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Newspaper
Ada Weekly Democrat
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
7
In Muskogee Oklahoma Standard Oil boosts drilling and offers bonuses to producers to move stored oil. The company holds about 45 million barrels in the Mid-Continent field and plans to transfer oil to Louisiana to avoid Oklahoma taxes.
Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture and A and M College may collaborate with the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce to enlist railroads in promoting dairy, grain, and livestock exhibits. J P Connors supports dairy demonstration trains after the state fair, with Santa Fe Frisco Rock Island and Katy railroads offering or ready to provide free trains to move exhibits to communities.
William Buchanan, 35, of Sulphur Oklahoma, collapsed dead in a chair outside the Nigely hotel in Oklahoma City from an epileptic attack. He had a brain injury last year from an accident at Sulphur and has since endured recurring seizures.
Eight Danish dancers touring New York theaters spend a vacation on Dr. Charles Dailey’s Grand River ranch near Rex Oklahoma. They are the Mecca of a seasonal dance spectacle in the area and attract local interest.
President Kene fick of the Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf railway will sail for Paris in a few days to confer with a French syndicate negotiating a new bond issue. Funds will back a northern extension and entry into Kansas City.
In Tulsa 2500 head of the finest beef steers from the Osage country were sold to the Wells Packing plant of Sapulpa for 125000 dollars. U S Thompson of Beggs arranged the deal with Scout Younger of Tulsa directing the assembly. The cattle will be slaughtered at Sapulpa.
In Owensboro Kentucky floods after a heavy Thursday rain caused extensive damage to property and crops totaling about 1 million dollars. Massive damage affected the Illinois Central and Louisville Henderson and St Louis railway properties as well.
Guthrie Okla Secretary Frank Field of the state board of agriculture ex officio state engineer received an application from the Bell and White Land Engineering and Development Co for permission to take water from the Cimarron river in Cimarron county to irrigate 100000 acres of land.
Edward Newton was brought to Tahlequah Oklahoma and jailed for killing Paul Johnson his cousin at Park Hill Oklahoma. The feud stems from a quarrel between the Johnson and Newton women which the husbands then pursued.
W R Morrow former Jackson County register of deeds is jailed in Comanche County awaiting charges of obtaining money under false pretenses by writing worthless checks on the First National Bank of Altus.
In Edmond Oklahoma thieves broke into the Hiatt Drug Store and stole about 2300 dollars worth of goods including watches jewelry and 42 fountain pens valued at five dollars each.
A Wednesday evening blaze nearly destroyed the Daily Constitution Democrat newspaper plant in Lawton Oklahoma. The fire swept the building’s second story where the press and offices were housed, causing extensive damage to the wooden structure.
Whit Moody, a farmer living northwest of Durant, fell into the separator of a threshing machine while working. He was found unconscious and died shortly after his body was removed. no one was nearby to witness the fall and the cause remains unknown. The engineer saw him plunge head first into the separator.
Frisco lines implement a new coal tariff with a joint rate from Frisco points to other lines, cutting the old five month local rate structure. The change ends chaotic coal pricing and expands buyer access to coal from various origin points.
Oklahoma City youth Holloman, 21, who escaped from guards near Granite during a prisoner transfer to aid construction of the reform school, was captured by Deputy Leslie Skaggs after a nine mile cross county chase. Skaggs earns a $50 reward.
Elmer Hurd aged 10, son of I. H. Hurd a local cafe cook, fell from a tree limb into Cache Creek during a Sunday School outing. Unable to swim, he sank and died before rescuers could reach him.
A wealthy German philanthropist's representative is in Muskogee to purchase 4000 acres along an interurban line for a German colony. The plan calls for dividing the land into ten acre tracts with a family placed on each tract to establish a settlement.
A Friday morning blaze destroyed Enid city hotel and Johnson Flour & Feed Co. Dr Lamerton of Wichita suffered serious burns. Roger Rhodes of Kansas City is missing. Total losses around 25000 dollars.
Frederick Oklahoma during a wind storm T. O. Clay an employee of the cotton oil and manufacturing mill was struck and instantly killed by a falling telephone pole.
In Durant at Brown's chapel W F Moody a farmer was pulled into a threshing machine while trying to remove a stick. His left leg was ground to pulp and he died from loss of blood.
Wilbur Van Sant and Edgar Hale Jr were badly injured when a runaway incident threw them against a wire fence in Tuttle Oklahoma.
A mother seizes a teaching moment when her child asks about a naughty phrase. The toddler confesses understanding of hornswoggled meaning hornswoggled sounds like gol darned and the mother corrects with a quiet moral about careful language.
A Brooklyn reader recounts that Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent cured her niece of severe eczema after five years of nightly scratching. She notes great improvement after using the products and shares a photo from age 18 months. The letter is dated September 27 1909 and signed Mrs H Kiernan.
A London correspondent recounts King Edward visiting Rufford Abbey with Lord Arthur Savile. They witness a poacher with a dead pheasant. Savile arrests him but the king laughs and releases him saying a bad egg would not poach.
A night clerk at a hotel awoke to a man in evening dress claiming to be Ferguson seeking room 44. Moments later a second man entered in shirt sleeves with a torn appearance claiming to be Fershon requesting another key as Ferguson reportedly fell from a window and left the key behind.
The wig, worn by English barristers to convey stern judicial authority, originated in the seventeenth century with a French judge who wore a marquis wig in court. Impressed by its dignified effect, he adopted it permanently, a custom that spread to judges and barristers across Europe.
A cryptic classroom exchange features Teacher asking if Willie whispered without permission and Willie acknowledging. Johnnie corrects Willie by insisting the proper response is twist. The dialogue highlights child speech patterns and the playful correction from a classmate.
A Life magazine quip contrasts a husband’s boast that he never denies his wife a wish with the reply that he merely lets her wish, noting it costs nothing. The exchange underscores the light humor of marital give and take.
Mrs John S Way of Independence Kansas credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing years of disordered kidneys back pain swollen feet and ankles blurred vision and nervous distress after other remedies failed She notes her advanced age and urges others to remember the Doan's name available from all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Fritz the gardener, a stolid German, slept on the crowded train and awoke to the Bloomfield stop. He stepped straight from the car into the sand beside the track and calmly noted that there should be some steps.
An advertisement urges readers to drink Coca-Cola to beat fatigue and thirst, claiming purity and refreshment. It promotes soda fountain and bottled Coca-Cola at 5 cents, and offers a 2 cent stamp for a booklet The Truth About Coca-Cola plus a 1910 Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book featuring Casey At The Bat and baseball schedules.
A seven year old girl asks God to make seven times six equal forty eight after misreading a problem in school. Her mother questions the odd choice noting the error in the girl's handwriting.
Minneapolis readers are urged to send letters praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Minneapolis woman claims her ills and weakness vanished after use, and she urges public sharing to show the product's benefits. The ad notes thousands of testimonials and offers confidential medical advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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