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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
12
Tulsa club led by A. J. Endicott launches a national Shut-In Club with radio sets loaned to invalids. Fifteen sets already supplied in Tulsa, installed by volunteers who also handle aerials and maintenance funded by the club. Four or five more sets planned as weather improves.
An advertisement promotes pepsinated calomel as a daily laxative aiding digestion and relieving toxemia liver biliousness headaches constipation indigestion and colds. It claims tests show calomel with pepsin works well and suggests buying from Gwin & Mays.
California scientists at Los Angeles harbor reveal a sardine aging solution that highlights scale rings. Ruth Miller leads the UC Southern Branch project. A lemon-yellow mysterious fish of Pacific origin prompts study, while the 20 million pound California sardine crop marks a new regional and global record.
London reports say British railroads face severe financial trouble with dwindling passenger receipts and freight losses. Rail employers and workers plan a rare wage sacrifice across all grades from presidents to firemen to help restore solvency. A conference will be held to discuss the crisis and seek a solution.
War Commissioner Frunze credited German officers with preventing wreckage during Bolshevik Baltic fleet maneuvers after Fleet Commander Zoffe resigned following the ships’ return to Petrograd. He blamed Zoffe and noted stormy weather kept 80 percent of unfamiliar officers and crews from sea duty.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell urges Britain to embrace cleanliness through education in self respect sanitation and duty to others. He argues preventive measures and education in orderliness are essential for efficiency rather than police imposition.
W B House travels to Wellington Texas on a business mission. F H Wozencraft visits Seminole for Cunningham Battery and Electric Service starters and generators. John Fain attends to business in Seminole. Miss Ruth McKee ill with influenza. McCarty Bros fixes tires and tubes. Miss Ira Burnett leaves for Ola Arkansas for a visit. Mrs Elmer Forrest and Elmer Jr visit Mrs John Agnew after traveling from Stratford. Magnuson Motor Company listed. Mrs O W Walker and relatives return from Fort Worth and Dublin. A O Green negotiates with Okmulgee baseball officials to sign Minor Formby as pitcher. For home laundry call 657-1. Rev and Mrs R T Blackburn return from Fayetteville and other visits. Natalie Ann Wheeler, infant granddaughter of Mr and Mrs M F Manville, dies in Marion Kansas.
John and Bessie Kerr will leave Friday for Florida to spend the winter. Miss Kerr, previously employed in the county clerk's office, will take up similar work in the Palm Beach office.
R. R. Robinson and daughter Pauline depart for Quaker City Penn to visit the father before heading to Nashville Tenn where Mr Robinson will enroll in Peabody College for a year of teachers training Phone 150 Magnuson Motor Co 229 30 East Main 85 lme Mr and Mrs B C Harbert return from Tekamah Neb and Chicago Il Harbert dislikes Chicago's foreign element after a night at the zoo waiting for a howl from a homelike coyote
The Oklahoma State Adult Commission asks Sunday schools to join a state-wide illiteracy drive. Circles of pastors county by county receive letters encouraging trained teachers to visit illiterates, enroll them in Sunday school, and use Bible story readers after primers.
Washington Aug 20 radio sets acquired a definite place in railroad freight schedules and will face higher freight rates under a decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Washington August 19 with re count of eight counties completed Daniel F Steck Democrat leads Iowa Senate race with 236,719 votes while Senator Smith Brookhart has 222,947 votes.
London officials report the government endorses the appeal to UK citizens to purchase English products to improve a deteriorating trade balance. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister cites exports lagging behind imports by 395 million pounds last year and notes rising costs amid global competition. A battle of advertising ensues as foreign firms tout British employment while campaigners urge patriotism in shopping choices.
In New York dated August 20 the Episcopal Church moves toward formal recognition of prayers for the dead with a proposed Prayer For Memorial Days to be reviewed at the October General Convention in New Orleans. The draft also requests prayers for the state legislature social justice and for every man in his work with revised prayers for our country schools colleges and universities and rain.
The Center community mourns the August 12 death of a precious infant from Cross land. The burial occurred August 13 in Center cemetery with Brother Harden conducting the funeral. The poem laments the loss and prays for reunion in heaven, urging continued church attendance at Center.
Parsons Kansas tale recalls Heinz the fox terrier owned by Tom E Williams who ate a ten inch hat pin. Dr Tom Criswell removed the pin in two pieces after pulling out three to four inches. Police sergeant Tom Coulter saved a chicken by extracting a nail through its breast. the chick recovered.
More than 150 Optimist club members from Oklahoma will attend the state convention in Tulsa on October 7. International and district leaders from Oklahoma City and Houston are expected, with a luncheon at Mayo Hotel, a tour of the International Petroleum Exhibition, a business meeting on plans to form new clubs, and an evening banquet and ball at a Tulsa hotel.
Prince Ignazio Paterno Castello di Discori of Catina and his wife, both 45, resign all property and enter religious life. The Prince begins novitiate with the Barnabite Fathers at Monza, while his wife joins Carmelite nuns after special dispensation in Milan. Both will live cloistered, renouncing worldly goods and benevolent work.
W. T. Sanders and family escaped death after a collision Saturday night on a narrow highway east of town while returning from a country revival. Two Ada jellybeans in a Ford roadster attempted a high speed pass, their cars collided, and both parties left the scene uninjured. Both vehicles were taken to the hospital for treatment.
The Governor-General of Korea submits to the Japanese Government a plan to sell the former Korean royal land valued at 2 million dollars. Proceeds would aid sixty nine destitute Korean peers.
Industry leaders from Tulsa report oil supplies moving to market with 106 million barrels of storage likely emptied by year end. Wrightsman of Tulsa predicts a healthy 1926 for independents as pipelines and new oil in eastern fields stabilize prices and drilling deepens. Eastern Oklahoma banks foresee a strong fall with urban building permits rising in Tulsa and Muskogee.
A compact classified notice invites readers to buy rent or sell items and services via a local news want ad. It emphasizes quick listings and wide visibility through the newspaper platform.
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