Lost Red Sow Pig Missing Near Congress Ave
A two month old red sow pig disappeared Wednesday around noon near Congress Avenue. A reward is offered for the return to Ford.
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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1913
Page
3
A two month old red sow pig disappeared Wednesday around noon near Congress Avenue. A reward is offered for the return to Ford.
Rental ads describe furnished large downstairs room at 49 North Locust Street and two rooms with gas heat at 94 West Sycamore for $12 monthly. Additional furnished two sixteen foot rooms for men at 37 South Locust. Also three furnished rooms for light housekeeping at 33 East Oak Street with modern conveniences. Contact Mrs. L. T. Fowlkes and A. R. McGintie and Mrs. A. S. Cowan for details.
Advertisement notes a seven room house for rent on Center Street with a new phone number 228 27p for inquiries.
Trade-wagon and team for milk cows hogs farming tools and feed stuff. Address Oscar Smith 51 East Mulberry St.
Eight room boarding and rooming house with bath halls gas and electric lights and all conveniences in a close-in location. It will pay you to investigate this. Denton Trust Co. 28¢
Three registered Collie pups for sale by Jack F. Schmitz. Also a cottage on North Elm Street listed with Albert Erwin. Two four room houses on corner lots near the square priced at 1500 dollars, contact C Lipscomb Jr.
For sale house with six rooms and bath. Normal additions terms right. Charles Scripture at Taylor Hardware Company. September 27.
For sale one five room and one six room house on North Locust Street listed by F. R. Graham. Contact new phone 3oe1 off street phone line available for inquiries.
400 acres well improved land near Little Elm offered in exchange for a good residence. See Broun Realty Co. and Long & King's for details.
A 3 room house on East Oak street and a 4 room house on Bolivar street are offered for sale on easy terms. Small down payment, remainder by monthly installments. contact George Fritz at P O Imp Iement Co in Dallas Texas.
Advertisement notes 20 acres with improvements one half mile north of town for sale. Also offers other lots and business houses for sale. Contact phone 183 or speak with L. Fulton for details.
WANTED two notices seek a boy to deliver newspapers in the afternoon and a family advertises board for two young children during the school term. Mrs May Donley advertises fancy dress making at 17 East Sycamore with old phone 506. Mrs F B Robinson offers board for two children at 10 East McKinney.
Classified notice seeks a 40 acre land parcel with a house near Denton. Respond to F. C. Seymour in Amarillo, Texas. This short query requests available rural property with dwelling for potential tenant.
A terse notice advertises Freight Transfer Co offering furniture moving with two phones and special attention to television items, noting the office on West Oak Street and yard activity at Kincaid.
A. R. McGintie advertises furnished rooms for rent in Denton Texas with offices over Wilson-Hann's and contact old phone 361. He rents houses in all directions: North South East and West.
Henry Kaltruther on East McKinney Street offers woodwork, blacksmithing, horseshoeing, rubber-tiring and shrinking services. He provides a range of craft skills for local repair and fabrication needs.
For storage of household goods at reasonable rates see John B Schmitz. Furniture and gas stoves offered.
An Arkansas mill on S Elm St advertises chops bran corn hay and other feedstuffs as well as stove and heater wood. Prompt delivery and full measure offered. Both phones listed.
Jake Johnson completes quick wood sawing work described as done in a hurry. The entry notes contact details with phone numbers and old and new references. No additional names or locations are provided.
Mrs McCann a Boston piano and voice graduate of the New England Conservatory is solicited. The note refers to 29 S Elm St and a September deadline.
The dealer invites buyers to the wagon yard on East McKinney Street second yard from the square offering two top Jersey bulls a black and a fawn colored. Season trade likely.
A local notice from a guaranty bank office on the north side of the square seeks business on the liability of its companies. It requests customers to provide their next expiration and promises prompt settlement of losses with courteous attention to all.
J. P. Magee & Co offers sanitary milk and cream with contact numbers Portwood Hodges new phone 426 old 297. Frank Wilkerson Meat Market lists old phone 212 new 83. Fresh tender meats. Cash basis fare and transfer payments noted with Skiles Transfer Co for drivers.
A local advertises fresh bread at 47 W Hickory and 25p Fort Worth Bread offering six loaves for two cents. Paul Hamies Restaurant lists 31 West Oak Street.
We Buy, Sell and Exchange milk cows and promote Jersey bull services by McKelvy and Car Baugh at McKinney Street Wagonyard. Old phone 578 updated to new 931. Also offering high grade cement and brick work estimates by S A Bushey.
W E Botts announces the new office location at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop on S Elm Lipscomb block with updated phone numbers 269 for residence and 132 for business.
Local drayage advert promotes first class moving service at reasonable rates. Company lists Lester & Sherrod as office, announces new phone number for bookings and inquiries.
W W Sillingley offers auto rental service with a new phone 448 and old contact 330. Also advertises automobile repairs at the same address or location.
A local note advertises messenger services by W A Brashears calling 41 for rapid delivery. It also mentions a side offer to manage accounts for ten percent of money collected.
Dr M L Martin and A B MD offer treatment of eye ear nose diseases and fitting glasses. Office located over Raley and Co department store with convenient access for patients seeking vision and ENT care.
