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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
3
The regular Elm Lodge No 30 meeting is tonight a roll call session. Every member must answer when named or send an excuse. Message signed O M. KING.
FOR RENT THREE FURNISHED rooms for light housekeeping at 8 7 West Sycamore street. 108 twenty acres with house barn and other improvements to rent after Jan 1st. Also 53 acres five miles from Denton to sell on credit. See L Ful ton.
Mrs Fowlkes offers two upstairs rooms at 39 E Mulberry for light housekeeping with gas cooking. Furnished or partly furnished options available. Contact W L Brock at 46 West Hickory St for details.
Furnished rooms for rent listed at 49 North Locust Street with new phone number 443. Rental option appears in a small classified item.
Advertises for sale buff rock pullets at 109 cents each and cocks priced from $2.50 to $5.00. Includes contact W. C. Spong Route 4 phone 1613 2d. Also notes 28 anti idoven. Serious buyer inquiries only.
Trade listing for one span of splendid horses suitable for wagon or carriage or under saddle. Located near Oil Mill. Includes indication of availability and condition.
Eight readable lines note a dairy cattle sale by Partwood and Hodges Dairy. Cows offered at a location one mile north of town at 42:30 any day. Buyers may select what they want.
Private family seeks a white woman to work as a cook and housekeeper. Duties include cooking and general home tasks. Terms stated as reasonable. Apply by phone at 28.
Poster proclaims no trespassing on private land posted by J J Mattithews with warnings to hunters and intruders to stay out.
Local advertisement offers pure milk and cream from Pure OJ Prsey with a contact phone number 62. Listings appear under a small classified block, noting availability and new product lines.
Chops bran Gorn Hay and other feedstuffs listed with best stove and heater wood. Prompt delivery and full measure. Elm Street Arkansas Mills. Both phones.
The old preli able piano tuner E Starklof will be in demand soon after wartime work concludes. Those seeking service are asked to leave word at Selenutz Furniture Store.
Local dairy ad lists Portwood and Hodges as contacts for sanitary milk and Graham products. New phone numbers shown: 426 and 297.
Wes Jackson reports on a local ironwork case involving a hog killing at Rao Gold PhousNo 448. The note references specific site number and individual, outlining a brief incident description and focus area for further details.
The Frank Wilkinson meat market lists a new meat panel with fresh and tender meats. Located in New York, the store emphasizes quality and variety for customers seeking reliable cuts and good service.
Message from Transfer Co states future fares will be paid in cash. The notice requests recipients to remember the new cash payment method.
Storage of household goods at reasonable rates offered by John Schmitz with a selection of heating appliances and gas stoves available for purchase or transfer.
Advertisement from the Freight Transfer Co lists contact at Kincaid wagon yard West Oak Street and promises special attention to dray services and furniture moves with a phone call for quotes and money recovery.
Fragmentary note mentions household mowing and several names. lacks clear event or outcome. no dates or places identifiable.
An advertisement touts tested and clean pianos with guaranteed performance and no key damage. A. J. Gantt lists a new phone number 222 and claims 400 satisfied customers in Denton.
A R McGintie office over Wilson Hanns offers rental housing across North South East and West Penton Texas. Furnished rooms for pest control and related services are available.
Local contractor Gurley offers cement work with first class quality at fair prices. Free estimates available for residential and small commercial projects.
Old phone 579 updated to new phone 93 cents for high grade cement and brick work. S A Bushey invites estimates and urges potential customers to contact for work.
The notice provides contact details for Dr Eli Buyher a veterinary surgeon. Office location is Old Lacy Blacksmith Shop North Locust Street with office phone 461 and residence 355. Residence and Hospital listed at 46 East Hickory Street Denton and additional phone 620.
W E Botts graduate veterinarian advertises office at Hancock and Sob blacksmith shop Elm street Lipacomb block. New phone 269 pegi gence, new phone 132 old phone 486.
A local insurance ad urges December to February risk awareness and highlights the firm J P Magee and Co. It emphasizes careful attention to details to save money on policies and invites readers to call for a discussion on renewals.
The rate for announcements in Daily and Weekly Mercord and Chronicle runs from insertion to after primary at 15 cash with order for first insertion. Precinct offices listed show County Judge Fred M Bottorff S M Bradley County Clerk A P Blankenship W El Walter Orr County Attorney H Br Wilson Re election Tax Collector H V Hennen Re Election Sheriff Pat Galligher Jim Ode.
L O Tompkins announces prepared stovewood for delivery. Contact phone 4614-6R for orders and service.
CHAS SATINDERS DENTIST office over Long and King’s with both phones. W N Rawell DDS office over MecCravy's south side square new phone 43 old 341. Dr W A Jones dentist west side square.
