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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1913
Page
2
The Record and Chronicle is a Denton Texas paper published daily except Sunday with Edwards as editor. It lists subscription rates for daily and weekly editions, including monthly six month and yearly mail options and secondary classification as second class mail.
Denton plans for a $75 000 public building and a Confederate monument are outlined with public fund drives and tree planting to shade school grounds. Mexico situation is reviewed with Huerta Madero and Zapatista actions seen as delaying stability. Private Austin reports suggest Denton may join a congressional district with Collin and others.
Curtis' Fine Candy offers Nunnally's boxed assortments and Liggett options in $1 and $2 packages. Moore and Dutch box designs showcase high quality confections, with Liggett Moire and Dutch Box noted as popular choices. Orders are solicited by phone.
O M Curtis operates a candy and cigars shop in Denton Texas offering confectionery items and tobacco products. The notice highlights a local business listing without further details.
Farmers are advised to plant Irish potatoes this season with ready sales at RNER BROS. Call 7 for orders and delivery. Fresh Minnesota Triumph notes favorable planting time and urges prompt action for a healthy crop.
A Denton少年 ages fourteen shows a comical parade of gift bundles for a postman including butter eggs taters flour and more. The second item is an 1886 Toledo Ohio affidavit praising Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward clause and notary seal. The third ad promotes Clean-Easy Loan and Long & King ready for orders.
A suspected small pox case at the W A Klepper residence near Hickory and Welch prompted strict quarantine. The Norman student involved had not been exposed or traveled since Christmas, vaccination of inmates completed, and city health officials weighed compulsory school vaccination at a Sanitary Committee meeting with Mayor Bates.
President elect Wilson has not announced his cabinet and may name W. J. Bryan as Secretary of State. A rush of Texas visitors and locals travel to Dallas Fort Worth and surrounding towns with reports of visits by T. W. Phillips Brooks Judge Taft family and numerous residents. The brief notes the death of the little son of M. C. Robinson in Gainesville.
A large shipment of mantel clocks and alarm clocks is available with pricing from $1.00 to $2.50. Options include a Mam moth clock in nickel with a 6 inch dial and a steady five minute ring. Seth Thomas mantel clocks in mahogany, oak, and marble finishes are in stock at medium prices.
A readable notice notes O. M. Curtis operates a drugstore and jewelry shop in Denton Texas offering a range of medicines, daily necessities, and jewelry items.
Reported evacuation at Matamoros prompted by threats to 100 Americans, but rumors proved exaggerated and later dismissed as false.
Associated Press dispatch from Laredo reports the state ranger force ordered to Brownsville today along with one full troop of the Fourteenth Cavalry equipped for a thirty days campaign.
The Senate fast tracked the $180 million annual pension bill, approved in record time of twenty five minutes with fifteen minutes debate. It marks the largest annual pension measure in government history.
The Pure Food department ruled that soda fountain owners must serve drinks only in dry glasses that have been sanitarily cleaned. Rinsing glasses in a tub of water used by many glasses does not constitute proper cleaning. Opera house shows continue every afternoon.
Dashie Gooding transfers three fourths interest in jot 3 block 1 W M Jagoe survey for 75 dollars. Hong and wife sell 111.14 acres in John Morton survey two thousand five hundred. Sharber and wife sell south half of lot 7 McKinner addition to Denton for 2500. Baker and wife Jo ee Brashears own lot in Little Elm for 250. Doss to Lenora Nelson includes lots 5 and 6 block 25 Justin for 700. Strickland to Dr Turner lot in BB B C survey Denton for 800. Mays to Julia Ann Adams lots 2 and 3 block 7 Roanoke for 500. Snead and wife to Ida Lee Cowan lot in M E Pe er survey near Roanoke for 400.
Washington reports five infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment ordered to Galveston along with the full second division. The division totals 10,000 men and will concentrate about 9,000 infantry and 500 cavalry plus a mountain artillery regiment. The transport Meade with 1,290 marines is en route from Guantanamo to Galveston, with McClellan Kirkpatrick and Sumner due to reach today.
Readable text notes a block of Bernese Swiss cheese described as large as a wagon wheel at Paschall's shop. No further details provided.
More dictionaries arrive at the Rec ord and Chronicle office increasing reference volumes. Officials note steady demand for language guides among students researchers and staff.
Vital statistics column lists births and deaths with names, locations around Pilot Point Aubrey and Denton in February and January. Entries include multiple newborns and twins with parental names and several deaths with ages and causes. Anomalous lines note a demand demonstrating gas and olives for sale at Pagchall's.
AUBREY Feb 18. Local notes mention visitors including Mrs. R. M. Howser of Temple Col Tom F Rogers of Collinsville and H G Musgrove of Dallas. A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Dan Sanford on Feb 15. Various residents and visitors from Denton Dallas East Texas Pilot Point and Hackberry visit Aubrey. Home Mission society hosted a Valentine social at J W Tincher home.
New York Feb 25 United States now has a formidable force within striking distance of Mexico. Warships Vermont Nebraska Georgia at Vera Cruz Virginia at Tampico. Cruisers Colorado and Denver in Mexican waters. Atlantic fleet bulk at Guantanamo. 1 200 marines expected today. Landing force 11 000 men ready within Mexican waters or nearby. Land troops include 4 500 Fifth brigade border patrol 7 000 more. Fourth and Sixth brigades en route.
In Mexico City Ambassador Wilson releases an official statement stating that, lacking reliable information, he accepts the government version of the deaths of Madero and Suarez. He says the deaths were not approved by the government and likely the result of a limited plot. He praises government prudence and signs of early peace.
An advertisement urges readers to treat catarrh with Ely's Cream Balm. It claims rapid relief and complete cure by clearing the nose, head, and throat, soothing membranes, and preventing future colds. A 54 cent bottle is said to cure most cases, with guaranteed results from a local druggist.
The record lists civil docket actions and dismissals, including debt cases, partitions, and judgments by agreement. It details appearance docket outcomes, civil docket settings across weeks, and a criminal docket with forgery, arson, murder, horse theft, seduction and other charges with scheduled dates and venire sizes.
D Cern returns from South Texas. Ruby Chappell visits Carrollton. Lula Davis host. C M Jacobsen and J C Brannon attend Dallas Hardware Men convention. Sherman resident C E Cobb visits. Several townsfolk in Dallas and Fort Worth for events. Measles outbreaks reported. several residents sick. Small son of Lon Martin dies from measles. Abercrombie breaks arm after ladder fall. Various visits to Denton, Richardson, Waco, and Dallas noted.
An advertisement promotes Aunt Jemima Buckwheat flour as nourishing for breakfast cakes. It notes the product requires no yeast salt or baking powders and is sold by Long and King.
Advertising copy claims Danderine stops hair loss and dandruff after one use, with promises of new hair growth after weeks. It urges buying a 25 cent bottle from drug stores to restore hair’s fullness and shine and improve scalp health.
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