CHAS. SAUNDERS, DENTIST. Office over Long and King after Feb. 1. Both phones. W. N. ROWELL, D. D. 8. Office over McCray's, south side square. DR. W. A. JONES, DENTIST, West Side Square. J. W. FRALIN, DENTIST, SOUTH Side Square, middle of block, up stairs. Denton, Texas.
Classified notice invites individuals to apply for scavenging work by calling Phone 307. The brief ad offers no company name or location details.
J M Gurley offers first class concrete walks at fair prices and invites estimates from customers seeking quality workmanship.
American League results include Washington 7 over Cleveland 3 and Detroit 15 over Boston 2. Philadelphia 4 over Chicago 1. New York 4 over St Louis 0. National League scores show Cincinnati 12 over Boston 1 and Philadelphia 4 over St Louis 2. Brooklyn 6 over Chicago 5 and New York 4 over Pittsburg 1.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment as a permanent cure for infant skin eruptions. A testimonial from Mrs Strubbler of Dubuque Iowa says the baby improved after using the product, with the note that all druggists sell it for 50 cents and orders by mail via J F Raley & Co.
Home-canned Elberta and Mamie Ross peaches by W. T. C. Potter, freshly returned from the peach country. Sold in syrup at 145 cents per 3-pound can while stock lasts. Phone orders early. Phones 7. TURNER BROS.
Quote attributed to a judge contrasts speculation and investment. It frames speculation as risky when losing and investment as prudent when winning. The line highlights subjective view on risk and outcome in financial decisions.
The Texas Commercial Secretaries and Business Men's Association reports a heavy August drop in building permits. Dallas leads, with Waco and San Antonio following. Houston falls to fourth. El Paso and Beaumont surpass August 1912, while all remaining cities show declines amid a national downturn.
A vintage ad urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for upset stomachs and constipation in children. It claims quick relief, warns of counterfeits, and directs to buy the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Pastor W R McCarter plans a home coming day for September 14 with a Modern Sunday School talk by Rev Oscar T Cooper from Denton and a sermon at 11. School opens September 15. Miss Clara Heister hosted friends for Miss Ruby Ready who will move to Georgetown. Cotton receipts top 1000 bales with seed cotton earning 5.05 and cotton seed 22. Mrs Emmeline Eames, mother of H H Eanes, dies in Canton Minnesota aged 2. Mrs E H Flannery injured in San Francisco street car wreck. Miss Mattie Mae Archer to wed Orr Stinnett of Van Alstyne in Celina this week.
A transient laborer at a cow camp in Arizona prepares for a desert prospecting trip. His wife protests to cowhands about hardship, and the foreman confronts the husband over his shiftlessness. He retorts that his wife has no complaint, recounting how he once towed teams to ease her access to wood and water.
A Denton resident J R Dobbs testifies kidney trouble relief from Dean's Kidney Pills after years of backache and nighttime urination. He bought from J F Raley Co in Denton and says two boxes cured him. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agent. Remember the name Dean's.
The Department of Labor reports wage gains over six years with shorter hours. Bankers led with a 22 percent raise while their workday shrank by one fifth.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as fast relief for dyspeptic symptoms like sour stomach, gas, heartburn, and indigestion. It claims five minute digestion, candy like taste, and no need for laxatives, urging readers to buy from fifty cent cases.
Enrollment in city schools shows gains across campuses with the West Side up 11 and the High School adding staff for eighth grade. Superintendent Beaty notes a larger future enrollment lift and a new teacher, Flora E. Goodwin, a University of Texas graduate. The High School team begins preliminary football practice with many returning players and potential new stars, while donors consider funding a coach for fall and winter.
In Yonkers chatter the idea of a verse-writer or cloak model is joked about as Belle grows rich from her lines. Beulah notes her success, while a Yonkers Statesman quip frames money and art as a social signal. A Louisville Courier-Journal anecdote then reflects a son’s repeated but undecided marriage choices.
A local notice from Paschall's promoting fresh vegetables and market goods. It highlights up to date produce, market freshness, and a contact via phones 8 and 6 for inquiries.
Quoted exchange portrays a peace advocate who accepts war as inevitable yet continues to promote peace. The Washington Star frames the dialogue as a blunt comparison to advice on a spouse’s wardrobe, highlighting paradox in public stance versus acceptance of conflict.
The seller promotes dainty society stationery from lines like Symphony Lawn and Tulip Linen. Packages claim real value with 10 to 25 percent savings and include Lord Baltimore white writing paper at 25 cents per 16 oz package with matching 50-envelope packs also at 25 cents.
The report lists open and close prices for Liverpool New York New Orleans and Galveston markets with fluctuating spreads. Heavy rain reduced receipts with lint cotton selling at 13 cents top and cotton seed steady around 28 dollars per ton.
A Baltimore American quip notes Noah and his sons would have found poker a diversion on the ark, as they could never have a full house with only two of a kind.
A witty quip contrasts science’s role in nervous diseases with a joke about romantic indifference. The remark pivots on a Life magazine line about science locating disorders while a humorous misreading suggests a cold treatment of affection.
An advertisement entices freckle sufferers to try a new remedy claiming a money back guarantee if it fails. Buy ethine double strength from a druggist with a pharmacist’s guarantee and modest per ounce use should reveal a clearer complexion.
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