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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1932
Page
6
Roswell Floral Company advertises cyclamen plants in a rainbow of colors priced from .75 to 1.00 and up. Order by phone at 196. Advertisement appears in the local newspaper.
Whatley Produce Co advertises a fancy lot of turkeys and poultry. Young toms at 10 cents per pound and hens at 12 cents per pound. Orders early for size choices. Also offers quick growth heavy friers and other fancy poultry.
Expert radio service advertised for Western Auto Supply Company. Phone 128. Adv. 316e.
Advertises large brilliant poinsettias described as the finest grown by Roswell Floral Company. Includes contact phone number 196 for orders or inquiries.
During your holiday vacation let us do your beauty work with competent operators and years of experience at Old Mission Beauty Shoppe located at 219 North Main. Phone 182.
Christmas green features from Glover's Flowers and Allison Floral Co offer wreaths and bouquets with prices 35 and 50 cents. Allison Floral Co advertises nightly light shows and a slogan Where the best costs you less at 707 South Sea Ave. Phone numbers 275 listed for orders.
Our store will stay open until 9 30 each evening the balance of this week. Gift items remain plentiful so patrons can select after supper. Cobean Stationery Shop Adv 2212 Horton Transfer Read Allison’s Adv. Phone 136.
A nostalgic ad essay urges readers to shop from home via the newspaper advertisements. It touts last chance Christmas shopping and candy, notes a large fire at a lumber firm, and promotes window shopping through ads as a way to compare prices and save time and money.
A Roswell merchant named Snipes receives praise from a top customer who commends his banking house grocery for fair, steady pricing. The customer calls the method low and steady, contrasting with cut throat competition.
Call Allison Floral Co offers a 12 kind Christmas candy assortment at 12 cents per pound with other holiday items. Hams in Christmas boxes, nuts, and fresh produce like apples grapefruit tangerines tangelos and oranges priced from 10 cents per dozen. Roswell market ads note fresh roasted coffee and holiday supplies.
The Princess Theatre Management will treat unemployed families to a show during Christmas week. Tickets are held by Mrs. Willard Prager and distributed through the Chaves County Emergency Relief Committee. Each family will receive one ticket in a Christmas basket to admit the entire family to a designated matinee or evening show next week.
Belgian cabinet count Charles de Broqueville accepts a commission from King Albert to form a new government after the resignation over Belgium defaulting the war debt to the United States. In Roswell, Christmas baskets are organized by locals with theatre tickets arranged by Miss Minna Robertson for families of the unemployed.
Last minute shoppers are told the Art Gift Shop at 107 West 4th Street will stay open evenings until Christmas. The ad highlights a range of gifts and stamped linens as thoughtful options for recipients who appreciate handmade items.
Francis Newell is home in Lubbock Texas Tech for the Christmas vacation with his family. Eleanor Newell, a Cimarron teacher, is expected home tomorrow.
An advertisement from Poleeni Electrical Service at 125 West Ind announces fast radio repair with simple adjustments. The offer promises servicing for any make and invites calls to Doctor 249 for the cure.
An old look ad for Trussell's Hamburger Stand at 203 West 3rd offers tasty and reasonably priced hot chocolate milk and a delicious hot drink. The listing includes phone contact 845-J-Adv.
A customer notes preferring daily ads over weekend papers, praising the store. Banking House Grocery claims "Lowest uniform prices on earth" in an advertisement.
An elderly ad fragment promotes Allison Floral Co at 707 South Sea Ave with festive Christmas selection and assurances of illuminated greenhouses nightly. The snippet includes a quoted line about a Chinaman and a phone number 408, reflecting period advertisement language.
Advertisement notes available leasing of a grocery store and filling station with contact via phone number 417. Adv 2116 provides the leasing option and location context for potential tenants seeking to operate a combined retail and fueling business.
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