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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1912
Page
3
A dense collage of 1930s Denton classifieds lists found items including a ribbon, an auto tools set, a key ring with four keys, and a large batch of wanted help and room rentals. It also shows autos for sale or trade, furnished rooms, a family of cotton pickers seeking housing, and various service ads from local businesses and residents.
Rainy Saturday night updates include Joe Street and son Bert traveling to Austin for the deaf and dumb institute. Local residents visit kin in Dallas and nearby towns while merchants call for continued prosperity through local hiring and buy local. F. E Chenoweth features a giant peanut vine at the Dallas fair exhibit with large nuts.
Specials advertise baling wire and cotton sacks in two sizes at 85 cents and 1.00 each. The notice invites customers to browse the hardware and implement line for especially good prices and urges prompt purchase.
A rapid cold front lowered temperatures from over 100 Tuesday to just above 50 by noon Wednesday. The forecast calls for cooler air and frost in parts of Oklahoma, with Wichita Falls noting 48 degrees this morning and no frost in Woodward last night.
Mrs Ewing returns to Dallas after visiting J C Brannon. Mrs Ned Cobb and daughter back from Mart. Florence Davis and Ola Stover go to Denton for the Normal. George Huffhines visits daughter Mrs O H Harbin in Richardson. Emory Hill and family from Dallas guest of Ben Savage. Mrs C G Thomas in Greenburg Ky visiting relatives. John Milliken goes to Georgetown for Southwestern University. Mrs J A Fenlow shop in Dallas. Leonard Banks from Denton. Hanks, Willie Farrington and Helen Spencer go to Waco to attend Baylor University. C M Jacobsen visiting relatives in Denton. Virginia Eversole of Dallas visiting sister Mrs J K Fox. Mr and Mrs G C Wood of Dallas visit here. Mr and Mrs E Chambers and daughter and Clarence Breeding visit Denton. Mr and Mrs Guy Allen return to Dallas after visiting Mrs Allen. Marie Cobb returns from Van Alstyne. Allee Dyer and Emma Vaughn of Fort Worth visit Edna Cowan. Tom McKinney and children return from Little Elm. Reba Kennedy goes to Denton for CIA. Mr and Mrs J M Fox are here Garza. Mabel Jenis visits Kate Bass in Denton. Minnie Wolfe returns to Frisco after visiting Gertrude Cobb. Regular dinners every day at Smither's Restaurant. Long & King advertise fresh and canned goods selection.
Classified snippets include a notice of strayed or stolen sorrel bald faced mules and horses from Emory Wilkins Stony area. Also small ads for restaurant services Turner Bros and J F Raley Co remedies plus a call about local attention to a vote and phone numbers.
The Sam Houston school mothers formed a club with Mrs J S Craward as chair man and Mrs L D Borden as vice chair man to organize playground equipment. A committee will research prices while teachers and Mr Edwards outline school operation. Funds will be raised and a party with ice cream cones is planned for next Saturday.
We are installing a Telegraphy Department and offer practical work including general duties of a station agent such as handling train orders freight and express bills making office reports and related tasks. Both phones. E. Swor Manager Draughon’s Business College.
Corinth report lists Mr Evans from Fannin County and L R Trotter in Waginemton. Visitors include Misses Ruby Fowler Ada Hammonds in Garza and Oma Anderson in Denton. Henry Melvin Garrison and Ward House from Little Elm, Carl Fagan from Rockwall, Rupert Whittemore in Garza, plus Mrs Scott of Denison and Olin Hennon and wife in Denton. Maple syrup and sugar shipments from Burlington Vermont offered by T C Bample with delivery option.
Several children here have sore eyes. Miss Lucile Dobbins has tonsillitis. Arington Stuart attended the W. W. unveiling at Denton. A rain shower occurred Tuesday. Ina Mullins of Tennessee visited her aunt Mrs. J. A. Stuart. Alton Sunday school changed meeting from morning to evening.
An old advertisement touts Wilson's Freckle Cream claiming it removes freckles pimples and tan without hair growth. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and lists jar sizes up to 1.00 with a fair skin soap option and sale by M. Curtis.
In town Curtis' offers Kodak photo supplies with three studios Shaw's Dene's and Cole's stocking amateur materials including films printing paper plates chemicals and sundries. They carry Konaks and Brownie cameras and invite customers to visit and learn how to make excellent pictures with these machines. Catalogue free.
The Record and Chronicle publish a list of dollar subscriptions for the Wilson Marshal campaign fund received to date and forwarded to the National Committee. The page includes numerous names with amounts mostly one dollar, plus small notes on groceries and delivery services.
Railway timetable excerpt lists southbound departures at 6:00 a.m limited 209 7:55 a.m 205 five er 7:06 p.m 201 express 23:35 p.m and northbound flights 9:45 a.m 210 limited 8:58 p.m 206 Flyer 4:42 p.m 202 K C Special plus Dallas Wichita Talins and No 713 8:00 a.m No 724 10200 p.m No 282 from Dallas 4:30 p.m.
A Denton resident Mrs. Martha Arnold confirms a prior public statement praising Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney pain and backache relief in 1908. The ad notes the product price 56 cents and Foster Milburn Co as U.S. sole agents, urging readers to remember the name Dean's. The Denton Sanger item then shifts to local church and social news including Baptist association events, marriages, and various visits.
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