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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1905
Page
2
A listing item shows pricing for daily, six months, daily, one year plans and a product code Rtas 015 priced at 3.00. The record presents a compact catalog style entry with no further context or dates.
The Record serves as the official paper of Chaves County and Roswell City, publishing legal notices, public records, and local government information for residents and authorities. It provides official notices, schedules, and community announcements as required by law.
All ads to insure insertion in the same day must be in the printer's hands by eleven in the morning. Standing ad orders should be in by eleven to avoid that day's insertion. The Hagerman Messenger tackles reform of the Associated Press. The Teamsters Union of Chicago blames its president Shea for a failed strike. Pecos Valley has the goods. otherwise ad efforts would be worthless. Read rival ads to note superior points and possible improvements.
The article extols Pecos Valley farming and tourist appeal while noting plans by William J. Bryan to tour global municipal ownership and railroad issues. It discusses tariff politics, Panama Canal machinery pricing, and local business notices including sales of alfalfa and presses, plus rental ads for small office space in Roswell.
President Roosevelt declares no more free passes for railroads. The Rochester Herald notes the line echoes his stance, while referencing liberty born in Boston and raised in Philadelphia before moving to Chicago and engaging in a strike.
The text argues advertising rivals other departments in importance for sales, noting merchants should pursue it earnestly. It references Carlsbad school graduation essays, Russia's strike context, Roosevelt’s Democratic support, Morton’s railroads role, Teddy’s appointment, and Rockefeller seeking a church trust modeled after Standard Oil.
The Shah of Persia gave each ambassador a pair of yellow silk socks knitted by his hand, a tale cited by the New York Herald. Jerry Simpson now works in real estate and immigration in the Pecos Valley and cares little for the sock story, seeking only a farm with an artesian well and forty acres of bearing orchard.
A largely sympathetic strike in Chicago sidelined over two thousand workers, with some deaths and widespread disruption. Many non-grievant workers joined in, amid boycotts and fear of violence as police guarded non-union labor. The episode recalls similar labor unrest likely to recur in other cities.
WANTED. Cook sought with good wages at 210 S. Kentucky. WANTED. Woman for general housework. Phone 281, two rings. WANTED. Men to work on Honda reservoir earning $1.75 daily with board $4.50 weekly at Slinkard's camp. 40tf.
St Louis dealer offers a well drilling machine with a six horsepower portable gasoline engine. All complete and in good running order. Apply to G D Stewart at 708 Penn. Ave. ob6tf
Brown oil sterling overcoat missing on Main Street. Reward offered for its return. Leave at Record Office with details. Ob.
A bid in the Atchison Globe praises a herbal remedy as a blood enricher and liver kidney healer. A Cocoa and Rockledge News reader endorses the product, and Pecos Valley Drug Co. sells it. Episcopal ladies plan a May 25 dinner in the Ray building with service from 11 30 to 2 00. A reflective essay urges self-honesty to rise from humble beginnings, citing Jim Hurley as the Santa Fe general manager with a difficult start.
Exposure to cold winds and throat exposure after public speaking can cause coughs and colds. Ballard's Horehound Syrup is promoted as the best cure. Mrs. A Barr of Houston Texas reports a cure after one bottle, noting its pleasant taste. Sold by Pecos Valley Drug Co.
Quick sale offers a relinquishment of 160 acres four miles west of Dexter in New Mexico at 16 dollars per acre. Dicus Frost & Co. of Dexter handle the sale.
Mrs. Josie Sumner of Bremond Texas reports in a 1992 letter that Ballard's Snow Liniment has been used in her family for three years and she would not be without it in the house.
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