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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
3
W N Rowell D V D 8 office over McCrays on the south side Square listed in the telephone and business directory segment.
Lost child item noted as a white Milan hat trimmed with black velvet rib. Reward offered for return to the office.
For sale a small black and a 55 acre farm near Bolivar offered for cash. See R. E. Stenheng at 29 Texas Street.
Five room house offered at 800 dollars with easy payment down and balance like rent. Also 45 acres of good unencumbered Hill County land near Mount Calm at 65 dollars per acre offered for exchange for residence property in town with difference paid. Den on Trust Company.
Classified notice seeks a capable caregiver for an elderly woman in West Texas. Provides good home and fair pay, no cooking or laundry, must start immediately. Inquiries at the office. Also advertises ear corn at 65 cents a bushel in Our warehouse Texas via R L Cole Co.
Skiles Transfer Co offers hay ride wagons with contact through two listed phone lines 23 for inquiries and reservations.
Miss Leonora Hann advertises herself for flower orders for all occasions. Contact via phone number 242, old. 222tfe.
In a short wanted notice S Wright requests two furnished rooms or a compact house close in for light housekeeping. Address listed as 127 North Coast with general delivery to B. Br. Powell.
Jake Johnson advertises a new phone number 7 white for contact and an old phone 230 as alternative. He pledges reasonable rates to saw wood for customers.
Help wanted for pasture service. Gentle horses needed to graze, $1 per month per horse. Call or visit Jash Goode for weekly Monday morning pickup in Denton.
For sale a new rubber tire Velie carriage offered by G C Masters. Cash or credit terms available. 223cltw.
Local Arkansas business offers chopped wood including bran corn hay and other feeder materials with prompt delivery. Equipped with a power wood saw to support wood business operations at 3 Elm Street contactable by both phones.
A. R. McGintie offers furnished rooms for rent in Denton Texas. Office over Wilson Hanns, old phone 361. Rents properties in all directions North South East and West.
John Keesee owner operates City Meat Market on West Oak Street offering home delivery of fresh meat. Phone contact provided for orders and service.
A notice advertises two fine Jersey bulls in Will Locknane’s wagon yard on Fast McKinney Street with cash price of 150 dollars and a second listing for a house and lot on Lula Street for sale. The ad also notes a new phone number 850.
Barred rock eggs priced at 30 cents per dozen with 32 dozen available. Bronze turkey eggs four dollars per dozen. Young turkeys five dollars per dozen. Contact E. W. Fritz via portwood Hodges lines or phone numbers 426 and 297 for details and sanitary milk and cream.
Moving service advertises furniture relocation with special attention and phone contact. Location listed as West Oak Street and office at Kincaid wagon yard.
A call for scavenger work is posted asking interested people to call phone number 307 for details. The note is informal and lacks specific location or scope of work. It reflects a small helper job opportunity in a casual classified style.
Local moving outfit Lester and Paschall offers first class drayage service at reasonable rates. Household moves are a specialty with offices at Fox Bros and both phones listed for contact.
Henry Kaltruther on East McKinney Street offers wood work blacksmithing horseshoeing rubber-tiring and shrinking services with a full range of metal and wood crafts advertised to local customers.
Paul Ramier promotes a clean restaurant at 31 Oak St in the Owsley building offering regular short or dry house service with hot cakes mornings until 10 and fresh fish daily claiming to be the cleanest establishment in Denton.
You want concrete side valka or brick work let me figure with you. J M Gurley, the cement contractor, offers first class work at the right price and invites estimates.
White Orpington Farm reports Garza Cook strain and imported stock that won over best in show. Eggs priced between 3 and 10 dollars.
A sale listing from Mrs. C. V. Spong of Denton offers 15 penciled runners 13 ducks and two draxes for 12 dollars. The brief notice notes the seller and location.
W J Mitchell of Mitchells Barber Shop in Denton Texas offers White Indian Runner duck eggs from imported stock at 6 dollars per dozen. Special mating eggs priced at 5 and 4 dollars with utility eggs at 3 dollars. Parcel post available.
Purchase of two barred rock roosters from J. W. Miller Poultry Farm in Freeport Tl yields eggs for hatching. Exe pricing noted at $1.90 for 18. Contact Mrs. R. G. Wright at New phone 245 Mavé.
For sale white and fawn Indian Runner ducks. Price 1.25 per setting or 12. Mrs E T Broun. New phone 2622723p.
DuckBand Dairy Farm advertises Indian Runners and heavy laying ducks at 1.50 for 13 white hens suitable for setting. Contact T. FP. Jasper, Prop, with new phone 357.
