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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1913
Page
3
A purse contains a five dollar bill and fifty cent piece valued rewards offered. A blache felt hat with Williams store name inside is also lost. Return details to this office.
Property for sale note offers a South Fort Worth lot worth $800 in exchange for acreage near Denton. Indicates willingness to pay a difference and provides a Lewistville Texas box address. Contains cryptic references and an owner contact.
Boarders sought at 105 West Sycamore Street with a rental room option. A grass pasture lot is also available for rent nearby.
Rent for one or two furnished rooms in 18 East Oak offered by Mrs P C Withers. Contact 210tfe for details.
Two cottages in North Elm Street area advertised for sale. Call owner using old phone 161 for details. Also offered 234c corn for sale at 65 cents per bushel at a crib eight miles west of Denton by Byron Brier.
A five room house offered for 800.90 dollars with a small down payment and balance like rent. Also 45 acres of good unencumbered land in Hills county near Mount Calm priced at 65 dollars per acre, exchange for residence property in Denton with payment of the difference. Denton Trust Company handles the deal.
Classified notice seeking a German woman to live with a Dallas family and nurse a baby. No other children in the household. The family will be in Denton this week under care of Mrs. C. Lipscomb Sr. Old telephone contact 82 232tfe.
WANTED good second hand buggy or surrey in good condition cheap contact G. W. Elbert. Also wanted warning perhaps by Springside Jersey Farm for waity hand etc. Readers respond to local ad style with phone numbers and farm names.
An Arkansas mill on Elim Street advertises chop feed items including corn hay and bran along with stove and heater wood. It notes prompt delivery and a power wood saw available for customers and lists both phone numbers.
A. R. McGintie advertises furnished rooms for rent in Denton Texas. The office is above Wilson-Hann's with Old phone 361 and rents include properties in north south fast and west areas.
John Keesee proprietor offers home delivery from West Oak street with phone orders available.
Two Jersey bulls, one black and one fawn, offered for season at 150 dollars cash. Also listing a house and lot on Lula Street for sale with new phone contact.
Sanitary milk and cream service notes new phone Portwood and Hodges 426 old 297. Freight Transfer Co lists office at Kincaid wagon yard West Oak Street. Promotes furniture moving and drag line items with special attention.
Classified notice seeks individuals for scavenger work instructing to call the provided number 307 for details.
Moving service promotion by Lester and Paschall of Office Fox Bros offering first class household moving at reasonable rates with two phone numbers listed for contact.
Henry Kaltruther offers wood work blacksmithing horseshoeing rubber-tiring and shrinking on East McKinney Street providing a range of crafts for local needs.
Denton listings announce dentists Chas Saunders W A Jones W N Rowell J W Fralin and Paul Ramers. Office locations include Long and King West Side Square McCray's South Side Square and Oak Street. A restaurant offers short order meals hot cakes before 10 and fresh fish daily claiming to be the cleanest in Denton.
Demonstrations of a line of toilet preparations were held at Wilson-Hann Co on North Elm Street. The sale ran from 11 am to 3 pm with contact at the company’s New phone 338 blue.
Doctor M L Martin specializes in eye ear nose and throat diseases and provides spectacles. Office over Ra ley Co. details indicate a medical practice location and services.
Veterinarian E Botts relocates to Hancock and Son blacksmith shop on S Elm Lipscomb block. New contact numbers include residence 269, old 486, and new 132.
Concrete side work like brick work is available. Bushey J M Gurley offers first class cement contracting at right price. Get estimates and professional service for concrete and brick work.
The notice promotes a messenger service in WA and BRASHEARS. N B offers to manage accounts for ten percent of money collected, promising speedy service.
AUTOS FOR HIRE. W. W. BILLINGSLEY operates with old phone 330 and new 448. Automobiles repaired. W. M. GRIBBLE AUTO SERVICE offers trips anywhere in the county. Phone green 75, old 534 or home 668 Elm St. Car repairs promptly made. Ziaptt
Ben Fritz offers duck eggs from imported stock at $6 per 13. Special matings priced at $5 and $4, with utility eggs at $3. Parcel post shipping available.
For sale white and fawn Indian Runner duck eggs 1.25 per setting or 13. Mrs E T Broun new phone 363.
Denton Duck and Dairy Farm announces heavy laying Indian Runner ducks at 13 for $1.50. Pearl white beauties available for setting. Contact T. F. Jasper, proprietor, new phone 357.
