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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
3
Roswell and nearby towns report livestock shipments and farm loans as well as court attendances and public notices. Clerks, farmers, and merchants like J B Herbst and R Troswell Title & Trust note financing offers while residents travel to Kenna Amari llo and Hagerman. A railroad incident near Warsaw highlights historical transit risk.
A condensed storefront listing from Chaves County promotes services including title and abstract firms F. P. Gayle manager at Chaves County Abstract Co and Roswell Title & Trust Co, plus real estate loans, hardware stores, an attorney, a meat market, a grain and coal dealer, a transfer service, and a hotel under new management.
Jaffa, Prager and Co and Joyce Pruit Co promote a large wholesale and retail dry goods, clothing, groceries and ranch supplies operation described as the largest supply house in the Southwest.
Roswell’s oldest drug store, Roswell Drug and Jewelry Co, emphasizes all things up to date. Daniel Drug Co remains headquarters for drugs, wallpaper, paints and varnish, announcing a broad new range of products and services.
Harry Morrison is described as the leading and exclusive jeweler offering watches, diamonds, jewelry, cut glass, hand painted china, and silverware. L. B. Boellner promotes Roswell's best jeweler with a full line of cut glass, hand painted china, and diamonds.
Alterations and repairs, cleaning and pressing services offered by J H Angell. Phone 517. Located at 123 West 2nd Street.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles cement paints varnish and glass. Roswell Lumber Co promotes being the oldest yard in Roswell for building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co invites customers for lumber shingles and more on East 4th Street.
The Roswell retailer touts a swell line of furniture offering high quality at low prices. It emphasizes value and wide selection to attract shoppers downtown.
Notary and brokers offer modern services at 317 North Main Street with office hours from 10 to 12 and 1 to 5. They invite inquiries with promises to provide information and complete tasks.
Western Grocery Co promotes top quality groceries while Watson Finley Grocery Co advertises a complete line of staple and fancy items and fresh produce in the city.
Grain coal and wood furnished by Roswell Wool and Hide Co. We buy hides and invite inquiries by phone. Their terse ad emphasizes supply of grain coal wood and purchase of hides in Roswell.
Hess & Co successor to Turner Studio offers first class photographs enlargements and views for portrait work and locality scenes.
A C Wilson advertises real estate and farms for sale in Roswell New Mexico. Office located at 303 North Main Street with mailing address Box 202 for inquiries about ranches and city properties.
Roswell Seed Co announces a new field and garden seeds catalogue now available free on request. The company invites customers to request the catalogue to review its seed offerings.
Advertisement mentions keepers offering rooms 5 and 6 in the Garst Building at 210 1-2 Garst Building. No additional details provided.
Tilley and Son advertise private ambulance and prompt funeral service in a concise public notice. It notes contact options with private undertakers handling emergency transport and related arrangements.
New York Life Woodbury N J April 17 Rev G W Thomson pastor of Woodbury Presbyterian Church a prominent congregation was found dead in his hotel room with a bullet wound officials believe suicide. An engagement to a wealthy church member had been announced a week earlier and a hotel resident woman reportedly created a storm of rumors alongside the engagement leading to tensions with church members. The woman reportedly vowed no other woman would come between them and claimed he owed her all the love and duty of a wife.
Records describe a pastor’s death amid gossip and accusations of hypocrisy. Reports trace involvement of at least three local women and the clergy’s friends probing motives. The piece notes disbelief at suicide but confirms the fatal act and surrounding sensational chatter.
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