Developers tour Balmorhea Toyah Valley prospects
A Record correspondent observed a 20 member party from Swenson Land Company of Chicago touring Balmorhea and Toyah Valley areas. They touted rich soil, pure water, irrigation, alfalfa markets, and Texas ties with Pecos. plan to bring Kansas farmers and investors and to send a representative to Roswell for local observation. The group discussed future development, rail links, and potential grayhound coursing meetings as a regional sport venture.
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Swenson Land Company
Chicago
Balmorhea
Toyaha Valley
Henry E. Swenson
Texas
Messrsnh Redfield
Hervey Hicks
Wichita
Torah Valley
Edw. D. Bal
Joan W
Jos. E. Rhea
R.morrow
Witherspoon
Hereford
Kansas
Southwest
Toyah Valley
Mr. Balcom
J. S. E. Waskom
Roswell Country
Pary
Pecos
Seare
Towan
Romell
The
Record
New Mexico
Outhwest
Iland
Artesia
Roswell
Oklahoma
Pecos Valley
Messrs. Brooks and Roberts
Kansas City Stock Market News Brief
Kansas City stock market report for Feb 4 shows cattle receipts at 3000 with steady to ten cent lower trend. hogs at 7000 with prices about ten cents down. sheep at 3000 with market weak. Native steers 4.90 to 7.10, western calves 4.00 to 8.75, hogs mainly 8.20 to 8.50, sheep muttons 4.75 to 6.00 and lambs 6.75 to 8.00 amid lower trade.
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Kansas City
Fad prompts meat abstinence as Roswell shops tag low prices
The latest trend to quit eating meat spreads nationwide while residents around Roswell turn to F. Snipes for low prices. Shoppers coast through a meat price squeeze by buying from the Roswell supplier with the best value.
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Roswell
F. Snipes
Plan to Pull Off Roswell Course Meet
F. J. Brooks and F. T. Roberts traveled from Artesia to Roswell to explore organizing a course meet in the coming weeks. Their goal is to secure the fair grounds for the event and arrange logistics.
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Roswell
F. J. Brooks
F. T. Roberts
Artesia
Fair Grounds
Railroads and men likely to meet in wage talks
Chicago February 4 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Enginemen faces a wage showdown with 51 railroads. Firemen's committee sent overtures to continue negotiations and a vote is expected on March seventh as hearings proceed.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Monarch Grocery Co Removal Notice to North Main St
Removal notice announces the Monarch Grocery Co will relocate after February sixth to 100 North Main St in the Gaulheur Block, formerly occupied by Hills and Dunn. The notice invites friends and customers to visit and expresses confidence in improved service ahead.
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North Main St
Gaulheur
Hills and Dunn
Monarch Grocery CO
Paulhan Leaves Denver After Plane Wreckage Exhibition
Louis Paulhan and wife depart Denver with the damaged aeroplane in a special car after yesterday's Overlana Park crash. A staff of mechanicians accompanies them as he plans exhibitions in New Orleans with possible stops in Dallas and Houston. He favors flying the wrecked craft again, recalling its use in his Los Angeles record flight.
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Paulhan
Denver
Colo
Overlana Park
Louis Paulhan
New Orleans
Dallas
Houston
Texas
Los Angeles
Nicaragua Insurgents March On the Capital
Three hundred insurgents under General Mazis captured Boace sixty miles east of Managua after a hard fight. The force moves in three columns totaling about one thousand men. President Madriz hopes to halt the advance at Tipitapa twenty miles east with five hundred more troops and a Maxim gun deployed.
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Nicaragua
Managua
Mazis
Boace
Madriz
Tipitapa
Paris Aims For Record Cleanliness After Seine Flood
Paris reports the Seine’s rapid fall and city waterways near normal. Disinfection work and typhoid precautions are so thorough that newspapers predict Paris may escape contagion and emerge from the flood cleaner than ever before in history. Foreign relief contributions reach seven hundred thousand dollars today.
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Paris
France
Seine
New Mexico Life Ins Stock For Sale Discount Offer
Roswell resident offers to sell their New Mexico Life Insurance stock contract at a discount via Box 721. The notice is brief and unspecific about price or terms.
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New Mexico
Government probes Primero mine disaster and funerals
Federal geologic survey officers arrived in Primero Colorado to begin examination into Monday’s mine disaster as sixteen more victims are buried in Trinidad. Ventilation repairs face wrecked timbers and fallen rock with many days needed for body recovery. In Drakesboro Kentucky the Browder mine death toll ends with Peter Kelly recovered after a fifty two hour search.
