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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1910
Page
3
Boeller the jeweler advertises cheaper prices while Clifton Chisholm returns from Amarillo and multiple residents travel to nearby towns. Residents enjoy farm products from Cruse's auto and Alameda Heights development. Local business visits include Dexter Artesia Lake Arthur Carlsbad Hagerman Clovis and Portales. An tobacco cessation ad promises safe withdrawal and urges readers to call for details.
Advertisements note services from Valley Optical Kompany Cald wells electrical offerings and luggage transfer by Louis Rucker. Travel and visits include Wilson Orr returning to Kenna, Joan Gill en route to Clovis Hereford and Portales for Roswell Seed Company business, E R Denney leaving Pecos after visiting H B Davis, and J L Howell returning from a Lake Arthur to Canyon City Texas trip.
Mrs Z F Deen of De Queen Ark, visiting relatives here, left last night for Hagerman to visit her father W D Amis. S S Tomseft left last night for Carlsbad and Albuquerque, from which place he will return February 1 to open an insurance office.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Peck with their son and daughter started back to Benton, Kenwick, after a three month stay in the city. Miss Winnie Williams, who had spent several months visiting F. A. Whitney and family near Roswell, departed this morning for Stillman Valley, Illinois.
A Victorian style ad promoting Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for women. It claims to improve skin tone eyes energy by aiding liver and digestive organs. It asserts relief from biliousness indigestion constipation and dizziness and notes the product is mild and gentle and sold everywhere for 25 cents.
J. C. Skidmore arrived from Clovis on a business visit. W. W. Elliott of Dexter came to town for business. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hyland left this morning to return to Mayfield Kentucky after ten days in the area sightseeing.
O S Martin and Mrs C C Williams who were here with G W Stallcup took the aged relative to their Texico home this morning.
David Rosenwald of Albuque arrived last night to oversee business matters connected with the New Mexico Cigar Company.
I F Keeping, a special agent of the Albuquerque Division for Continental Oil Company, arrived last night for a business visit with the local employees.
Co. K. Stribling of Rockdale Texas came for the funeral of his brother the late Cleveland Stribling and left this morning for home arriving on the late train Monday night.
Mrs Ed Albin and her children departed this morning for their home in Cakkasha Oklahoma after two months here. She came to tend to the sick bed of her father the late F P Gayle and has been visiting other relatives.
Fruit and shade trees available from Artesia Nursery in Artesia, N M. J S Highsmith proprietor. Also contact Wyatt Joanson at near the ground corner of Main and Fifth streets in Roswell, N M. phone 591. 7T2tt
Major Eugene A Lohman commander at the Military Institute arrives home from Las Cruces where he was summoned two weeks ago due to his mother Mrs Lohman health. She underwent an operation Monday and is recovering, expected to stay in hospital for two to three weeks.
Dudley Warner of Shizuoka, Japan, a tea buyer for the Japanese Consolidated Tea Company, calls on the Joyce-Pruit Company for the Western Coffee Company of El Paso. He buys tea for several American houses as he tours Pecos Valley during a side step from duties in El Paso.
Advertises 100 tungsten lamps priced at 1.75 dollars each with Caldwell contact phone 31.
A Roswell era classified page lists numerous sale items including a good wood heating stove priced at 2.50, 18 chickens at a bar gain, a jersey cow and heifer calf, a modern five room furnished house with barn, a four room house east front, a peeler building on Main street, a mounted Fairbanks Morse engine, a 16 acre property with a three room house, a business building at a bargain, and various odds and ends such as a horse and buggy, a sewing machine, a bicycle, and chickens. Listings include contact names and locations such as 602 N. Lea, Kentucky ave and Denning st, South Ky, Oasis Ranch Co, Roswell Title & Trust Co, and J. N. Gaston.
D A Currie of Elareda traveled to recover a horse claimed as his property after a breach of trust. He proved ownership with H P Saunders relinquishing the animal. Currie left the horse with J A Williams at Slaughter farm and located his buggy, while a gun borrowed by a friend remained at Palace Ivory.
Herbst, fresh from a three week pleasure tour, visited Los Angeles San Francisco and Medford Ore to see R H Holmes formerly of this city. He observed Paulhan celebrate a world record flight of 4165 feet at an aviation meet and noted other events. Accompanied by Mr Dean who stayed in Oregon Dean then traveled to Cincinnati and on to San Francisco to meet his sister returning February first from a world trip.
Job notice seeking a book keeper and day clerk at Gilkeson Hotel with payment contact via phone 293-6 rings. post in A.
The passage asserts that everyone advertises by nature, but the Wise Men use thoughtful, bold printing to tell the public what they want to know. It frames successful advertising as simple yet highly profitable and urges purposeful communication on the printed page.
In Philadelphia on January 19 the Camden chancery court set for today a case where Franklin Davenport aged 77 claims his wife 75 has been unfaithful and that Aaron Huff has won her affections Davenport a New Jersey farmer says he lived with his wife for half a century The suit arises from a petition for an allowance by Mrs Davenport alleging her husband failed to provide for her
All day yesterday at the local station of the New Mexico Eastern railroad, train men, engine men, operators, and station agents in the city were given an examination on the new Book of Rules issued across the Santa Fe system. Conductor James Carder of Amarillo conducted the written test.
Douglas Pomroy a five year old boy brought from Clovis to Roswell last night. Placed in the Spicer home by the Children’s Home Finding Society due to Mrs. Spicer’s illness. He is brother to three-year-old Helen Portia Freidenbloom. Both children will remain in Roswell, in the same city, under new guardians.
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