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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1919
Page
2
Navy recruiting official recalls an incident at sea where a crew member clung to an anchor after a capsize. He explains types of anchors and how sailors use them. The piece ends with a tale about saving via the home bank anchor and future plans.
Major Sam R Epperson with Lt Col R G Burrows and Lieuts H G Demith E N Jones and B S G Tucker have opened a course at Camp Zachary Taylor Ky to prepare candidates for appointment to the Military Academy at West Point. About twenty five men expected. students relieved from duties and housed together to devote full time to studies. Similar schools planned for other camps and posts. For more information contact Army Recruiting Station Roswell NM.
Picacho Investment Co. advertises available acreage near a new well in Roswell. Contact Bankhead Hotel for details and to get busy securing land offers.
For sale a good five passenger Dodge in A-1 condition. Cheap if taken at once. Call 137 or write P. O. Box 358. 18tfe. Also a bold sales pitch about owning land structure and a Roswell Picacho Royal Ties Company offer.
National Tuberculosis Association and American Red Cross announce 83 percent of Christmas Seal funds stay local. The ten day sale began December 1 with envelopes printed for mass distribution by 1,000 state and local units. In California, 91.7 percent goes to local anti tuberculosis work, with a portion to the Red Cross.
Reports from London say fierce fighting occurred on the India Afghan frontier on Wednesday and Thursday with a thousand tribesmen attacking the British and suffering heavy losses. British airplanes were used and 84 British casualties were reported.
Sweet peas narcissus and poinsettias bloom in begonia cyclamen primrose narcissus and berry plants. Free delivery to any part of the city by Roswell Floral Co. phone 196 2213¢.
President Wilson sends a letter to Dr Charles J Hatfield managing director of the National Tuberculosis Association expressing deep interest in the 1919 Red Cross Christmas Seal sale and approval to access the drive begun December 1. The ten day sale aims to move over 650000000 seals to fund the 1920 educational and preventive campaign. The President notes his keen interest and wishes the best success for the effort as state budgets seek six and a half million dollars for the coming year.
The writer Jack Lait answers a Navy recruiting plea with witty defiance about aging and duty. He celebrates naval life as a carefree education, a perfect playground of work free from civilian taxes, urging every man to feel the sea and serve. He jokes about challenges to old age and extols the Navy as the gateway to adventure and self.
David Starr Jordan extols children as the world’s most vital focus. He argues philanthropy should center on helping little children to advance wisdom, health, and moral progress, claiming saved children can lead humanity away from sin and suffering.
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