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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1912
Page
3
Classified ads list several furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent. Locations include 49 West Hickory, 37 East Oak, Jarrell Evans 34, and 111 W Sycamore. Listings mention light housekeeping, electric lights, sewerage and bath, with contact names such as L. L. Smith and Mrs Johnson.
Numerous local notices offer sale items including a Remington No 7 typewriter for 25 dollars and a roll top desk with wagons. Also listed are five milk cows near Krum and a horse and his rider near Bates home. Real estate includes several houses and a lot for sale or trade plus rental notices. Nearby services and studios are advertised with contact details.
A collage of small notices lists poultry for sale, re plating services, veterinarians, dentists, concrete work, hauling, insurance, messenger service, feedstuffs, and rental listings. Includes Robert Scott Jr phone update, Turpin contact, Dr Botts vet clinic, Denton dentists Jones Fralin Rowell, Tarish services, and real estate offerings with addresses and old phone numbers.
Advertisement offers scavenging work and asks interested parties to call number 307 or use the other phone option.
An advertisement touts Cascarets to cleanse and regulate the stomach and bowels while the user sleeps. It claims to remove sour food and gases, reduce liver bile, and deliver a clear head by morning with a 6 cent box. Turner Bros offers ordering by phone.
Citizens urged to invest dollars at home to strengthen welfare and community. Officials emphasize spending locally keeps funds circulating and fuels municipal improvements.
Two good exchange propositions offer a five room cottage on Avenue A near the Normal College for good mares with favorable balance terms. A well improved nine acre truck farm with a five room house half a mile from the courthouse is priced at 1500 dollars and will take good mares or mules with balance to suit. See the live wire.
A home in Denton on a large lot offers one of the town’s best cottages. It sits near Industrial College North Side School car line sewerage electric lights and city water. Will accept sandy land farm as part payment at a favorable price.
A hardware dealer advertises strong value on tools and implements with notably good prices available now. The notice emphasizes in store selection and affordable costs for early shoppers.
H. W. Cox and D. & Donald from Krum visited court attendance noted along with J. M. Coffey and N. A. Grace from Rector. J. E. Sharber near Argyle came yesterday. Miss Myrtle Cody entered the Normal, Paul Baker and Harley Portwood left for Trinity University, Monroe Deavenport to Washington-Lee University, and several residents traveled to Fort Worth, Waxahachie, Austin, Lewisville, and Dallas for work study and schooling.
Miss Ruby Shepard, a 1912 College of Industrial Arts graduate, travels to Beaumont to assume the director of domestic science in Beaumont schools. She fills the vacancy left by Miss Mabel Strickland who resigned to take a similar post in Fort Worth. The notice ends with an unrelated ad about pipe offers from Turner Bros.
Beulah reports in September as farmers pick cotton and flies lessen while corn yields improve. Local residents visit, recoveries noted, births, illnesses, and travels listed including Ula Hale, Ellen Garrison, Geo Jeter, B W Meadows, and Ina Fortune. Rain expected to aid cotton, with ads for ALRDOME theater and Long & King grocery.
We extend a cordial welcome to all students and invite you to make our store your head quarters as in the past. Our line of school supplies is complete and you can find everything you need with us. We always have the best.
Denton Marshal Goode vows no street mashing and bans ogling of women and girls. He has several offenders in mind and plans arrests if provocation continues. A young man was arrested at the depot on a vagrancy charge linked to alleged mashing, possibly the first such arrest in Denton’s history. The San Antonio mashing case with a $1000 fine and one year jail draws statewide comment.
Sept 16 Mrs M E Baker of Chickasha visiting here and in Krum. Local residents and visitors listed include J E McDaniel in Denton Frank Driver Cedar Hill and others in Fort Worth Denton Gainesville Roanoke Hillsboro Decatur Wise county and Drop. Ogle Fort Worth and Dr Pennington Mineral Wells noted. Turner Bros ad promotes potato chips coffee and grocery deliveries.
An advertisement urges customers to sample the restaurant's cooking and service style, inviting them to drop in and visit Smith's Restaurant for a favorable dining experience.
A veteran pharmacist with 22 years in business urges patients to fill prescriptions at Curtis pharmacy. He touts formal training from St. Louis College of Pharmacy, cites over 12,000 prescriptions filled last year, and argues large-store efficiency and freshness of drugs over smaller outlets. He advises asking the doctor for recommended service.
Denton reports mixed foreign and domestic quotes with open and close figures across Liverpool New York and New Orleans. Prices show unchanged middling values in several markets with modest sales for Galveston and New Orleans.
Today lint cotton sold between 11 and 11.90 cents per pound and seed cotton ranged from 4.05 to 4.50 dollars per hundredweight, reflecting varied quality grades across the market.
Woodrow Wilson was elected a member of The Tribe of the Sioux, a municipal organization in Sioux City Iowa. He took the oath to be a good Indian and participate in tribal duties as part of the ceremony reported by the Associated Press.
Evangelist Swinney lectured on the Ethiopian eunuch conversion focusing on divine guidance of the record and preacher. He argued understanding scripture precedes conversion, that preaching Christ leads to baptism, and urged daily services at 3 36 and 7 45 PM.
A medical advertisement promotes Dr. King's New Discovery as a home remedy for coughs colds grip croup whooping cough and sore lungs. It promises quick relief and renewed health with 50c and 1 trial bottle free, guaranteed by J F Raley & Co.
The paper highlights local shoe merchants inviting readers to visit stores and inspect wares. Advertisements emphasize examining stock to find better shoes for less money, encouraging thoughtful consideration of offers.
Miss Sealey LaBeaume of St Louis has been chosen as assistant in instrumental music at the College of Industrial Arts. A New England Conservatory graduate she studied with renowned musicians. The appointment follows a rise in instrumental music enrollments, bringing the department to four teachers. Uncle Ezra quotes about trouble for a girl or lax constipation remedies are noted alongside a local ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills.
When you need tablets station ery and other school supplies go to Curtis'. Lord Baltimore linen correspondence paper sold in one pound packages for 25c envelopes to match per box of 50 for 25c. Theme tablets have 50 pages each, 3 for 25c. The stationery department receives special attention and the values will attract and hold your patronage. Your trade solicited.
Old time advertisement urges mothers to give Syrup of Figs for a constipated child showing signs of illness. It promotes figs senna and aromatics as safe, tasty, and effective for all ages, claiming quick movement of waste with no nausea. Instructions claim full dosing on package and urge to buy the California Fig Syrup Co product.
A bakery touts bread that tastes right and delivers value with every loaf. The message promises satisfaction and mirrors what neighbors are enjoying in their own kitchens.
A trial treatment and full information on asthma are offered free of charge by FrontiersAthma Company located in Buffalo New York. The notice promotes home cure possibilities and specifies no fees for consultation or materials.
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