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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1913
Page
3
Stanfield Lodge No. 241, A F A M, meets on the Saturday on or before the full moon. Denton Chapter No. 0, R A M, meets the first Tuesday of each month. Denton Commandery No. 4a, K T, meets the second Tuesday of each month. O E and meets Thursday on or before full moon.
Pocket book of small size used by a person named Wather, containing two $20 bills. Finder should notify Elin at the office and return wallet to the post. Reward offered upon proper return. Lost near the post office on Sunday October 12.
Lost cuff button with S engraving found item likely lost in public place. If owner can identify or provide proof of ownership contact this office for retrieval.
A fragmented line references a Masonic emblem and a return to a specific office. Readable text hints at a office document or note mentioning LOBT and CUFF with a decorative button motif. No clear event or person identified.
Short notice listing a found gray mare described as roan with gold-rimmed facies. Owner can reclaim by paying advertisement cost. contact A F Woods Grapevine Texas for return. reward offered.
Rooms for rent listed with multiple options. Two downstairs rooms for light housekeeping offered by Mrs. L T. Fowlkes at 39 E Mulbenry. Unfurnished room at 62 Pearl Street. Furnished rooms near C. L. A. include gas and lights with New Phone 411. Another listing for furnished or unfurnished rooms with light housekeeping at New Phone 338 blue.
Rent short term furnished room with gas heating and lighting at 2 West Hickory Street. Contact for details.
Advertises a seven room house on Elm Street with a dairy cow for sale. Mentions contact Bates and a phone number 705 for inquiries.
Cheap cash sale offered for a $90 L C Smith typewriter in Garze Texas. Ad requests responses via Box 5 and notes a 50 cent item price in the listing.
730 acre farm with tenant houses and Washita river bottom land ideal for alfalfa and corn. Three miles from Mannsville, Oklahoma offered as a bargain an investment. Listings include 20 acres with improvements and other lots and business properties. Contact Y. M. Tiurpen and A. BD Turner for details. Phone 183.
Fragmentary plea listing names and contact hint for a plan, mentioning Portwood and a phone number with sparse details. No clear event, location, or outcome appears. text is largely garbled and non-specific.
Mrs McCann, a New England Conservatory graduate in Boston, invites voice and piano pupils. Address 29 S Elm Street, soliciting lessons and studio work. Or note date October 29 in the text.
Fort Worth bakery ExQle Bakery formerly sold by Smith's Restaurant offered six loaves for 25 cents at Paul Ramirez's Restaurant located at 91 West Oak Street. The ad notes fresh daily varieties with local pricing and availability.
Jake Johnson quickened wood cutting as a supply deal moved through a busy workshop. A hurried sale lists a 230 gauge tool and a 57 pound white material with a discount offer noted at six dollars.
Seth phones Grice Kincaid wagon yard on West Oak Street, inviting customers to contact for furniture moves. The ad promises special attention during the dray time and hints at skewed furniture handling.
An 19th century style auction note offers two halls in the county yard near East Mexinney street with a black Jersey and a fawn colored Jersey, priced at 1.50 cash each and a new tire house with setup on Lula street.
Sanitary Mill and Cream advertise new phone numbers Portwood and Hodges list 4%6 and 297 for inquiries. Local readers see updated contact details for service requests and orders.
Local butcher shop Wilkerson Meat Market showcases fresh and tender meats at 212 Olgene New Ghone 83. Shop emphasizes quality and prompt service for daily needs.
The Skiies Transport Co announces a switch to cash basis accounting for all future payments. Drivers are instructed to expect cash payments after the change and to remember to settle wages promptly.
An advertorial fragment promotes remodeling a previous coat into a fashionable cutaway design. It mentions a price notion and a designer or tailor, Swice Mise Kendall, in Atlanta. The readable text emphasizes customization and style revival.
An old advertisement from 8 Elm Street Kansas Mill touts Bran Corn Hay and other foodstuffs with best store and heater Ox prompt delivery and full meal options.
J P Magee & Co offers to insure houses furniture wearing apparel books paintings engravings frames musical instruments plate and jewelry watches sewing machines trunks and stocks in Denton county. They insure live stock and autos and offer building permits and emphasize efficient service and courteous treatment. They solicit insurance business.
Local business Lester & Sherrod advertises household moving and glass service at reasonable rates. New phone contact listed for the office.
J M Gurley offers first class cement work for sidewalks and driveways. Get estimates for durable concrete walks done right and at fair prices.
