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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
2
Public notice from Denpon Texas dated August 16 1912 announces corrections to erroneous reflections or reputational mentions in the Record and Chronicle column and urges individuals or firms to report any errors for correction.
The British Medical Journal links Bulgarian longevity to buttermilk rich diet and simple foods like maize flour and milk curds. It notes low cancer rates in Bulgaria and high centenarian prevalence, contrasts Swiss sour milk use with higher cancer rates, and highlights simple diet and calm living as key factors.
Dallas police issue daylight space rules banning close contact in public halls and schools. Prohibitions target dances like the Turkey Trot Grizzly Bear and Bunny Hug, with warnings about daylight between partners. The piece notes reforms on skirts lengths and horn sounds as part of a broader moral campaign.
A Detroit Free Press item lists several inventors with big payoffs from simple devices. Hyman L Lipman earned 100000 for a lead pencil rubber eraser while others like DeQuilfeldt and Heaton owe brass toe tips and shipping tags carved fortunes. The piece notes profits from can openers bottle caps and bottle pull tabs with figures up to a million for key can innovations.
A bride anxious to avoid chickens orders by telephone, mishearing grocers as grocers. She asks for two dressed grocers, then corrects to undressed, noting her husband may wring their necks and the cook can dress them.
Venus prompts Thiveg to sell prompting a classified inquiry. Thiveg evaluates options and potential market interest while stakeholders monitor signals and regulatory cues.
Randolph Mason helps a dying Richard R. Curtis devise a legal ruse to lift a mortgage and divert funds. Curtis writes a trust-based check on company money to a politician, enabling a sale of Curtis’s house and a safe return of funds to the insurer while condemning the corrupt scheme.
The text cites Brown v Ford and related New York cases Cohnfeld v Tannenbaum with references to volumes and reports. It notes sources in LRA New Series 97 and 176 N Y 126 98 Am 81 Rep 653 68 N E 141, indicating where the legal principle is discussed.
Memory in the Fish describes continued experiments by M. Oxher testing whether fish retain memory of associated ideas. He reports further results after previously showing that a red cylinder can be linked with a stimulus and later recalled by the fish.
Sherlock Holmes Jr examines an unconscious man and notes a rusty corkscrew in a pocket knife. Watson questions the deduction as to whether the corkscrew indicates fishing trips, but Holmes remains confident the clue matters despite the tool showing no recent use.
French poet Leon Dierx was found dead in his bed after a night with literary friends including Henri de Regnier and Victor Margueritte. He had attended Mallarme tributes and left a cafe at 11. Lifelong poet laureate status ended his years after being named a prince by young poets in 1901.
A city tailor technique fixes a trouser front crease by stitching the extreme edge after pressing flat. The process makes a permanently straight front line and aims to reduce knee creasing, a common complaint.
A Southern resident known for a fine banjo reluctantly quits playing after a minstrel show offers a steady job. Uncle Henry's wife explains the man stopped due to fear rather than religion, after hearing the old man perform stirred the boss of the show to hire him.
A club chatter recalls a motorcycle race with a long pass by a residence. The exchange notes the rider as slow and remarks on hearing the machine before and after it passed the speaker’s house. The humor centers on exaggerated travel time and earshot.
The scene centers on a whist drive where Mydieton bets Singleton on chest size. Tape measures reveal a 34 inch chest for Singleton and a 59 inch waist for Mydieton, leading to Mydieton winning three pounds as the crowd reacts to the unexpected result. The crowd comments on Singleton’s broad frame.
A nostalgic column laments that romance has faded at Annapolis Naval Academy. The old curmudgeon claims granite buildings dull the romance, yet he notes midshipmen still enjoy courting and flirting in the academy’s social scene, while future admirals continue their tradition of spooning.
The Wesleyan University graduating class marks coeducation ending as every woman graduate receives honorary Phi Beta Kappa membership while only a small portion of men gain the honor. The men argue the shift diverts scholarship honors from men to women.
A New York Press story notes a window display showing three strands of No 40 white thread with twenty five needles each. The storekeeper says his daughter threaded them to help ladies with failing eyesight who cannot thread needles. The contraption lets users wind to the desired length and slide needles along. Nearby elderly women praise it as a real blessing despite limited neighborhood amenities.
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company announces a public sale at its Ponder freight depot on August 1 1912 at 2 p m of two unclaimed shipments for RA Autry and R A Autry. Items include a traction engine and a separator with unpaid freight storage and sale costs deducted from proceeds.
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