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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1910
Page
2
Publication terms and subscription rates are listed for The Record and Chronicle with daily and weekly options. It notes mail delivery, address details for Denton Texas, and dates of entry as second class mail. The notice invites corrections of erroneous reflections in the newspaper columns.
The Blackland experiment farm tests sixty to a hundred wheat varieties along with oats barley rye and corn. Denton county and west Texas will soon see benefits from the local experiment station. Time will bring greater advantages as results appear, with winter hardiness a key goal. Success in this area would justify existing investment in experiment stations.
The Brownwood district, first in Texas to use local option road law, spent 150000 on roads. The Brownwood Bulletin notes opposition faded as good roads showed clear benefits, with farmers praising easier hauls and fewer teams needed as districts prove effective.
The column criticizes papers that overuse advertising space for padding. It cites a case where 600 inches of ads appeared with only ten for the paper itself, calling such filler ads a wasteful practice and a monument to management folly.
Texas and Oklahoma report cotton conditions modestly higher than last year with Denton County showing improvement. Denton indicates 20 to 25 percent better conditions despite reduced acreage, with favorable weather ahead. Communities like Lewisville Aubrey and Justin note gains though heat and pests persist. overall first bales expected later than last year, potential yield around 30,000 bales for the county.
A Dallas News excerpt lampoons revival meetings where Major Seldomcough gives $4 to foreign missions and Col. Tightwad delivers a sharper speech implying reluctance to sell or improve vacant property. The piece uses humor to contrast charity with frugality.
A local remedy touts Bucklen's Arnica salve as a quick healer for burns cuts scalds and sores. It claims effectiveness on ulcers boils eczema and skin eruptions and advertises the product for 25 cents at F Raley & Co.
A winter storm strands Mr. Gormly’s visitors at his newly acquired estate. Miss Haldane, her family, and friends are welcomed with hospitality as preparations are made for shelter, meals, and a quiet evening by the fire amid social introductions and budding tension.
In San Antonio on August 23 Otto Schurman aged eighty was hurled from a buggy and crushed under a street car. Wilhelm Webber, a passenger in the buggy, was thrown to the street and seriously injured.
The broomcorn market was quoted in Chicago with Selfworking pertaining to $160 to $200 and Hungarian imported broomcorn at $109 to $120 per hundred pounds.
A brief ad in the advertising column promotes a local item of interest with a simple call to action. Details are sparse but the notice implies a timely sale or opportunity.
A farmer plants potatoes and guards them from theft. A young pig figures a hollow log path into the field and repeatedly reemerges on the road. After many attempts the pig fails, while the farmer laughs at the clever animal fooled by his own trick.
Report says two passengers on the Alaska Pacific Steamship Buckman attempted a hold up of the vessel. They killed the captain during the confrontation, according to ship officials and early wire reports.
At sea off Eureka California on Monday a mutiny ended with one crew member captured by the engine crew. The other killed the captain, jumped overboard, and escaped.
Mrs. Ethel Miller of Dallas is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Elbert. The Millers who have been in Dallas for months will relocate to Galveston in the future.
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