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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1909
Page
2
Public notice lists subscription options for Weekly Record and Chronicle including weekly and monthly plans with advance payment. Rates shown per week and per month, with annual options and second class mail registration. The publishers invite corrections for any erroneous reflections in the paper.
A compact extract lists historical and literary references across years from 1509 through 1821. It notes events and personages such as Henry V quotations, Louis Philippe’s fall, Sir Joshua Reynolds’s death, and John Keats’s death, interwoven with lines from Shakespeare and other poets.
Denton citizens are urged to subscribe to city loan scrip bearing 6 percent interest to fund sewerage work. The Recording Chronicle defends the effort, noting nearly all benefits return to Denton businesses and residents, and invites readers to join and be named as subscribers in forthcoming lists.
The three Denton national banks report deposits growing by about 166 600 over December to February and cash and available reserves reaching near 209 000, reflecting brighter local banking activity.
The passage notes banks paying out funds despite panic, cites frigid January days, and compares municipal races with Cleburne listing four marshal candidates and Denton eight, underscoring civic activity and local tension during the period.
A dispatch reports Kaufman county will plant a largely increased broom corn crop due to a high price of 150 dollars per ton. The move aims to capitalize on favorable market conditions for the commodity.
A string of race riot incidents spans Nebraska, Iowa, and California challenging mob law norms beyond the South. A British cosmographer remarks the earth is not a perfect sphere but an ellipsoid with three unequal axes whose surface is deformed by a spherical harmonic, shifting toward Southeastern Europe.
Texas faces frequent fires with many towns damaged amid suspected arson. The Thirty first legislature is urged to pass fire marshal law, supported by firefighters and underwriters, to deter arson and investigate rumors more decisively.
McKinney and Collin county urge a branch Agricultural and Mechanical college, offering 50 000 cash and 700 acres or 75 000 cash, contingent on the Gaines bill passing. They argue the Gaines bill would create sixteen branches and that the black land belt deserves state support.
A Nebraska farmer tired of hunters on his property hung a crude sign on barrel staves promising prompt action with three mean dogs and a double barreled shotgun. The recorded note mocked literary pretensions while signaling a firm halt to imposition, contrasting with polished authors who profit from clearer writing.
A University correspondent quotes quirky schoolboy misstatements. Puns reframe biology and math labels, with lines about pinch a butterfly, blood vessels as veins and artilleries, a ruminating animal chewing its cubs, algebra as Euclid’s wife, and the masculine of vixen as vicar.
Lieutenant Burrell confronts class bias as Necia introduces her siblings, Poleon Doret arrives with a mixed crew of natives and traders, and a seasoned gun trader displays skill and suspicion. Old Man Gale plots to curb a dangerous outsider while river steamers bring quiet tension to the settlement.
In Austin on February 23, the Senate accepted a Dallas invitation with a South Texas visit planned for Friday night. Senator Kellhe proposes a bill requiring school texts to be written and published by Southern aligned individuals in Texas.
The Texas House committee on constitutional amendments reported favorably a joint resolution by Elliott and Wortham to exempt cotton factories from taxation for ten years. It also backed the Harmon resolution requiring English literacy for voting and reported adversely on liquor sale protection in justice precincts and on railroad and interurban tax exemptions for five years.
In Austin on February 23 the House and Senate had brief sessions with adjournment for Gen Tom Green’s monument unveiling and Washington's Birthday. Senate minutes show final passage of the Howe safety appliance bill and resolutions thanking Galveston. Lawmakers consider an anti Sunday excursion bill as they anticipate visiting Dallas after a Sunday Denver Gulf trip.
The piece appeals to citizens to fund a sewerage plant, noting the lowest bid at 27 500 and a bond issue of 12 550. Subscriptions total about 10 000 with local banks and Mr. Graham, leaving 5 050 still needed. If funds materialize in a few months the project becomes real. otherwise the effort ends, harming the city’s growth.
Representative Hill of Denton county announced plans to introduce a resolution demanding a report from the House committee on municipal corporations on the Galveston commission bill to confine saloons to the business district. He urged the bill be brought out of committee and not allowed to die there.
Alliance Milling Company asks all holders of ice coupon books issued at the old price to turn them in for cancellation so new books can be issued at the reduced price. New books will be issued now or later as required.
A reader from Kosciusko Mississippi praises Hunt's Lightning Oil as essential for farm use and household remedies. The letter extols its quick action on burns and fresh cuts and claims it benefits both man and beast.
All ice coupon books issued at the old price will be sued at the reduced price. New books will be issued now or later as may be required by Alliance Milling Company.
Washington recovered from a spider bite after five weeks in bed as doctors failed to help. Bucklen's Arnica Salve allegedly cured his leg sores, with the product promoted for eczema boils burns and piles at 25 cents a tin by Ratley & Co. of Bosqueville Texas.
Ladies invited to visit Tong Dry Goods Co to see daily arrivals of new merchandise. Store offers easy showing of goods and no trouble to display items.
Mrs M B Fisher of Detroit Michigan writes she suffered severe rectal trouble and then used Dr King’s New Life Pills. She claims they prevented appendicitis cured constipation and headaches. Available 25 cents at J F Raley and Co.
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