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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1903
Page
3
The piece explains pay schedules in New York theaters with unions for orchestra stage crews paid on Saturdays while actors, unpaid until Tuesday, may ensure attendance by delaying salaries. It notes this system keeps productions intact and schedules intact for Monday rehearsals and performances.
A 1903 plan offers a donated piano to any community group if customers vote with tickets earned from ten cent purchases. Tickets, issued by participating firms, are counted weekly at The Pecos Valley Drug Co. and the contest closes October 1903 noon.
Beginning Monday July 27 1908 and continuing daily until November 25 1905 the Regular Weekly Stock train operates for the 1908 season in connection with the APL ASF Rv to Kansas City St Joseph and Chicago markets The train provides facilities for shipment of market cattle in less than train load lots from New Mexico and the Panhandle of Texas For details write Don A Sweet Traffic Mgr Amarillo Tex Southern Kansas Ry of Texas and Pecos Valley Lines
An incomplete antiquated tale traces the birth of pyrography with Craneh in Axminster, describing heated poker art and its spread to panels. The piece then shifts to moral advice on talkativeness, gender habits, and a streetwise Jamaica colony anecdote, ending with a real estate sales plug.
Roswell properties offered by Kellahin include a 560 acre ranch with artesian wells 640 acres east of town and multiple homes on West and South Roswell blocks. Listings feature five to nine rooms, water wells, baths, porches, fruit trees, fences, and easy terms. Prices range from 850 to 4500, with call for details and abstracts up to date.
Immense crowd watches the Batloos balloon fail to ascend as careless handling and a gasoline explosion ignite fires injuring Ed Hill and Berryhill. Hill suffers severe burns while Berryhill escapes a fatal outcome after a 60 foot rise and the balloon lands near Clement's house. A collection raises about twenty two dollars for Berryhill.
The text explains hectropic curvature where a plant tilts when supported, then regains vertical growth. It questions whether the plant is stimulated to change growth direction and notes the theory that cells on the lowered side respond to pressure, influencing the growth mechanism.
A Cork Hill gunsmith shop displays an early breechioading device shown to the British war office late in the eighteenth century. The proposal was rejected as requiring too much ammunition.
The Philadelphia Press notes Kronnick quips about luck in business. A reader clarifies that if it were good luck he would not call it luck, implying the remark referred to bad fortune rather than success.
A Boston Globe aphorism notes that quitting cigars to marry may not prove intent while a Cleveland Plain Dealer quip jokes a neighborly feud prompts pipe smoking. The remarks humorously question motives and cause.
Prep and owner Jack Porter discusses business strategy during slower September days. He argues it is better to have large crowds and small profits than small crowds and large profits, reflecting his approach at Porter-Ewell Mercy.
Mrs Brownovich learns her husband is seriously ill. Mrs Smithinsky notes he is too ill to act except to make good resolutions. Cincinnati Enquirer quotes the exchange.
A brief Chicago Post item questions risks of kissing and notes a warning about attempting it on an athletic girl without consent. The remark highlights consent as essential in romantic advances.
The notice promotes a money saving profitable investment with a call to visit the office behind the First National Bank building for details. It urges contacting the office if other propositions do not attract.
R A Powell of Ok Spring City Tennessee expresses intent to relocate after receiving a Christmas number of THE Record. He learned of Roswell through the publication and has become a subscriber. He is acquainted with Messrs. KR J Coulter and I A Wallace and their families.
Three new religious groups have set up tents in town within a stone's throw of the Seventh Day Adventists. The Salvation Army, the Firm Foundationists, and the Adventists will hold services this week in their respective tents.
A playful verse laments a year without court and calls for a fully staffed bench. It frames the community’s desire to clear the docket and restore jail disgorgement as judges remain out of employment. The tongue-in-cheek poem sketches the hunt for an available judge.
Buyer seeks stock to graze on alfalfa pasture with ample water and shade. Inquiry made at L. R. Smith's farm located 14 miles northeast of town. Contact 148 d 3t w-4r.
John B. Gill ships apples to Texas at two hundred boxes daily. Office advertises desk space available on the ground floor with inquiries at the same location.
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