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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
2
Public notice states errors regarding character or reputation will be corrected upon notification to the publishers. The text includes a postal price reference of 71.00 au and a generic disclaimer.
The Record and Chronicle circulates in Denton Texas on November 27 1915 urging daily delivery to all subscribers. It states missing copies should be reported by 9 am next day and hints at a forthcoming Dallas Denton line with Mr Turner and associates advancing to right of way work.
The Dallas Times-Herald discusses an interurban race between Dallas and Fort Worth and notes Denton’s rising profile with a $75,000 bond for streets and a similar for a high school building. It highlights Gainesville and Denton connections, local philanthropy ideas, and quotes from the Buckholtz Bulletin and Dallas News on kindness and civic progress.
The Wichita Falls Times notes large taxpayers oppose a tax increase while also backing higher rates. It argues those who pay most of the taxes support growth and oppose the three dollar street tax on non-payers, hoping to keep Wichita Falls advancing over other Texas towns.
A Dallas firm plans to organize a company to buy the old Dallas Pacific and South Western grade for an interurban from Dallas to join the Fort Worth Denton line. Built in the 1880s it remains in fair condition and could cut costs on right of way surveys and preliminaries.
The Texas Wonder treats kidney and bladder issues and dissolves gravel. It claims to cure diabetes and back problems and regulate bladder troubles in children. A bottle costs $1 and provides two months of treatment, with mail order available. Dr. E W Hall, St. Louis, sells through druggists.
The Ozark red cedar is the main source for pencil wood in Missouri. Logs grow on rocky White River district hills and are moved to mills or floated to mills. At the mill, logs are cut into planks then slats, using only the red heart and discarding sapwood. Slats bound in bundles are sent to New York for pencil making, with leftovers shipped to Germany and other European factories.
The Pall Mall Gazette recalls a Bis marckian tale where Higher Equity in Bismarck forages with two companions in a near deserted village and buys five eggs from a man. Unable to split five equally among three, he swallows two and then shares the remaining three with his companions.
A 19th century style advertisement promotes Kickapoo Worm Killer as a safe candy medicine for children and adults. It claims to remove worms, aid digestion, improve liver action, reduce constipation, and restore appetite, with a 25 cent guarantee and sales through drug stores or mail order by Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co.
A promotional note likens a fire to a feast guest that spoils Thanksgiving and urges readers to apply for insurance. It promises placement in reliable companies and warns that lack of coverage worsens calamity many times.
In August 1870 a secret Morse exchange links Inspector of Foreign Division Scarlett with Colonel Jarras from the Tuileries. They brief a mission chasing Buckhurst through Morsbronn to La Trappe, with orders to arrest several named individuals and to shoot Buckhurst if resisted. Persistent rain, Vosges, and frontier tension frame a collapsing empire.
A narrator describes a Paris circle advocating universal brotherhood. Countess de Vascart joins, later sheltering charity workers at La Trappe. John Buckhurst rises as a despotic power, while the crown jewels vanish at the Tuileries. The chase, involving Imperial police and spies, moves toward La Trappe amid wartime secrecy.
A mounted officer coercively abducts Mademoiselle Elven after she rejects his advances. Amid war sounds, he asserts duty and departs with her toward La Trappe, despite her defiant resistance and urgent questions about consent.
Greenville Banner Fort Worth citizens subscribe in minutes to a large Fort Worth Denton interurban stock drive with seven men of money signing twenty thousand each and Denton meeting the goal at a mass gathering. Fort Worth and Denton urged allies to push the project while Dallas and Sherman consider extensions and rival interurban efforts.
A narrator on a perilous rooftop maneuver signals for aid as Imperial Police and Uhlans loom near the village of Trois Feuilles. He confronts the Countess de Vassart and guards her arrest, then nearly falls from the parapet before clinging to the battlements with the Countess’s calm aid.
In 1762 England had only six stagecoaches, the sole public travellers’ vehicles. John Crosset attacked the novelty, arguing coaches draw gentlemen to London for short trips and tempt wives to travel, leading to idle pleasures and social distraction.
A Wide World Magazine writer describes Servians roasting a lamb or sucking pig whole over ashes. A pit filled with wood vine branches fuels a long fire while a cass is skewered and slowly turned for hours. The luscious result keeps gravy and tender meat, a staple of Servian picnics, with Napoleon once noting amused soldiers cooking this way.
A New York American summary discusses the five races white yellow brown red and black and the debate over a possible single original origin. It notes pronounced physical moral and mental differences among groups, yet questions remain about a common ancestor and whether such an origin can be assumed.
The article notes a widespread belief that rainbows can alter sex, found in regions from South Africa to Greece and France. Zulu folklore tells of a youth turned into an old woman by touching the rainbow, with similar tales among Scandinavian peasants and Greek locals.
A London Mail excerpt features a sharp exchange between an elderly woman and a tramp. The old woman chides the man for lacking early training while the tramp retorts his claim of prison time before age fourteen.
A humorous Windsor Magazine dialogue shows a habitual customer accusing a barber that a hair restorer caused more hair to come off than before. The barber deflects, blaming overapplication and a mishap that removed hair entirely rather than midway.
A line from the Chicago Tribune presents an employer noting many small accounts and little progress on large ones. The collector replies that he follows the line of least resistance, delivering a humorous exchange about sales strategy.
A consumptive cough warning and a cure claim for Dr Kings New Discovery. Mrs A F Mertz of Glen Ellyn Iowa cites six weeks of failed doctoring before relief. The ad promotes the medicine for coughs colds throat and lung troubles with money back if it fails.
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