauty and abundance.
D. H. Turner of Dempsey town Pennsylvania reports using Dr. King's New Life Pills nightly for two weeks and says they restore youthfulness. The ad claims benefits for liver stomach and bowels with a purely vegetable formula and no griping. Priced at 25 cents at all druggists.
J Ogden Armour, Chicago millionaire, endows a bloodless surgery hospital with 3 million dollars to treat congenital hip dislocation in children. It seeks at least 100000 dollars yearly income for sustenance. named Lolita Armour Institute, to be run by Dr Mueller under Dr Adolph Lorenz, with no surgeons and free treatment.
A lodging house keeper reports a poor woman on the first floor near death with only occasional consciousness. A sympathetic district visitor suggests asking for the laundress address. London Tit and Dr. T. G. Herritt from Mehoopany Pa tout Electric Bitters curing gastric ulcer hemorrhages with long remission. The Texas Farmers Improvement Society, 3000 Black farmers, owns 50 000 acres, 8000 cattle, 7000 horses, aims to lift crop mortgages and spread better farming methods.
A parable from Chums about a crying boy and a string of petty retributions. An unrelated ad notes Bucklen’s Arnica salve cures piles with 24 tumors after failed remedies. A piano progress remark follows, ending with a cautious exchange about sincerity.
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