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Primero
Colo
Jones
McAlester
Okla
George S. Rice
Pittsburg
Primero Mine
Trinidad
Drakesboro
Browder
Peter Kelly
SOR TREES Fruit and foliage in sodg assortment
Fruit and shade trees in good assortment available from Artesia Nursery owner J S Highsmith Artesia New Mexico or Wratt Joansen at healing ground corner of Main and Fifth Roswell New Mexico phone 591.
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J. S. Highsmith
Artesia Nursery
Artesia, N. M
Wratt Joansen
Healing Ground
Main and
Fifth Streets
Roswell
N. M
Chinese Boycott Angers San Francisco Port
Chinese residents of San Francisco and the Pacific coast declare a boycott of the port citing alleged unfair treatment at Angel Island immigration station. A meeting led to cablegrams sent to China directing all Chinese to avoid San Francisco and use the northern route until conditions improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Calif
Angel Island
Pacific Coast
China
Book Stationery Co. Ads Reach Albuquerque Journal Readers
Local printers advertise exclusive Albuquerque Journal delivery and home service. Ton Cruz promotes doorstep subscription options and book stationery supply through 8512 outlet details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque Journal
Payton Cruz
Book & Stationery Co
Loewe wins $74,000 in Hatters Union boycott suit
Hartford scene as jury awards D E Loewe of Danbury damages totaling 74000 against two hundred members of Connecticut Hatters Union. The verdict was returned today in the famous boycott case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
D. E. Loewe
Danbury
Hatters’ Union
Representative Levering of Mass died this morning
Washington February 4 Representative William C Levering of Massachusetts died this morning aged seventy five
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Levering
Mass
Washington
William C. Levering
Massachusetts
Kipling’s Saturday Special at Kip Ling Candies
Window display offers all candies at four cents or thirty cents per pound for tomorrow Saturday while those on the counter go for fifteen cents per pound.
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Kipling
Two Browning Boys Fall From Barn Roof
Two Browning children aged twelve and ten fell from a barn roof at their home corner Richardson avenue and Alameda street around seven last night after a plank broke. The elder boy suffered contusions but no fractures, while the younger sustained a broken left forearm plus minor bruises.
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J. N. Browning
Richardson Avenue
Alamedy Street
February Washington Birthday Party Set by Commercial Club
On Washington's Birthday February 22 the birthday of George Washington has been set as the date for the February party by the Commercial Club. Full arrangements will be announced later.
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Washington
George Washington
Commercial Club
Orpheum Theatre Adjusts Schedule Tonight Only
Complete change of program to night with 7 15 first show Saturday matinee at 2 15 and regular 7 15 evening performance Admission ten cents.
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Orpheum Theatre
Kentucky Sails in Sinking Strait Distress Call
New York reports the steamer Kentucky of the Alaska-Pacific line is sinking 240 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras with 75 crew aboard. The vessel sent an SOS as the Alamo and Yamacraw search for aid, while other reports note the ship’s maiden voyage from New York and distress off Florida.
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New York
Kentucky
Alaska-Pacific Steam Ship Company
Cape Hatteras
Charleston
D. C
Alaska-Pacific Line
Pacific
Florida
Alamo
International
Parson’s and Lawrence Realty Ad Offers Bargains
A Parson s and Lawrence Real Estate ad promotes a business house and lot next to Grand Central Hotel for sale at a sacrifice. It also lists 160 acres within a mile of town at 20 dollars per acre and a half-block of seven lots near the schoolhouse priced this week at 1000 dollars. The firm touts daily bargains and urges readers to ask Parsons. he knows.
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Grand Central Hotel
Parsons
Six Hours After Sinking Threat, Ship Speeds to Newport News
The ship passed Sandy Hook, then leaked badly, put into Newport News for repairs after nearly capsizing in heavy seas. Meanwhile the Louisiana hastened to aid Washington, and the Birmingham at Norfolk Navy Yard prepared to leave to help the Kentucky.
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Tle
Sandy Hook
Newport News
Louisiana
Washington
Cape Hatteras
Kentucky
Norfolk
Wnorfol Navy Yard
Birmingham
Mrs Miles Recovers From Pneumonia After Attack
Mrs Miles, mother of I E Miles a cattleman seven miles south of Roswell, is recovering nicely after an illness described as pneumonia.
Obenchain and Hookes Quiet City Wedding
Frank Obenchain and Miss Odie Ina Hook were quietly married at eight last night at the groom's mother's home on East Ninth street. Elder C. C. Hill performed the ceremony in front of a few relatives. The couple will stay with Mrs. Purviance for now and later set up housekeeping. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joan M. Hook of Clovis, formerly of the city. The groom is a well known local painter.