Old phone 579. New phone 931. For high grade cement and brick work phone or see me and let me estimate the work for you. S. A. Bushey.
Swebotyts, a graduate veterinarian, announces an office at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop on S Elm Street Lipscomb block. New phone 269, residence numbers 486 old and 182 new listed.
Dr Eli Buyher, veterinary surgeon, lists office at Old Lacy Blacksmith Shop on North Locust Street with new office and residence phones. Residence and hospital at 46 East Hickory Street, Denton, plus old contact numbers included.
W. W. Billingslay offers auto for hire with two phone lines 330 old and 448 new and provides automobile repair services.
The City Federation session resumed after a break, drawing college and school delegates to discuss funding via paper drives, market square and rest room projects, and new committees led by Mrs. Murphy and Miss Lee Williams. Delegates elected to state meetings, and a long list of prize offerings from local businesses highlighted the event.
Penton county plans similar interest in girls clubs and aDallas fair parade on October 25. Demonstrations include Dr Craddock s homemade silo claims 50 tons capacity for 60, with many Denton farmers showing silage ideas and native woods from J M Evans farm exhibit. Craddock cites Peking bean as top silage producer next to sorghum. rape noted for livestock feed. Isaac Bellar s apple display draws praise with Stark s Delicious crowned best, late blossoms reduce frost risk. other entries include peaches pears cabbage and subscriptions as prizes.
Dr A B Martin treats eye ear nose and throat diseases and fits glasses. Office located above Raley and Co. doctor advertises eyewear and medical services.
An old classified style notice lists Guas Saunders, a dentist, with an office near Leng and King and both phones available. The fragment implies a local business directory entry for dental services.
W. Own Rowell D D S advertises dental office location over McGray's on the south side square with a new phone number 433 and old Pace 341 for reach. The notice emphasizes updated contact details for patients seeking appointments.
J W Pralin operates as a dentist located at South Side Square in the middle of the block up stairs Denton Texas.
A local notice invites anyone needing scavenger work to call phone number 307 with a choice of two dialing options. The brief offers direct contact for employment or service requests.
Padisha of St Lambert a registered Jersey bull, son of Wilna A, a merit cow, has a butter test of seventeen pounds seven ounces in seven days. He will be at Pinckley's wagon yard on West Oak Street after October 1 with season and cash return privileges. View his pedigree and merit certificate in the wagon yard office.
Local advertisement notes fresh tender meat available by telephone contact at 380 new 70 McKinney Street Meat Market. L. W. Brooks proprietor at 720 Eset.
Timothy L Woodruff, former lieutenant governor of New York and a key Republican figure, died last night after two weeks of paralysis following a stroke in New York City. He had long been active in state politics and party leadership.
A Denton resident testifies to backache relief from Bean's Kidney Pills after a friend recommended them. He reports long-lasting benefit and says he bought more at J F Raley Co Drug Store. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is named as U.S. sole agent. advert note urges remembering the product name.
Local ad notes glass jars of fine pimento cheese available for 15 cents each. The listing is attributed to Turner Brob with a Pucnes 3 tag, suggesting a small shop or vendor listing.
The State Fair of Texas at Dallas plans a high profile Coliseum program from October 18 to November 2. A ballet led by a premier dancer from Austria Hungary will headline dances of all Nations alongside Bandmaster Thaviu and his famed musicians. Vaudeville acts include The Three Duttons Tetsuwari Japanese Troupe The Castrillians and Santuci with a versatile accordion showcase and vocal soloists of national renown.
Management harvests twelve acres of sorghum for silo demonstration at the twenty-eighth annual Texas State Fair in Dallas. Silos connected to new livestock barns will feed cattle horses and sheep. Silage can be made from corn sorghum Kaffir corn or milo maize and is profitable for beef production. A kaleidoscope math note adds wonder about pattern changes with rotating glass pieces.
The 1913 State Fair of Texas in Dallas opens October 18 and runs to November 2 with a dairy division showcasing a model dairy farm of twenty cows milking mechanically twice daily. Silage feeds, automatic litter and feed carriers, and modern cream processing will be displayed and judged by a U S agriculture department expert.
Haiti reports a long tradition of mysterious acoustic phenomena called gouffre or brontidi. Descriptions vary from cannon-like booms to deep rumbles, howlings, wind rushing, or glass shattering. these sounds appear in diverse locations and differ from Italian or Belgian brontides. The phenomena are linked with subterranean origins and have been noted since early times.
