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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1913
Page
2
A 1913 notice from Penton Texas debates contest subscriptions and proposed laws. The editorial argues against heavy penalties, defends honest practitioners, and calls for fair safeguards while condemning excessive punishment. It stresses protecting public interest and warns against retroactive criminalization of legitimate efforts.
The Pilot Point Post-Signal editor urges a local commercial club noting benefits outweighing costs. The piece cites Attorney General Looney's rulings and previews the 1914 gubernatorial campaign with Comptroller Lane as a vigorous, persistent candidate.
The writer condemns thoughtless littering by citizens who trash streets and scatter debris from windows. They argue repeated cleanups won’t keep the city clean without universal, deliberate cooperation to stop throwing rubbish onto public and private premises.
The pending bill to ban prize contests by newspapers and impose penitentiary penalties divides state editors. The Wichita Falls Times notes a legislator threatening to push the measure and calls for support, while admitting its own past involvement in such contests.
Denton exclusive agent for Eastman Kodak Co offers Kodaks Brownie cameras and photographic supplies with a broad stock. The advertisement highlights Kodak as a modern home staple offering accessible options for all budgets and a forthcoming catalogue.
A column questions the Denton Girls Industrial School in North Texas known as The Marrying School. It ridicules reports that students learn to select husbands and manage them, noting few graduates married and critiquing the outcomes with humor.
North Texas Gas Co announces Miss Walker will stay several days to assist customers. If any consumer reports trouble with gas stores or improper results, call the office and Miss Walker will be sent to adjust them at the residence.
The notice lists prices inside corporate limits: hens nine cents per pound fryers twelve and a half cents per pound old roosters nineteen and sixteen cents each. G W Elbert and T C Sample advertise Triumph seed potatoes and eating potatoes.
Former Utah senator Frank J. Cannon denounced the Mormon church and polygamy, urging citizens to oppose rising Mormon power. He cited government actions, treason claims, and cases involving Lorimer and Smoot, warning of church dominance and urging action.
A Denton reader testimonial praises Dean Kidney Pills from J. Railey’s Drug Store, claiming kidney trouble relief after two boxes. The ad notes Foster-Milburn Co New York as sale agents and urges readers to remember the name.
Fox Bros. and Company Plumbers and Gas Fitters advertise full guarantee on all work. Current department staffs ten men to handle jobs promptly.
A Denton County constable advertises a public sale of multiple parcels from the J P Goodwin estate to satisfy a March 7 1913 judgment in favor of Jarrell Evangs Dry Goods Company. Four tracts total 256 acres U.S. Hickory Creek area with detailed metes and bounds. Sale set for April 1 1913 at Denton County Courthouse between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. cash.
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