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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
2
Publication announces subscription rates and mailing details for The Record and Chronicle. It notes prices for weekly and monthly options, mail in advance, and carries standard public notices about corrections and post office classifications.
A collage of quips and anecdotes across papers. Marion Harlan fears her father Otis Harlan climbing a tree in a last act. A Delaware senator quip about tides, a London constable joke, Beerbohm Tree wit about a manuscript, Harper’s Weekly is cited, and Baptiste Harnais recalls hare soup humor at a Chicago French ball.
George M Bailey carried Texas electoral votes to Washington and delivered them to the vice president. Ex Senator Albert Hawkins announced another bid for lieutenant governor from Midland. Plus Texas headlines include Trinity River funding, Southern States Trust formation in St. Louis with T B Meeks as president, and legal cases and pay raises for federal judges.
calendar note records Lord Byron and John Winthrop births and Queen Victoria’s death with brief quotes from Shakespeare plays. It situates historical dates and figures within a public theatre and literary context, mentioning Henry IV Love’s Labour’s Lost Othello and Henry VIII.
A Denton merchant promotes tub suits while readers ponder the meaning of tub suite. The piece muses on character via an old saying about a man and his company as it notes the President hosting Bat Nelson and John L Sullivan within a week.
The speaker says he will use all power to shorten the session to sixty days. The pace suggests a rush is needed to meet that forecast as current weather slows sidewalk construction. Denton has laid many concrete walks recently and thousands more feet remain to be built.
The North Texas State Normal reports its enrollment as the largest yet for a Texas state normal, arguing for added buildings. The Thirty-first legislature should see that 648 students cannot be served with a single building. W B Simpson offers to haul rock if a rock crusher is provided and neighbors back road improvements. Residents previously raised 2700 dollars to extend macadam on the Decatur road, but the county rejected the offer.
Judge Priest of Waters-Pierce says the firm will reorganize and reenter Texas. Attorney General Davidson predicts otherwise and vows the company must stay out. He calls the firm a lingering odious carcass in Texas and implies the only acceptable path is leaving the state.
The text notes an outstanding state debt and a $1,523,006 fine. It accuses a federal receiver of not reporting or paying several years of gross receipts taxes, plus penalties totaling $60,000. It mentions a large silver dollar shipment as a metaphor and lists distribution of a fine to Attorney Brady and P. Gruet.
The State will receive 1,233,000 and Attorney General Davidson and Assistant Jewel P Lightfoot will receive their salaries. The State's share goes into the general fund and should substantially reduce the tax rate for the coming year.
At Atlanta State Normal Judge Taft told young women that marriage is not the sole measure of success. He cited an unmarried aunt as evidence that cheerful self sacrifice and virtue can accompany a fulfilled life without marriage. He urged to value family roles and personal happiness over social pressure.
The pieceweaves nostalgic memories of boyhood joys a flower scent familiar song and summer streams. It reflects on turning backward impossible yet argues that memories nourish work and virtue as one travels toward eternity with gentleness and forgiveness.
The Waco city council moved a franchise ordinance to a second reading granting Max Elser of New York permission to build an interurban railway line through Waco streets to Temple.
Interpreted from an old advertisement, it notes offering land loans at 7 with Denton Trust Company. The line prompts readers to consider why pay high interest on farm loans when the lender will finance on their land.
Mrs Z EB Goforth of Kansas City reports rapid relief from catarrh after using a sample bottle and two 20 ounce bottles of Hunt's Lightning Oil. She says it stops her headaches and she cannot keep house without it, calling it the best medicine she has seen.
Edward Frensdorff, representative of Michigan wool growers, urged the Ways and Means committee to pass a bill requiring manufacturers to tag each garment with its material. He aimed to exclude foreign rags, shoddy and waste.
A brief notice highlights Ideal Restaurant offering chili to take home for supper. The item emphasizes convenient, homey meals and a quick service option for customers seeking a warm, ready entree.
In a Vienna public garden a seamstress spoke with a plainly dressed woman about family life. The other woman reveals she is Archduchess Gisele, daughter of Francis Joseph and wife of Prince Leopold, linking European royal ties with ordinary domestic talk.
Oklahoma City reports incendiary fires hitting Mayesville business district destroying eight frame buildings with losses totaling 25 000 dollars and a Perry grain elevator burned for 15 000 dollars.
Roca Island officers announced sweeping changes to Texas lines will switch from telegraph to a railroad owned telephone system for train handling and business. The move will displace many dispatchers and operators. Fort Worth January 22.
Fort Worth broker F. G. Oxsheer sold his entire interest in 4500 cattle and the lease of the Hockley county ranch to W. K. Dickenson of Lubbock for $100,000 at Big Springs Texas on January 22.
A powerful quake and landslide south of Tetuan reports hundreds killed with Tangier dateline January 22. Local rescue teams search for survivors as aftershocks concern officials.
A brief note promotes notary work by the Denton Trust Company. The item suggests furnished rooms and tips on how to handle room listings, mentioning the Rec ord and Chronicle want ads as a means to reach readers seeking such postings.
Denton resident E P Pickrell reports years of back pain and frequent kidney secretions eased after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. He bought a box at J F Raley Co. Drug Store and says the remedy restored health and banished ache. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
The Damon Oil company bought the Thompson Collins Howard holdings in the North oil field for 60 000 dollars. The transfer included under fifty acres four wells and 20000 barrels of oil.
A brief inquiry asks if someone will make a loan on land at seven percent interest. The line hints at financing options or offers being discussed in a local column or notice.
In a Franklin Louisiana letter I Swann states Hunt's Cure has long stood as the best remedy for eczema and ringworm and that it cures itching instantly, asserting no other product matches its efficacy.
Henry Reidle a bartender at Munster's Saloon in Loling Texas shot himself this morning dying instantly. Despondency is suspected as the cause. Three children survive him.
In a tense plot twist at St. Agatha's, Helen Holbrook and Gillespie sneak a clandestine meeting after a perilous drive. The narrator despaired over Helen's duplicity while watching a lone canoe slip to the pier as Helen confesses love and urges caution to protect Miss Pat.
Tyler Texas January 22 The city canning factory the largest in the state was badly damaged by fire this morning. Hundreds of cases of canned fruit were destroyed and the building was nearly ruined. Loss about twenty thousand dollars with coverage by insurance. Owners plan to rebuild.
Advertising promo touts Hyomei as a fast cure for catarrh with a five minute relief claim. The complete $1 inhaler kit includes rubber pocket device, bottle of Hyomei, and a dropper. refills priced at $1.59. Claims Austral ia eucalyptus air cures respiratory ailments without stomach dosing.
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