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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1910
Page
1
Directors met in a regular session with no action on the Santa Fe extension. Informal talks on the experiment station bonus suggested closing by February 1 and a county town funding between 1500 and 2500 dollars plus city up to 3000 dollars depending on subscriptions.
A father is urged to prepare a son for independence by teaching money value and saving. A bank account with a $1 opening is presented as a practical tool to instill good financial habits for the next decade and beyond.
Brown and Day attempt to test their new automatic balancing attachment on their airplane at Hiland Park. A gale over prairie winds of 40 mph made the craft unmanageable after liftoff and it smashed one end on a ground-landing. Inventors hope the device will solve automatic flight balance, but practical success remains unproven.
Exchange National Bank announces A. J. Nance as president J. R. Christal as vice president and Coit as cashier in its latest organizational notice.
Tonight in New Orleans is expected to be fair and colder. Friday will also be fair with continued dry conditions.
A morning blaze in Mt. Pleasant Texas totally destroyed the Cotton Belt coal chutes and shed with four loaded coal cars. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars. A nearby school house also burned briefly but sustained only slight damage and prompted a student panic.
The Eastland Texas jury in district court found Bill Edwards guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of G. A. Rogers at Fula. Edwards, previously tried at Board, drew a life sentence. the current verdict imposes 36 years in prison. Both men were farmers.
Local observers report a new comet visible in the early evening, low on the southern horizon. Multiple residents noted the comet appears in the southwestern sky Thursday, drawing attention from watchers across the area.
The state of Pennsylvania funds education for Httie Katie Frick, a blind deaf mute at Mount Airy Institute For the Deaf and Dumb in Philadelphia. Scientists marvel at her rapid learning using finger tip prompts and wooden counting blocks to represent numbers.
Denton watchers reported a bright new comet visible just after sunset and lasting about thirty minutes. Harvard astronomers confirmed it as a newly seen object, likely not Halley, with observations from Johannesburg marking its origin and path near Capricornus as it moves east of the setting sun.
A sales notice offers 1 to 3 dollars off on any man’s suit in the house except blacks and 1 to 3 off on any boy’s suit overcoats and 1 to 2 price reductions on ladies' suits coats children's cloaks and furs.
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