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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1912
Page
2
A public notice states erroneous reflections on any firm person or corporation in the Record and Chicago columns will be corrected upon notification to the publishers. The text asserts accountability and promises corrections as needed.
County level and city races listed with candidates for County Judge Assessor Treasurer Tax Collector Clerk Sheriff District Clerk Justice Precinct 1 Constable Precinct 1 Commissioner Precinct 4 and City Mayor Aldermen Ward 1 and Ward 2. Names include H is Huskins Tobin Witt Lee Gary Reeve Hawkins Hennein Button Orr FryBatis Wilson Hopkins Durbin Higgins McCormick Evans Jones Atcheson Sweat Beyett Bates Fowler Evans Jones.
Dr. Z J Allen advises uncooked cabbage as highly nutritious and easily absorbed. He notes cooking reduces minerals and fiber digestibility, making raw cabbage preferable with fruits rather than bread or meat. Lettuce and cauli flower are easier to digest when not cooked, preserving similar minerals.
Dallas News editor Prescott Toomey examines the roots of Virginia's judicial reform in a series. He argues that many procedural complexities trace to old English common law crafted to shield wrongdoers from royal enforcement.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals declares that when evidence clearly proves guilt, procedural errors not affecting innocence should not block justice. It notes trials are not perfectly error free but must be fair, and if errors do not affect guilt, the lower court's sentence stands. The piece highlights rising interest in judicial reform.
The Justin Chamber of Commerce seeks a well located gravel pit to secure material for Justin streets. The Post Signal notes deaths in Peniel including Etta Lee Lew eight Pauline Kirchmyer eight months and Audrey Holmes twelve from pneumonia and meningitis. The Lewisville Enterprise reports a large barn and passenger auto loss by fire and county court action to sell Lewisville precinct road bonds. The Lewisville school poised for first class status and a call for debates between Jake Wolters and Morris Sheppard.
The piece argues for buying a quality watch from an established maker and a reliable local dealer who offers a guarantee. It emphasizes long service life over cheap price and highlights a Seventeen Jewel Illinois Watch with compensation balance priced at $10.50 in a nickel silver case.
An advertisement stresses bowel regularity as essential to health and promotes Rexall Orderlies as a safe constipation remedy. It claims quick action without purge or nausea, suitable for children and the elderly, with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. O. M. Curtis’s Rexall Store sells 10c 25c and 50c sizes.
An old advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease cured by internal remedies. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous surface treatment and lists F J Cheney & Co as sellers in Toledo Ohio. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
If you have something to sell use classified. Get your Irish potatoes at Turner Bros. They are the Maine Triumph and are good ones. Phones.
Turner Bros offers Minnesota Trumph Irish seed potatoes for sale. Questions about buying or selling are invited in this classified ad seeking customers and vendors.
Paris witnesses report seven revolutionists on trial for abducting and threatening three comrades. Captives endured 52, 48, and 12 hours before confessing. Judges note police like tactics and lack of counsel for the accused. one prisoner comments on harsher treatment in earlier republican times.
In a village tale Molly Hobart names her preferred suitor while stories from Mrs. Ransom describe Jake’s inventive use of old wagon wheels. Jake removed spokes, mounted two hubs on stakes, tied them with rope to two cows, and they tread in circles without tangling. Molly hints at a possible patent for the idea.
A north side man, fishing clinker in a furnace, finds a bright mass he suspects from ore in coal. He shows it to his wife who quickly identifies it as her aluminum skillet. She uses the skillet in the furnace to burn off turkey hash residues.
A wandering former writer, claiming kingship of Cambria, asks hospitality from a cold hostess. She refuses food but offers to chain her hound Tearum to escort him to the gates as he recalls a pressing engagement elsewhere.
A humorous exchange highlights concerns about bohemian gatherings. One character mocks the free and easy social scene while recalling a past event where cheese ran out and sandwiches were spread with library paste. The互dialogue underlines tension between literary circles and conventional propriety.
The next Record and Chronicle issue may include sought after items in classifieds. Readers are invited to check the issue for listings matching their interests and needs.
Mrs W L Aldwell sues to break the will of her brother Ed Jackson the millionaire ranchman who bequeathed to Catholic church property valued at 1 000 000 His likely separate claim is independent of Mary Luna who says Jackson was her husband.
Five men stopped a Rock Island passenger train near Hurlburt Arkansas at dawn. They dynamited a safe and robbed the mail coach taking about 66 dollars meant for an Oklahoma bank. The group fled the scene with the loot. An Associated Press dispatch from Memphis reports the robbery.
Ed Woodard son of R H Woodard Farmers Store East McKinney street was said to be ill with meningitis at Durant Oklahoma for days. A later death report proved false as of Wednesday afternoon though a Denton man with him was quarantined by City Health Officer Piner. Summers child remains ill but improving with no new cases.
A historical note reports local activity in Argyle and Denton including Mrs Marsh Mrs Lola Baker and others shopping visiting relatives and guests in Aubrey Justin and Bartonville. It mentions Emory Hacker and Olga Marsh wedding at Rev Reichs home and calls to buy meat tickets to save money at Ideal Restaurant.
A brisk notice urges readers to act now on advertised offers as prices and availability shift daily. It emphasizes urgency and that today’s bargains may vanish tomorrow.
G W Elbert informs readers of price shifts in farm goods including cheaper cotton seed wholesale and higher bran retail, prairie hay up, Johnson grass hay at 13 dollars retail, eggs 25 to 30 cents cash or trade, and 8 cents retail. Poultry sellers can contact for city wide collection. Plymouth eggs 50 cents per dozen with stains from layers and remaining feed.
A message urges shoppers to watch the Record and Chronicle ads for thrift in dressmaking and dry goods. It suggests using the want columns to find bargains from dress makers and stores, noting lower material costs and cheaper gowns.
WAKETON NEWS reports Charlie Calvert was moved to the Denton sanatorium for a second operation on bone cancer and is listed as seriously ill. Nearby notes mention visits, travel to Denton, and local social moves including a corn club formation and new arrivals from Corinth. Several residents are noted in and around Denton and Argyle as weather prompts farming activity and visits.
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