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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
2
Notice to the public regarding subscription terms in advance and weekly postal rates. Includes second class mail entry details for Demton Texas under acts of Congress March 3 1878 and March 9 1873 and a correction policy for erroneous reflections.
The Chronicle notes Denton’s growing population and rail service improvements, with trains to Dallas increasing to six daily and new schedules benefiting southeastern Denton County. It discusses Canadian Pacific rail profits, its integrated services, and contrasts U S practices. A Back Talk column reflects on reader reception and local census disputes amid Denton’s steady development.
The Farm and Ranch laments choosing luxuries over necessities. It notes Grand Valley Colorado residents rely on dairy wagons and hucksters for vegetables butter and eggs and mentions orchardists buying supplies rather than producing them. It contrasts coast fruit myths with local shortages.
The piece muses on wanting sensational headlines and unrest versus calm, craving scandal, fights, marriages, betrayals, and upheaval to fill the page. It voices comic frustration with bland reports and longing for dramatic, craveable events.
Gilbert Parker profiles Thomas Jefferson Stone from Indiana, a 46 year old prospector with 25 years of claims and a history of neuralgia medicine, whose broken false teeth were momentarily replaced by a photographed confession as he shows up with a real set for a Kodak portrait.
Critics aim to tell the public it has no taste and that its ideas are narrow. They disagree with almost everyone and often with themselves. The piece mocks critics as learned yet obscuring meaning with hazy adjectives and jokes about their afterlife for praising disliked works.
A Scottish story tells of a small drummer in a local brass band who marches by sound not sight because his high drum blocks his view. One afternoon the leader alters the route, the drummer keeps going, and after finishing his part alone he asks bystanders if anyone has seen a band nearby.
A vintage classified style ad urges readers to phone Long & King to place grocery orders. It invites customers to connect by phone for next order placements.
Mrs Maurice Smith advertises piano teaching and lists 46 Denton street. The LONG and KING store invites customers to find a fresh and well-selected supply of vegetables and provides the phone number 44.
Denton Texas on the Elm Fork waters of Trinity River a half of Plat No 9 in the Weary White survey is to be sold on the first Tuesday in October 1912 to satisfy costs of 32.45 in favor of the court officers. L. D. Moss is named as owner.
Curtis' Laxative Syrup relies on Senna Cascara and vegetable laxatives with aromatics and curminatives. It markets as a safe vegetable laxative and liver medicine, a humane substitute to calomel, in half pint bottles for 50 cents.
Local notice advertises a fresh shipment of pure maple syrup and maple sugar from Burlington Vermont along with Scudder s Canada sap and Log Cabin syrup. Call T C Sample to order a can today.
An early ad urges quick relief from constipation biliousness and indigestion with Dr Kings New Life Pills. It promises safe easy relief and notes availability for 25 cents at J F Raley Co.
We can serve you short orders day or night and you will like the style of cooking and service. Drop in and see us at Smith's Restaurant.
Headed by energetic leaders, success vanishes with poor health. Electric Bitters revive weak, run-down men in short order. Charles B. Allen of Sylvania details years of rheumatism and stomach issues, now well, thanks to Electric Bitters. Sold for 50 cents at J. F. Raley & Co.
The list shows names of uncalled letters to be sent to Washington Dead Letter Office September 29 1912. Ladies list includes Emer Bush Ada Curtsinger Fronie Mollie Thomas Billy Jane Watkins Vandillie Woods Frances Angel Vernie McBraier Bullard Morris. Gentlemen list includes Jack Allen George Bain Evan Batley Larence Decker A J Elder E B Patten Jim Patterson Ed Sneed J W Steel Avon Davis Eugene Daniel Robt Harrison William Meaders Henry Marcy R B Smith. Callers should mention advertised and one cent charged for all letters. J B Schmitz P M.
Advert says over a million stomach sufferers use Pape's Diapepsi for instant help with indigestion. It claims five minute relief from sour belching gas and heartburn, and promises no lingering stomach discomfort after taking a fifty cent case.
The Kansas City Star recounts a Boissey Switzerland village incident where ten-year-old Jean Jacques Rousseau faced harsh chastisement for a suspected theft, a punishment that forged his enduring sense of duty and influenced his later critique of plutocracy and the rights of the many.
Alfalfa, possibly the oldest cultivated forage, traces its origin to Media. From Persia to Greece around 590 B C it helped feed invaders then spread to Italy and Spain. Spaniards carried it to Old Mexico by 16519 A D, later to South America and California by 1854, finally reaching Nebraska and Kansas as major forage crops.
A Munich paper traces early mountain ascent through history, crediting Moses for Sinai ascent and dismissing Noah for Ararat. It notes ancient attitudes viewed climbing as madness, with Dante Petrarch and Leonard as Europe’s early true tourists, followed by Maximilian I and others exploring the Alps.
A column advises brides on marital happiness listing practical cautions. Do not marry for a living but for love and avoid overdressing. Emphasizes common sense over style and warns against running a household by fleeing or nagging. Encourages focusing on one's own children before lecturing others.
A Philadelphia physician at a railway surgeons convention praised a safety device as widely recognized for reducing accidents. The quote likens any railroad defender of inefficiency to an antiquated resident and mocks a misguided spelling error as a symbol of folly.
The alligator skin trade is controlled by a firm in New ark New Jersey, buying 80 to 90 percent of American production. A yearly influx of 30 000 skins from Colombia is quickly snapped up in New York, with purchases sometimes made on arrival before unloading the cargo.
A group of Temple Bay midshipmen onceird a sunlit excursion to an iceberg. They left aboard a small boat and feasted atop the icy promontory until it suddenly shattered, killing the moment and thrilling their near miss. The incident marks their first and last iceberg outing.
Synthetic chemists announce a method to produce ivory from cow milk that remains colorfast. Initially intended for piano and organ keys, the material promises durable ivory-like blocks. The report notes the genuine article yellows with age, while the milk-based ivory stays true to its shade.
In Boswell's Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson discusses melancholy advising the afflicted to divert distressing thoughts. He suggests maintaining a lamp, reading, and habitual exercise to master the mind. He proposes varied amusements or courses to give the mind retreats from itself.
In a witty exchange two men contrast winter and summer routines with poker for one and bridge for the other. The banter highlights gendered social roles in leisure activities.
A fragmented line mentions bread and night with emphasis on tightness and severance. The readable portion suggests a nonstandard phrase referencing food and tension but lacks clear events or names to establish a proper news item.
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