Several days ago the elaborate wooden…
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H. M. Porter buildingthing
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a.k.a. tienda del almirez, la tienda del almirez
fall of corniceevent
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Dr. Baileyperson
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a.k.a. Dr. Bailey
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Several days ago the elaborate wooden
cornice, with the figures 1872 carved on the
pediment, surmounting the H. M. Porter build-
ing near the corner of Main and Spring streets,
became loosened and fell off, dropping to the
street below. The carved figures denoted the
date of the building of the edifice. This corner
for a number of years was the headquarters of
the largest mercantile trade and bullion business
done in Grant county. To the Mexican popula-
tion, the establishment was known not by the
name of the merchant, H. M. Porter, but by
the emblem that glistened on the top of the
cornice, a gilded mortar and pestle, hence when
a Mexican enquired for the “tienda” of H. M.
Porter, he asked for ‘‘la tienda del almirez.”
The reason for the mortar and pestle was that
Dr. Bailey first opened there with an assortment
of drugs.