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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1908
Page
3
City sales manager Joseph E. Carper presents a varied Roswell real estate listing. Multiple city cottages and houses priced from 1 000 to 4 500, plus farms near Roswell with 60 to 400 acres, including alfalfa meadows and irrigation wells. Exchange options include Beaumont Roswell bids and Pecos Valley or Oklahoma properties.
A grandfatherly narrator recalls Susie, his dead sister who touched him with life, and the grave inscription he dared to place. The story shifts to a burglary gone wrong ending with the haunting discovery of Susie’s corpse in a hidden room, driving the narrator to confess a dreadful secret kept from their mother.
The notice lists CHAVES COUNTY ABSTRACT CO with F P Gayle as manager offering abstracts and real estate services, along with Watson Finley Grocery, Roswell Title & Trust Co, Roswell Wool & Hide Co supplying grain coal and wood, Roswell Trading Co for hay and grain, and Bernard Pos piano tuner advertising expert service. The Daily Record is noted as the local news paper.
Local business ad promotes top quality meat and sport facilities. The U S Meat Market advertises quality as motto while offering bowling billiards and pool using Brunswick Balke Coll. Co. equipment with Geo. B. Jewett as proprietor.
Multiple Roswell businesses advertise in a single notice offering hardware store stock, pipes, pumps, engines, fencing, tools, stoves and utensils at low prices. Also listed are abstract company and title services, real estate and loan offerings by Gilmore and Fleming, Nell R. Moore, A C Wilson, and related agents with Roswell addresses and phone 911.
JAFFA PRAGER CO and JOYCE PRUIT CO advertise as the largest supply houses in the Southwest offering dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies for wholesale and retail customers.
Public notices describe dining room service at The New Gilkeson with meals at 50 cents and special meal tickets. Grand Central Hotel advertises new management by Ellars and Ellars and claims the hotel is equipped with sample rooms and private baths.
Roswell announces its oldest drug store in town along with the Daniel Drug Co as a headquarters for drugs wall paper paints varnish and up to date supplies.
K C Dye Works offers alterations repairs cleaning and pressing. J H Angell phone 517 located at 123 W 2d.
Harry Morrison leading exclusive jeweler offers watches diamonds and fine china. Roswell Lumber Co oldest yard invites customers for building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co supplies lumber and shingles. Roswell Tent City and Sanitarium managed by Dr C L Parsons. Baker and Elliott public stenographers and typewriters. W P Wood offers tailor made suits and cleaning services.
Bernard Gunsul an electrical contractor at 110 N Main St offers general electric work as agent for General Electric Co. McGinnis and Dixon advertise as electrical contractors with repairs supplies annunciator and bell work and expert typewriter service all guaranteed. Phone numbers provided.
The Dilley Furniture Co offers a swell line of furniture in Roswell with high quality and low prices, promoting value for local buyers.
The leading grocery store advertises the finest selection and highest quality products, promising customers best value and reliable service. It emphasizes a commitment to quality, freshness, and customer satisfaction.
Turner Studio promotes itself as the successor to Hess & Co offering first class photographs enlargements and views for customers seeking high quality portraits and scenic shots.
Roswell Seed Co announces a new catalog featuring field and garden seeds. The catalog is available free upon request.
A local advertisement lists new and second hand furniture at 100-02 N Main Hills Don Prop and coal cook stores with prices from 7 to 10 dollars. Also mentions Makins second hand store offering furniture selections and contact numbers 69 and 227 at 109 Main St.
JILLEY and SON advertise private ambulance and prompt service. ALLERY FURNITURE CO also lists undertaker services with phone numbers 75 and 111.
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