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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
3
Market report notes unsettled yet generally higher futures for domestic shipments with spots steady to higher on heavy port receipts. Liverpool and New York prices show modest gains and several days of varying quotes, while New Orleans and Galveston activity remains light with mixed catalogued sales and receipts compared to last year.
In Denton the seed cotton price dipped while lint rose to about 13.43 a ton, with farmers traveling long distances to sell amid uneven returns. Wheat and corn values are noted, and the State Fair of Texas in Dallas plans four night horse shows with $4,200 in prize money across roadsters, heavy harness, and saddle horses.
Denton report notes frost safe corn causing declines in Chicago futures and boosts in other grain prices. Cash readings show St. Louis Wheat 1.00 to 1.64, Kansas City Wheat 97 to 99c, Dallas Wheat 1.05 to 1.07, with corn and oats varying across markets. Denton prices list Wheat 1.03, corn 55 to 58c, oats 36 to 37.5c.
Fort Worth stock market notes report today’s receipts: cattle 2200 hogs 1800. Steers steady tops 5 dollars cow tops 3.60 calves tops 5.80 hogs higher tops 9.20 dollars.
Prices listed include COTTON at 13 to 13.30, seed 5 to 5.10, COTTON SEED per ton 22 to 26 dollars, WHEAT 1.02 per bushel, CORN shelled 67 cents, car 55 to 57 cents. Also figures for COTTON SEED MEAL 30 dollars per ton, COTTON SEED HULLS 10 to 10.50 per car, CORN CHOPS wholesale 1.45, BRAN 1.20, CHICKEN FEED 1.40 to 1.45, Baled Shucks 8, PRAIRIE HAY 14 wholesale, JOHNSON GRASS HAY 10 to 10.50 wholesale, Baled Oats 7.50 to 8, Baled Straw 5 to 6, OATS wholesale 36 to 37 4 cents, retail 40 to 45 cents.
The notice lists wholesale and retail prices for groceries including hard wheat flour 2.80 to 2.90 per 100 lb, graham flour 3.50 per 100 lb, corn meal 65c wholesale and 70 to 75c retail for 35 lb sacks, with half sacks at 33c wholesale and 40c retail.
Butter per ib. 20 to 30 cents cash or trade delivered to private homes hotels and boarding houses creamery 30 cents. Eggs wholesale 15 to 17½ cents cash or trade retail per dozen 20 to 20½ cents scarce. Sweet potatoes per bushel wholesale 1.50 retail per pk 40 cents. Colorado potatoes wholesale 1.20 retail 1.25 retail per peck 35 cents.
The notice lists poultry prices including hens per pound 8c, fryers 13c, old roosters 10 to lic, guinea fowl per dozen 1.50, okmucks per dozen 2, turkeys 10c per pound.
Listing shows prices per pound for cattle and cows from a livestock market. Light weights fetch seven cents per pound while heavy cattle range from seven to eight cents. Cows bring about two and three quarters to three and a half cents per pound.
The Dallas Texas State Fair plans a major display of national naval exhibits and Texas geology resources. Lieutenant Adolphus Andrews will oversee the naval section with models of ships guns and submarine mechanisms. A fishery exhibit and a large geology collection from the University of Texas will join displays. Good Roads Park will showcase road materials and machinery under Professor Robert J. Potts.
The State Fair of Texas marks its twenty fifth annual meeting opening in Dallas on October 15 and running sixteen days. Three Sundays will feature Sacred Concerts with programs arranged by Bandmaster T. H. S. Fu to be performed morning, afternoon, and evening.
A Kirkland Iowa testimonial touts Electric Bitters as a matchless tonic that prevented a breakdown during three months of severe strain. The writer Mrs. J. E. Van de Sande credits the medicine with maintaining health and strength and recommends it with guaranteed satisfaction.
The article recounts the scold s bridle or muzzie used in Britain from the 16th to 18th centuries to punish women for speaking out or defending rights. It describes a iron crown with a gag and knife, forcing silence, with women paraded to face insults and public degradation. London Family Herald.
The article notes colors of stars relate to evolutionary stages. Red stars differ in constitution from white or yellow, and color changes may reflect stellar evolution. Sirius is said to have shifted from red to white, while Arcturus may be fading from red toward yellow.
A passage notes the Eskimo may eat up to twenty pounds of meat and fat daily if needed. It cites Admiral Saritchbeff claiming a Yakut could consume in a day the hind quarter of a large ox, twenty pounds of fat and melted butter as a drink.
Advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease needing constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio, is described as the only cure that works through the blood and mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for failure to cure. circulars and testimonials available.
J. T. sattais a 24 year old switchman on the Santa Fe railroad was instantly killed in the yards here when struck by a south bound passenger train. He leaves relatives in Dallas.
J M Smith was shot at his Kennedy home by J E Hill who mistook him for a burglar. The bullet pierced the lung as Smith, who was painting the roof to beat heat, faced three rifle shots. The event occurred early this morning in San Antonio.
John Wright 38 a farmer was killed when his wagon was struck by a Texas and Pacific freight train a few miles west of Big Springs Texas. He was hurled twenty feet into a ditch after failing to see the oncoming train.
A 50 cent box of MI O NA stomach tablets is advertised at O M Curtis and druggists, claiming instant relief and stomach restoration within days. Testimonials praise relief from belching sourness heartburn heaviness and dizziness with a money back guarantee, and the ad urges readers to shop with Long and King.
Tickets go on sale at Minnis Drug Store for an entertainment event at the R. E. Lee Auditorium this Saturday night.
A brief classified item from Lone Star Restaurant advertises eggs at 20 cents per dozen. The notice highlights affordable pricing for diners and local shoppers seeking value.
The trial of W Rovinson for the 1906 double murder of E. 8 and Andy Adams in San Jacinto county opens in Tyler with about three hundred witnesses and sixteen lawyers slated to participate.
The W C T of Texas considers an offer from J Cogshall of St Louis to donate a site on the interurban line between Dallas and Fort Worth for a permanent headquarters building. Cogshall also agrees to give $5000 cash.
The ad urges use of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil for September digestive issues. It claims sure cure when diluted with water and sweetened, noting no physician can prescribe a better remedy and that it is sold by all druggists.
A two market classified rate promises 4 cents a word for a week in the Daily and a week in the Weekly. The plan aims to reach about 15,000 people across the ward at minimal expense.
A short notice advertises a linguistic feature offering ten words weekly in Dally and a weekly companion, priced at 40 cents.
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