Lumber yards reshaped as three changes unfold in town
The local lumber trade faces three ownership and management shifts. J J B McCullar buys Conway Craig yard on East Hickory, taking charge after invoicing by February 1. H R Groves leaves to head Groves Barnes in Dallas, Ed Pratt to manage Justin yard in his place. Hagdin & Co moves West Hickory yard to East Hickory site formerly owned by Hawkins and Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. B. McCullar
Fort Worth
Denton
Conway-Craig
East Hickory Street
McCullar
H. R. Groves
J. B. Wilson Lumber Company
Dallas
Groves-Barnes Lumber Company
Ed Pratt
Justin
Groves
Hagdin & Co
West Hickory Street
Ripy
J. W. Bone
Sam Hawkins
Wylie Smith
High school building burns in Colorado causing $20000 loss
Gov. Campbell approves lease of the Rusk iron industry to John L Wortham of Dallas. The Seine floods Paris with capital facilities at risk. Regent Geo W Brackenridge plans to move 400 acres along the Colorado River to the college. In UK politics 560 seats split among Liberals Unionists Laborists and Nationalists. Southwestern Lumbermen praise Pinchot for forest conservation efforts.
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Gov. Campbell
Rusk Iron Industry
John L. Wortham
Dallas
Seine
Paris
Geo. W. Brackenridge
The
State University
Colorado River
Southwestern Lumbermen's Association
Kansas City
Gifford Pinchot
Market notes from Denton and Fort Worth livestock
Denton reports futures and spot values with Liverpool and New York quotations and local seed prices. New Orleans spots steady while eggs and poultry show mixed moves. Fort Worth cattle and hogs receipts and prices mostly steady with slight declines from prior week.
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Fort Worth
Mississippi Senate race stalemate continues after withdrawals
In the Mississippi Legislature the senatorial contest remains deadlocked as W. D. Anderson withdraws Tuesday from the race for the seat, leaving competing factions unmoved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
W. D. Anderson
Wilson Blames Meat Trust for High U.S. Prices
Secretary Wilson asserts meat prices in America are driven by the meat trust. He accuses trusts of quoting lower prices for their products in England than at home, signaling a trade and pricing dispute affecting consumers.
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Wilson
America
Meat Trust
England
Labor union boycott weakens meat prices in four states
Reports from Michigan Pennsylvania Ohio and Texas state that labor union members are boycotting meat dealers causing a noticeable drop in meat prices across the regions.
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Michigan
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Texas
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised by F J Cheney & Co
Frank J Cheney, senior partner of F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The affidavit dated December 6 1886 before Notary A W Gleason states the product cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Sales pitch urges testimonials and druggist availability.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Chenney & Co
Hall
Frank J. Cherney
A. D
A. W. Gleason
F. J
Cheney & Co
Chicago magnate Pearson vows to give away fortune
Dr Pearson of Chicago, worth millions, now ninety, says he will donate every cent of his wealth before death. He has already given more than 4009 to colleges.
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Dr. Pearson
Chicago
Try a can of Phase and Sanborn coffee
A short promotional note inviting readers to try Phase and Sanborn coffee with a quality guarantee and a call to action to contact D R Tuorner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanborn
D. R. Tuorner
Street Tax Due Notice for 19106
Street taxes for 19106 are due. Pay before February 1 to owe $3 for the year, or $5 if paid after February 1. Tax payable to B. H. Deavenport Treasurer at Denton County National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton County National Bank
B. H. Deavenport
Glasses to Fit Four Eyes
A man hounded by failed spectacles sought an optician who could please both him and his wife. After trying several oculists and pairs, the pair was returned again, prompting the optician to note the client’s demand for glasses that would suit both spouses.
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Optician
Philadelphia Times
Quiet Place Promised by Hotel Clerk
A tired man seeks rest and a hotel promises comforts of home. He firmly rejects the offer, noting he has been married nine years and has seven children, as reported by the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia Record
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
A stray story notes a wry quip on national motto. An elderly narrator speculates the line speaks to bachelors and married men, offering a prejudiced, humorous take without concluding on the poet’s intent.
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Free
Mr. Smithers
Logic and Sophistry Exchange in a Father Son Snippet
In a brief dialogue the father explains logic as a line of reasoning in a controversy and defines sophistry as the other fellow's exchange. The exchange reveals a childlike curiosity about debate tactics and reasoning.
