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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1933
Page
7
The Roswell Daily Record discusses the upcoming Christmas week with emphasis on the Christmas Spirit fostered by churches and local groups including Lions Club and City Firemen. It argues prices should rise at the source, not at retail, to avoid burdening consumers with higher costs for bread meat and other goods.
Hollywood fashion notes hair must be worn high at the back with up swept styles. Long hair signals youth and glamour, while high necklines and evening fancies push hair off the face. Jewels bandeaux and curls stack atop the crown, exposing more ears and creating a youthful line.
The passage notes that inflation rumors influence prices, with increases when inflation chatter rises and declines when rumors ease. It argues that price movements in gold and other goods track inflation expectations, and that general price levels fail to keep pace with shifts in the dollar’s value.
Santa Fe reports indicate the governor will convene a special legislative session early in January to tackle a broad agenda including taxes and revisions. The move signals a push for swift action on fiscal policy and related reforms.
New Mexico's Lane law appears largely ineffective in its first test. Attorney General figures show only 12986.55 dollars in 60 days revenue, far below optimistic expectations. Critics call the law too complex for dispensers and applicants to navigate, with terms like beer meals and original package causing confusion.
A reader gathers several Roswell letters to Santa from 1933 to 1955, listing requests for dolls, dresses, chaps, a gun, a blanket, dishes, a rope, candy, nuts, and related gifts. Signatures include Betty Cavender, Walter Dickard, Rachel Dickard, R L Dickard, Hazel Ruth Dickard, with Roswell addresses in New Mexico.
The Carlsbad Current-Argus notes that with whiskey legalized, starting beer production faces a long hard path. Rulings on personal permits and minimum purchases are muddled, driving those seeking liquor to seek bootleggers. The piece highlights the uncertainty in retail availability and the appeal of illegal sources.
Claston Welborn, sales manager for the McNaily Tall Motor Company, has returned to Roswell after a 60 mile trip in western Texas.
Natasha Andreyev is acquitted amid a cloud of suspicion as Bert Tilbury grasps at power over women and a brutal scheme unfolds. Letters reveal motives, while Tilbury hides, poisons, and plots to dispose of evidence as Natasha seeks a path to freedom from a crime sprawl.
Across towns from Carlsbad to Roswell the State Holiday Jubilee boosts shop sales while urging liberal advertising and Christmas Seal use. Gov Hockenhull’s plan boosts decorations and urges timely mail, with mixed reactions to old debts and a slump in Christmas Seal sales. Local notes report New Mexico curiosities, pests, and farm ventures, including meat from Colfax rabbits and a communal grist mill project in Oaenepaa.
An Artesia man plans to buy a nice coat for his wife this Christmas after finding women’s wear in his car door pocket. He suspects a plant but believes paying off is safer amid changing times and bootleg concerns.
Doris Blake argues bachelors search for ideal mates in orderly suburban homes while criticizing countess of home making women. She imagines a tour of a well kept house with shelves, jams, preserves, and a stocked ice box as proof of domestic skill, contrasting with perceived modern excess and carefree attitude.
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