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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1903
Page
3
An excerpt from George Horace Lorimer’s Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son describes the rooster’s loud morning crowing as a sign of daily providence on a farm. The farmer's wife and hens are contrasted, with the hen quietly laying eggs while the rooster dominates the day.
A 19th century piece praises fencing for women noting its grace and physical benefits. It emphasizes leg and wrist strength, dexterity, eye keenness, quick movement, and overall figure improvement, urging fencing as a worthy art for ladies.
A quotation from K Bond in the Booklovers' Magazine calls for a new harmless jag to relieve daily monotony without moral harm. The piece condemns alcohol excess and urges an intelligent, uplifting substitute to brighten exhausted masses.
A middle aged woman was fatally struck at a New York grade crossing recently. A local surgeon arrived but, seeing the victim’s face under a rug, fainted beside the corpse. The shocking scene occurred as railroad watchers guarded the area.
One of the earliest steam engines remains a main power source in Birmingham rolling mills. Installed in 1767, it recently received an iron beam replacement after decades of service. An 1802 cylinder addition preserved its original connecting rod, and the engine is deemed more economical for its special use than many modern machines.
A man named Joe Campbell, a Black defendant condemned to death for murder in Yazoo City Missouri, confessed his accomplice on the scaffold as the trap door stood ready. The sheriff reprieved him at the last moment.
A London Sketch report describes Eliza admitting she found a bundle of keys in the street outside a public building or schoolhouse. She waited in the officials office while keys were tried by unsuspecting principals, then claimed the items and had them returned to her. Twenty charges followed.
A collage of phrases on school laws, hair dyes, motherhood ideals, and Peruna advertisements. Letters from mothers in Idaho and Missouri tout Peruna and Manalin for health, vitality, and even successful pregnancies, with testimonials praising renewed strength and stamina. Dr. Hartman offers free advice from the Hartman Sanitarium.
A Washington county man narrates a humorous paradox from a column in the Augusta Journal describing how marriage within a blended family creates a web where he is his own grandfather. The piece traces relationships such as father and son in law roles and a stepdaughter becoming mother and grandmother in a single tale.
A mother fosters daily Bible reading for her son. He struggles to interpret a verse and mispronounces a line by swapping guile with girls, a slip that reveals his growing vocabulary and humor in religious texts.
A Brooklyn Eagle note describes a flatiron repurposed as a pincushion. The cardboard form mimics a small flatiron, padded with cotton and satin, with a wire handle wrapped in ribbon. It sits on the dressing table facing outward as kitchenware decor.
Russian entomologist S A Mokrsezki promotes a method of treating tree diseases by feeling through stems rather than roots. His apparatus delivers salts to apple and pear trees, tested on 800 trees on Crimea's southern shore, restoring health and boosting growth.
The Hotel Savoy in New York touts the largest mirror in the world. It measures a little over thirteen feet square and nearly half an inch thick and required five glasses cast to form the plate. The mirror was made at the St Gabian glass works in Paria and hauled aboard two steamships, Friesland among them, to fit its colossal size.
The gaslight mantles are 99 percent thoria and 1 percent ceria. Welsbach mantles rest on cotton fiber, Lehner fabric uses artificial silk from collodion for brighter light and longer life but costs more. Buhlman of Berlin found ramie fiber mantles show promising results.
A few years after rabbits were a pastoral dread in Australia, the industry pivots to exports. About twenty million rabbit skins were sold in London last year and nearly eight million rabbits frozen in Australia were sent to the London market from Victoria, supplying UK tables and world markets.
Classified notice from the Cahelan Nursery in Cheyenne City Oklahoma offering vegetable and sweet potato plants for sale by the nursery and florists.
A census of more than 1,000 graduates from the Massachusetts Agricultural College finds about one in three now active as farmers.
A swindler looks for a reliable partner offering better quality Defiance Starch at the same price as rival starches. The pitch promises one third more starch for the same cost and rejects chromoes or cheap premiums.
Advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product as making clothes clean and sweet as new. Claims it is available from grocers.
Shoe powder claims to ease tight new shoes and cure swollen hot sweaty feet corns and bunions. Advertises 25 cents, sample sent free, from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York. Conscience noted as a moral aside.
A Columbus woman writes Doctor S B Hartman praising Peruna after childbirth. She says she recovered health after using the remedy and credits it with strength, allowing her to care for her newborn and do housework. She notes neighbors now use Peruna.
An eminent doctor notes heavy brains do not signify intellect. European brains average 49 to 50 ounces. Among 31 male lunatics, 5 had brains from 50 to 56 ounces. Three of 22 female lunatics surpassed 50 ounces. Epileptics are often observed with large brains.
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