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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1913
Page
3
Black memorandum book left between Denton and Fishtrap crossing on Elm contains names and figures. Offered reward of 82.00 if returned to Record and Chronicle or H. Green.
Several furnished rooms offered for light housekeeping or study along with suites in local buildings. Advertisements detail locations on West Hickory Maple Oak and in Wright and opera house buildings with contact options.
Five room house with bath available for rent on West Mulberry. Contact Mrs. A. Cowan at phone number ending in 3S for details and viewing.
Bargain eight room house and lot with 40 acres of land two miles from courthouse. See W H Doty barber shop N Side Square. Also new six room bungalow with garden and outbuildings call 134 West Prairie. One and three horsepower alternating current electric motor cheap. Record and Chronicle office.
The ad touts strong insurers with over 50 years of operation, claims to have paid losses promptly through historic fires, and stresses large surplus, low price, efficient service, and courteous treatment to attract new policies. It urges readers to let the firm write their next policy with no risk.
J P Magee and Company announces a new phone number 47 and keeps the old 34 for their Guaranty Bank office. The update appears twice in the notice.
Classified note seeks a cheap bicycle for cash with inquiries directed to Live Oak Grocery. Also advertises cotton pickers needed to harvest 1000 to 1500 pounds per day on half bale to acre, listing F. L. Hardwick at 59 Bernard Street. Sanitary milk and cream service offered by Portwood and Hodges with new phone numbers 426 and 297 respectively.
Two four room houses on corner lots one block from the square priced at 1500 dollars. See C Lipscomb Jr December 18.
Local notice shows Stanley moving his shoe repair shop to a new address beside the North Texas Gas Co. office on West Oak Street. The classified line also lists Frank Wilkerson Meat Market with contact numbers and a note about fresh and tender meats.
Henry Kaltruther offers woodwork, blacksmithing, horseshoeing, rubber-tiring and shrinking services on East McKinney Street. Neighbors recognize his range of metal and carpentry skills for farm and carriage needs.
For sale cheap phateon and horse along with washstands and dressers. See J. H. Swindle at the Nickel Store.
Enclosed hog-wire property near Co I offers a 5 room modern residence with bath large hall cistern storm house and active well water. Also 166 acres near Corinth with 35 acres cultivated balance timber priced 16 per acre with easy terms See John A Hann and Turner for details.
Feedstuffs including chops bran corn hay and other feeds offered with best stove and heater wood. Prompt delivery and full measure promised. Contact Arkansas Mill on S Elm Street or call both phones for service.
Hereafter the eb and transfer fare will be on the cash basis. Please remember this and pay the driver. Skiles Transfer Co.
Fort Worth bakery Paul Ramires offers fresh bread daily at a price of six loaves per cent cents at 31 West Oak Street.
House listing with six rooms and bath for sale. Terms right. Contact Chas Scripture at Taylor Hardware Company. September 27. Also hogs and milch cows for sale see Oakley Skiles.
J K McKelvey on McKinney Street Wagon Yark advertises buying selling and exchanging milk cows and notes a registered Jersey bull in service. Local farm trade listing urges readers to contact for dairy stock sales.
An advertisement for S A Bushey promotes high grade grave cement and brick work with a call to call 379 or 9314 for estimates. The note invites readers to contact for pricing and project assessment.
W E Boitts, graduate veterinarian, office at Hancock and Son Blacksmith Stop, S Elm Street Lipseemr Block. New phone 269, residential phone not listed.
For sale two houses on North Locust Street one five room and one six room. Contact F R Graham at new phone 301. Also nine acres with improvements a half mile north of town and several lots and business properties for sale. Call 18 or see L Fulton.
Classified notice states room and board for six girls available at 128 West Highland with rent 139 cents? per week or month. Details unclear in OCR text.
A cluttered notice column seeks housing and work. Listings include a cattle crop sharing request by W M Reeve in Wranglin Tex, a young man sought for store work at Zox Whitson’s Normal Store, Mrs Dalee offering dressmaking with new phone, three unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping, and cheap good wear to move from Hancock & Son.
Yuva Dray advertises business first class household moving at reasonable rates. The notice lists Lester and Miles, operators at Lester and Stheerod, with a new phone contact.
Dr. Mi L. Martin and A B M Wreats offer eye ear nose throat care with fitting of glasses. Office located over Raley Co. building.
Dentists Saunders Gerige and Jones and Bralin operate from South Side Square West Lake Square and mid block locations. W N Rowell D D S and McUray’s adjacent are noted.
