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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1908
Page
3
Mrs A P Waters from Dexter stops by for bananas at the depot while gifts for baby appear at Stine Shoe Co. W C Reid and D D Sullivan depart on business trips to Dayton and Kansas City. G A Payne heads to Oklahoma and a U S Mare t promotes corn fed turkeys.
Dr Yater returns from Pee ios Texas business trip while Mrs Keebler and son head to Carlsbad for probate duties. A. Nisbet travels to Portales for business. Mrs S E Lewis to Brady for two month visit. A R Teeple visits Hagerman for friends and Christmas shopping. Independent Hardware promotes useful Christmas gifts.
A mixture of classified ads and brief notices from Roswell includes sales offers on lamps nickel and silverware, tools, and household goods, plus for sale items like a grain drill a saddle horse and a household group. Several residents travel for business or family visits to Artesia Hagerman Globe and Birmingham while local services promote Christmas sales and meat orders.
Joyce Pruit Co offers dry goods clothing and groceries as a large southwest supply house. Roswell Drug & Jewelry Co promotes itself as the oldest drug store in Roswell with up-to-date offerings. K C Dye Works provides alterations cleaning and pressing with H Angell reachable at phone 617 located at 123 West 24th Street.
A promotional piece urging business owners to advertise to reach customers. It asserts the value of advertising as a key tool for selling goods and services, encouraging clear messaging to inform the public about offerings.
Roswell’s dem jeweler B Boellner offers a full line of cut glass hand painted china and diamonds.
A compilation of brief items about residents traveling for holidays and visits, family updates, business trips, property sales and real estate notices, and local angles on seasonal plans. Names include Collins, Dicken, Fletcher, Edeneft, Vickers, Gayle, Haun, Cornelius, Greenwood, Culbertson, Baldwin, Mendenhall, Rainbolt, Henderson, with places Roswell Artesia Clovis Dalhart Oklahoma City Colorado Springs and Notre Dame.
Engineer E. P. Cooley returned from Ohio with the body of Ed Mahan killed in the Canyon City wreck. Elder C. C. Hill conducted Sunday services in Carlsbad adding two church members. Mrs Olita Jann visited Kenna then returned to Indiana. Mrs R Luttrell visited Amarillo and hunted with Mr Luttrell. H. Graham left for Iowa with a party of excursionists, accompanied by Carl Carlsten Sr who bought land at Lake Aj.
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