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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1905
Page
3
Ruth, daughter of E N Dewey of Agnewville Virginia, suffered cholera infantum last summer and was given up. A bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was used, and within five hours her condition improved. After more of the remedy she fully recovered. The advertisement says the remedy is for sale by all dealers.
Roberta Sharpe, sixteen, steadfastly supports George Urner, nineteen, after he errs by crediting a stranger for 3,500 dollars. Two years pass as they endure, until a German Jew reveals the truth and the debt is settled. George rises to cashier, Roberta becomes his wife, and he enforces strict accountability for bank clerks.
A Bristol innkeeper named John Weeks shows rare generosity to a shabby lodger dubbed the poor gentleman who buys no meals yet earns a free paper. After a Christmas dinner, the guest vanishes, leaving Weeks ruined until a London bank offer reveals the mystery benefactor as Thomas Coutts of Coutts & Co, rewarding Weeks for past favors.
Captain Tarr sails from Martha's Vineyard to the Pacific aboard the Harpoon with his seventeen year old daughter Irene and Frank Bristol, a capable Pacific sailor. A mutinous order by Bristol leads to a sudden storm that tests seamanship and binds Tarr to Bristol as he seeks Irene's hand in marriage.
A sergeant and six men in Fort Benton country face an ambush by Little Bear's band after a captured private Brisbane is used as bait. The defense hinges on a hidden crevice that swallows the attackers, leaving the soldiers to discipline the remaining Indians with a harsh but ceremonial punishment. Later, prospectors uncover a cave beneath the site with the skeletons of a hundred Indians and fifty pounds of silver, sold to an eastern college for $3,000.
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