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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1906
Page
5
A Roswell shopkeeper touts right prices and high grade merchandise as the rationale for low prices. The owner claims only goods of good wearing character enter the store, inviting fair visitors to see the business's retail reform.
Classified notices seek a boy with pony to deliver papers at Ingersoll's Book Store and a woman for general housework at 604 Pennsylvania Ave. Additional ads offer buggy and horse for a lady driver at 821 Main St and positions at Walker's New Hotel in Roswell including pantry girl chambermaid porter dish washer and bell boy with apply times at J B Gilkeson and Roswell Creamery Co office.
The undersigned will sell at public auction Friday September 28 at 2 00 p m at the J A Foreman place 11 miles east of the Military Institute Two choice milch cows one high grade Durham and one half blood Durham and Jersey both in calf Dur nam bull Canning Factory shut down temporarily until more cans arrive The factory has produced large quantities of fruit and tomatoes paying 60 cents per hundred under contract One high grade Durham heifer last spring calf Three hogs average 200 pounds 140 shocks of corn 500 pounds of DANIEL MAY potatoes R D BELL Auctioneer A FEW SNAPS Two story frame house corner lot close in 2400 Four room house corner lot Good location 1500 Nineteen acres Hondo land just outside city limits Five room house fenced windmill artesian well Worth 4000 Will sell for 3300 Two choice lots corner First and Washington Front east 600 Two lots and 3 houses splendid location fine artesian well Houses rent for 10 per mo each A bargain at 2500 Houses for rent or sale Hondo land a specialty FOR RENT Three nicely furnished rooms for housekeeping or parlor for sleeping Opposite Roswell Hotel Dr G T Creeca the livestock inspector returned last night from a trip on the Belen cut off H C Brown of Hagerman was in the city today on his way to Fort Worth to enter Draughn s Business College for the winter Good bunch of stock cattle to trade for nice residence See us at once Carlton Bell Have a good gentle family horse for sale R H McCune 57t10
A bargain price listing for a new five room house with bath, gallery, screen porch, two 50 by 198 lots, cement sidewalk, good shade, and one of the town’s best artesian wells. Address B Box 544 Roswell New Mex.
Several listings for sale in Roswell New Mexico include a 34 horsepower Fairbanks Morse engine in good condition with contact C M Bird or Roswell Machine Shop, a five room frame house with artesian water near Main Street priced at 1750, a six year old horse and buggy priced at 100, postoffice fixtures including Yale lock boxes, and sixty acres of Hondo land with water right ready for a dairy operation. Box 413 Roswell NM.
Classified brief offering five room house for rent or sale with address 400 South Sea. Also four large well furnished rooms on North Hill with water in house, cheap for winter. No children. Inquiries at Record office.
Classified notice seeking board and room at 200 South Leagve with contact 7616. Also advertises a cook position at Roswell Tent City and Sanatorium apply to Dr W T Joyner at 117 West Second Street.
Lost small leather card case containing three railroad passes and other papers with between 25 and 3 dollars. Reward offered. Return to W. G. Hamilton or Record office.
Board of County Commissioners invites sealed bids to paint all steel and iron parts of the Pecos River highway bridge with two coats of metalastic paint. Contractor to supply brushes scaffolds and labor at his expense. Begin within a reasonable time. Bids due Roswell Probate Clerk by 1 PM October 1 1906. Board may reject any bid. Chairman W M Atkinson September 24 1906.
The Daily Record reports solicitor called on J F Patterson who said increasing ads would not help. He is selling more saddles and harness than he can manufacture and fears he cannot meet demand if he advertises.
Fresh meat items not relevant. Two story frame house in C Sutt on Oklahoma Block near the court house advertised for quick sale. Owner must move within a week and buyers urged to act promptly for a genuine bargain.
Dr R L Bradley informs that he will be away for two months and asks those who owe him to call and settle with Mr Kinsinger.
C Sutton announces ten days of special bargains in all kinds of town property located in the Oklahoma Block.
Misses May and Ethel Shanahan traveled from Kenna to attend the fair and visit friends through Sunday.
Auction notice from Sutton Oklahoma listing a ten day sale of town property. The notice references local real estate bargains with period sale terms and requires interested buyers to attend at the specified location and dates.
Local notice urges residents not to sell furniture or household effects before consulting Makin. The brief warns buyers to wait for his evaluation and guarantees assurance prior to any sale.
All students who attended Rob ins Commercial School last winter and spring are now working.
Real estate notices advertise low prices on town properties and vacant lots in the area near C Sutton Oklahoma Block and Woolverton Practical Business College. Phone 138 for details.
Public notice from P. V. and N. E. Ry. Traffic Manager D. L. Myers warns travelers about ticket scalping. Scalped tickets will not be accepted for train transport. Buy only from authorized agents to avoid trouble and loss.
Train schedule details show arrival and departure times for northbound and southbound services. The document lists 10:30 a.m. arrival and 10:50 a.m. departure for northbound, and 4:00 p.m. arrival plus 4:10 p.m. departure for southbound with NS, Agent noted.
1 200 acres of fine land in a shallow artesian belt near railroad offered at a bargain. For full particulars write Carlton & Bell at 303 N Main St Roswell or call phone 425 7414.
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