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Newspaper
Ada Weekly Democrat
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1907
Page
4
The Kiowa-Comanche pasture lands were sold at about 12 dollars per acre totaling 6 million dollars. The Ada post office records show the newspaper under Grigsby and Snorrell as publishers with Byron Norrell as captain and Jack Mills, editors.
The A. H. T. A. has spent the past year fighting thieves and, with rapid membership growth, threatens to push criminals from petty theft to larger schemes, forcing them to seek new fields.
The note highlights how long conventions have lasted in Missouri Texas Illinois Mississippi and Virginia noting Missouri 91 days Texas 90 days Illinois 90 days Mississippi 90 days and Virginia over a year.
A commodious modern op era house, if erected, could act as a potent advertising vehicle for our town abroad. If built, it would offer our playgoing public higher class dramatic entertainments and, if well managed, yield handsome profits on the investment.
The speaker urges Ada’s citizens to unite and back legitimate business and enterprise to fulfill promises of a prosperous future, highlighting the city’s natural advantages and the need for collective effort to realize them.
A country newspaper criticized for devoting editorial space to national political rehashes from big dailies instead of promoting local improvement and social moral commercial progress in its own town and locality.
Governor McCurtain in his message to the Choctaw legislature urges selling coal land to the new state and denounces a proposed extra tract forest reserve as an unwarranted interior department overreach. He calls for asset division and removal of a punitive restriction on every self-respecting Indian.
A squib from a public opinion factory warns citizens to stop attacks on railroads and predicts disaster if ignored. It argues that railroads' resistance to regulation led to calls for government involvement and that initial public support was eroded by harsh methods.
The passage compares Republican efforts to discredit the constitution and block statehood to a boy chasing a woodpecker from tree to tree. A passerby questions the chase while the boy insists he can worry the bird, illustrating persistent but fruitless pressure.
The passage urges Ada to improve roads by forming cooperation between business people and families. With no adequate road fund, the proposed plan seeks mutual benefit through joint effort to upgrade public thoroughfares and ease travel for residents and former associates.
The Roff Eagle accuses three papers of swiping editorials from the Ada Democrat and four others of clipping Ada pieces and crediting them elsewhere. It condemns lack of credit while noting the copied articles still make the papers more interesting.
The ICC bans editors from trading newspaper advertising with railroads for transportation. Expositions relied on broad paper advertising, so reduced promotional support will shrink visitor turnout and rail traffic. Editors face fewer free trips and may stay home during travel seasons.
Two hundred Oklahomans will win all expenses paid trips to the Jamestown Exposition. The Oklahoma Jamestown Exposition Company offers a free six day excursion with round trip Norfolk Virginia travel, sleeper berth meals, Expo admission and hotel costs. Applications to the Secretary of the Company in Oklahoma City must cite industry and integrity, including references from a local bank.
The Socialists of Pontotoc county meet in Ada on March 16 to nominate county officers for the coming election. Wm. McDaniel serves as Chairman of the committee.
In Jacksonville, Dr. Westmorland invites Capt. Mills to explore the Everglades of South Florida. They voyage from Kissimmee to Lake Okeechobee and endure a nocturnal alligator encounter, chasing a 12 foot predator by torch and gun. A misadventure on a mossy log ends with the gator dead by dawn and a resolved stance against torch hunts.
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