Denton Texas announces J. W. Fraley dentist located in the middle of the block upstairs at South Side Square. The notice gives address details for the dental practice in Denton Texas.
Dr M L Marten, A B M D, treats diseases of eye ear nose and throat. Fits glasses available. Office over Raley & Co. noted in local business notices.
In a brief notice, Will Loecknane invites buyers to the Will Lock Nane Wagon yard on Fast McKinnew Street near Stroud grocery, offering three high quality bulls for $4150 cash with privilege to return and a new phone number 350.
A brief biblical quotation urges choosing good over evil. It asserts that those who do good are of God, while those who do evil have not seen God and cites Jahn in verse XI.
An advertisement notes the presentation of A Slave of Satan at the Princess theater tonight with a brief exhortation to attend for a suggested moral lesson.
Dr Lipscomb specializes in eye ear nose and throat care with glasses fitting. Office located above Curtis' Drug Store.
Sherman Texas December 12 The body of J B Joiner past grand master of the Texas Grand Lodge I O O F was laid to rest at West Hill Cemetery Sherman Lodge No 45 led the funeral service at the home of his son Roe Joiner 519 South Elm Street The pallbearers and honored guests included Denton I O O F members C E Malone A W Goodner and others from Dallas Sherman Corsicana and Denton The funeral drew a lengthy procession and large floral tributes echoing the order s tenets Love Friendship and Truth.
A period advertising piece claims Pape's Diapepsin instantly digests food and relieves dyspepsia within five minutes. It asserts lasting stomach health, no gas or belching, and urges readers to buy a fifty cent case at any drug store to avoid ongoing indigestion.
An expert on horses cautions against cruel methods and describes safer alternatives to handle a balky horse. The piece warns about causing dizziness or harm and emphasizes using humane, rapid resumption of work after calm handling.
Mrs Baldwin of the Standard Fashion Co will be at The Williams Store Monday. She will discuss subscriptions to the Designer magazine offered at 30c a year, delivered monthly at the counter, with regular price 1s 6d.
An excerpt from a December American Magazine piece profiles Harry A. Franck, detailing his nine‑month journey from Milwaukee to the Panama Canal and beyond on a shoestring budget. It notes his travels across Central America to Panama, his frugal finances, and work in the Canal Zone as a census-taker and plainclothes police helper.
A rural schoolteacher assigns a compound proportion problem referencing men working ten hours a day. The boy omits the work. A note from his father explains the eight hour system, refusing the eight hour limit and allowing the boy only to do his part.
A tall man fails to appear at a vestibule until Thursday when a beautiful girl confronts him. He claims dyspepsia and doctor orders kept him away from sweets. The parlor scene remains crowded as the confrontation unfolds.
A New York Evening Sun remark contends that beauty, though rare, profoundly affects society and personal relations. It implies men should be grateful for beauty’s scarcity and wives should share in that sentiment.
Denton health officials warn the main danger of scarlet fever is children returning to school too early after peeling off. Little Brew er girl sent home on Thursday and diagnosed Friday. Health Officer Piner requires both health certificates and physician approval before students may reenter.
In this humorous extract from the December American Magazine George Fitch recalls Homeburg’s Christmas custom. Townsfolk return for holidays with college friends and neighbors, hosting visitors, babies, and past residents who arrive with stories and gifts, creating a citywide seasonal homecoming.
An advertisement touts Pr Hobson's Eczema Ointment as a cure for eczema and related skin ailments. George W Fitch of Mendota Illinois claims long standing eczema resolved after one box. The ad guarantees refund if not helped and lists Pfeiffer Chemical Co. Philadelphia or St. Louis as sellers.
A man at a charity fair tells a girl he only buys from homely girls because they have a harder time making sales. The girl is unoffended, and he continues along the line with the remark in a Louisville Courier-Journal item.
Judge Hoskins prompted Joint Tract Superintendent G B Johnson to install a stove in the Denton depot ladies waiting room. Johnson replied that no stove has existed before and will be installed at once for the comfort of lady passengers at the station.
A wide listing of wholesale and retail prices for grains such as oats corn and wheat and for feedstuffs including bran chops shorts and straw. Produce prices cover eggs butter hens fryers turkeys ducks and various fruits vegetables with per unit costs and delivered rates where available.
Miss Marie Baird, ill at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Hooper for two weeks with a severe ear carbuncle, worsens despite treatment. Doctors from Southwestern University Dallas and Springtown, including Dr. Baird, Dr. Jones, Dr. Black, and Dr. Hooper, labor over the case.
Farmers are urged to grow kafir corn as a staple crop in the West and Midwest. The grain feeds horses and hogs, makes fodder, and can be ground for flour or popped like corn. Some Kansas lenders required 10 acres of kafir per $100 borrowed, a scheme that spread to banks in the region.
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