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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
5
The article laments declining numbers of boys in skilled trades urging patience and steady apprenticeship. It critiques immigration quotas as propaganda, urges selective entry, and warns against open doors. It also notes Pontotoc county farmers' improved year and contemplates age and pensions debates amid social tensions.
A British parliamentarian has held his seat for over twenty years without making a single speech. The piece argues that many congress members fill pages of the congressional record with talk, yet voting power lies with the silent, persistent member who exercises influence behind the scenes.
A Wewoka Capital-Democrat note mocks constant grousing while the Muskogee Phoenix ponders women’s influence in marriage. The piece discusses vanity in politics, a new talking picture machine, Haskell’s return to Oklahoma, and Congress’ farm bloc dynamics with tariff debates looming, plus labor board limits and a Holdenville Democrat query on old fashioned male views on woman suffrage.
Swatow aftermath reports 28,000 dead with graves hurriedly dug as coffins from salvaged lumber cover the dead. Relief funds flow from Hong Kong and British aid ships bring rice while bandits raid homes and police curb looters in the ruined port. Bodies drift offshore, many may never be recovered.
Patent remedy 666 tonic marketed as a fast helper for colds constipation biliousness and headaches. Promoted as a fine tonic with broad healing claims and no listed side effects.
A table of Tuesday primary results shows how nearby counties selected officials. Names for offices across Johnston Seminole Murray Carter Garvin Hughes are listed, including governors secretaries of state district judges and sheriffs with multiple clerks and assessors named.
A mob of more than 80 stormed the Craig county jail at Winita Oklahoma in an effort to seize Elias Ridge the suspect in the murder of Mrs George Adair 30 near Pensacola. Officials fear further attempts tonight to move Ridge to Wagoner Muskogee then to the state penitentiary.
City commissioners awaited probate court consideration on the sale of South Townsend Avenue lots chosen for the memorial convention hall. If blocked, a condemnation path would be required. otherwise the sale clears the way to contract letting and construction soon. Plans had been revised in Oklahoma City and were expected back for a fast contract letting in weeks.
D. F. McCurry of north Colbert area exhibited sweet potato plants in full bloom this morning at a local display. He notes it is a rare sight and says several blooms appeared in a patch labeled Nancy Halls.
A record notes the emergence of the first periodical in France dated 1665. It signals early print journalism and the spread of periodic news in French media, highlighting the publication's historical significance.
The notice lists candidates for district and county offices including Bolen for State Senator Looney for State Insurance Commissioner Hardin for State Treasurer Shaw for Representative McKeown for Congress Whitehurst for State Board of Agriculture Floyd reelection Heard reelection Ward reelection Frwin for County Clerk Westber for County Treasurer Franklin for Court Clerk Crawford for County Judge noting term statuses and re-elections.
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