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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1912
Page
3
Classified ad offers an eight room house with electric lights on an east front lot. Terms to suit. Contact C Slipscomb Jr. for details and W A Srashears, manager, for quick messenger service at Hamilton Yeatts' office with two phone numbers listed.
A jumble of lost items, for sale ads, rentals, and small notices. Lost purse and keys, lost spectacles, furniture for sale, used survey equipment, pearls, drift of services, dresses, sewing, rooms for rent, houses for sale, a typewriter, office space, and other everyday classifieds with names and contact hints.
A seller advertises a 7 room house with four lots on Stroud street three blocks southwest of the court house for 30 days. Also lists insurance services, farm goods, and various local services with contact notes and prices.
If you want concrete sidewalks or brick work, let me figure with you. S. A Bushey and J. M. Gurley, the cement extractor, offer first class work at the right price. Get estimates.
Dr W A Jones dentist at east side square J W Fralin dentist at south side square middle of block Denton Texas W N Rowell D D office over McCrays south side square
A scanned 1920s style classifieds row lists veterinary services by Dr W E Botts and a Denton transfer firm, unearthed office and residence phone numbers, several second hand Oliver typewriters for sale, poultry by Robert Scott Jr, repolishing mirrors and silverware, and scavenger work offered by Turpin with pickup calls.
Specials offer baling wire or bundles along with cotton sacks and hardware items. Seven foot sacks sell for 85 cents while nine foot sacks go for $1.00. The ad promises especially good prices now and invites customers to visit for more hardware and implement line items.
Rev and Mrs F L McFadden and son returned to Wichita Falls. Miss Bessie Parr left for Dallas to teach in Dallas schools starting Monday. Prof and Mrs C L Davis returned from Madison Wisconsin and Sewanee Tennessee. W L Hawk from near Lewisville reported a shorter cotton crop due to worms. A Grant returned from a Pacific Northwest trip. A ID Miller joined him in Oklahoma. Rev Harry Burton Boyd attended Fort Worth Presbytery meeting. Paul Baker of Central Presbyterian DENTON joined as candidate and will enter Trinity University at Waxahachie next week.
The sheriff's office reports the arrest of a black man on a train riding charge. An infant of John Dillard died near Waketon and was buried at Chinn's Chapel cemetery. A congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian Church is set for 11 o'clock Sunday with all members expected to attend.
An ad promotes Pape's Diapepsin as a quick, gentle cure for upset stomachs and indigestion. It touts the product’s ability to digest food and restore order, priced at fifty cents per large case, with contact for T. C. Sample and grocery service in Denton.
Home trial treatment and full information offered free of charge. Contact FrontiersAthma Company Room 102 Buffalo New York for details.
Miss Emmabelle Lipscomb, visiting Galveston and Houston for three weeks, is to return Sunday or Monday. A Houston Post society note mentions a social event in her honor, with box parties at the New Majestic vaudeville. Also noted is a Thursday evening party honoring Addie May Lane of Shreveport, guest of Eloise Dillaye and Lipscomb.
MIDLAND Sept 13 The jury disagreed today in the trial of Mrs Ed Sullivan accused with a young man named Mansfield of murdering her husband. The case proceeded amid court suspense as jurors failed to reach a verdict.
Suburban Denton cottage sits on a good sized lot near Industrial College and North Side School with access to streetcar, sewerage, electricity, and city water. Seller offers favorable terms including accepting sandy land farm as part payment and a close price.
Liverpool middling 2 up at 6 75d sales 7 000. New York middling 15 up at 11 9e c sales 200. New Orleans Middling 1-Suyai IL 7 16ec sales 360. Galveston 116 up at 215 8 sales 200 sales.
Receipts were good on Friday and prices led the week with gains. Lent cotton sold up to 11.45 cents for a top while seed cotton rose to 4.20 cents. Cotton seed fetches about $16 per ton.
Capt Buckingham reports Denton High expects one of the season’s best teams with five returning veterans McNew Potts Milar Cobb and Buckingham. New hopefuls include Hall Spikes Homer Fry Evers Rayzor Bradley Magill Cunningham Jones Dooley Stamford Goode Porter. Managers Cobb and Buckingham aim for two strong squads and early practice games. Denton High seeks top North Texas standings and games with leading schools.
Execution of costs issued from Tarrant County court directs W. Co. Orr, Sheriff of Denton County, to sell on the first Tuesday in October 1912 the Moss property on Elm Fork Trinity River in Denton County to satisfy a $32.45 judgment for costs. The tract is part of Plat No. 9 in the Hary White survey, about 109 to 100 acres, last half of Plat No. 9. Proceeds go to Officers of the court.
Turner Bros offers to handle customer orders by phone and invites callers to place requests. The notice presents a brief sales pitch emphasizing convenient ordering by telephone.
A fragmentary moral verse urges readers to choose life over death, listening to a still voice that proclaims Earth lasts a week or a year while life endures for eternity. It contrasts fleeting earthly pleasures with lasting spiritual fate. Turner Bros promotes fresh potato chips as a daily convenience.
The city shoe advertisements urge readers to visit stores and inspect wares with the aim of securing better footwear at lower prices. The notices push examination of stock to weigh offers and possibly save money.
The Record and Chronicle reports dollar subscriptions received to date for the Wilson Marshall campaign fund. Payments include multiple one dollar contributions from individuals such as J. R. Swenson, F. M. McReynolds, H. R. Wilson, J. J. McCook, G. J. Gillespie, and J. M. Roark, with totals showing various rounded amounts and some larger sums. The money will be forwarded to the National committee as collected.
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