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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1914
Page
3
Washington report says Democratic leaders in both chambers may hold Congress in session indefinitely to enable rapid passage of emergency war measures. An amendment creating five hundred million emergency currency for financial stress is expected to pass today.
The Ada Masonic Lodge posts a memorial for Anson B. Yeager praising his virtue and fidelity, offers condolences to his family, and orders the memorial spread in lodge minutes and local press. The page also includes a Theodore Roosevelt excerpt describing a headball game in Brazilian wilderness.
A vivid note on Parcels Indians playing a head football game with a hollow eight inch ball. Players butt the ball on the ground then lift and twist it with their heads to send it back and forth across two sides.
In Altus Oklahoma on a Friday morning Senator Thomas P Gore struck farmer Tom Moore with his heavy walking stick after a question about a 1894 speech. The blow followed a tense exchange with Gore’s brother Ellis Gore acting as escort. No arrests were made. Moore is described as a socialist.
In a melodramatic exchange from the Chicago Record-Herald, Clarence reveals a shameful past as a chorus man in a musical comedy to Clarissa while she fears being dropped from their engagement. The disclosure tests their resolve and future together.
A column argues marriage ends romance and begins history with a shift from pie to potatoes. It cites Homer on married life and quotes John Horace Lockwood on friendship as essential sustenance for enduring marriage beyond the honeymoon.
An ad touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe liver remedy replacing calomel. It claims gentler action, no salivation, and a 50 cent bottle sold by Ramsey Drug Co with a money back guarantee. The piece also notes Ohio temperance battles influencing state politics and a gubernatorial campaign.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed the Secretary of State on Wests Constitutional amendments. The initiative petitions were upheld but no attempt will be made to proclaim them for a vote on Tuesday. They will likely go to a vote at the November election.
English astronomer Sir Robert Ball told a Dunsink story about a farmer who doubted the telescope. Ball invited him to view the moon at night, prompting the farmer to realize he could see the moon without the instrument.
A careful display uses many flower holders in every available space. Nasturtiums on a reading table, a brass jar with daisies, coreopsis in a tall vase, larkspur on the mantle, and rosebuds in a bud vase brighten a room and compensate for minimal drapery.
An exchange notes rheumatism easing slightly this morning. The patient smiles despite lingering pain, saying it has merely shifted to a new spot, offering brief respite.
The town of Murphysboro honors General John A. Logan with a stone shaft at his birth place and forms a Memorial Association to secure state and federal funds for a monument and memorial hall. President James Black and national leaders join in the drive, with Mrs. Mary Logan and several New York artists contributing plans.
Washington reports Western railroads accepted the president’s suggestion to arbitrate wage demands of 80,000 employees. The looming strike is thus prevented, easing concerns of workers and companies nationwide.
Cleveland Ohio Aug 4 The largest wet and dry campaign in Ohio starts with the dry forces submitting a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish county local option and shift liquor regulation to town ship and municipality units.
Washington reports the bankers conference scheduled for today was postponed due to Secretary McAdoo's absence. The meeting will consider the financial situation caused by the European war.
Topeka Kan August 4. More than 150000 women of Kansas were expected to cast ballots at the state wide primaries. Although more than 300000 women in Kansas have full citizenship, less than three fourths of that number registered by July 20 when registration books closed.
South Carolina farmers have purchased over 1,000,000 tons of fertilizer since January, a new record for such buying activity in the state.
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