Thousands of women owe youthful appearance to Newbro's Herpicide. It claims to beautify hair, prevent dandruff, and stop hair loss with genuine germ destroying formula. Sold in 50c and $1 sizes with guarantee and barber recommendations.
Announcement of a new round trip rate to Chattanooga for the twenty third U C V reunion. The fare is 16.25 dollars, with sale from May 23 to 26.
A Boston lawyer praises Vinci cod liver and iron tonic for rebuilding weakness and aiding a 76 year old mother’s health. The ad guarantees money back if not quickly effective and invites readers to try the remedy or safe salve with a Denton druggist endorsement.
Local ad lists Pennant stove gasoline at 20 cents per gallon from the firms Lester and Sherrod.
Turner Bros. advertises Michigan pork and beans at five cents a can, with a phone contact listed as 7. The brief notice highlights the bargain and the store’s location reference.
An offer invites asthma sufferers to trial free treatment with full information at no charge. The notice lists Frontiers Athma Company located in room 102 Buffalo New York for details.
Local store advertises fresh strawberries daily and two shipments of quality candies. Canned goods are highlighted as best in the city. Also notes receipt of fine chick feed sold in 25 cent sacks. Call for details.
Measles recoveries and illness reports touch many families including Little Miss Elaine Bizzell Elmer Wooldridge and Baird Beyette. A.C. Rayzor buys a Studebaker via Terry Barefield. City Attorney Key files two Sunday law complaints. Scarlet fever cases in Jim Goode family recover and fumigation occurs. Ladies Aid and Mission Society meeting delayed. Will F Woodward Jr improves after bronchitis and measles. Wallace children recover from scarlet fever and fumigation is planned. First Baptist men's meeting program set for Thursday. George McCormick builds two nine homes for Underwood and Miss Clark with costs about 2900 and 2000. Examinations begin. many with A conduct and A average exemptions reduce takers. J.A. Cole bonds and arrest update. re-arrested after return from Fort Worth. C.F. Evans attends Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge session in Corpus Christi May 13–15. He travels via Dallas with delegate train and Widows and Orphans home inmates.
Tomorrow night at the Airdome a Dayton show promises continuous comedy for a full hour and a half with no curtain drops or between acts. It is described as a unique live wire performance, not a vaudeville stunt, and billed as unlike any other show.
R H W Hoffman left Sunday morning Mr and Mrs C Yancey Sunday afternoon and A D Rogers left early Monday morning for San Angelo as delegates from the First Christian church to the Christian lectureship convening at San Angelo
Cleburne reporters note surveyors for the Dallas Cleburne and Glen Rose interurban line have set up about one mile past Pleasant Point. They are expected to reach Cleburne late next week.
Frank Belkin and wife Denton April 15 girl. T. C. Wilkinson and wife south of Denton April 24 girl. J. H. Smith and wife southeast of Denton March girl. M. G. Parkey and wife southeast of Denton April boy. W. D. Franklin and wife Denton girl. Wm Linden and wife Denton April 6 girl.
Jesse Tucker of Sanger dies at 32 years 2 months from an abscess on May 3. Joe Spranger of Pilot Point dies at 1 year 4 months 12 days from malarial fever on April 21.
A friendly note from a drug and jewelry seller inviting customers to continue shopping, promising improved service and growing stock and asking readers to visit first for items in the line. It emphasizes conserving customers interests and soliciting patronage.
Mrs Howser of Amarillo was honored by Mrs Alvin C Owsley with a Saturday reception. Twenty eight players competed at tables set for 500 while red and white carnations, gladioli and peonies decorated the rooms. The most games prize went to Mrs M B Stout and the guest received a crimson carnation bouquet.
A Friday Opera House meeting aims to plan the Fourth of July picnic, an annual event drawing 1000 plus attendees. May 1 decorations at Old Hall cemetery, bachelor girls event with Miss Wilma Gentry, and the next gathering with Miss Edith Hiester. Births report a daughter for Conaway and a son for Brady. Local construction expands with an iron garage, warehouse teardown for a new iron building, and remodeling of the Commercial hotel adding rooms and porches. J S McWhorter proprietor. N A Neal family relocating from Frisco. New school trustees elected: E R Sherrill, Ben Savage, Will Milliken, Jack Brannon.
John Supsie of Sanbury Pa endorses King’s New Life Pills for constipation indigestion and liver trouble. The pills claim prompt relief and healthier bowels with a 25 cent price. Recommended by J F Raley Co.
The Airdome hosts the town’s big event tomorrow night. Missing it would mean missing something special and exciting in town.
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