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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
7
Roswell New Mexico greets Albuquerque trade excursion members with elaborate preparations. The New Mexico Land and Investment Company plans a standout entertainment scheme featuring a large automobile to transport prospective buyers and others over local Pecos valley sights.
The text describes a booming Roswell region with the Gilkeson hotel era renovation and an expanding commercial boom in Clovis. It notes the FF M Jump livery barns worth 20000 dollars, Finley & Co leasing the business, and extensive new construction including four brick buildings with an opera house, heating upgrades, and second story additions.
Special correspondence from Morning Journal Clovis New Mexico reports rapid progress on a new cement block plant to be among the territorys most modern. The main building measures 40 by 46 feet and will operate a nine hour day producing 560 blocks with a night shift under electric light powered by the company.
In Duran New Mexico March 2 1910 the town forms a Commercial club to boost growth and attract enterprises. A capitalist plans an opera house site, a rustic Young Men’s clubhouse fund yields $900, a bank opens with $15000 capital with Mr Young cashier and Mr Behrenfeld as president. A new newspaper office designed, a business block under construction housing a drug firm and Duran Mercantile, plus Huntington Mawkins and Carleton begin hardware and farm implement sales with groceries and men’s furnishings in a new addition.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a glycerine based extractive remedy. It touts its uses for indigestion chronic catarrh bronchial cough and stomach and bowel complaints and urges buyers to insist on known composition medicines rather than substitutes from deceitful dealers.
J P Wells of Dawson New Mexico, a long-time rancher, arrived with five carloads of cattle. He recalls drastic land loss for ranchers as settlement accelerates in New Mexico and Texas Panhandle, with irrigation dams reshaping the region toward agriculture and driving down cattle supplies.
The Asylum of Pilgrim Commandery orders Sir Knights to report at 1:30 p.m. Friday in full uniform to attend the funeral of W. B. Childers. They are to serve as escort to the grand lodge of New Mexico in a special session chaired by Eminent Commander Harry C. Braun.
Jesse A Grant son of Ulysses S Grant and twice elected president is proposed as a Democratic candidate for chief executive. He writes to Arizona allies about delivering the Arizona delegation to Denver and hints at Bryan's nomination. Grant is well known in the Southwest, active in mining in Arizona and Sonora.
Finance and Commerce reports a midday market swing with narrow fluctuations and higher closes than last night. Long-leaning traders cite limited floating stock and hopeful business news, while copper prices ease and a Rio de Janeiro bank failure dented sentiment.
Notice reminds water accounts due by the fifth at Water Supply Company's office. Hubbs Laundry Co quotes summer wash and pack service. F G Pratt & Co urges shopping for selected fruits and vegetables at 214 South Second.
Advertisement for Roswell New Mexico and Torrance California auto service established 1906 cites a daily 6 am departure from Torrance to Roswell with 11 am arrival, 50 pound luggage limit, passenger over 30 hours faster than other lines, courteous chauffeurs, seats reserved via Roswell agent. Also includes notices of wills and land claims and public publication notices from 1908.
District Court of Bernalillo County New Mexico orders sale of property under Charles Zeiger estate. Auction set for noon at the Albu erg post office steps to satisfy a 1907 1908 order of sale involving Lots thirteen and eight in the original survey filed with the New Mexico Town Company plat by J E. and recorded December 29.
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