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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1910
Page
3
Denton reports show Liverpool New York and New Orleans quotes with small shifts. Local markets note eggs up on cold weather and hogs down modestly while Fort Worth Livestock receipts climb with cattle and calves strong, hogs down from Monday, top offerings varied by class.
MO B Schmitz announces candidate slate for Democratic primary local representatives and county offices. Included are names for County Judge Sheriff Treasurer Clerk and several precinct commissioners and constables.
Mrs Susana McCarroll of Baylor county visits her granddaughters Mesdames J A Holloway and John Belk. Miss Aliie Hennen and Lucy Whitmore attend Fort Worth commencement. Ada and Nell Kincaid of Denton visit Jessie Hickman. Glee club concert well attended as the school closes for the year. No sermon at Baptist church due to pastor illness. Gertrude Coleman returns home after visiting J E Park.
A dense list of wholesale and retail prices for farm goods and foods. Corn and corn products, cotton seed meal and hulls, corn chops, chicken feed, bran, shucks, prairie hay, Irish potatoes, cane seed, German millet seed, flour and flour blends, corn meal, lard, bacon, hams, and onions with per unit costs and retail markups across grades and packaging.
Butter per pound 10 to 30 cents cash or trade delivered to private homes hotels and boarding houses 2 to 25 cents Creamery butter per pound 26 to 80 cents Eggs wholesale 16 to 17 cents cash or trade retail 20 cents two dozen for 35 cents
Prices for turkeys and hens are quoted at 10 to 13 cents per pound with broilers from 1 to 11 7 pounds at 20 cents per pound and fryers at 12 1/2 to 15 cents. Bakers range 10 to 12 1/2 cents per pound, old roosters 15 cents each, guineas 1.50 per dozen, and ducks 3 dollars per dozen.
Denton readers learn kidney duties and cures. Doan's Kidney Pills are touted by E P Pickrell of Denton Texas who credits this remedy with restoring kidney function and ending back pains. Sold at J F Raley Co drug store for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Livestock prices show hogs per pound for light weights seven to nine and a half cents, heavies eight to nine and two tenths cents. Cows per pound range from two and three quarters to three and a half cents.
Radishes six to eight cents per bunch wholesale four cents retail six cents. Onions forty cents per dozen bunches. Lettuce forty cents per dozen bunches, retail five cents per bunch. Greens six cents per pound wholesale, ten two cents retail. Three pounds for twenty five cents offer.
Fort Worth scored 3 and Galveston 11 while Houston led 3 1 in the Texas League. Oklahoma City 3 Shreveport 6 San Antonio 2, fourth game not scheduled. National League games postponed by rain. American League Boston 5 5 Washington 44 Cleveland 2 Chicago 1 Philadelphia rain Detroit rain. Southern League Nashville 3 Atlanta 2 Chattanooga 8 Memphis 3 in 12 innings Montgomery New Orleans 2 Birmingham 3 Mobile 2.
Dickinson & Co. advertises a limited supply of booklets on the wireless telephone history. The notice asks readers to write promptly from Box 821 in San Antonio Texas to obtain the illustrated guide, detailing how messages are sent and where it is used, and naming the inventor.
April weather is fine with farmers planting cotton. Wheat oats and corn look good. Jack Bround of Hawk School House visited his brother Randi Bround. Tom Hampton and wife visited Denton. Mrs Potts and son went to Denton OC Reich also traveled to Denton.
Halley's comet sighted by Paris Observatory and visible without aid in Willemstad and Newfoundland. More notes on public figures, politics, marriages, and local events follow, including Bryan's Washington visit and a Missouri meat investigation.
An 19th century patent medicine advertises Dr. King's New Life Pills as a cure for liver trouble. It claims the pills improve blood quality and skin, promising clear complexion and rosy cheeks. Sold for 25 cents at J. F. Raley & Co.
An old advertisement extols Rexall 93 Hair Tonic claiming to regrow hair on bald heads and cure scalp irritation while promising refunds if satisfaction is not met. The text shifts to a Denton Texas city council notice proposing an election on street improvement assessments under Chapter 14 of Texas General Laws.
A brief note discusses limitless possibilities and aspirational aims within The Prr4 and Chronicle. It underscores broad potential for future ideas and developments without detailing specific events or outcomes.
Prairie Chapel April 19 farmers plant cotton and replant corn after hail losses wheat and oats look strong Sunday school at Wesley revived with spring two sermons and class meeting. Visitors include Miss Bessie Vaughn from Sanger and Miss Lenisaughn.
Mayor R. F. Bates orders a city election in Denton to decide on adopting Chapter 14 of the Texas General Laws authorizing cities to construct street improvements. Presiding officers named for wards 1 2 3 4 include A Bushey B Paschail W Baxter and J M Barrett. Voting restricted to qualified property tax payers with ballots stating For or Against adoption. Election to be proclaimed and notices posted at least 30 days prior.
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