A faded note advertises the Freight Transfer Office at West Oak Street offering drayage for furniture moves. It promises careful handling of any items in the dray line and invites calls for service.
Help wanted for scavenger tasks. Call or respond to No 307 with required details.
For storage of household goods at reasonable rates see VJohrerB Schmitz. Furniture and Gas Stoves.
J M Gourley promotes cement contracting with reliable, fair pricing and prompt estimates for quality work.
A fragment from a local notice lists Mrs McCann a New Poxiend Conservatory graduate offering piano and voice lessons at 29 S Elna Street and invites inquiries at Will L Okbane's wagon yard. It also advertises two Jersey bulls for sale at season price of 1.50 dollars and a house and lot for sale on Lula Street with a new phone line.
Contractor A. J. Noblett announces money saved by buying all building materials wholesale direct from Louisiana mills. He guarantees all grades and urges readers to figure with him for savings. Sop. 35p
Padisha of St. Lambert son of Wilna A a merit cow with a confirmed butter test of seventeen pounds seven ounces in seven days will be at Pinckley's wagon yard West Oak Street after October 4. Season 5 cash with return privilege. See pedigree and merit certificate of dam in wagon yard office.
Jake Johnson completed wood sawing work quickly using a saw. The job involved the Old 230 and New 157 locations with speed noted.
Herald reports Cotton receipts to Friday total 550 bales with lint price 13.65 cents. Also notes birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs W L Hall. Obituary for Walter Thornton Richie dated Sept 6 lists wife two children and parents Mr and Mrs W P Richie and two brothers Lew and Joe.
A R McGintie advertises furnished rooms for rent in Denton Texas offering housing across north south east and west areas. The office is listed over Wilson Hanns with old phone 361 for contact.
Announcement from F Jarrell and Mattie Brown urges all members of the Eastern Star to attend the meeting Tuesday night. The notice mentions a bargain for The Daily at 40 cents a month.
An ad touts Pape s Diapepsin as a fast, harmless remedy for indigestion and stomach distress. It claims relief within five minutes from heartburn sourness belching and other symptoms and urges readers to keep a fifty cent case at home for quick relief day or night.
Lint cotton climbed to 13.75 cents and traded between 13 1 2 and 13 3 8 cents as rains continued to affect yields. Wheat remains steady around 98 cents with some talk of a possible rise soon.
The document lists wholesale and retail unit prices for grains and feedstuffs including oats corn wheat flour meal and bran with per bushel or per 100 pounds figures. It also details prices for eggs butter poultry vegetables and fruits such as okra peppers grapes rhubarb olives and lemons with variations by wholesale delivered and retail terms.
Swellings from inflammation cold fractures toothache neuralgia or rheumatism may ease with Ballarius Snow Liniment. Rub in over the affected part to ease pain reduce swelling and restore normal conditions. Prices 25e 5Qe and £1 per bottle sold by RB H. Garrison Cady.
Mrs. W. H. Amyx died near Sanger Tuesday leaving a husband and nine children. Burial held at Bolivar. Master John Reeves Towne, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Towne, won the prettiest baby prize at the Sanger trades day against thirteen contestants. Red Grafton rode a wild horse at the Gainesville fair.
A vintage advertisement claims Electric Bitters relieve weak kidneys and indigestion, with testimonials from Mrs Dowling of San Francisco and Mr Dowling praising the tonic. It touts liver benefits and urges readers to buy at J. P. Raley & Co for 3 cents or a dollar.
Five inches of rain fell in Roanoke last week. Deputy Sheriff W L Cornwell arrested a young man for train riding and took him to Denton. The Enterprise notes numerous visits and travels among residents including the Choate family, the Freemans in Wichita Falls, John Stewart of Argyle, E D LeMay, W P Davis, J M Medlin, and Mrs J M Medlin returning from Colorado Springs.
L. D. Smith proclaims a fruit business at 30 and 32 West Oak Street selling bananas apples oranges lemons and Tokay grapes. Orders delivered starting at 25 cents with a telephone contact 470.
Local gins have ginned 941 bales of cotton so far this year due to early opening. Receipts at Brownlow yard total 528 bales with 360 shipped via Katy and 59 via Texas and Pacific. overall local receipts likely exceed 1,000 by now.
Houston September 22 A wireless message reports the steamer Herman Paepeke sinking near Tampico with oil cargo. All crew were saved.
A testimonial claims Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment provides relief and cure for infant skin eruptions. The ad asserts doctors failed before the product cured a Dubuque Iowa baby and urges purchase from druggists or by mail via J F Raley & Co.
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