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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
3
The Record will display complete Associated Press and Western Union results by a stereopticon for public viewing on election night. Local notices mention various ads and notices about coal, surveying trips, property investments, and errands by residents and businesses in Roswell and surrounding areas.
Mrs. William N Potter of Greenville is in the city to spend winter with daughter Mrs C A Donnell. Percy Hagerman left for Colorado Springs after visiting his parents at South Spring. Oasis Ranch owned by S B Davis of Las Vegas and H C Haynes of Denver were here during a court term and left for home. R J Cruse on South Main repairs pugs and rubber tires. Hugh Lewis Jr acts as agent for a major Roswell loan company offering monthly payments. Joe S Lewis heads to San Antonio after time with brother Hugh Lewis Jr. J B Herbst financial agent offers 500 000 to loan on irrigated farms with annual interest and optional prepayment.
A 1908 Roswell item notes a Conference College Commission authorized to receive bids from towns nationwide for a Methodist Episcopal College project. Local residents Rev H M Smith and others report neighbors seeking health and leaving for home, including the Walkers Ault Harris.
Local Roswell merchants including Chaves County Abstract Co F P Gayle manager Roswell Title & Trust Co Western Grocery Co Watson Finley Grocery Co Roswell Wool & Hide Co Roswell Trading Co and A C Wilson Real Estate list services and contact details in The Daily Record advertising section Also Makin's Bargain Store Hills Dunn buy sell second hand goods at 100 N Main Rd Roswell NM Daily Record provides local news and Associated Press reports.
An advertisement lists a private bowling and box ball room for ladies operated by Geo. B. Jewett at 117 W. 2d St. It also notes services in land surveying mapping concrete foundations sidewalks earthwork and general contracting by RIRIE & MUSSENDEN with phone 464.
Roswell Hardware Co lists wholesale and retail hardware supplies including piping pumps engines fencing tinware water supply goods buggies wagons implements plumbing and related hardware items.
Public attention centers on a week long sign in front of the Ogle store drawing a large crowd of eager cash buyers. Shoppers wait as clerks service the line, showing strong interest and apparent success of the sale.
Jaffa Prager & Co and Joyce Pruit Co promote dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies as the largest supply houses in the Southwest. Roswell Drug & Jewelry Co claims to be the oldest drug store in Roswell and offers up-to-date items. Dye Works provides alterations cleaning and pressing with J H Angell listing telephone 517. A Roswell Furniture Co touts a premier line of furniture at high quality and low prices.
An advertising focused message urges business leaders to publicize offerings. It emphasizes that visibility drives sales and positions advertising as a key tool for business success.
Garry Morrison promotes watches diamonds jewelry rich cut glass and hard painted china in Roswell. L B Boerliner positions as Roswell's best jeweler with a full line cut glass hand painted china diamonds and more.
An old classifieds snippet lists ECOS VALLEY LUMBER offering lumber shingles cement paints and glass with cleaning and pressing in the Wigwam Cigar Store rear. Roswell Lumber Co notes the oldest yard in Roswell for building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co promotes Standard Apple boxes. Isley & Son and Usery Furniture Co are undertakers with private ambulance service and phone numbers 75 and 111.
A 1908 letter from the New Mexico Conference of the M E Church South invites pastors to advertise a bid for a conference college in El Paso Texas. The notice calls for at least forty thousand dollars cash twenty acres of land and fifteen hundred dollars annually for five years with bids to consider climate health railroads and other factors.
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