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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1910
Page
3
The firm of Slason Mc Ginnis becomes McGinnis & Sims at 18 Mc Kinney street. Pike Martin Meat Market touts tender beef and poultry produce with a new phone number 31 and old 309. They offer feed wood wagon yard and pay cash for poultry eggs and butter. Jans
Amontage of 1822 charter history and early rail travel details. The piece recounts horses pulling carts on early lines, the Baltimore and Ohio steam debut, sail-assisted locomotives, a famous 1830 speed trial where a horse won briefly, and crude braking and signaling methods with accidents and odd experiments like barrier cars.
Jacques Cartier’s 1634 voyage from St Malo and his 1635 return revealed the continent’s vast reach. The Mohawk term Canada meaning village was adopted by the French to name the country after learning Native village names along the riverbanks.
The planing machine sparked long disputes with many claimants. Records show Nicholas Forg, a French clockmaker, used a metal planer in 1751 to machine pump cylinders, believing it yielded greater accuracy than revolving cutters.
Mrs. Eula Presland of Greenfield Tennessee praises Hunt's Cure as a constant supply for itching skin troubles including eczema and ringworm calling it peerless and an old friend. 50 cents per box.
Editor notes a series on the trend of modern education by Rev. Andrew Fairchild Heltman pastor and former educator. He argues grammar schools need more support while high school expansion offers greater civic returns and questions tax burdens.
The passage argues education should equip children for livelihood and civic life. It contrasts views on whether schools store data or build character, noting the value of integrating theory with practice. It also suggests university training of teachers may improve efficiency through talent, study habits, or originality, or a mix.
John McAfee, a young man living north of Clear Creek, fired a Winchester rifle while hunting and put a bullet through his foot Saturday afternoon. The bullet shattered one bone and exited on the lower side.
An old advertisement promotes Capudine as a liquid remedy for headaches, colds, heat, stomach and nervous troubles. It claims immediate relief and pleasant taste, with bottle sizes of 15c, 25c and 5c at drug stores.
Next Sunday January 16 the B Y P U presents talks on The Ministry Its Claim on Us and its Importance to Our Church Led by Annie Andrews Scripture reading by leader The Need of an Educated Ministry by Florence Hitson What We Owe to Our Pastor by A G Dawson Why Should the Ministry Appeal to a Young Man Ray Bishop How Does God Call Us into the Ministry by Mrs F B McMath The Seminary at Louisville and its Great History by Rev M T Andrew
Washington man praises Dr. King's New Discovery after his brother suffered a decade with consumption. The remedy is advertised as quick relief for coughs colds bronchitis lagrippe asthma and related bronchial issues with trial bottles and a money back guarantee.
The partnership of W. B. McClurkan R. A. Sledge and F. M. Rayzor dissolves by mutual agreement. W. B. McClurkan and R. A. Sledge continue the business under the old firm name and will collect all accounts and pay all bills. They thank Denton and Denton county for past business and seek continued patronage.
Ad notes H. F. Keller of the West Side Grocery offers low prices on groceries with free delivery and invites a trial order. New phone listed as 312.
Curtis advertises candy today at 35 cents a pound with potential extra value described. A customer is invited to purchase and receive more for their money.
Let the Record and Chronicle arrange your magazine subscriptions. Any club or combination of magazines you desire at prices as low as you can obtain.
Abaco and Curti Invicible are two of the best cigars offered at the price five cents straight. Curt's, phone fifty two.
Chicago reports show several staples climbing as cold weather drives costs. Pork chops advance to 18 to 22 cents per pound, spare ribs 15 cents, eggs up two cents a dozen, oysters gain 10 cents per gallon, and potatoes near 80 to 99 cents per washel with other items like chickens and salt pork also higher.
A letter from C C Cook of Halletsville Texas praises Hunt's Lightning O11 as a great pain and sprain reliever. Advertisement notes 25c and 50c bottles available.
An advertisement extols higher quality prescription work and staff at a drugstore. It claims better goods and service justify costs, warning that cheap medicines can endanger lives. The firm offers goods, equipment, experience, free delivery, and a phone number.