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Wille
Time Table for Missouri Kansas and Texas Southbound and Northbound
Rail timetable fragment lists southbound and northbound times for the Missouri Kansas and Texas line. Entries mention Dallas branch and Blyer with arrival and departure times such as 6:10 am, 8:30 am, 12:05 pm, 7:13 pm, and 9:45 pm.
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Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Dallas
Blyer
Flyer
Garza Flyer Gis
A. m
Hungry for guidance call 44 for suggestions
A casual prompt invites dialing 44 to help choose a meal. The message blends informal language and a playful hint about “LONG AND KING” as a branding or tag line.
Farmers Gather Cotton and Tillage Under Way in Spring Hill
In Spring Hill on January 25 farmers report most have harvested cotton and begun breaking land. Local residents travel to nearby Denton and Pilot Point for visits and errands including Mrs Burke and Florence, J M Coffey, Mrs W A Noore, Mrs Parrish, Misses Maggie Brim and Florence Burke, J A Williams, Lena Orendorf, H V Simpson, J B Nixon, Vernon and Clyde Simpson, and G B Wand with Aubrey and Denison as nearby points of reference.
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Spring Hill
Burke
Florence
Pilot Point
W. A. Noore
Southmayde
M. E. Parrish
Thorne
Maggie Brim
Florence Burke
Miss Brim
Denton
J. A. Williams
Lena Orendorf
Denison
Caddel
Vernon and
Clyde Simpson
J. M. Coffey
Mrs
G. B. Wand
Aubrey
Hyomei Complete Outfit Sells For A Dollar
Hyomei costs one dollar for a complete outfit to cure catarrh. An extra bottle is fifty cents. The ad promises quick relief for sore throat coughs colds croup and bronchitis and credits O M Curtis as the seller with a money back guarantee if not cured. Jan 17 26 Feb 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. M. Curtis
Groceries-Phone 44. When you think of one think of the other.
A brief, puzzle-like line references Groceries and Phone 44 with a cue that links the two phrases. The exact article context is not provided, leaving the reader with a prompt rather than a reported event or actions.
Turner’s Grocery Recall Noted in Local Ad Phrase
A fragmented notice mentions D. R. Turner and a phrase about groceries. The readable text suggests a local grocery reference with an upcoming item labeled No 7, without clear dates or actions.
Market prices for cotton, feeds and hay listed
The notice shows cotton lint and seed prices per pound and ton, corn prices per bushel and per 100 pounds, cotton seed meal and hulls, corn chops, chicken feed, bran and prairie hay. It lists wholesale and retail ranges, with units many items per ton, hundred pounds, or per bale.
Prairie Mound News Highlights Local Social Visits
Praire Mound reports mild weather as farmers prepare land for another crop. Local residents make visits across Denton and nearby towns, including Minnie and Mattie Brown, Milvert and Johnnie May Stewart, and families of Crawford, Poindexter, McLaughlin, Hampton, and Faught.
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Prairie Mound
Kienry Stewart
Denton
Joe E. Crawford
Lewisville
Minnie Brown
Denton Women Find Relief with Kidney Remedy
Women suffer fits of back pain headaches and dizzy spells with kidney ills blamed as the main cause. The ad cites Dean's Kidney Pills endorsed by Mrs L F Rowlett of Denton Texas and sold at J F Raley Co. The piece also lists grocery prices for Irish potatoes sweet potatoes flour and lard with various wholesale and retail rates.
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L. F. Rowlett
South Elm Street
Denton
Texas
Dean
J. F. Raley & Co
Egg and Butter Prices in Wholesale and Retail Markets
Wholesale eggs quoted at 22 1 2 cents cash and 24 2 trade. Retail eggs at 30 cents. Butter price per pound set for country wholesale 10 to 30 cents cash or trade. Delivered to private residences hotels and boarding houses at 20 to 25 cents. Creamery butter per pound 26 to 30 cents.
Poultry market prices and per unit costs
The listing shows turkey selling at 12 1-2 to 13 cents per pound, hens at 8 cents per pound, fryers 10 to 12 1-2 cents per pound, bakers 8 1-3 to 10 cents per pound, old roosters 16 cents each,Guineas 1.50 to 2.00 per dozen, ducks 3.00 per dozen, and geese 6.00 per dozen.
