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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
3
Classified column notices outline rates for go time and subsequent insertions, with professional cards of three lines or less priced at 1.00 per month. Advertisers must provide cash to insure insertion and no ad is accepted for less than 10 cents. regular accounts may apply.
Weather clears after rain and snow as a Christmas Eve service attracts a large crowd at the church in Sunnydale. Rev J P Mason leads services Sunday and night. Visitors from Krum Denton Shannon attend and several socials entertain friends with a lively weekend program.
An advertisement claims deafness caused by catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It asserts the Eustachian tube inflammation causes deafness and offers $100 for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes endorsement by F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo and 75 cent sale of Hall's Family Pills.
A Denton County sheriff sale is set for the first Tuesday in January 1910 under an order in the case W P Carey et al vs J R Speelman et al No 562. The described property includes two tracts totaling about 125 acres on Clear Creek near Denton, with detailed metes and bounds for both tracts.
Reported from St Johns on December 29 the Christmas storm claimed seventy lives aboard twelve Newfoundland schooners. The furiously expanded North Atlantic coast endured days of gales with widespread shipping and telegraph damage across New England and the Northeast.
W. J Atkins, a night watchman at Banner Springs Tennessee, contracted a persistent lung ailment after years of exposure. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with a full recovery after trying multiple remedies. The medicine promises quick relief for severe colds coughs inflamed throats and related ailments with trials offered free.
J W Smith a former Denton county resident died after injuries from an accident while feeding stock on December 18. He left a wife and ten children, with sons in Iowa Park Wichita Falls and Henrietta and daughters in Henrietta. Born 1850 in Madison County Illinois he moved to Texas in 1874 and was a devout Christian formerly of Oak Street M E church now in Wichita Falls. He is mourned by many friends in Denton.
Nashua Iowa night policeman J N Paterson recalls a persistent winter lung cold. After ineffective treatments and many advertised cough medicines a friend urged Foley's Honey and Tar and two thirds of a bottle cured him. He calls it the greatest cough and lung medicine. Garri son Kimmins.
An old testimonial from Mrs. J. N. Puckett of Denton Texas extols Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney ills. The ad notes relief for urinary disorders diabetes and Bright's disease and claims children benefited too. Sold by all dealers 60 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents with the warning Remember the name Dean's.
The text notes hexamethylenetetramine as a German chemical used as a ure acid solvent and antiseptic for urine. It urges taking Foley's Kidney Remedy at first signs of irregularities to avoid a serious malady. Garrison & Kimmins.
The River Seine is told to lose its purity after passing through Paris with smoke and pollution, changing color and mood toward the estuary at Honfleur. The piece contrasts its dusky Paris riverside beauty with sunset scenes at the sea, noting the river’s turquoises, golds, and greens and calling the view a dramatic transformation.
Mary Frith known as Moll Cutpurse rose to fame in London as a highwayman and the first English woman said to smoke. Daughter of a Barbican shoemaker she joined famed criminals and fought with swords before a 1689 July death. She robbed General Fairfax on Hounslow Heath and was briefly imprisoned in Newgate.
A columnist jokes about overcoats in autumn and winter and notes a treacherous back wind can cause lumbago. The piece recommends rubbing well and Perry Davis Painkiller to banish soreness quickly.
Local column lists residents visiting relatives and guests from Baylor University Denton Dallas Grapevine and Oklahoma. People mentioned include Olen Emery Stanley Farrington Glenmore Savage Bila Saunders Virginia Stith and Miss Ethel Elbert among others with several sick beds and family visits noted.
C C Cook of Hallettsville Texas endorses Hunt's Lightning Oil for pain and sprain relief. The ad promotes 25 and 50 cent bottles.
Denton reports mixed cotton quotes with May contracts up 14 points from yesterday while March-April and May-June futures show narrow gains. Spot price movements vary across markets, with New Orleans and Galveston varying slightly and local trade noting many bales of lint and seed cotton sold amid wide price fluctuations. Local eggs, turkeys, and hogs reflect holiday demand, with eggs easing from winter highs, turkeys softer, and hogs weaker locally.
Market quotations show lint cotton at 14 12 to 15 cents per pound in seed price range from four to five dollars and twenty five cents.
Corn prices: wholesale per bushel or hundred pounds. shelled corn 78 to 84 cents. retail 80 to 85 cents. Cotton seed wholesale $26 per ton, retail $28. Cotton seed meal retail $32 per ton at car, $1.65 to $1.60. Cotton seed hulls $12.50 to $15 per ton at car. 75 cents. Corn chops 1.50 per 100 lb wholesale, 5 to 10 cents higher retail. Chicken feed 1.60 per 100 lb wholesale, 10 cents higher retail. Bran 1.40 per 100 lb wholesale, 6 to 15 cents higher retail. Shucks 50 cents to $1 per load. Prairie hay $15 per ton, retail per bale $16 to $17 per ton. Wheat No 2 spring price 1.30 to 1.35 per bushel FOB.