Denton reports today's cotton prices with openings and closings in Liverpool New York and New Orleans. Local lint values ranged 15 to 15 3-18 with two bales of J Gibbons of Argyll selling at 15 1-8c. Seed price from 4 to 5 50 dollars per hundredweight, depending on quality. Corn chops rose to 1.55 wholesale. corn steady 85 to 90c shelled. hogs strong but unchanged. Egg shortages persist with prices at 30c a dozen casu ou grade and scarcity remains.
Pearson's Weekly recounts how art inspired truth in several cases. A painter's seaside scene triggers a confessed murder linked to gold. The Doctor by Luke Fildes prompts a physician to reveal a crime. A portrait pendant theft resurfaces when an artist recognizes a jewel in Bombay.
Lint cotton quotes run 15 to 15 3 8 cents per pound with lint in seed priced from 4 to 5 50 dollars per hundredweight.
Prices shown for corn and shelled corn per bushel and per 1090 pounds, including wholesale and retail ranges. Cotton seed and meal listed with wholesale and retail per ton and per 100 pounds, plus hulls per ton. Also included are corn chops, chicken feed, bran, shucks, and prairie hay with wholesale and retail figures.
A historic price listing shows wholesale and retail rates for Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes, flour varieties, corn meal, lard, bacon, onions, and turnips. Items include wholesale and retail per bushel or per pound figures with small variations by grade and cut. Includes per sack or per hundred pounds pricing for flour and corn meal.
EGGS wholesale 30c cash or trade and retail 35c. Two dozen 65c. BUTTER per lb country wholesale 10 to 30c cash or trade. Delivered to private residences or hotels and boarding houses 2c to 25c. Creamery butter per lb 26 to 30c.
The notice sets price ranges for poultry including turkeys and hens per pound, fryers, bakers, old roosters, and per dozen for guinea fowl and geese. Ducks priced per ounce and implied goose pricing per dozen complete the list.
Market notes show hogs priced per pound with light grades at 5 to 6 cents and heavies at 6 3 4 to 7 1 2 cents. Cows priced per pound gross from 2 3 4 to 3 1 4 cents. Source appears to be a livestock price summary column.
The letter requests exchange of a one dollar money order for Simmons' Liver Purifier in tin boxes, stating thirty years of use. The note from Thos H Reilly of Jonesville La offers payment and asks for the value in the product, priced 25 cents per box.
A flat dweller recalls a moving contractor who charged $10 to move several items, illustrating the economics of the moving business. The remark, cited in the St Louis Star, hints that there can be significant money in moving pictures in a literary sense as a metaphor.
Denton Texas offers a special discount of six dollars on a combined Bookkeeping Shorthand and Typewriting course until January 15 1910. Night school starts the first Monday night in January at Standard Business College.
Quotations line from Joubert about creativity and effort. No event or proper entities readable. Summary reflects a philosophical idea rather than a specific news item.
A newsroom note highlights the Record and Chronicle’s versatile want ads offering broad reach. Readers are invited to place notices, offers, and requests across categories with emphasis on clarity and effective placement.
A Ma con Georgia institution reports nine years of success using Electric Bitters. The President of the home claims the medicine improves stomach liver and kidney troubles and strengthens weak children. It is praised for female complaints and is sold for 50 cents by J F P Raley.
In San Antonio on January 10 the Union Trust and Bank was placed in the hands of a receiver by the Attorney General's department. It operates branches at Bandera Lockhart Kyle Manor Boone Christine Laverne Aransas Pass and Austin. Liabilities exceed assets estimated at $700,000. Receiver named is Austin banker Tom H. Davis. company president J. G. Burlesot.
Mrs. W H Pierce of Denton Texas testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured her kidney trouble and act as a tonic. Sold at J F Raley & Co drugstore for 51 cents with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
On February 1, 1910 between 10 am and 4 pm at the Denton County Courthouse doors, I B Broun trustee will sell to the highest bidder for cash the described land in M Forest League abstract 417 part of lot 6 block EB to satisfy the debt secured by the deed of trust dated May 10, 1907 by J W Mitchell Denton County Texas. E B Broun trustee. Jan 10 1910.
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