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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
3
Reward for return to this office. Lost list of names at McKinney Street railroad crossing. Return to this office.
In this notice a multiform classifieds page lists help wanted in store positions for a 17 or 18 year old, housing exchanges between Marlow Oklahoma and Denton Texas, rental rooms including furnished options, yard sale items like a Remington No 7 typewriter, a roll top desk and wagons, a mobile home worth considering, and multiple land and farm for sale or trade opportunities 106 acres near Gunter and 125 acres for trade for Denton property. New owners urged to contact via local office.
For sale eight room house with bath and electric lights on east front. Large lot. Terms to suit. Also available our lot and building on East McKinney Street at 100 by 230 feet, building 40 by 21, artesian well, city water and sewer connections. Price 1600 dollars. Apply Denton Steam Laundry Co.
A brief classified notice offers single table board for 55 cents at Mrs McNitzkys located at 25 South Elm. The text also mentions a detective theme with references to John Detective Correspondence and Houseman Block Grana Raps Mich.
Serviceable PO land-Ghina boats offered by E G Yeatts of Sanger. Pedigrees furnished. Prices: 12 50 and 15 dollars. Shipping address 414 Octlwp.
Local ad promotes a moving business offering household moves with two large vans. Contact numbers listed for offices and phones, with old and new lines shown.
Veterinary surgeon Dr W B Botts runs an office with Denton Transfer Co at Livscom block and Old phone numbers 859 and 4% new 13% listed for residence and business inquiries.
Miss Irene Fergusyon will open her music studio on September 16 at the Wright Opera House building on the second floor. The notice lists a phone contact 200 new, and advertises an automobile line with W. Billingsley offering autos for hire with old phone 330 and new phone 148.
Turpin advertises mirroring and replating of silverware with satisfaction guaranteed and delivery service. J M Gurley promotes concrete walks and brick work offering estimates and first class workmanship at fair prices.
Classified notices list J W Fralin and W W Rowell dentists on Denton Square plus insurance by J W Johnson and Brashears manager. Also offerings include hauling trash via Y M Turpin, feedstuffs from Arkansas Mill, wood, rental houses, furnished rooms, and scavenger work with two phone numbers.
Cotton picking continues at about one fourth bale per gather while wheat cutting begins. Labor is scarce and prices are high. Methodist ladies donate a box and cash to the War Orphanage. Zion church services were rained out. Visitors include C L Ritchie and W M Harper from Denton. Local families hosting and visiting others as infant illness concerns rise. First Christian Church board meets at 2:30 pm with agenda of importance.
The note urges readers to study the daily advertisements as many find items they want at lower prices. It promotes a home asthma cure trial with free information from Frontiers Asthma Company, Room 102, Duffalo, NY.
Two exchange offers for a five room cottage on Avenue A near the Normal College, willing to take mares on balance for $1500. A nine acre truck farm with a nine room house near the courthouse also for $1500, accepting mares or mules with balance to suit. See the live wire.
Baling wire or bunch priced at 80¢. Suet 80¢. Foot cotton sacks 85¢. Nine foot cotton sacks $1.00. If you want anything in the hardware or implement line see us. We have some especially good prices right now.
Denton camp No. 15 Woodmen of the World will unveil six monuments to deceased sovereigns in the IOOF cemetery Sunday afternoon. Louis Rogers of Gainesville will deliver the principal address with a march from the hall at 3:30. An orchestra and Miss Johnson will provide a reading and Mr. Olson will introduce Rogers.
Local ad notes houses and lots to sell at sec to 75c on the dollar. Potential buyers urged to contact Fulton at the provided phone number for details.
Rev. J Foster Pierce presiding elder of the Gainesville district will preach at the First Methodist church in the coming Sunday both morning and night. He previously served as pastor of the Denton Methodist church about fifteen years ago. His brother Dr. Thos R Pierce, also a former Denton pastor, died while pastor there. Services set for 11 o clock in the morning and 7 45 in the evening.
Advertises a diamond dealer claiming lower prices than city jewelers due to lower overhead. He argues cash buyers pay less, while on time buyers face higher prices from jobbers. Promotes checking the dealer’s stock, prices, and window display to compare with mill order houses and larger city stores.
Mrs. Joey McCook hosted a Penton Societies joint Matrems and Bridge Club gathering at East Oak Street with fall decorations. Winners included Miss Mettie Kate Payne in bridge and Miss Lee Williams in five hundred. guest prize went to Mrs. Joe Johnson.
The Hardy School of Oratory will open September 23 in classrooms on the John R. Denton campus. For enrollment call in the morning or phone 32, PO Box 402. Also promoting Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and lung diseases with trial bottles.
Denton residents testify to lasting kidney relief from Doan’s Kidney Pills, with F. F. Rains of Hikory Street endorsing long term cures. The local drug store, J F Raley & Co., sells the remedy for 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan’s.
An old advertisement promotes Wilson's Freckle Cream claiming it removes freckles, tan, and pimples without hair growth. It guarantees money back if results are not satisfactory and offers in person or mail orders with large jars priced at 1.00. Sold by O. M. Curtis.
Rain refreshed Cooper as farmers bustle in harvest with corn and cotton. Several visiting families arrive from Fort Worth and Dallas, while local residents cope with illnesses and the aftermath of a shooting involving a Slidell man and his son. School opens with 150 pupils as residents travel to Denton and Ardmore for events and services.
Mrs. Laney mourns her nephew Scott Price who died in Arizona after officers pursued a Mexican suspect and opened fire. The incident raises questions over police use of force and the sequence of events leading to Price's death.
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