A historical price sheet lists groceries with wholesale and retail rates. Irish potatoes sell wholesale 95 cents a bushel and retail 1.10 a bushel per peck 30 cents. Sweet potatoes new crop wholesale 1.25 to 1.50 per bushel, 40 cents per peck. FavOUR 100 pounds wholesale 3.15 to 2.40, retail 10 cents higher. Hard wheat flour 3.05 to 3.15 per 100 pounds. Graham flour 3.50 per 100 pounds retail. Corn meal 60 to 65-70 cents per 35 pound sacks, half sacks 31 cents wholesale. Lard country wholesale 18 cents per pound, 10 pound cans $1.90, 5 pound buckets 95 cents, bulk 18 cents. Bacon retail prices 18 cents for dry salt, 16 cents smoked sides, 18 cents wrapped bellies, 26 to 30 cents breakfast bacon. Onions wholesale 2 ½ cents per pound, retail 4 cents. Turnips wholesale 2 ½ cents per pound, retail 4 cents.
Wholesale eggs offered at 30 cents cash or trade with retail at 35 cents. Butter priced per pound with wholesale 10 to 30 cents cash or trade delivered to private homes and lodgings at 2 to 5 cents. Creamery butter per pound 25 to 30 cents.
Turkeyer per bl. 12 1 2c to 13c. hens per lb 7 to 8c. fryers per lb 12 1 2c. bakers per lb 10c. old roosters each lobe. guineas per doz 1 50 to 2. ducks per doz 3. geese per doz 6.
Hogs priced per pound gross light 5 to 6 cents and heavies 6 3 4 to 7 cents. Cows priced per pound gross 2 3 4 to 3 1 4 cents.
Inclosed find money order for one dollar for its worth in Simmons Liver Purifier tin boxes. I have been using the medicine for thirty years. Thos H Reilly Jonesville Fla. No comments necessary. Price 25c per box.
Sheriff Orr returned Tuesday night with C. K. Shingleton after arresting him the day before on a horse theft charge. The alleged theft occurred seven miles south of the city from A. L. Rawlins, with Sewell Price already arrested last week. Shingleton is jailed locally.
Woman’s delight rock her beet pimples skin eruptions. Arnica Salve cures pimples sore eyes cold sores cracked lips chapped hands. Fallible for piles. 2Ac at J. F. Raley & Co.
Tenants are offered 20 acres with a good house a barn an orchard and other improvements just west of town plus various houses in town for rent. See L Fulton for details and availability.
Justin December notes show visits from Fuluse of Coalgate and Dooley of Virginia. Multiple residents travel to Fort Worth for schooling and back home for holidays. Local roads remain poor after recent rains and Mrs Nicholson shows improvement.
J B Dorsey is visiting in McKinney while Wheat looks good around Ponder after the snow and oats suffer losses. The column lists multiple residents traveling to Fort Worth Tennessee Kentucky Stillwater Temple and West Texas for holidays and visits.
Foley's Urino Laxative offers mild action and pleasant taste as a preferred laxative for women and children. It claims to cure constipation and avoids harsher purgatives like pills and tablets.
M. R. Gilbert notes that Mound City paint products could run higher in price, though the increase might be offset by quality or durability. He discusses market factors influencing costs and consumer expectations.
A fragment urges avoiding illness in cold weather and promotes Simmons’ Cough Syrup as a remedy. It claims the syrup relieves coughs, heals lungs, and keeps one healthy to enjoy spring.
On January 4 1910 between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM at the Denton county courthouse I E T Broun trustee will sell described real estate in Denton county Texas to satisfy the indebtedness secured by a deed of trust dated May 10 1907 by J W Mitchell and recorded in Book 33 Page 311. Default in payment has occurred and the whole amount is due.
C. C. Houston sues in Denton County for title to about 60 acres of land ten miles south of Alton in a 320 acre Sutton survey alleging ten years adverse possession and five years as to the title. The petition cites destroyed deeds and a forged power of attorney, asks for judgment to quiet title and substitute lost documents, and removal of clouds with damages claimed at 500 dollars. The case No. 5147 names Elzey Stockton and others as defendants with a complex chain of prior transfers dating back to 1855.
A brief note states there is no limit to the content or ties of want ads in the Record and Chronicle, implying unrestricted advertising reach for readers seeking to place notices or listings.
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