The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Oct. 26, 1917: Santa Fe’s federal reserve district is in danger of falling down on the Liberty Loan quota. Santa Fe must strain every nerve to do her part to prevent it. The New Mexican today received the following telegram: Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 25 The New Mexican, Santa Fe, New Mexico:

With only two days remaining to complete subscriptions to the second Liberty Loan, only extreme vigilance and increased effort on the part of the Liberty Loan committees and all banks and trust companies throughout the country can insure success.

We have information that the official report of subscription to Washington last night barely exceeded two billion dollars.

Oct. 26, 1967: It was 5 o’clock in the still-dark morning and the alarm clock rang. Cathy and Dolores Leyba rubbed their eyes in the hamlet of Leyba, named for their father’s father’s father, who settled it.

They were waking up on the one school day each week when they must leave the tiny community in the rolling hills of southwestern San Miguel County at 5:30 a.m. Then they must travel three hours and 15 minutes, by four separate vehicles in order to sit in their 10th grade classroom in Las Vegas High School … .

Oct. 26, 1992: WASHINGTON — Members of the New Mexico congressional delegation emerged from Washington this month with some unexpected victories and more than a few defeats.

When the 102nd Congress kicked off in January of 1990, New Mexico’s senators and representatives pledged to pass legislation that would reform the 1872 Mining Law, rewire the nation’s energy policy, protect the Jemez Mountains, and open the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for experimental storage of radioactive waste.