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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1908
Page
3
Listings include 160 acres near Lake Arthur, Roswell and Hager near Artesian belt with rent and trade options. Properties feature 6 to 9 room homes, modern conveniences, water rights, alfalfa fields, and multiple 40 to 320 acre tracts priced from 10 to 40 dollars per acre. Special bargains and financing offered.
The article explains the brutal routine of building a locomotive fire using 200 pounds of old railroad ties soaked in oil. Firemen shovel coal in layered beds, apply forced draft, and maintain heat until steam pressure lets the engine move. Most fires are rebuilt only monthly. otherwise the fire is banked when idle.
The piece traces the hair combs used in Christian ritual from medieval times. It notes priests combing hair during services and high mass by inferior clergy, the value of metal combs in European churches, and famed combs linked to saints. It also mentions ivory iron bor n wood examples and pagan associations in ancient carvings.
An advertisement for Roswell’s Second Hand Store at 100-02 N. Main promises “Everything for everybody” with a coal and cook stores line and a wide furniture selection. Phone contact listed as 227.
Roswell listings include CMARVES COUNTY ABSTRACT CO with F. P. Gayle as manager, Roswell Title & Trust Co abstracts real estate and loans, J M Nelson COO architects, Oklahoma Elk Roswell NM, Watson Finley Grocery offering staples and produce, Roswell Wool & Hide Co supplying grain coal and wood, and Roswell Trading Co coal hay and grain at East Second St with phone 126.
D W Elliott advertises ten years of experience in land and irrigation matters with offices in Garst Building rooms 4-5. Bowling and billiards facility promoted with Brunswick Balke Coll. Co. equipment and Geo B Jewett as proprietor. AFFA Prager & Co dry goods groceries and ranch supplies highlighted. Joyce Pruit Co claims largest supply house in the Southwest.
Roswell Hardware Co runs a Weade sale and retail hardware shop selling pipe pumps and fencing and gasoline engines. Enterprise Hardware Co advertises builders hardware tools stoves rang es and utensils at live and let live prices. W P Lewis Hardware Co proclaims the largest house in the West with polite attention and complete stock inviting customers at First and Main.
The Daily Record presents local happenings and world events via Associated press coverage. This summary card captures notable items and public notices from the era in a concise newspaper card style.
Good tuners like pianos are scarce. Bernard Pos is presented as the expert piano tuner for both. Oppo site P. O. phone 86.
Roswell titles and trust company offers city and farm property at good figures to buyer with loan money available. Nell R. Moore and A C Wilson handle real estate including farms ranches city property with office at 303 North Main Roswell New Mexico and box 202.
The New Gilkeson offers first class dining room service with meals at 50c and special meal tickets plus free sample rooms and private bath rooms one block west of the post office. Central Hotel under new management A J Witteman promotes itself as the biggest and best and the only hotel equipped with sample rooms.
Morrison's Bros Store offers ready to wear apparel for men women and children with a specialty in military millinery.
Roswell Seed Co announces a new seed catalog covering field and garden varieties. Free copies are available upon request.
Roswell drug and jewelry firm promotes itself as the oldest drug store in town. The advertisement lists offerings including drugs wallpaper paints and varnish and brands Daniel Drug Co as a central retail headquarters.
Harry Morrison leads as the leading jeweler offering watches diamonds jewelry rich cut glass and band painted China Sterling and plated silverware J B Boellner markets Roswell's best jeweler a full line of cut glass band painted China diamonds and related items
J H Angell provides dye work including alterations and repairs plus cleaning and pressing at 123 W. 2d. and phone 517 for contact.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles doors lime cement paints varnish glass. Roswell Lumber Co markets as oldest Roswell yard for building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co invites customers with lumber and shingles and offers reliable service on East 4th Street.
Howell quotes a familiar French line IL a quitte sa ceinture to illustrate that confiscation meant surrender of a man’s girdle, considered his entire estate. An English adage Unght unblest confirms the value placed on the girdle as a purse and symbol.
Bernard Gunsul an electrical contractor at 110 N Main St offers all kinds of electrical work and is an agent for General Electric Co. McGinnis and Dixon electrical contractors provide repairs supplies and expert typewriter work with guaranteed service. Phone numbers listed.
Roswell Tent City and San Torium, Incorporated, led by Dr. C. Parsons as manager.
Dilley Furniture offers a wide Mohline of furniture in Roswell with high quality and low prices. Parsans and Son provide notary and brokerage services. Office at 317 North Main Street claims modern, up to date service and guarantees assistance upon entry. The Western Grocery Co promotes to stock only the best grocery goods.
Public stenographers typists and bookkeepers advertise services at 210 Garst Building Rooms 6. Let us do your work.
W P Wood at 118 North Main Street advertises tailor made suits cleaning and pressing service with phone contact 409 for customers seeking alterations and wardrobe care.
Turner Photographers Studio offers first class photographs enlargements and views continuing the Hess & Co legacy with quality imaging and portrait work for clients seeking high grade photography services.
Private ambulance service offered by Dilley and Son Undertakers. Allery Furniture Co advertises undertaker services with phone numbers 75 and 111 for contact.
The article praises Oliver Wendell Holmes not as a practicing physician but for his uplifting influence. It attributes his power to boundless cheerfulness and a kind heart, noting he brightened many lives and spread "flowers of good cheer" as optimism became his creed. He proclaims mirth as God's medicine and urges bathing life in it to scrub away care.
A collage of light exchanges on gossip about a pretty black eyed girl, snippets from The Atlantic Monthly, and a remark on Longfellow. The page contains a brief notice about eye glasses from Dr. Hunsberger at Zink's Jewelry Store, plus a cash for small ads reminder and a local publication line.
Notice sets the registration boards for Roswell New Mexico for the April 1908 city election. It lists ward boards with locations at Court House Spring River Grocery Store Smith Livery Stable and Pecos Valley Lumber Yard Cruse’s Shop and outlines hours dates and procedures for registering voters and appoints judges and clerks for each ward.
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