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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1907
Page
3
The Sacramento Market at 107 N. Main offers meat purchases with phone 425, promoting itself as the place to buy meat. Star Meat Market at 123 N. Main St with phone 56 markets corn fed beef and other meats, inviting customers to shop there.
Listings promote Roswell hotels and lodging options with room rates and locations along Main Street. Businesses include Kirbys Bottling Works, Kipling's Candy Store, El Capitan Hotel, Grand Central Hotel, Hotel Shelby, Roswell Hotel, Roswell Second Hand Store, and Makin's Second Hand Store offering furniture and used goods with contact details and brief service notes.
The Roswell Produce and Seed Co advertises all kinds of field and garden seed and invites readers to write for a catalogue.
JAS LLOYD THOMPSON offers surveying designing and drafting with concrete work as a specialty. All work guaranteed. Office in Garst Building Room 9. 12126.
T. R. Eve offers estimates based on 25 years experience with satisfaction guaranteed. Call 107. Garrett & Sparks Contractors and Builders advertise painting and paper hanging services with P O Box 566 459 East South.
Jaffa Prager and Co and Joyce Pruit Co advertise as the largest supply houses in the Southwest offering dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies with wholesale and retail service.
Harry Morrison leads as Roswell's exclusive jeweler offering watches diamonds jewelry rich cut glass hand painted china sterling and plated silverware L B Boellner proclaims Roswell's best jeweler with cut glass china and diamonds C Feinberg Roswell's new jeweler at 203% N Main St invites calls and repair service with guaranteed work
Capital Life Insurance Co of Denver Colorado markets itself as the Western life insurer with large dividends. Horace A Lay is listed as manager and invites prospective buyers to visit the office for policy demonstrations or quotes.
A severe local storm hit Temple and nearby areas with rain and hail from 5 p.m. The hail size ranged from pea to hen egg, then a second blast brought an inch of ice. Glass, roofs, and the Temple Gas plant suffered damage. repairs and rebuilding are planned, with Houston stockholders awaiting arrival to decide.
Following a meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents a statement says members will withdraw from Texas when the new law takes effect June 1. The measure requires 75 percent reserves for Texas policies to be invested in Texas securities and subjects them to heavy taxation, reducing returns and prompting immediate moves to shift premiums to home offices.
Cloudcroft New Mexico May 9 The cloudcroft lodge renovations race toward a June 1 opening The resort adds a complete golf links near the lodge supervised by General agent Jarrett King of the Southwestern He says the course will rival any in the country and attract El Paso businessmen for weekend stays.
Las Vegas Optic reports special Referee W B Bunker auctioned the Hot Springs Electric Railway Light and Power assets this morning. W A Buddecke was the sole bidder, paying $500 for the Las Vegas Railway and Power company, which held about two thirds of the defunct firm. The sale satisfies a $206,900 judgment, covering track and roadbed from the Santa Fe depot to Twelfth Street, the overhead wire, power house, and franchise. Original stockholders barely recovered their investment.
The new territorial cattle sanitary board met at the secretary Will C. Barnes offices in Las Vegas New Mexico and completed its organizational setup yesterday afternoon May 9.
A brief line promotes trade propositions to be seen, urging readers to contact Carlton and Bell. The card keeps your name before potential clients and appears in the Ogwell Trade Directory.
McAlester Oklahoma May 10 Editors from major towns assemble for the second annual Oklahoma Press association meeting lasting through tomorrow. A reception and ball precede talks on newspaper topics including passes and politics with speakers from Shawnee Beaver City and Oklahoma City. A water carnival opens in Venice with thousands visiting amid the Shriners ball at Al Malaikah auditorium and a frontier day celebration planned to close Fiesta week.
In Los Angeles on May 10 La Riesta de las Flores, a grand floral parade, topped the week’s festivities. The pageant featured blossom adorned vehicles including automobiles and carriages, with decorations entirely of natural flowers. The Merchants' and Manufacturers' association organized the event, spending thousands of dollars, and the day was declared a legal holiday.
The Vienna Amateur Singing Society with 350 men of wealth and noble lineage arrives in Philadelphia for a concert at the Academy of Music. Mayor and local German clubs welcome the party with a carriage ride and a grand reception. Proceeds from the concerts in the U S will support local charities with visitors covering their own expenses.
The Yale Rowing Association and New Haven schedule the spring regatta for tomorrow on New Haven harbor instead of Lake Whitney to maximize training benefits for the university crew. If successful, future regattas will be held on the harbor course.
Lyman H. Zachary transfers to Laura M. D. Jones for 1050 dollars Lot 14 Block 7 N Spring River addition to Roswell.
Yale visits Princeton in New Jersey while Brown faces Massachusetts Tech in Boston. Dartmouth eyes Amherst in Hanover and Wesleyan hosts Williams in Middletown. Virginia battles Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and Swarthmore meets Dickinson in Carlisle. Nebraska clashes with Minnesota in Minneapolis and Ohio State faces Purdue in Lafayette. Drake meets Iowa in Iowa City and Northwestern hosts an Inter scholastic meet in Evanston. Ames takes on Grinnell in Grinnell, Kansas faces Lawrence, Philadelphia hosts a high school meet, plus Colorado and Washington state hold state events with Illinois Chicago after.
Prominent attorneys from Louisiana and other states will attend the two day meeting in Shreveport. Business sessions are set for the Majestic theater, with a ball and banquet scheduled for the evenings.
Hundreds of Los Angeles County residents petition the God Roads association urging the county supervisors to appoint a highway commission and to call a special election to authorize a 3 million dollar bond issue for building superior roads in the area.
Kansas City May 10 search resumed in the ruins of the University building for the body of Miss Aurora Wittebert the artist who died in the fire Wednesday that destroyed the structure and for other possible victims
The second trap shooting tournament of the Missouri and Kansas league began in Fort Scott with sportsmen from many states participating. Principal events are scheduled for tomorrow.
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