The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Aug. 23, 1917: The law of our state designates the first Monday of September each year Labor Day and a holiday.

While faithfully observing that day so set apart in honor of the dignity and sanctity of labor, since “Labor as wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven,” let us, also, on that day, vitally realize that our country, this year, has set for itself a supreme labor. The labor, so nobly begun and accomplished by our fathers on this continent. The large and final labor, world-wide — the destruction of tyranny and oppression as the foundation stones of human government.

While on that day we rejoice because of our wondrous prosperity and freedom, let us vitally realize that the business of the world war in which we are engaged is not usual, and that the labor of its conquest is supreme.

Aug. 23, 1967: Gov. David Cargo says there will be no more liquor licenses while he is governor.

Cargo’s comments came after he said Tuesday he was offered campaign money in return for a liquor license.

He declined to say who made the offer, but said it was from Los Alamos County.

Aug. 23, 1992: The excitement of Indian Market begins Saturday when the sun is barely peeking over the Sangre de Cristo mountains.

By 6 a.m. there’s more hustle and bustle on the Plaza than on a busy weekend day.

“We used to sleep overnight [on the Plaza], but it just got to be too crazy,” said Frank Marie of Phoenix, Ariz.

As the sun begins to rise, people are pushing and shoving to get their first pick of the art, flashing lights into booths as artists unload their goods. People wander the Plaza with fry bread in one hand and coffee in the other.