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...Santa Fe New Mexican: "Henry started us killing pigs but he's a foreign expert...
...Tastes. Canuto still wears his U.S. work clothes-faded khaki shirt and trousers that have been scrubbed almost white and carefully patched, a blue wool lumberjacket, his American work shoes (without socks). When he returned from the U.S. last year (he had been a track laborer on the Santa Fe near Cherokee, Okla.) he brought Margarita yard goods for dresses, and some silk panties; for the children, dresses, shirts, shoes, a leather jacket. He also brought back some new habits, such as washing his hands before meals and brushing his teeth-habits which he enforced on his family as well...
Citizens of Albuquerque, N. Mex. read the newspapers dutifully but a little lackadaisically. What really made them hot under the collar was the new Santa Fe timetable...
...society of obscure medieval origin, are found from Texas to California among the Spanish-speaking Catholics. During the Golden Age of New Mexican flagellation (1850-90), the Penitentes' zeal bred scandalous tales of actual crucifixions, often fatal, among members. In 1889 the Catholic archbishop of Santa Fe banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense of sin and a flair...
...York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Santa Fe, Chicago & North Western, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific...