Personal notices from Ada daily including travels and visitors
Mrs Annie E Hill of Marshal Texas arrives to visit her son Sherwood. DeWitt Snead and wife return to Rockwall after a ten day visit via Sherman to see a sister in school. Cleve Harris visits from Madill. Tom D McKeown returns from Ardmore. H M Ammons stays overnight from Madill. W B Dudley a Oklahoma City inspector visits Ada. Dr McMillan and wife return from Arkansas trip. T M Hughey slowly improves from a broken collarbone and recent dislocation. De Witts Early Risers ad promotes pills sold by Crescent Drug. Miss Durell Cullins leaves for Rockwall to visit relatives. Des R F King and W T Nelen plan Chicago trip for post grad course. Clifford Hardin and Jack Reed graduate grammar school. Ed Wilson and family go to Marietta for the summer. DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve advertised. Editor clarifies Dr Browall card. Lumaden explains mud hens vs ducks. Pinules kidney remedy advertised by G M Ramsey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie E. Hill
Marshal
Texas
Sherwood
T. M. Hughey
de Witt
Crescent Drug Store
F. Z. Holley
Durell Cullins
Rockwall
Des. R. F. King
W. T. Nelen
Chicago
Clifford Hardin
Jack Reed
Notice of Discontinuation by Gate City Mutual Burial Assoc
The association will discontinue business on May 1. All advance paid members will be paid all unearned benefits on or after May 1. All assets will cease on the above date. For further particulars see Adlee columnist, Sec. and Treas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gate City Mutual Burial Associat Ada
Ieoeaman
Sec
Treas
The Original Mr Dooley and His Witty Tales
The piece recalls the original Mr Dooley a Chicago barroom wit beloved by George Ade John McCutcheon and Vance Thompson and later a national figure via Peter Dunne. It recounts a famed hurricane touch when Vance Thompson borrowed two dollars and vanished, plus Ade and the "human gratitude" anecdote where the old man waking in a cabbed journey complains in a strong Irish voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Dooley
George Ade
John McCutcheon
Vance Thompson
Chicago
Peter Dunne
Ade
Folk Remedy Promises Blood Disorder Relief This Month
An unsigned notice touts a home brew to combat rheumatism kidney and bladder weakness. It recommends a nightly meal after meals mixing Fluid Extract Dandelion Compoud Kargon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla with a claim it can relieve diseases year round and extend life.
Deserted California mining camp tale unfolds
Jeremiah Van Horn, a retired California merchant, narrates memories of a deserted Marysville mining camp where sixty miners lie buried. A mysterious, well-dressed man visits the graves each Eastertide to tend the plots, waters plants, and gaze over the valley before vanishing into city life for another year. The townspeople wonder who he is and what binds him to the old miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Jeremiah van Horn
Marysville
San Francisco
Ephraim Returns Home A Dapper Rolling Stone
After years away Ephraim returns to his Maryland birthplace dressed to the nines in a brown derby and patent leather shoes. He boasts of travels as a barber in major cities and asks his brother Bill for two dollars. Bill scorns the gaudy appearance, quipping about a rolling stone gathering no mess. Ephraim retorts that a rolling stone gains polish.
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Ephraim
Maryland
Bill
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Washington
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Eph
Oratory and Its Dangers in Public Life
Analyzes risks of grand rhetoric amid modern banquets and drafts. Notes Ulysses S. Grant avoided trouble by silence, while reporters strive for accuracy. Warns that misquotation often lies with speakers, not editors, and calls cold type a sobering eye opener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulysses S
Washington Star
His Best Picture
A humorous dialogue where Dauber asks Miss Sweetly which photo is most true to nature. She replies with a gag about a man covering a horse, noting the horse’s oddity makes the scene seem natural. The exchange plays on a punchline about a “freak” horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauber
Miss Sweetly
Teacher's Agency and a Tutor Vacancy
A humorous dialogue from Harper's Weekly shows a teacher asking about a position and an agent offering a tutoring vacancy for a man with an empty headed son. The exchange highlights opportunistic hiring humor and a quick wit. The piece reflects 19th century newspaper humor and employment banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teacher’s Agency
Harper’s Weekly
Some Difference Life Quote About Appearance
A brief bibliographic quip from Life magazine noting a subtle shift in appearance. The exchange suggests one party asserts improvement while another counters it by saying the person resembles their former self. The tone is wryly observational with a hint of irony.
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First National Bank
H. M. Ammons
Madill
W. B. Dudley
Oklahoma City
Ada
Dr. McMillan and Wife
Arkansas
Ed Wilson
Marietta
DeWitt
Lumsden Rejoins
Dr. Browall
G. M. Ramsey
Rome Sugg
Stonewall
L. G. Poe
Pawnee, Okla
Ada Telephone Exchange
M. L. Walsh
South McAlester
Masonic Lodge
C. M. Chauncey
J. T. Deacon
Drummond, Okla
S. S. McDonald Home
Roy Hays
Eureka
Kansas
Luther E. Patterson
Geo. H. Bruce
Ardmore
S. M. Torbett
Bruce
E. L. Dew
Okemah, I. T
Jesse
Sacred Heart, Okla
W. S. Thomson
Galbraith Brown
E. H. Witham
Rankin, Ills
J. E. Eden
Strauhn
Shawnee
A. Vogt
East 17Th Street
Switzerland
Chas Thomas
Crescent
Dr. Holley
J. A. Cannon
Allen Country
Engineer Holman
Oklahoma Central
Attorney Anderson
Capt. Vadan
Roff
Beulah Worthington
the Light Company
Nannie White
Mel Davis
Tupelo
Everett
Old Mexico
Wm. Ash
Muskogee
R. E. Callahan
E. L. Steed
Jamestown
Oklahoma
A. J. Deaton
Frank Calvert
Franks County
John Cox
Sherman
Stan
Roy Oa &Visi
the Globe
I. T. Goodstand
Midway Main Street
J. W. Worsham
L. T
Essie Russell
H. Browall
R. E. Haynes
Mr. Haynes
Aurelia Denmark
Ponca City
Alice Long
Coalgate
Duke Stone
Sprague Bros Opticians
Ada, Okla
Finley Peter Dunne
Mysterious
S. S. Ball
Ravenswood
Dewitt & CO
Meteor
St. L. & K. C. Express
Eastern Express
R. R
Castile
Nickel
China Hall
S. M. Shaw
O. B. Weaver Agency
12Th and
Broadway
R. O. Wheeler
Ada National Bank Capital
Ind
Ter
Lee
Ramsey's Drug Store
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