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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
3
A jumble of classifieds lists autos, house sales and trades, local services, dentists, cement work, replating, insurance, hauling, and feed. Items include a 125 acre land offer near town with trade for a house, an eight room house for sale, and various contractor and service ads from Dr. Lipscomb to J. W. Johnson.
Table board at Mrs McNitzky s 25 South Elm dressmaking Cala 305 White new for playa and fancy sewing 42 East Vickery street Real estate I will offer a bargain in my 7 room house and four lots on Stroud street three blocks southwest of court house for next 30 days Come and see 42 Stroud St For sale serviceable pottery and china boars pedigrees furnished 12 50 and 15 Be C Yeatts Sanger Oct is quick messenger service call both phones 1 W A Brashears Manager Hamilton Yeatts office
DRAYMEN advertise first class prompt service at reasonable rates. Two large moving vans available for household moving. Office phones 342, residence 1613-3r old or 381 new. Parkes and Lester.
An old classified snippet lists Dr W E Botts a veterinary surgeon at Denton Transfer Co Lipscomb block with old and new phone numbers. Also shown is Mrs Maurice Smith teaching piano at 46 Denton Street and W W Billingsley offering autos for hire with old and new phones.
Robert Scott Jr lists bantam chickens for sale and provides a new phone number. Mette Teae A R McGintie offers furnished rooms for rent from an office over Long & Kinz with old phone and rents houses in East West South and Denton.
Curtis street shop advertises tennis gear including rackets from 1.50 to 2.50, plus tennis balls priced at 40 cents a pair. Brand names Wright and Ditson are mentioned as options.
The first bale of cotton in weeks sold for 12 cents, 35 points above New York and 50 above New Orleans. Seed cotton prices reached 4.26 per 100 pounds. Local buyers estimate over 1,000 bales marketed here by Thursday night, with forecasts of 1,500 to 2,000 more if frost remains mild, as Denton draws cotton from across the county.
Cato Sells announced he sent three thousand dollars to the National Democratic campaign fund yesterday and expects to remit more soon.
Vital statistics list several births: Faught and wife in Sanger welcomed a boy on Sept 23. Henry Murphy and wife in Sanger a boy on Sept 8. Woodford Marion and wife in Sanger a boy on Sept ?. Harvey Burchard and wife in Sanger a girl on Sept 4. Geo Jeter and wife in Argyle a boy on Sept 16. Tobe Jones and wife in Argyle a boy on Sept 4.
Dr. King's New Discovery is advertised as a quick relief for throat and lung troubles including coughs colds grip croup whooping cough and sore lungs. The ad promotes 50c and 1 bottle options with a guarantee by J F Raley & Co and mentions restaurant ad copy and local classifieds.
Sale notice offers several houses and rate to be sold at 50 to 75 cents on the dollar. Phone Fulton 173 for details and inquiries.
Dallas railroad officials discuss a cross country Canada to Gulf railroad using the Katy and Minneapolis lines to connect St Louis and the Gulf. The plan ties Edwin Hawley’s late schemes to current syndicate efforts with Panama Canal implications. engineers see feasible routes with minimal new construction for a Canada to Gulf spine.
Miss Lucy Ault plans a violin class at the C I A in Denton with sessions each Thursday. She has studied in Cologne Dresden and American conservatories and recently returned from Europe where she studied under European masters. For details contact Reynolds and Hodges Pure sweet milk and cream delivered twice daily new phone 426.
Telegraphy department opens offering practical work and training in handling train orders freight and express bills making office reports and general station duties. Also notes two phones and manager G E Swor. Plus an advertisement for fresh pickles from Turner Bros.
Wm. Ford Jr. an 11 year old son of a German farmer northwest of the city, lost part of his right middle finger Thursday while assisting his brother to build a fence. The injury occurred when the finger was mashed under a crowbar, hanging by the skin.
Curtis invites inspection of a carefully selected jewelry stock from leading manufacturers and distributors. The shop features cut glass items, gem boxes, fern dishes, vases, bowls, trays, and jugs, plus a growing sterling silver selection and optional oak or mahogany chests with free engraving. Styles include Fleury Plymouth Jefferson and Chantilly with prices lower than usual.
New York totals show $298750 raised for the Democratic National campaign fund with $206000 already spent. Financial Chairman Morgenthau urged immediate addition of at least $750000, listing New York and Pennsylvania as top contributors among others.
Wm. J. Bryan spoke in Reno on behalf of the Democratic nominees forecasting a clean sweep in the November election, asserting that Wilson and Marshall will carry every statue.
The progressives on September 26 nominated Herbert Knox Smith for Connecticut governor and Winston Churchill for New Hampshire governor. The move links Smith to the Connecticut race and Churchill to the New Hampshire contest in an effort to boost progressive influence across the states.
President Taft and Governor Wilson, rival presidential nominees, met in Boston at 11 30 p m and exchanged a cordial five minute greeting. Neither spoke about politics during the brief encounter.
An advertisement claims Pape's Diapepsin instantly relieves indigestion gas sourness and heartburn in five minutes. It highlights fast safe regulation of the stomach and offers a fifty cent case with a money back guarantee if satisfaction is not met, urging home use day or night.
An order of dismissal was entered in Judge Barry Miller's Dallas court in State v J S Kendall Jr formerly of Denton charged with unlawfully renting property for gaming. Grand jurors cited insufficent evidence to convict and requested the dismissal.
Property deeds show Mrs E A Bushong to E J Roberts a Denton lot in John R Henry survey for 1500 dollars. Thos J Ratliff and wife to Eugene Porter 285.91 acres in Sarah Winfrey survey for 18226.75 dollars. Eugene Porter and wife to J H Pitts 285.91 acres in Sarah Winfrey survey for 19077.88 dollars. Otis L Fowler to Clarence R Fowler 20 acres in Gideon Walker survey for 500 dollars. Gran Christal and wife to G H Blewett lots 1 and 2 in block 4 North Side addition to Denton for 5000 dollars. J F Chinn and wife to E H Egan 5 acres in B B B C Ry survey for 400 dollars. W J Collier and wife to C R Killingsworth let in Little Elm 511 dollars. Also a testimonial about Doan's kidney tablets noting dealer price and distributor Foster Milburn Co.
A Denton citizen, J.R. Stone of 35 W Sycamore St, testifies that kidney weakness and back pain disappeared after using Deans Kidney Pills. He says the pills resolved his suffering and improved his health.
The Sheriff of Denton County will sell for cash on the first Tuesday in October 1912 at the Denton court house door the last half of Plat No 9 in the Hairy White survey near Elm Fork Trinity River Levered to satisfy an execution in the case C A Fowler v C Shields et al No 12294. The property belongs to L D Moss and consists of about 100 acres more or less.
Judgment for costs awarded totaling 32.45 in favor of officers of the court and costs of suit. Issued by W. C. Orr sheriff of Denton County Texas on September 6 1913. The document bears the sheriff’s signature and a docket reference.
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