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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1905
Page
3
Classified ads offer items for sale including a girl’s wheel a residence engine and boiler a draft team and a Cranston press. Also a health note warns mothers about hot weather bowel issues advising castor oil and Chamberlains remedy for relief.
The Pecos Valley calls for men with money and energy to settle and develop its resources. Articles from Portales Times and Santa Fe New Mexican highlight merchants prodding customers with prices. Roswell’s illustrated Military Institute feature boosts local business stock. Railroads across Las Vegas to Santa Rosa promise economic stimulus, with orchards and farms thriving from nightly rains and rising fruit sales.
Obscured text shows an Old Settlers column fragment with a parenthetical note Contributions Welcome and a partial line Sobses sees eanogaran ut reflecting a faded regional column item, likely a community society snippet from a historic newspaper page.
A historic notice extols preserving law and order while urging readiness of castor oil as the fastest, most successful bowel trouble treatment. It claims reliability even against cholera infantum and notes availability through all druggists.
Carlsbad Argus advertises real estate bargains near Roswell with alfalfa land and artesian wells, while the Roswell Record lauds Carlsbad and Pecos Valley. A feature on J. J. Rascoe recounts early county life, frontier justice, and pioneer deputy service, plus plans for Roswell water works via Bonney and partner, aiming to boost growth and comfort.
Tuesday filings show five desert land claims: Julia To Weems Artesia half section 26 township 17 south range 25 east. Hyrem C Beckett Hope 169 acres in section 13 township 17 south range 23 east. Kittie S Brunning 11 acres in sections 22 and 15 township 16 south range 25 east. John T Rives Carlstad 320 acres in sections 23 25 26 township 24 south range 28 east. John O McKeen Carlsbad 319.35 acres in sections 24 and 20 township 24 south range 28 29 east. Homesteads filed: Benjamin W Smith Bethel northeast quarter section 9 township 1 south range 32 east. Hyrem Beckett Hope 160 acres section 13 township 17 south range 24 east. Fred F Bentley Artesia 1669 acres section 21 township 17 south range 24 east. John W Trefry Roswell 160 acres sections 11 14 township 5 south range 22 east.
Bandmaster Fletcher shifts Sunday concerts to 5 00 PM to suit players and attendees. The move comes as heat makes the hour later preferable. Captain Haynes an Old Settlers Society promoter, longtime Roswell landowner and former county official, illustrates local ties in Chaves County history.
Price and Co. advertise 3 and 4 room rental houses on Alameda with water service. Contact 362t for details.
FOUND. FOUND small pocket-book containing money. Owner may recover by proving property and paying for ad. W. R. Cummins. 35ff.
Artesia real estate firm John Richey & Sons advertises bargains in deeded lands and relinquishments in Artesia New Mexico. It urges buying in the dull season to secure future price rises. The note also mentions a U S Market stock of canned meats.
R S Slaughter and wife of Midland with Miss Lottie Harris Austin Geo T Veal and wife Roswell and C C Slaughter Dallas were here Saturday returning to Roswell after a month in the White mountains. The Slaughters, among the richest cattlemen in Texas and New Mexico, enjoyed the trip and were successful in fishing and hunting, landing a large Silvertip bear in the Capitan mountains.
Delegates from Artesia Hagerman and other Valley points are expected to arrive this afternoon overland and depart tomorrow with a Roswell contingent for the Baptist Association meeting opening in Lincoln Thursday night. Others will leave Roswell Thursday on the stage.
Good location five room house with one lot 100 feet frontage in an artesian belt offered for a few days at 1250 dollars. See J. T. Carlton Room 12 Oklahoma block. Also a note on Pack Sick headache cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets available from all dealers.
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