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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1912
Page
3
WANTED for his feed a nurse suitable for driving to light phaeton for a month’s use. Reward offered for return of a missing oblong penny purse with silver dollar and cents, a spoon shaped lock, and a watch with three links. Notices urge return to the office and list several lost items. Also advertisements for furnished rooms to rent and a house for rent at specified streets.
Inks, tool materials and most needs priced at J. L. Waldrip's area shop. Customer urged to check offerings for available stock and current rates.
Moreman and Luster advertise at N Elm Street offering feedstuffs of all kinds for cattle and horses, milk cows, ranch of horses, and services for air and automobile trips. Mr. Charlie White manages. Both phones 35.
Fracksmith shop presents unique brass products with focus on durable, specialty items. Local craftsman offers custom repairs and bugiy work along streetfront.
Hazy OCR text mentions feedstuffs including hops bran corn and meal with reference to stove and wood on a market and prompt delivery. Contact details show ARKANSA S 4itt Bim Street and two phone numbers. The fragment suggests a local supplier ad or notice about feed and fuel products with delivery assurances.
Advertisement lists moving services and hauling for households and offices. It names Denton Transfer Co with phones new 70 old 34 and addresses 36 East Hickory and mentions trunk and baggage handling and office and barn moves.
Classified notice advertises first class prompt moving service with reasonable rates. Highlights two large moving vehicles and household moves as a specialty. Includes ParkS and Les Ter offices with contact phones 342 and 161, ending with 381.
An advertisement notes pure rich Jersey delivery with a contact phone 902 new 196p. The brief markets a dairy or textile claim and provides a single call to action for readers.
Autos for hire listing for W W Billingsley with old phone number (3¢) and new contact details blank or unclear in the OCR segment.
A. R. Mcintie offers houses and furnished rooms for rent across the city of Denton. Office located one door east of Exchange National Bank.
If you want concrete side or brick work let me figure it you S. A. Bushey M. Gurley the cement contractor First class work done at the right price Get estimates Dentists Dr W A Jones Dentist East Side Square Denton Texas Fralin Dentist South Side Square middle of block Denton Texas
Weet Side barber Fern Matthews extends a cordial invitation to join a growing roster of happy customers, highlighting reliable service and personal care in a friendly neighborhood setting.
Frank Wilkerson offers fresh and tender neats at his meat market on S. Elm Street. Old phone 212, new number 83 for orders and inquiries.
A list of candidates for various offices including county judge assessor treasurer sheriff and other posts in Denton area. Names include H HOSKINS F.E TOBIN WITT REEVE NELSON EGAN, and others for clerk, attorney, superintendent, justice precinct 1, constable, commissioners and mayoral races.
Items for sale include a roll top desk, incubator, barber shop space, a good mule, a touring car, a brand new motorcycle, and a residence lot for sale or trade. Listings note terms, contact, and sellers such as A A Abd, J J Matthews, and George Roark.
Thoroughbred eggs for watching Indian Runne ducks 13 for 1.50 Partridge Wyndettes and Light Brahmas 15 for 1.50 Mrs A L Scott Route 7 Aubrey 2066p The Tompkins Kaufman Rhode Island Keds cockerels pallets 15 for 1.50 Philo Brooder 2.56 two large coops Phone or see Bailey 7.
Five Minutes relief claims sourness gas and heartburn vanish after eating with one or two Mi-DNA stomach tablets. The ad guarantees to banish indigestion and chronic stomach ailments or offers a money back. Tablets are compact and sold by M. Curtis and druggists for 50 cents a box.
An old advertisement from Long and King highlights commitment to high quality goods and attentive service. The copy stresses both product excellence and customer care as core business values.
A Sunday supper is planned at the Ideal Restaurant with dishes listed in the event notice. The layout suggests a community dining offering for residents seeking a scheduled meal service.
Notices warn that all announcements under this head hinge on the July Democratic primary actions. The named gentlemen solicit public support while investigations into their claims proceed.
For State Senate District 31 R L Cable of Montazcue County files for the race seeking election to the district seat.
Contracts closed Friday morning ensure concrete sidewalks on the east side of North Locust street from the square to Sawyer avenue about a mile long. The work moves to Hann and Oakland avenues from North Locust to the C I A west gate to link College of Industrial Arts with the business district. Half the Hann and Oakland distance is contracted. organizers hope to finish the rest in a few days.