A Far East report notes a head price on tokyo rats with a scene of a girl carrying a rat to a police box for a 5 sen receipt. The piece also includes a recipe for a breakfast dish mixing ham with bread crumbs and milk baked in gem pans.
The Star-Honestly asks about acting in a new play while The Critic declines, noting the younger, stronger presence. The short dialogue hints at a tense, witty exchange about performance and perception.
The twenty eighth annual State Fair of Texas opens in Dallas on October 18 with seven rest rooms and cottages for women visitors and children. A seventh cottage in the livestock department is 25 by 42 feet, built of concrete with seven washstands and lavatories, plus nursery attendants and other conveniences. The fair also adds benches, drinking fountains, more shade trees, and flower beds to enhance Fair Park.
Mrs Dickson invites readers to view the latest millinery ideas from Wilson-Hann Co. The notice highlights hats bought in Chicago and New York and urges an in-store visit.
Arkansas mill promotes K F k Kornfalfa Feed Kandy creating a complete ration for horses and cattle. The product uses straight alfalfa and molasses and claims economy. Orders welcome via old phone 410.
The readers scan the Den ton sweet borough ads and respond to listings. Macy replies and customers inquire through the advertising column.
The Lyceum Committee at the College of Industrial Arts has chosen a strong winter lineup headlined by Jacob Riis, author of The Making of an American. The bill includes Christine Miller contralto, Skovgaard Danish violinist, Katherine Oliver McCoy reader, and the Zoellner String Quartet. A possibly extra act may be added.
Readers of London Truth vote for the most hard worked quotations across poets and authors. The top selections include iconic lines from Shakespeare Pope Byron Shelley Wordsworth Tennyson and others highlighted in a concise ranked list.
The Incorporated Institute of Hygiene hosted a London conference on executive health with leading physicians. They advised limited midday eating and suggested two substantial meals daily for many business men. They urged adequate exercise and warned against excessive fresh food and meat for those with low activity.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt quotes Dr Hanover on how geniuses need large meals for sustained intellectual work. It cites Scott, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Mirabeau, Bismarck, and Goethe as examples with insatiable appetites and strong digestions.
A quirked note on turnips claims the globe seed grows fifteen times its weight in a minute and, after months, expands 27 million times its bulk plus leaves. Experiments on peat soil reportedly show daily growth to nineteen ninety nine ninety nine?
A man explains to a friend that his European trip was canceled after his wife ordered clothes for the trip. After paying the bills, there was no money left to go, ending the travel plan. The exchange is reported as a brief anecdote from the New York Times.
Denton October 13 Today was Columbus Day holiday in U S markets. Local quotations report cotton prices affected by lower markets and bale quality with a sale offer of 9 1/5 dollars later raised to 10.25. Basis middling around 12 5 8 cents with good cotton up to 23 4 cents.
Wholesale and retail prices for grains oats flour meal and feedstuffs listed with per bushel per 100 pounds per ton and per dozen or per item figures. Includes wheat corn oats cotton seed eggs butter hens fryers turkeys ducks okra beets onions lettuce tomatoes celery grapes lemons bananas and more with delivery and price ranges.
An ad notes that weather changes trigger chronic colds and calls for Vinol, a cod liver and iron tonic, to build strength and increase resistance. Mrs. M. J. Martunes of Springfield says it cured her cold and rheumatism after a run-down period. The ad promises a money-back guarantee and urges old people, delicate children, and those with bronchitis or chronic coughs to try Vinol.
Advertises hand sketched photos produced only by Swartz and notes they are distinct from common prints. Promotes studio work over mail order at the post office.
Ophelia Wesley of Sweetwater becomes the twelfth new teacher at the C I A and will serve as assistant in the natural science department teaching botany. She comes from Sweetwater High School and is a graduate of North Texas State Normal and the University of Texas where she was a student assistant in natural history. Increased attendance necessitated a new teacher in this department.
The court trying Mendel Beilies for the murder of Andrew Yushinsky in the ritual case was moved today to the cave where the boy's body was found in Kiev.
A woman fainted in a crowded synagogue at Chodorow Galacia sparking a panic that killed sixteen women and injured scores of others. The event occurred in Lumberg Austria on October 18.
The piece prompts homemakers to maximize savings by studying the day’s ads, noting that merchants offer money saving announcements for the benefit of readers during the season of tight budgets.
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