The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Sept. 1, 1917: After the usual summer vacation, the Santa Fe League of the National Woman’s Suffrage association will resume its meetings for the ensuing year at 2:30 on the afternoon of September 6 at the residents of Mrs. W.W. Lindsey. All women who are interested in suffrage are invited to be present as well as all who are members of the organization.

Sept. 1, 1967: A note of gloom colors this day when Old Man Gloom is expected to go up in smoke. This morning its creator, painter Will Shuster, was taken to an Albuquerque hospital, seriously ill.

Doctors at Veterans Hospital proclaimed the condition of the 74-yearold Santa Fe artist as serious today, but declined to disclose the nature of his illness.

“Our prognosis is guarded at this time,” a spokesman for the hospital said. “He is a sick man. He is seriously ill,” the doctor said.

Sept. 1, 1992: The New Mexico Medical Society is proposing big increases in taxes on cigarettes, beer, wine and liquor to bail out the state’s ailing Medicaid program.

The physicians want to raise the per-pack excise tax on cigarettes from 15 cents to about 45 cents. For beer, the per-gallon tax would go from 18 cents to about 50 cents — translating into about 18 cents more per six-pack, according to the Medical Society.