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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
8
Pontetec County announces advertising rates available on application. Local merchants are invited to inquire for terms, deadlines, and audience reach. The notice emphasizes per insertion pricing and seasonal promotions.
The News announces a subscription contest with premiums including a Five Hundred Dollar upright piano a large Sunrise addition dwelling lot and other prizes. Votes awarded for new subscriptions and daily or weekly issues. judges named to oversee voting boxes and ballots.
Important information outlines examination seating rules timing and secrecy, disciplinary actions for dishonesty, answer quality expectations, and the grade thresholds for First Second and Third Grade Certificates. It also notes age and teaching requirements. A closing whimsical aside about self made men and toys appears.
The News publishes the vote counts for entrants in the subscription contest. Leading competitors include Miss Viola Bailey Rebee andMiss Lette Stephens Oakman with strong showings and further push planned to finish.
The Williams Roddey act creates a State Banking Board and a depositors guaranty fund funded by 1 percent of bank capital stock. It demands semi annual bank examinations, restricts bank directors from borrowing from their banks, and enables the state to pay depositors in full in insolvencies, with a first lien on bank assets. The measure aims to curb dishonesty, reassure depositors, and curb panics, with National banks potentially joining its protections. The Oklahoma experiment will attract wide scrutiny as a model for preservation of depositor security and bank stability.
In Guthrie Oklahoma January 15 Lieutenant Governor Bellamy acting for Gov Haskell granted a pardon to Rufus R Connella formerly of Lawton who was serving two five year terms in Lansing penitentiary for second degree forgery. Connella had led banks and financed school bonds and faced conviction tied to school papers.
In New York on January 15 Harry K. Thaw’s lawyers press only insanity as the defense claiming at the time of Stanford White’s death he was insane. Witnesses testify to Thaw’s irrational behavior and family insanity links while coroners jurors noted his odd conduct the day after the shooting.
Oklahoma and Arkansas items report contracts for a six teen prisoner jail at Frederick costing 4000 dollars. Other notes cover court term for Stilwell Russell in Ardmore, pennies donated for church furnace in Guthrie, a found dead baby in Oklahoma City, a drayman injured by a printing press, teacher examinations planned for Feb 29 in several cities, and George Crump of Wewoka announcing for the Democratic National convention delegate.
Snappy captions mock legislative talk on age limits for jokes at the Capital. The piece riffs on political and social themes with references to poll taxes and Gov. Vardaman’s farewell message, noting a light brimstone tone and odd imagery.
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