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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
4
The piece argues electricity will transform farm life boosting appeal of rural living with light, power, and communications. It cites farm population shifts, then shifts to a reflection on truth, rhetoric, and William Jennings Bryan influencing religious thought and defending biblical fundamentalism against evolution.
The Bristow radio station has been sold and its equipment will move to a Missouri college. The Voice of Oklahoma has entertained and informed, spreading state news nationwide. The paper laments the loss but hopes for a capable replacement to continue the outreach.
Western railroads press for a rate increase to offset presumed losses in the Northwest. They urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to set rates, warning that higher charges may drive traffic to motor trucks as competition grows.
Ada residents see green across Pontotoc county as rains revive fields. Cotton and other crops show promise after a period of brown, with corn yielding modestly and gardens and fruit crops rebound. Farmers plant fall crops as watermelons and cantaloupes rebound.
The newspaper looks back at Jake Kilrain once a top prizefighter now a nightwatchman. In a 75 round London rules battle 36 years ago he faced John L. Sullivan for the world title, then faded after losses to Frank Slavin and later forgotten by fans. Kilrain, 40 years older, laments slim purses of his era compared with modern champions.
Excavations around Jerusalem promise surprising discoveries about ancient history and the cradle cities of Judaism Christianity and Islam. The article speculates on concealed manuscripts from sieges and the potential to read long lost Hebrew classics amid Palestine's buried secrets. It also warns of a recurring con artist who deceives with fake promises and preys on honest people.
Pontotoc county land eases in value, signaling a potential influx of homeseekers as Oklahoma promotes its cheap acreage. The Tulsa Tribune notes Page cotton mill revival, while Ada's vacant houses shrink and local politics swirl around J B A Robertson’s gubernatorial candidacy.
The piece argues that science and scripture can align if Genesis is read with flexible timing. It presents parallel summaries of Biblical days and corresponding geological eras, citing Moses as a learned observer and urging interpretation of days as indefinite periods. The author concludes there is no real conflict and asserts human creation as distinct and deliberate.
The August weather chronicle reports hail up to eggs in several midwestern states damaging tobacco in Kentucky where 750 to 1,000 acres were ruined near Lexington. Amberg Wisconsin saw brief snow then damaging hail. Rio Grande floods, Detroit storms, Indianapolis hail and 26 degree drop, and Phoenix heat B observed across regions with cooler conditions elsewhere.
Oklahoma City report recounts William H. Murray known as Wild Bill leading 60 farmers to a Bolivian interior colony. Harsh jungles pests fevers and hostile Indians tested the group as they endured, then voted to abandon the venture and return home after a short stay.
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