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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1907
Page
3
Local note invites patrons to call 163 for a case of Kir by's Best at Kirby's store on Main Street. The message emphasizes Kirby's brand availability and urging a memory jog for customers.
Roswell Drug and Jewelry Co claims to be the oldest drug store in Roswell offering a full line of medicines and jewelry items. The terse copy emphasizes longevity and variety, typical of a local merchant patch in the period.
Roswell merchants promote a wide range of home goods including furniture refrigerators and hardware. The Dilley Furniture Co highlights its swellest line while Ww. w. Ogle promises everything from knitting needles to an elephant in furniture and hardware.
Western Grocery Co led by Prunty promotes cash only sales for the best groceries with a strict cash policy and a commitment to quality. The ad highlights a no credit approach and emphasizes value and reliability for shoppers.
Notice to real estate men that A. O. Millice is the sole agent for a Craw property 23 acre tract. Pruning irrigation plowing work available. Apply to agent Room 8 Texas Block 0615 E L Wildy 206 Grant Ed Los Angeles Cal. Rakes spades hoes at Makin's.
J. F. the PATTERSON operates a premier leather goods line based in Pecos Valley, offering high quality hides, belts, wallets, and other crafted items. Local shoppers and distributors are invited to view the collection.
Roswell's best jeweler L B Boellner offers a full line of cut glass hand painted china and diamonds.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles doors cement paints varnish and glass. Roswell Lumber Co claims to be the oldest lumber yard in Roswell and invites customers to see them for all kinds of building materials and paint.
A summary of the 1906 Pure Food Act effects and penalties. It discusses enforcement by a three-department commission led by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, offenses for adulterated or misbranded foods and drugs, definitions of drug and food, and labeling and packaging rules. It notes penalties up to $1000 and one year, and cross-state and foreign applications.
A Georgia train tale borders on whimsy as an Atlanta man and fellow travelers cheer a late train and present a conductor with a gift only to learn the locomotive was the wrong one arriving yesterday.
George T Blandford represents the Mutual Benefit of Newark New Jersey a provider offering insurance at cost through the Mutual Benefit life and casualty company
E H Williams & Co promotes itself as the only exclusive men s furnishers in town offering a selective range of hats, suits, and accessories for the discerning male shopper.
Hess and Co successors to Walton advertise first class photographs enlargements and views promising high quality images and a wide range of photographic services to customers seeking portraits landscapes and other prints.
An advertisement notes The Racket Store selling Nations China graniteware and cooking utensils. The brief listing positions the shop as a dealer in these goods.
Cooper and Millice offer real estate services in Room 8 Texas Block while Carlton and Bell claim to run the city’s largest real estate business. They invite buyers and sellers to seek them out.
Morrison Bros Store offers ready to wear apparel for men women and children with millinery as a specialty. The ad markets the store as a full range outfitters shop.
The Roswell Produce and Seed Company offers a wide range of field and garden seeds for planting. Farmers and home gardeners can find cereal, legume, and vegetable seeds, along with planting supplies and expert guidance.
An exclusive shoe store ad highlights Peters and Stetson shoes as specials at the Peelers shop. The message emphasizes unique offerings and attracts customers with limited-time promotions.
An old classified item advertises Morgan's Second Hand Store and Roswell Second Hand Store at 1002 North Main Hills and Rogers props with contact phone 69 MAKI'S Second Hand Store offers high prices paid for second hand goods.
Hamilton Bros offers goods with delivery service and a contact phone listed as 224 for order placement and inquiries.
Joe Torian is promoted as the reliable transfer man with downtown and residence phone numbers 224 and 426.
Dilley and Son provide undertaker services with a private ambulance for prompt transport and funeral arrangements.
A Farmer Shaw column cautions young men to slow their pace and avoid fast living. He warns that rapid beginnings lead to lasting loss, debt, and diminished prospects, urging discipline, wise company, and economical living for a larger life.
Fine land in the artesian belt offered for exchange for property in Missouri Kansas or Oklahoma. Contact B. F. Smith to arrange a buggy painting. Phone 176. Also legal blanks of all kinds for sale at the Record Office.
Italian authorities seek extradition of Olinte Ricconi a wealthy San Francisco merchant accused of a 1877 murder in Italy. Ricconi denies the charge and fights the extradition claim. Italian officials say Ricconi and the assassin Ricconi are one and the same person who fled to the United States and faces immunity after a future date.
The Texico Tribune notes Arizona has enacted an anti gambling law taking effect April 1 and reports a similar NM bill. It argues NM should not lag, citing a strong public sentiment and a powerful gambling lobby opposing the bill.
The act outlines eligibility for homestead entries for men and certain women over 21 not owning more than 160 acres. It requires residence within six months and either six more years or 14 months with eight months of cultivation to obtain a patent, with options to commute at 1.25 per acre or reside five years. Soldiers’ service counts as residence. if the claimant dies, the land passes to a widow or heirs.
The article describes homestead rules for widows of deceased soldiers who did not use their rights may file soldier's entries while residing on the land for one year. If the widow dies or remarries, her minor children may enter through a guardian. It also outlines leaves of absence for settlers unable to support their family due to crop failure illness or other casualties, not to exceed one year, with the absent time added to the five years of required residence at the end.
Butte Montana March 1 3700 workers idle as unions strike across trades. Many quit and others are locked out. The Butte Workingmen's Union encompassing unskilled labor is expected to join tonight. City services halt with street work suspended.
Wilhelm Rapp editor in chief of the Illinois Staats Zeitung died today from injuries from a street car accident suffered four weeks ago. He was 79 and regarded as the oldest German editor in the United States. Orson D. Munn, head of Munn & Co. and publisher of Scientific American, died last night in New York.
Personal recommendations from people cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy have driven its prominence in trade across much of the civilized world.
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