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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1923
Page
2
Edna Wallace Hopper advertises Youth Cream featuring lemon and strawberry extracts, plus Facial Youth cleanser White Youth Clay and Hair Youth. She notes forty years on stage, fame in New York, and offers products via druggists and toilet counters for 60 cents per jar, with her beauty book included.
A fragmented ad column lists Roswall Pump Co offering cash on completion for engine pumps plumbing tin work warm air heat painting wallpaper roofing materials. Also advertised are a furnished apartment for $20 with utilities, McKee Printing Co selling Salesbooks, and Hall Bros promoting radiator alcohol treatment.
The article describes a new electrolysis method to cheaply produce calcium arsenate to combat boll weevil damage in cotton fields. It also highlights radio as a faster way to spread information to farms, citing President James G. Harbord of RCA on radio’s reach and utility for rural communities. It notes the extensive rural mail routes and the potential for radio to enhance farm intelligence and safety.
A General Electric Schenectady lab tested electro chemical production of calcium arsenate to battle boll weevil, led by Alabama Power's A M Kennedy. He claims a 25 percent farming cost reduction and stable pricing as electric power fuels future plants. The piece also discusses radio's promise to farmers for market data, labor, disease, and pest information, plus educational and entertainment uses.
Winter on the farm brings holidays and bright ideas for decor. Electric lights, Mazda lamps with tinted bulbs, are used for Christmas trees and indoor parties. Eight to twelve bulb strings connect via extension cords to create longer light ropes. General Electric offers Christmas tree lighting sets powered by power outlets.
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