Quantcast The past 100 years March 12 - SantaFeNewMexican.com
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion
News for Santa Fe and New Mexico :

Advertisement

Email | Print | RSS |

The past 100 years March 12

Related

More on this site

Advertisement

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

March 12, 1908: A handsome new stone coping is being placed in front of the public library by George S. Blunt, who donated the fence to the Woman's Board of Trade, which has charge of the library building.

Assessor M.A. Ortiz will leave tomorrow morning on a trip through the northern precincts of the county making assessments on property there.

March 12, 1958: Alligators are OK but a rattlesnake is a no-no. The variety of items that people send — or try to send — through the mails is "amazing," Santa Fe Postmaster Edward Berardinelli stated. But some of the items are not wanted, so much so that there are penalties of up to $5,000 fine and five years imprisonment or both, if you are convicted of mailing them. One of the better-known non-mailables is chain letters. Others are lottery advertising and tickets, sweepstakes tickets, obscene matter, some articles relating to birth prevention, liquor, firearms, explosives, matches, caustic acids, treasonable statements, poisons and poisonous reptiles.

March 12, 1983: Vallecitos — About 9 a.m. every day, a National Guard tanker truck creeps up main street of this mountain village, sounding an alarm that tells people fresh water is available. Vallecitos residents, whose community well water has become polluted with bacteria, line up outside their homes with buckets, bottles and whatever containers they can find to be filled with fresh water taken from Espanola's municipal system. Residents of the town want to build a new water system, but funding remains a stumbling block.


More from The Santa Fe New Mexican

Sports

NCAA football: Free-spending expansion of college bowl schedule could be maxed out

NEW YORK — After years of relentless expansion, college football's nearly monthlong holiday party — the bowl season — finally seems to have maxed out.  »Story

Business

Stocks open lower after jobless claims jump

NEW YORK — Fresh worries about widening unemployment are adding investors' list of concerns about the economy and are weighing on stocks in early trading.  »Story

US/World News

Report: Obama will nominate Hillary for secretary of state

WASHINGTON — An aide to Barack Obama's transition team says the president-elect is on track to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving.  »Story

Links



Daily newsletter signup


Sponsored by:

Advertisement