Livestock Buy Sell Rates Listed for Hogs and Cattle
Hogs priced per pound gross light five to six cents and heavies six and three quarters to seven cents. Cows priced per pound gross two and three quarters to three and a quarter cents. There is no limit to the possibilities of a want ad in the Record and Chronicle.
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Record
Chronicle
Farmers Prepare Land as Weather Warms in Plainview
Plainview farmers take advantage of mild weather to ready fields for a new crop. Wheat appears healthy. A new comet in the west stirs talk with mixed opinions among residents. Community notes include ill health, a preacher sidelined by illness, and Sunday school attendance dipping to 52 with 37 absent.
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Plainview
Halley
Arthur Redrick
Billie Yount
Owens
Lagrippe
Nell Naylor
Messrs. Naylor
Plummer
Fresh rolls and doughnuts baked daily at new stand
Fresh rolls doughnuts and bread baked daily at the new stand in the Mentzen Building North A Sipe square. J Kunze and C F Witherspoon & Sons offer hay corn red rust seed oats and other farm supplies.
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Mentzen
Northa Sipe
J. Kunze
C. F. Witherspoon & Sons
D&wt
Citation by Publication in Denton County Land Suit
Citation by publication summons Elzey Stockton and heirs in a Denton county land case filed December 28, 1909. C. C. Houston sues for fee simple title to 60 acres of land south of 60 degrees east of Alton, tracing through a chain of sales and fires that destroyed records. The petition seeks title, removal of clouds, correction of records, and damages related to diminished value.
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Denton County
Elzey Stockton
William A. Purnell
M. I. S. Morriss
B. W. Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis
Sixteenth Judicial District
Denton
Jail Court
C. C. Houston
William A. Purner
M. I. Morriss
Texas
Alton
Vincent R. Sutton
Edmond Sutton
Varas
Elm Fork
Trinity River
N. G. King
John Fanning
Benjamin Purnell
Rebeca Purnell
Austin Dudley
Lucinda Dudley
M. I
Morriss
W. L. Hodges
Mary E Hodges
Thomas Warren
Thomas Warner
E. Bbve
W R Scott The Tailor Cleans Presses Alters Men’s Wear
W R Scott the tailor offers cleaning and pressing plus alterations for men’s clothes and skirts. Also provides call and delivery service. New phone 49 located at No and West Side Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No & West Side Square
We Stand Between Denton Telephone Users and Trust Rates
A Denton defense of telephone users against price hikes asserts the company will stay in business to block further rate increases. The speaker notes they do not hire professional canvassers to press the case.
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Denton
The
Telephone Trust
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Etter
Magill & Shepard
Donnhower
Boyd Randall
R R. Turner
West Oak St
D. A. Miller
Lee Murphy
Ada Kincaid
West Highland Street
Grover Campbell
McGuigg
East Side
J. W. Fralin
Pike Martin
Sullivan & Pierce
Southwestern Fuel and Manufacturing
Los
Gran Christal
Kendall
Hall-Scruggs Store
Bolivar St
Ren
Pearl Street
R. B. Anderson
L. Fulton
A. R
TE. Wiley Smith
Postoffice
Wright
W. C. Wright
Lonnhower Block
Exchange National Bank
F. A. Haustein
Fry Street
A. J. Gant
Bernard St
J. Ed Cabaniss
Katy
Tex
Egan & Chandler
Wan‘ed
George Roark
Hanes
C. O. Abernathy
East Oak St
A. D. Turner
Moreman & Luster
James BE. Stringer
McCluran’s
C. Lipscomb, Jr
M. L. Martin
Raley
Wells & Bass
McCabe
Ln Farm Loans
Dan Turner
H. B. Stanley’s Shoeshop
Hester
Lester & Brownlow
Young Wagon
Cullar
Conway
Craig Company
H. KR. Groves
H. H
Colorado
McGinnis& Slaton
McGinnis & Sims
McKinney Street
Socrates
Liverpool
New York
Muren Su
New Orleans
G. B. Collins
Exacly
Long and King
H. V. Simpson
Oklahoma
J. B. Nixon
D. R. Turner
Wright’s Opera House
May Stewart
Josph DeGrasse
Minnis Drug Store
Stewart
Dallas Times Herald
W.R. Scott
Between
Peoples’ Home Tel. Co
E. H. Egan
T. B. Porter
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