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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
4
Local items list visitors and business notes from Roswell including J R Stanley Dexter visits, Majestic theater shows Camille and Kails plays, Hammons and Carlton & Bell real estate ads, laundry service and holiday sales, court notices, and residents traveling to Amarillo Dallas and Pueblo with brief health and travel updates.
The Roswell New Mexico Weather Bureau records summarize January 1905 and January 1906. Data cover temperatures from 10 to 79 degrees, precipitation averages 0.53 inches, and snowfall 2.4 inches in 24 hours. Humidity averages 83 percent at 6 am and 50 percent at 6 pm with prevailing south winds.
After January 1 all coal and wood will be sold for cash with no exceptions. Local notice from Roswell Wool & Hide Co lists a firm policy change effective date and emphasizes cash transactions only.
In St Louis on December 27 Al Davidson shot his landlady Mrs Frieda Weigel in the head during a quarrel and then killed himself. Three bullets struck Mrs Weigel and she is believed to die.
Card of Thanks from Mrs Emma Manley Pearl and Mr Thomas Howard for aid during the long sickness of their husband father and friend. Social World notes Mrs W M Reed hosts Forty two and Five Hundred this afternoon. Military Institute cadets hold holiday hop tomorrow night in the gym. Mrs Morris Price issues At Home cards for Dec 31 at 2 30 p m with cards to be featured.
Baron Saibusawa, a leading Japanese economist, predicts a financial panic in Japan due to the war’s effects. He blames bankers for driving a fever of new undertakings with no safe outlet once support ends. President Roosevelt and family depart Washington for Pine Knob, Virginia, for a weekend outing.
Navy confirms report from Geo C Ward of Commercial Pacific Cable Co that the bark named Carrollton, owned by Boudrow of San Francisco, ran aground at Midway Island. The mate’s boat is safe inside a reef, correcting an earlier dispatch naming the vessel Charles Boutrow and claiming eight men missing.
James A Poage withdraws as a candidate for Justice of the Peace and asks supporters to back the best qualified man. Also an advertisement for dressmaking and sewing services at Mrs Wrights 310 N Richardson Ave 5516.
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