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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
3
The National Railways of Mexico have placed an unprecedented order for equipment to handle heavy traffic. The total value is at least 4 million dollars in gold.
Rawn, president of the Monon route railroad, was found dead in his Winnetka home near Chicago with a bullet wound below the heart. Police investigate amid claims of a burglary but report little evidence of intruders. The former Illinois Central official had ties to fraud probes and a forthcoming coroner’s verdict is pending.
Local ad notes La France oxford dress slippers offered by Jno A Hann & Co with prices lowered. It hints warm days ahead and encourages readers to buy now before stock runs out.
Jno A Hann & Co advertise a July clearing sale with all goods reduced. Dr Kings New Discovery is praised as a safe cure for throat and lung troubles and offered by J F Raley & Co with a free trial bottle. The copy touts its effectiveness against colds coughs hemorrhages laryngitis hay fever croup asthma and whooping cough with price 50c and 1.00.
Let us fill your grocery bill this month and see how satisfactorily we can Make your grocery business. Both phones 44. LONG & KING.
For Rent The Myers farm two miles west of Denton. Apply to Mrs M E Myers 286tfe.
We can supply vegetables any hour in the day. Both phones 7. D. R. Turner.
Special notice invites young readers to obtain a free photograph of Anna Belle the girl who provides the cutout pictures in the comic supplement. Readers must visit the office and bring four reasons why they like Anna Belle pictures.
A man peering into a Third avenue curiosity shop notes on a back of an envelope how he collects old European war medals. He explains he buys medals from locals who fall on hard times and ships them to European dealers who sell them to collectors. New York is described as the best city to obtain such items.
In the Eastern District of Texas Mrs E Milligan of Denton was adjudged bankrupt on July 19 1910. The first meeting of creditors will be July 30 at 9 00 am at the Denton courthouse to prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt. Referee in Bankruptcy O D McReynolds Sherman Texas July 19 1910.
Ginger Ale Deep Rock Ginger Ale is popular at the fountain and proposed for home use. It is described as palatable refreshing and healthful with pint bottles carbonated at 1.00 per dozen. O M Curtis manufacturer invites orders.
Local wheat rose 3 cents to 1.03 a bushel as Chicago prices fluctuated amid bullish reports. Cash grain closings show St Louis 1.08 to 1.12, Kansas City 1.05 to 1.05 1/2, Dallas at 8 cents, with Denton at 1.03. Cotton quotes drift, with New York and Liverpool markets showing activity and scarcity in cantaloupes and cucumbers amid truck offerings. Local notes mention ample means on offer and homegrown hay and Johnson grass positions.
A period price listing shows wheat corn cotton seed meal hulls and other feed items with wholesale and retail ranges. Includes hay prairie Johnson grass hay and oats with per ton and per bushel prices and unit details.
The list shows wholesale and retail prices for staples including potatoes at 1.16 per peck, flour 2.75 to 2.85 per 100 lbs, graham flour 3.50 per 100 lbs, corn meal 65 to 70 cents, bacon various cuts 17 to 33 cents per lb, lard 15 to 18 cents per lb, and salts and fats with bulk options.
Butter per pound sold wholesale 10 to 30 cents cash or trade delivered to private residences hotels and boarding houses at 2 to 25 cents. Creamery butter 28 cents per pound. Eggs wholesale 18 cents cash 1% trade, retail per dozen 10 cents. Peaches wholesale per bushel and gal fees noted. prices listed as 20 cents per gallon.
A compact price list shows HEENO poultry at 7 to 71-2 cents per pound, fryers 19 to 12 cents, old roosters 10 to 15 cents, guineas 1.59 dollars per dozen, and ducks 3 dollars per dozen.
Hog prices per pound light six to seven cents and heavies seven to eight cents. Cows per pound two and three quarter to three and a half cents. Squash three and a half cents per pound retail six cents. Beans wholesale one dollar to one dollar twenty. retail per gallon twenty cents. Field peas wholesale sixty cents per bushel. retail per gallon ten cents. Tomatoes wholesale two and a half to three cents per pound. retail five to six cents.
Frightful wreck may cause cuts bruises sprains or wounds requiring Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Earths greatest healer. For burns sores and chapped lips or eyes and corns a supreme cure at 25 cents a tin. J. F. Raley & Son.
Oklahoma ear corn listed at 65 cents with oats and oat bags from the firm Witherspoon & Sons.
Local note writers record Mrs Knox in Denton travels and visits by Jim Park Sylvester Evans and Arthur in Galveston visits by Miss Clyde James from Dallas and Miss Alice Young from Gainesville. Community reports mention revival, parties, weather, harvest prospects and a new barber shop opening in Krum.
July 19 in Wesley Chapel reports Rev. J. W. Tincher missed service and Rev. E. L. Miller from Valley View filled in. Baptist revival at Cosner delayed league services. Mrs. Neilly learns of her father 3. E. Ellis death in Fort Worth. Local visits include Dr. J. R. Edwards of Denton with F. M. Michael’s family. Socials feature Nat Lewig ice cream party. Mrs. M. E. Bradshaw travels to Walters Oklahoma to see daughter Mrs. Whit Spratt. Visitors Wiseman Gammon of Fort Worth and Charlie McReynolds with Fred Wilson of Denton. Miss Laury Michael bruised after being thrown from a horse Saturday. no serious injury.
July report from Sunnydale notes a severe windstorm causing fruit damage and urgent rain needs. Local residents including Mr and Mrs Bug Vickery visited relatives near Argyle, with several townsfolk traveling to Denton for a gathering and a protracted meeting set to begin Friday led by Rev. J. P. Mason.
Prairie Chapel notes report a pleasant rain shower welcomed by locals. Mrs. McDaniel visits daughter Mrs. Pearl Garner. Miss Tempest Holloway returns from trips to Rockwall and Dallas. Rev. Miller filled Rev. Tincher's duties.
An elderly ad touts Capucine as a universal headache cure curing fevers aches and stomach troubles. It promises rapid relief from heat cold and nervous headaches with affordable prices of 10 5 and 3 cents at local drug stores.
An advertisement touts Parisian Sage as the best hair tonic curing dandruff stopping hair loss and itching within weeks. It claims rapid results including shine growth and gray prevention with a pleasant non greasy formula sold by O M Curtis for 50 cents a bottle citing a 1910 customer testimonial from Lulu D Fix of Virginia.
Police arrested two men and a young woman in Philadelphia after a spree of wholesale thefts across scores of stores. Detectives found $3000 to $4000 in stolen goods in their room and uncovered boxes modified with a concealed 12 by 5 inch hole to hide items. The thieves would shop at different counters, with one or two pairing to steal while a third defended the box with the visible bill. Hawley, later linked to a card reading William Halley comedian, identified the group.
July 11 1908 issued call from Denton Texas for Republican voters to meet July 23 1910 at two o clock pm to elect delegates to county convention and select nominees for the fall election. Representation by precincts and rules to limit cross party participation are noted.
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