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Newspaper
Ada Weekly Democrat
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
7
W C Chandler filed an affidavit May 5 1910 noting a two year old red and white spotted heifer branded AD on the right hip with crop and underbit in the right ear and under half crop in the left ear. The taker up resides in the SW quarter of Section 26 Township Five North Range Six East Francis Oklahoma. Taken up April 1910.
A letter to Pontotog County voters denounces House Bill 125 as a voter access mischaracterization and contrasts it with Senate Bill 126. It argues the latter creates machinery to bar Black voters and urges alignment with white supremacist rule, naming figures Dr. Jeffress and Wes Hatox and noting an oil well contract near Fitzhugh.
Wallace Durgin yet again faced a bear near The Forks Maine but Ernest Gubtil of New Vineyard battled a 460 pound black bear to protect his moose kill. Gubtil, wounded and bloodied, fired at close range and killed the bear as it lunged at him. A trapper carried him to medical aid.
D A Herring arrived in Ada from Ardmore nearly two years ago and began mining asphalt west of town. He has since earned $27,000 from sales and shipped 15,000 tons last year. The venture is gaining recognition as an important local industry and warrants more workers.
Adlai Stevenson recalls Henry Clay as the era’s most idolized statesman. A Kentucky incident shows the depth of support when a mountain legislator cries Great God and the resolution to tell Clay how to vote is rejected.
In York Pennsylvania, Mrs. Rachel Myers of Hobart died at home aged 80. She bore 24 children with 18 now deceased and 19 of her own relatives said to have funeral rites in her lifetime. Her husband William Myers preceded her in death.
A brief note on speech and silence contrasts with political rhetoric. The piece comments on perceived deceit in politics and warns about consequences of dishonest leadership.
In a Youth's Companion excerpt a missionary recalls observing three young Seneca men lazily resting in shade while plowing. He hitchhiked, finished the field, urged them to work, then drove off smiling at the irony and pondering depravity.
Harper's Weekly notes New York faces rapid population growth and major transit challenges in the near future. It compares urban expansion to needing six sidewalk strata for mass foot traffic and urges immediate planning for ingress and egress across the city amid rising inhabitants.
The piece cautions ethnologists against overinterpreting immigration bureau findings on rapid physical changes in immigrants, noting the influence of nutrition and intermarriage while mocking sensational claims about Americanization of skull shapes. It compares analysts to poets and jokes about hats fitting all head shapes.
The McKinley tariff raised duties on Canadian barley from 10 to 30 cents a bushel ending nearly all U S imports after 1890. By 1908 U S barley purchases from Canada fell to about 210000 bushels. Canadian egg exports to the United States dropped from about 14 million dozen annually to 2305 dozen in 1908 due to a 5 cent per dozen duty.
A night signaling device for military balloons has been fixed on the railway station tower at Spandau. The large horizontal wooden ring holds 38 electric lamps to act as intermittent aerial navigation lights. Similar lighthouses are planned for Nauen and Potsdam in forthcoming experiments.
San Antonio man Godfrey Reese Fowler, famed for daring roles in Nicaragua and in the Spanish American and Philippine campaigns, led troops to protect a Black man from mob violence in Palestine and later earned brevet major for bravery in the Philippines.
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