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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1903
Page
3
A narrator recalls Joseph Peerson hiring a shady servant and an opportunity to fire him. William, drunk yet honest, confounds the plan as the teller realizes one cannot dismiss a man for telling the truth, ending with a wry moral about truthfulness and consequences.
A Pattens Mills man praised Chamberlains pain balm after relief from severe rheumatism. A storekeeper reported a customer returned days later to buy another bottle, saying it cured him and keeping it in the home. The ad mentions its sale by A E Howell and W M Borrowdale Magdalena.
A collection of wry sayings and anecdotes on behavior, human foibles, and social quirks. Includes quips about pockets, lips, managers, and a humorous tale of Samson and a barber, plus brief notes from a city missionary and a physician’s testimonial for Chamberlain's stomach and Liver Tablets.
A New York Weekly snippet records a debate on pessimism and optimism. A student questions the meaning of pessimism while a philosopher calls it the faith of cowards, and conversely defines optimism as the faith of fools.
December has borne many names from Winter Monat and holy month to Christ Monat and Fumosas. The piece notes cholera risks and recommends Chamberlain's colic and diarrhoea remedy, with selling names in Socorro and Magdalena. It adds a quip about an Irving tour and a joke about cracks, plus a plug for Chamberlain's stomach and liver tablets and local sellers.
An assortment of humorous lines from various papers. quips about looks, romance, and a playful exchange during marriage talk. Mentions Romeo and Juliet, the Fisherman Grover Cleveland, and a lighthearted note on fancy stationery at The Chieftain office.
An Exchange columnist mocks Harvard President Eliot by noting 28 percent of alumni are unmarried and married couples average two children. The piece jokes that each graduating class awards a cradle prize to the first baby born, often displayed at class events, with boys celebrated as cradle winners and girls as pride of the seminary. It suggests increasing prizes to spur population growth.
A historic note outlines a visual model of the solar system using a two foot sun globe and scale distances. Mercury appears as a mustard seed at 164 feet, Earth as a pea at 284 feet, Venus as a pea at 430 feet, Mars as a pinhead at 654 feet, asteroids as sand grains at 1,000 to 1,100 feet, Jupiter as an orange at half a mile, Saturn as a small apple at 0.8 miles, and Uranus as a cherry on a 144 mile circumference.
A brief quotation from the New York Observer features a mother and daughter exchange about cracked wheat, with the daughter denying touching or inspecting it and suggesting the cracking, if any, occurred before arriving. The line captures a casual domestic moment in historic newspaper prose.
Notice dated March 18 1903 from Ketey City Socorro County New Mexico to Jas Sherin Albert Rollins F M Burk W Smith A H Amaden. Claimants are informed expenditures of 100 dollars in labor and improvements on each Florence group claim including Florence Eagle Lone Jack Silvernite Summit and Los Angeles to hold parcels for 1902. If within ninety days after notice you do not contribute your share of costs your interest will become property of the subscriber under section 2324 Revised Statutes US.
Notice is given that Thomas Stearkweather has filed for final proof on land in New Mexico Territory. Hearing before United States Court Commissioner on June 6, 1903 at Mon. No M. Witnesses include J R Holt Jr Elijah Sipe We N ork and Robert I Sipe of Graham. Protest or evidence to rebut must be submitted at the time and place. Nicholas Galles Register.
Land Office at Las Cruces New Mexico April 7 1903 notice given that the named settler has filed proof for continuous residence on lands Lot 8B and West NE 4 Sec 4 T7 R18 W MP Mer. Witnesses listed include Jones Higgins Kinder and Trujillo of Reserve Joseph and others. Court Commissioner at Mogollon NM set May 16 1903 to cross examine and offer rebuttal.
Administratrix Pinon B Howell announces creditors must present claims against the estate of Alfred E Howell deceased in Socorro New Mexico within the legally prescribed period or be barred. Dated May 7 1903 in Socorro New Mexico.
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