Mrs W C Wright hosted a Wesley Tea for the Denton Methodist church ladies on Wednesday. Guests received a Wesley Teapot card and heard a history of the original teapot linked to John Wesley. The event featured music by Mrs Kimborough Davis and Miss Keyte, with light refreshments and lavender arrangements.
A vintage health ad claims Pape’s Diapepsin cures fermentation and sour stomach in five minutes. It promises relief from dyspepsia biliousness and related stomach ailments by regulating an out of order stomach and aiding digestion after a single dose.
Advertising copy promotes initial stationery and Lord Baltimore pound paper with a fabric finish. Each sheet is steel die stamped and burnished with a long elegant initial in the upper left corner. Includes 50 envelopes matching, priced at 50 cents per pound.
Dead letter list for week ending ad city election. Copy of Official Ballot shows names in order March 24, 1992. Letters will be sent to the Dead Letter office in Washington DC, April 7, 1912, if not called for before then.
When calling for these letters please say advertised One cent will be charged for all letters advertised J. B. Schmitz P. M. The list includes Ima Bailey Miss Foe Fletcher Mrs Edner Forster Mrs D T Harrell Mrs Cleara Johnson Miss Nate Ross Mrs N E Reynolds Miss Mina Reed Miss Anna Story Miss N Smith Miss Lynn Turner Post Cards Mrs Mattie Eavns Miss Ola Horn Mrs Alic Jackson Mica Foe Miss Sarah McDoodle Miss Laura Morris Miss Lilla Pearce Miss Babarta Robers Miss Eunice Shores Gentlemen s List O M Campbell Myria Day Billie Elpster Epps Rafe Evans Mrs Birdie Edwards JL Felgar Charley Jerry Martin James J W McClurkan E J Reynolds Will Starks Saldlan Lare Frank Smith J A Wheeler Victor Johnson Verna Land J McClendon WH Wheeler
W L Powell and wife transfer 260 acres in Jose Maria survey to A W Mabry for 8000 dollars. L Derrig and wife sell Lewisville lot in J W King survey to A A Dorris for 1250. M Jacobsen and wife sell Lewisville lot in J W King survey to O L Hamilton for 1000. J F Raley and wife sell part of lot 2 block 7 Denton to Mrs J T Bottorff for 7060. W W Ryan and wife sell two Lewisville sets to H C Houston for 2600. E Spira and wife sell 175 acres in Francisco Trevino survey to J P Goodwin for 38560. E M Roberts and wife sell 38.26 acres in Wm Lloyd survey to J P Goodwin for 2965.
Classified column fragment notes SOMCILINE in a legal/public notice type entry. It references press reach and buve context with sparse readable details. The item appears as a terse public notice snippet unrelated to a full event.
The German Navy tested a crewless ship designed by 10 inventors from Nuremberg. A mast mounted transmitter directs the vessel by wireless telegraphy, allowing hours of automated maneuvers with lights visible ashore. Initially for torpedo discharge, the system now interests experts as a control method for dirigible balloons using Hertzian waves.
The article notes a wet season and widespread corn planting finished. Residents Mia. W T. C. Potter and Rial Martin of Paris visit relatives while Josie Johnson recovers from diphtheria under quarantine. A. W. Robertson returns from Wildorado. Sor Johnson dies at 20 from tuberculosis. Smallpox cases noted in Fort Worth. Stroup dies of consumption. burial planned in Blue Ridge.
Store announces a corset display with ex-per corsetier Mrs Doolittle joining Friday and Saturday March 29 30. Gossard Corsets offered in stock with prices from 3.50 to 8.35 per pair and guaranteed to please when properly fitted.
Forecasters overestimated a March 28 frost and the cold spell did not materialize. The lowest temperature Thursday night and Friday morning stood well above freezing, while North Texas endured heavy soaking rain. Ground soggy from months of rain recalls the 1908 floods that ended a three-year wet spell.
Publisher Frank Munsey told the Steel Trust investigating committee that he valued United States Steel Corporation property at 728 million after consulting company officials and others about the value.
Denton delegates to the Baptist Fifth Sunday meeting scheduled in Lewisville were notified that the three day session is indefinitely postponed due to another meningitis case in the Ed Mitchell family involving his 16 year old daughter.
Col. Goethals told the House committee that the first ship could pass through the Panama Canal in August or September of 1915. The statement came in Washington on March 29 via an Associated Press dispatch.
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