Classified Ads and Local Services Mix
A collage of local notices lists lost and found items, job inquiries, goods for sale, and service ads. Entries include a LOST WATCH reward notice, a PURSE BAR PIN reward note, cotton picker offers, meat delivery by Frank Wilkerson, scavenger work, auto line and repairs, milk and cream delivery, drayage services, furnished rooms, feedstuffs, a telegraphy department, and Denton business college listings. The page reflects typical small town classifieds with multiple vendors and contact details.
Denton Professional Directory Teems With Local Practitioners
The Denton area lists several medical and dental practitioners including O R W E Botts a veterinarian and surgeon with Denton Transfer Co Linscom office old and new phone numbers, W A Jones dentist West Side Square J W Fralin dentist South side Square, N W Rowell D D S over McCray's, plus Brashears manager at Hamilton Yeatte office and quick messenger service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. RK. McGintie
Long & Kine
Renta Nouses
Denton
W. E. Botts
Denton Transfer Co. Linscom
W. N. Rowell
McCray’s
South Side Square
W. A. Brashears
Hamilton @ Yeatte
cement contractor J M Gurley delivers solid value
J M Gurley offers first class cement contracting with reliable workmanship at fair prices. Get estimates for paving, sidewalks, and repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Gurley
Prime eighty acre farm at fifty five dollars an acre
A smooth sale of an eighty acre farm with a five room house a good barn and an orchard. The entire tract is under cultivation and is offered for sale in the next few days at 55 dollars per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Jones
Dickens Studio and Daily Walks Shaped His Prolific Output
Marcus Stone recalls visiting Dickens at Gad's Hill and other homes for twenty years. He notes a daily three o clock country walk and Dickens's taciturnity, suggesting the author used walks to develop plots while his brain remained active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus Stone
Charles Dickens
Gad’s Hill
Rochester
Dickens
Stone
God’s Hill
Dentist Joke Stirs Banquet Humor at Chicago Physicians
Dr. Joseph Elsenstaedt recounts a tale about an Irish maid who seeks an afternoon off to visit a dentist. The punch line lands when the maid, unsure of the material used, quips that it likely felt like thunder and lightning, leaving her mistress amused and puzzled.
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Joseph Elsenstaedt
Chicago
Hridget
Savings Boxes In Budapest Streets Attract Deposits
The Hermes Exchange Savings bank of Budapest has installed automatic collecting devices in the streets. People may drop money anytime and receive a receipt. Presenting the slips to bank officials credits the depositor’s bank book. The device aims to encourage thrift by converting loose change into deposits.
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Hermes Exchange Savings Bank
Budapest
Leader II Exceeds in 1912 State Fair Reserve Champion
Fall season report notes Leader II as winner of Reserve Champion in the Percheron class at the 1912 State Fair. Four of Leader's colts won in every class shown. A two year old sold for 325 dollars, and 400 dollars was refused for another pair.
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Leader
Chester Lee
St. Louis
Dallas
Excitement at Bowery lodging house draws a farmer to city life
A Vermont farmer, living in a Bowery lodging house, rejects a $12 weekly job claiming life in the city is more exciting. He enjoys meals and a bed while hearing tales of ex-bank burglars, counts, a major, a sea captain, and a former minister who killed a man. The city missionary notes such life resists reform.
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Vermont
Ollie James and a magistrate on politics
A Kentucky tale from Ollie James's early career recalls a rural magistrate who warns a young lawyer that politics leads to many enemies and few lasting rewards. The anecdote, from the Saturday Evening Post, highlights the perils of political life in a small home district.
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Ollie James
United States
Kentucky
Crittenden
Ollie
James
Saturday Evening Post
Shakespeare Club Meets in Denton Rich With Plans
The Woman's Shakespeare club gathered Thursday despite bad weather with Miss Minnie Paschal leading quotations on Pompilia. Members discussed Rome, a fountain contract for the High School, and magazine racks for the square. A rest room rooming committee and park commission representatives were chosen, with social time and a salad course concluding the meeting. Next gathering set for Miss Blanton on November 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Shakespeare Club
Minnie Paschal
Pompilia
Magazine
Court House
Mesdames Garrison
McCray
Park Commission
Swenson
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement offer and testimonials
A 100 dollar reward offer for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsements from Walding Ginnan and Marvis confirm F J Cheney's reliability. Advertisement notes internal action, testimonials free, price per bottle, and related Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Ginnan & Marvis
Also Mentioned on This Page
South Texas
Pox Sardware Co
Texas
Anna Baker
A. Garvin
Denton Steam Laundry
Best Oak Street
G. W. Raines
T Fulton
Derpssmaking
Tezas
Altus
Cordell
E. W. Cartton
Vici
MOON
M. A. Hickey
Penton
Oklahoma City
Krum
Lala Street
J. W. Locknane
McKinney Street
West Oak Street
Texas Street
Apply Denton Steam Laundry Co
Oliver Typewriters
J. E. McCabe
Exchange Bank
P. C Withers
Wilson-Hann Co
L. Fulton
Oak
Hickory Street
Onk Street
Frank Wilkerson
W. W. Billingsley
Reynolds & Hodges
Parks & Lester
Office
Fox Bros
J. W. Johnson
Best
Arkansas ‘Iil
Elm Street
E. Swor
Draughon
Business College
Veter'narians
W. A Jones
West Side Square
J. W. Fralin
Southside Square
Magnolia Cotton Oil Company
Houston, Texas
Frisco
Wylie Smith & Co
East Side Square Real Estate
The
Texas & Pacific Railway
Geo
D. Hunter
Agent Dallas
Pagples Home Telephone Co
F Johnson
Gusto
Severa
Red Barn
S. Yveagley
Flow
Bowery
Twenty-third Street
Broadway
New York
Cincinnati Times-Star
Eto
Flanders
Denton Trust Company
Alligrettes’s
Beyett’s Confectionery
Shakespeare Club
A E. Wharton
Little Elm
G. W. Wharton
Leonard
Wharton
Charley
Lindsey Wharton
Westminster
J. A Hicky
Florence Hall
Hattie Wharton
Mattie Mannering
Claud Dorris
Lewisville
D. H. Fry Jr
Ennis
the Court House of
Denton County
Jagoe Abstract Company
Denmark
Reckless Joe
Gambetta Wilkes
Lone Star Wagon Yard
East Hickory Street
G. V. Millar, Jr
Gwe
Kates
W. C. Grant
the Grand Leader Company
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