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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1908
Page
3
Travelers report trips to Elida Portales Roswell and Carlsbad with stops in Amarillo Artesia and Portales. Home seekers Bureau advertises listings at 316 North Main. Ruppe expands Territorial firemen organization in Roswell after Carlsbad banquet.
Notices detail people leaving Roswell for Portales Los Angeles Albuquerque and other points for work travel or health reasons. Includes auction sale promotion and local business notes, plus remarks on Mitchell building ownership and voter registration closing October 24 1908.
Roswell listings feature ROSWELL TITLE & TRUST CO abstracts, groceries, and produce. Makin's Bargain Store urges bargains and sales while Hills & Dunn advertise higher payments for second-hand goods with contact at No 100 N Mata. Telegraph service from AP notes All the local news each weekday.
White and Phillips offer general blacksmithing and repair work at 301 South Main with horse shoeing a specialty. Work guaranteed.
A promotional column urges business leaders to embrace advertising to reach audiences and grow success. It emphasizes clear messaging, public visibility, and bold campaigns as keys to recognition and results.
JAFFA PRAGER CO and JOYCE PRUIT CO offer dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies as the region's biggest supply houses in the Southwest providing both wholesale and retail services.
A fragment mentions painted Chins, Sterling and plated silverware, and L. B. Borllner Roswell's pesmi jeweler offering full line cut glass and hand painted china with diamonds.
For sale nine foot tower and forty water tank offered cheaply. Contact R. S. Hamilton at 502 N. Mo or call 9615 during the week. Also reference 505.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co promotes lumber shingles doors lime cement paints varnish and glass. Roswell Lumber Co claims oldest lumber yard in Roswell for building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co invites Standard Apple boxes.
A compact ad listing Roswell merchants including Roswell Drug & Jewelry Co the oldest drug store, K C Dye Works offering alterations cleaning and pressing J H Angell with phone 617 at 128 West 3rd Dilley Furniture Co promising quality and value Western Grocery Co billed as the leading grocery store with a wide range of goods.
Real estate transfers list multiple parcels in Roswell with buyers and prices. Warnings include requests for dressmaking services and help-wanted notes, plus a lost gold pin and a found property notice. Names include J M Woolam, George H Brewer, D N Croft, Robert G Pinney, Elizabeth Lewis, and Hortense Lawhead among others.
Roswell merchant L Swartztrauber announces White Steamer display at the Dallas Fair from October 19 to 31. Purchasers paying one thousand dollars or more qualify for a refund of railroad fare from Roswell. See the cor Yea and McGaffey streets address for an introduction card to a White Steamer representative.
Mayor G A Richardson and Judge W W Gatewood returned from Carlsbad where they attended and addressed a large Democratic rally. They reported strong attendance and enthusiasm. Hon H B Fergusson delivered an able address on Democratic principles and New Mexico politics providing inside history. Fergusson speaks in Roswell tomorrow night.
A compact notice lists F. A. Mueller as a merchant tailor offering guaranteed work with cleaning and pressing in the rear of The Wigwam Cigar Store, while Jilley and Son provide Undertaking and private ambulance service, and Illery Furniture Co advertises undertakers with contact phone numbers 75 and 111.
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