Oklahoma Farm Land Listings Near Ada and Roff
A long list of area farms and homes for sale with acres and prices. Properties include No 14 80 acres near Ada at 75 per acre, No 15 120 acres at 80, No 16 190 acres near a gin and school at 35, No 18 10 acres near Roff at 250, No 19 240 acres near Vanoss at 65, No 20 130 acres near Ada at 125, No 21 60 acres near Ada at 60, a five room box house at 1500, a Walter Floyd farm at 75 per acre, a Will Weaver farm at 85, a John Paine farm at 140 acres 75, a 40 acre grain and cotton farm at 25, and office move notice to North Broadway.
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Ada
Springbrook Bottom
Roff
Vanoss
Center
Normal School
15Th Street
Center School House
Pontotoc County
Walter Floyd
Price
Will Weaver
John Paine
Steedman
Oklahoma Wheat 19 Percent Says State Condition
Oklahoma winter wheat on December 1 stands at seventy nine percent with nationwide at eighty five point two percent. Fall sowing dropped twenty six percent from last year to 2,811,000 acres as compared with 3,798,000. Rye in Oklahoma is eighty one percent with 8,000 acres sown this fall. Factors include cotton price, drought, soil moisture, labor shortages, and weather delaying harvest and plowing.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
United States Bureau of Crop Estimates
State Board of Agriculture
E. T. Gilmore
District Court
Pontotoc County
Shawnee National Bank
Ada
Pontotocc County
Homa Okla Oil Co
Red Rose Lead & Zinc Mining Co
Railroads and Christmas recess loom over Wilson decision
Washington December 20 Congress will recess for Christmas without a White House message on railroads return from government control. Authorities say no decision yet announced and most expect no return by January 1 with final action awaiting railroad legislation in Congress.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Wilson
White House
Capitol
The Editor in Society and Self in a Local Paper
A satirical look at the newspaper editor as both benevolent patron and public nuisance. The piece argues editors fund and publicize community events, yet intrude into private lives, shaping public opinion. It notes editors’ need for broad knowledge and restraint despite pressures from readers and critics.
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Ada Mincehouser
Mexico
Forest depletion cited prompt federal forest program plea
The forester of the U S Department of Agriculture warns that timber supply is shrinking faster than growth and high lumber prices follow. The report urges expanding public forest acquisition and stronger protection of private lands with federal state and municipal cooperation to manage and conserve forests nationwide.
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Washington, D. C
Great Eastern
South
Forester
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Division of Forestry
Larree Lumber Companies
Department of Agriculture
Kay County Tops Nation in Chicken Production
Kay county Oklahoma leads the nation in poultry with 897 boys and girls in poultry clubs hatching 28 000 purebred chickens this year. The claim follows the state poultry show held at Blackwell and credits County Extension and 4 H efforts.
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Ponca City
Okla
Texas
United States
Iowa
Minnesota
Kansas
Kay County
Oklahoma
Washington
Col. Houston
Blackwell
Spinster Edith Johnson Discusses Family Matters
Edith Johnson speaks on family matters in Shawnee news. The item highlights domestic concerns and personal viewpoints arising from her perspective as a spinster.
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Shawnee
Edith C. Johnson
Wet spell ends in St Louis as injunction dies
United States Judge Faris dissolves the temporary injunction blocking the district attorney and internal revenue collector from interfering with whiskey sales in 54 counties and St Louis. The dissolution ends the restraining order and allows immediate enforcement of the ban on whiskey sales.
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ST. Louis
Collector of Internal Revenue
United States
Faris
Hensley
Internal Revenue
Moore
Government operation urged as test for railroads
Samuel Gompers and railroad union leaders and farmers spokesmen urged Chairman Cummings to withdraw the Cum mings railroad bill and test government operation of lines in peacetime. They planned to press President Wilson to oppose the bill and sought a two year trial of government control to study the best method for ongoing operation.
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Washington
Senate
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Railroad Brotherhood
Cummings
Interstate Commerce Committee
Brotherhood
White House
Wilson
Gompers
Organized Labor
Hearing on Guardian Petition to Sell Real Estate
Oklahoma county court orders hearing on guardianship of Frankie Cowling Kelly Cowling and Loreta Cowling minors. Guardian J A Cowling may sell necessary ward real estate. hearing set for January 8 1920 at 2 PM. publication required in Ada Weekly News for three weeks.
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State of Oklahoma
Pontotoc County
Frankie Cowling
Kelly Cowling
Loreta Cowling
J. A. Cowling
Guardian
A. D
Ada Weekly News
Ada
KY J
Edith Little
Charles H. Little
Wolff compares Ludendorff to Xerxes in Tageblatt
A Tageblatt piece by Theodore Wolff likens General Ludendorff to Xerxes after the fleet destruction and notes the German commander’s attempt to blame others for the revolution. The passage recalls wartime maneuvers and the collapse of the En tente army amid American advances. Notices include a public sale in Pontotoc County Oklahoma and divorce filings in Ada and Pontotoc County courts with dates and names Melbourne notices.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Theodore Wolff
Tageblatt
Ludendorff
Xerxes
All Millionaire Apartment House Planned on Central Park West
New York figures a 16 story all millionaire apartment house costing 4 million dollars will rise soon in Central Park West. A syndicate of bankers secured a 21 year lease totaling more than 2 million dollars. The building will offer 29 room 10 bath to 17 room 7 bath units with a staffed service and a ground floor restaurant.
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Associated Press
New York
Central Park West
Wisconsin elects Victor Berger in fifth district win
Victor L. Berger socialist was returned as representative from Wisconsin's fifth district defeating fusion candidate Henry H. Robenstadt by a 4,806 vote majority in yesterday's special election in Milwaukee.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Victor L. Berger
Henry H. Robenstadt
Too Many Congress Men Yet Many States to Increase Number
Harold W. Roland estimates the 1920 census will add 69 seats to the House, bringing total membership to 519, raising concerns that Congress is already too large and unwieldy. The AR Ford’s Editor letter discusses the likely distribution among states.
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House of Representatives
House
Congress
Ander
Harold W. Roland
Ford
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Bureau OF Crop Estimates
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Ada, Okla
First National Bank
Col
J. W. Davis Cries
Eperience
Ence
Texas Electric
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British Isles
Nation
Miami News
Orel Busby
Bob Duncan
Not Puente
Oklé
A. R. Sugg
L. E. Franklin
Tom Thurston
Hattie Thurston
E. S. Ratliff
Tom D
McKeown
Reach
Merry Christmas
Byrd’s
Humphrey Colbert
Chas. W. Briles
R. E. Blanks
Ada, Oklahoma
Wisgonsin
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