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Frank Obenchain
Odie Ina Hook
Joan Purviance
East Ninth Street
C. C. Hill
Hook
Weddins
Commercial Club Sets Evening Meeting On Lake Project
The Commercial Club schedules a special meeting tonight to remonstrate against government abandonment of the Urton Lake project in the north part of the county. The issue concerns possible Pecos river water diversion by A A Jones and associates of Las Vegas toward the Preston Beck land grant if federal claims are surrendered.
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Pecos
Urion Lake
Las Vegas
San Miguel
Guadalupe
Roswell
Chaves
Chaves County
Upper
M. A. Otero
Urton Lake Land & Water Company
Urton Lake
Commercial Club
Pecos River
A. A. Jones
Preston Beck
Two Trains Last Night in Roswell
Roswell saw two northbound passenger trains arrive last night. The first, a stub service from Amarillo, arrived at 7:30. The regular train followed at 10:00, drawing a large crowd of excursionists.
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Roswell
Amarillo
Kipling's Saturday Special Price Offer
Kipling's Saturday Special advertises meat at 30 cents per pound with another pound available tomorrow. The note is brief and promotional, indicating a limited sale.
Death from tuberculosis in rooming house
J. J. Buckley aged about 33 died at midnight at the Legal Tender rooming house on Main street while seeking care for tuberculosis. Body lies at Ulery undertaking rooms awaiting word from relatives in Shreveport Louisiana.
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J. J. Buckley
Legal Tender
Main Street
Ulery Undertaking Rooms
Shreveport
Giant Oil & Gas Wins New Water-Tight Well Contract
The Giant Oil & Gas Company of Roswell closed a contract with T. A. Stancliff & Co. of Lake Arthur to move their standard drilling rig to Dayton to drill a water-tight well. Another oil well is the object of the Giant people.
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Giant Oil & Gas Company
Roswell
T. A. Stancliff & Co
Lake Arthur
Dayton
Reed Jones Brings Home Blushing Bride
Reed Jones son of Rev G A Jones returns from Pottsboro Texas with his bride Miss Julia Clements after a visit and illness. He plans to stay in Roswell where he works as a salesman at his father's store the Racket and was welcomed by friends.
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Reed Jones
Rev
G. A. Jones
Pottsboro
Texas
Fred Jones
Roswell
West Seventh Street
Mr. Jones
Julia Clements
Inquiry adjourned as Ballinger Pinchot hearings pause
Washington February 4 the Ballinger Pinchot inquiry adjourned to February 11 to welcome Ballinger counsel John J Vertrees and Carl Rasch to represent Ballinger Dennett and Schwartz. Extra executive-session debate over the delay followed, with Gravis kept in Washington for cross examination. the President shows active interest in a fair process. Also updated Navy news Medical Director Charles F Stoakes to be nominated Surgeon General to replace Presley M Rixey who retires.
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Washington
Ballinger
Ballinger-Pinchot Investigating Committee
John J. Vertrees
Nashville
Tenn
Carl Rasch
United States
Montana
Dennett
Schwartz
Louis R. Gravis
Charles F. Stoakes
Navy
Presley M. Rixey
The Wool Market in St Louis Prices by Quality
Wool values in St Louis Missouri show unchanged figures across territory western mediums fine mediums and fine levels with catalogued ranges from 12 to 28 cents for best grades and 20 to 24 for mids, reflecting stable wholesale demand and price tiers for 1904 era wool trades.
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St. Louis
Arizona wants Rangers after two Americans slain
A strong move to revive the ranger program follows the killings of two American men by Mexicans at a woodcutters camp in the Swiss mountains. Ernest Kirkendal died during the night. Tracing leads from the scene to Douglas and toward the Mexican border.
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Arizona
Douglas
Woodcuters
Swiss Mountains
Ernest Kirkendal
For Rent or Sale Eight- Room House on W Tilden
Six room house available for rent or sale at 311 West Tilden, listed by R L Rogers. Property details and terms not fully specified in the fragment.
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R. L. Rogers
W. Tilden
Roswell Weather Report Shows Clear, Cold Day
Local 6:00 am observation reports Roswell New Mexico with a maximum 32 and minimum 15 degrees, mean 24, no precipitation. Wind from the north, sky clear. Tonight and Saturday forecast are fair and not very cold, with 16 year record extremes cited for temperature comparisons.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Roswell
N. M
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Valentines
Pecos Valley Drug CO
Foxcll
Government
Du.s. Market
Parsons & Lawrence
Obenchain-Hook
Finley Rubber
Joyce-Pruit Company
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