In April, White Morcas The Roy al family chickens and pea bic egg strain offered at $4 with May shipment. Northrup's best strain Blacks priced $1.50 per setting. Nancy Hall potato plants 25¢ per 106 and $2 per thousand when ready. W E Mountain, Pilot Point, Texas.
Sir Humphry Davy married a widow as peculiar as himself. His habit was a lack of time and leisure, often wearing five or six shirts at once to avoid dressing. He could not suit his wife who wished him fit for company, while he cared little for social life, causing domestic discord.
The tale recalls Kipling naming his novel after a moment when lamplight failed. He supposedly exclaimed That title came to him when the lamp went out during a study session. The snippet ends with a brief product plug for five cent Michigan pork and beans at Turner Bros.
Fresh Nunnallys candy arrives direct from the factory at Curtis. Nunnallys outsells competitors due to quality and express shipping keeping freshness. Try Box Bountiful priced one and two dollars. Phone 52.
O. M. Curtis advertises soda water and fine candies in a local notice highlighting shop offerings and location.
Denton County notes April 30 report visits from Robt Harpool and Pagdall McClary to Dallas. I L Shoat to start on a new residence. J H Morgan shipped fat elevs to Dallas. Furneaux Bros shipped to Fort Worth. Over 1560 head of sheep shipped in three weeks. Commencement at Carrollton attended by Everett McMurry Rufus Angel Lizzie McMurry Hallie Collier. Various visits to Plano Renner Richardson. Denton silos pictured by Tom Sherrod and Mr Robertson eyeing new projects. Denton County farm demonstrator Dr Craddock to lecture soon. Mrs Jim McCleary and daughters visited Denton. Mrs M C Portman of Plano on business. Mr McDonald of Garland moving to Denton to start a home. Hebron and Willow Springs baseball 15 to 4 Hebron. Guests of Miss Hallie and Jennie Collier: Mrs George Jackson Mrs Wm Mickle Miss Erma Pearl Jackson Raymond Mickle. Picnic at Garza attended by John Griffin Will Griffin M G Perry Wil Bishop Hallie Jennie Collier Lee Horton. Collier Bros bought Will Baggineer crop fifty acres cotton.
April 29 reports show Dr. Bruce and J. J. McCook from Denton visiting Aubrey while others travel through Dallas Sanger Pilot Point Tioga and McKinney. Local high school seniors are named after a successful Senior class play and closing ceremonies with several residents listed.
Mrs Addie Belle Maroinee Christian died Sunday night of diphtheria and was buried in Sanger cemetery Monday. Epworth leagues plan a rally at 3 p m Sunday. Rev Webster conducts revival at Missionary Baptist church. Community updates include visits, visits by relatives, and local society events in Sanger and nearby towns.
Weather notes urge rain for Lois area as grain crop, already half harvested, risks undersize. A protracted meeting led by Rev. Smith continues at the Methodist church with nine new members added to the church? and Baptist services ongoing.
Church services held on the first and third Sundays each month by Rev Hodnett with Methodists on the fourth Sunday by Rev Single of Era. W. H. and B. C. Chastain were in attendance.
A historical look at football production reveals the ball is not pigskin but rubber bladder with cowhide cover. It explains materials, weighing thirteen to fourteen ounces, how hides are cut and stitched, and the labor from cutting to band turning to final stamping.
In a meadow six young women practice putting wearing rough homespun skirts and scarlet jackets. An old farmer and farmhand complain cows are frightened by the girls. The farmer notes times have changed since his youth and that cows once frightened girls.
George Cumberland notes in Cumber land Letters edited by Clementina Black that Obrian Boro stood eight feet three inches tall with an eleven and a half inch hand span He appeared frail for want of air and exercise at nineteen years old and expected to be of eighteen feet in height based on the description This account records the remarkable human oddity in late 18th century Strand London.
The piece notes a Russian statute that appears to favor thieves who retain stolen goods for over five years in a police licensed market. It describes the market as a magnet for light fingered buyers and some honest bargain seekers, with items openly sold despite theft. A comic exchange about hunting and fishing ads follows, illustrating local advertising culture.
The Texas Industrial Congress reports 11,000 contestants in 1915 across 215 counties, up from earlier years, with prizes of 10,000 in gold to boost scientific farming. Counties listed show Bexar as leading with 505 entries, followed by Ellis 381 and the wide spread across the state, highlighting focus on crop rotation and better soil fertility.
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