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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1905
Page
4
Local scene includes many visitors and business trips from Dexter, Portales, Amarillo, and Texas towns. Residents report farm, lumber, and extract product ads, Lions, and church event notices plus Campbell Bros. Shows promotion and Pecos Valley souvenirs.
A minister sees boys lying for a dog in a ring. A boy bets the dog to whoever tells the biggest lie. The minister recalls his own honesty and one boy urges to give the dog to the gentleman.
A quoted opinion contrasts acts of generosity with cash gifts, noting that money often corrupts goodwill. The author, W. A. White, laments that a dollar’s warmth cannot match genuine hospitality, illustrating social behavior through humorous examples of economic give and take.
L. B. Mitchell and Dora Belite Bennett married Sunday morning at eleven o'clock at the Bennett home on South Hill. Judge J. T. Evans performed the ceremony. The groom works in transfer business. the bride has attended public schools for five years. They have gone to house keeping on North Hill.
Beyer presents the world’s greatest bicyclist and unicycle rider as a special feature with Eiler’s Rip Van Winkle Co on Saturday October 21.
Kansas City cattle receipts reach 24000 with steady to higher demand. native steers around 4.25, southern and western cattle mixed. calves 4.50 to 6.25. sheep receipts 8000 with lambs and mutton ranges up to 7.20 and 5.22 respectively. St. Louis wool market steady with mids 22 to 30, Chicago grains and meats report mixed futures. New York money, mercantile paper, and key stock indices close steady.
Seventeen persons were injured early this morning when Missouri Pacific train No. 66 traveling westbound derailed at Kilburn sixty miles east of Pueblo due to spreading rails. The last three cars, a Pullman sleeper, tourist sleeper, and day coach, overturned. The most seriously hurt was Week See Windle of Salem Kansas, feared dead.
A listing for Eiler's Rip Van Winkle Co presenting a high class show described as thirty people with calcium effects, advertised as a one night only performance on Saturday.
The original laxative cough syrup Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is offered by Pecos Valley Drug Co. It claims to expel colds by acting as a carthartic, relieve throat fever, draw out inflammation, cure cough, and strengthen lung and bronchial membranes for colds, croup, and whooping cough.
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