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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1912
Page
3
Classifieds list multiple brief notices: lost items including a tool set and key ring, job offers for a cook and a nurse, tutoring and delivery appeals, rental and sale listings for houses, livestock, milk cows, a roll top desk, a barn of farm goods, and assorted trades. Names include Denton, Marlow, and Mineral Wells with several addresses and phone notes.
Board and dressmaking ad from Mrs McNitzky at 25 South Elm. Seeks seamstress to sew by day at home. Phone 424-red. Also offers a bargain on a seven room house with four lots on Broad Street three blocks southwest of the courthouse for 30 days. Inspect at 42 Broad St.
For sale serviceable poland china boars pedigrees furnished at 12 50 and 15 dollars. B U Yeatts Sanger 414 Octive. For quick messenger IHL see W A Irashears manager Hamilton Yeatts office. Your dray business get first class promo reasonable rates two big moving vans household moving. Parks Lester two phones 342 etc old or 381.
Fragmentary OCR notes show LR W. E. Botts listed as a veterinarian in the Veterinary Surgeon Office with Denton Transfer Co Lampscom block. Old phone number 359 and new 132 appear among device phones.
Miss Irene Ferguslon will open her music studio on the second floor of the Wright Opera House building on September 16. Contact at phone 300 new 30c. Autos for hire listed by W. W. Billingsley with old phone 330 and new number 148.
Dr W A Jones dentist located on side square Denton offers office over Long King rents houses in East West South North area furnished rooms for rent and scavenger work call 207 or visit the office for services.
An old advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick cure for sour stomach and indigestion. It claims relief within five minutes, notes harmless candy-like taste, and suggests the remedy cleanses the stomach and intestines, reducing the need for laxatives or liver pills.
Local listing advertises numerous houses and NFTs available at 50 to 75 percent of value. Contact Ful ton at 1F2 for details and inquiries.
Specials on baling wire and cotton sacks with seven and nine foot sizes. Sacks priced at 85e and 80e with a dollar price on items in the hardware or implement line. Claim strong value with currently good prices across the assortment.
Taylor hardware company assists readiness as students from the College of Industrial Arts arrive by train for opening day. Faculty arrivals and a waiting list for dormitory rooms fill the campus with temporary boarding plans and extended housing.
The notice from W. D. Butler states enrollment at the Normal School slightly surpasses last year's level. He notes a large rise in boarding houses allowing space for about 1,000 students, though some applicants may face disappointment in securing board. It answers inquiries about boarder availability.
Denton reports today prices from Liverpool New York and New Orleans for open and close quotes. Liverpool middling is 6.6d with 7000 sales New York middling 11.85 with 55 sales and New Orleans middling 11 7-16c with 400 sales.
Local quotations show lint cotton Monday trading at 11.25 to 11.40 cents per pound and seed cotton at 5.25 to 5.35 cents. Cotton seed is quoted at 16 dollars per ton.
An essay on how an Indian eats prickly pear describing the plant’s thorny texture and the careful method used to peel and eat the fruit. It notes the fruit’s sharp thorns, the risk of infection, and compares cactus fruit to olives and other common fruits, concluding readers may prefer indigenous practices.
F E Chenoweth brings a massive peanut vine to the Chamber of Commerce for the Dallas fair exhibit. The vine is unusually loaded with nuts and stands out for its size and potential prize appeal.
Denton High prepares for the 1912 football season with daily practice at Hiland park as changes in rules take effect. The team, split into two full squads with extra players, trains to adapt to four downs for ten yards and higher touchdown value while fans anticipate the Sept. 25 opener against Gainesville High and a more open, faster game.
Local reader J H Tennis of McKinney Street Denton Texas recounts a two year kidney trouble with painful passages and says three boxes of Doans Kidney Pills cured him with no relapse. He notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents and advises others to remember the name. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
We are installing a Telegraphy Department and train students in practical duties of a station agent such as handling orders, freight and express bills, office reports, path phones. G. E. Swor, Manager.
The firm Long and King promotes daily updates of their fresh and canned goods list for customers to read and select orders from.
An advertisement urges regular dinners at Smith's Restaurant and offers free information on home asthma treatment from Frontier Communications in Buffalo New York. It promises no charge for the information and invites readers to eat with them.
All cisesmakers who wish to sew for I A students should arrange to meet Miss Virginia Babb on Tuesday afternoon September 24 at 4 o'clock in room 10 of the main building.
A brief classified style notice urges readers to phone for urgent farm needs. It credits Tudts our specialty Long and King and positions rapid service or sale as the main draw.
Reynolds and Hodges offer pure milk and cream delivered twice daily. New phone 426 for orders and inquiries.
Curtis's sells photo supplies and developing is done at Shaw's Desne's or Cole's with a large stock of amateur show supplies films all sizes printing paper plates chemicals sundries. Kodaks and Brownie cameras available with demonstrations and a free catalogue.
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