Oklahoma Ada area land and farm for sale listings
A dense list of Ada and nearby land sales outlines multiple tracts near Ada and Roff Vanoss Center and Steedman. Properties include 3 to 190 acres with houses, barns, water, timber, and pasture. Prices range from 25 to 250 per acre with various terms and possession dates.
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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 Condition Drops as Acreage Shrinks
Oklahoma winter wheat stood at seventy nine percent in early December per the U S Bureau of Crop Estimates and state agriculture board. National wheat condition reached eighty five point two percent. Fall sowing declined twenty six percent from last year with about 2 811 million acres sown versus 3 798 million last season. Rye in Oklahoma was eighty one percent with eight thousand acres planted versus ten thousand a year ago. Several factors including cotton prices drought and labor shortages reduced fall planting and may still allow improvement before harvest.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
United States Bureau of Crop Estimates
State Board of Agriculture
Shawnee National Bank
E. T. Gilmore
Ada
Bob Duncan
Pontotoc County
Okla
Railroads Return Decision Delayed by White House
Congress breaks for Christmas with no message from President Wilson on railroad return to private control. White House announced no communication today, though officials expect no return before January 1. Belief centers on waiting for railroad legislation or congressional action before final decision.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Wilson
White House
Capitol
Kay County Proudly Leads Nation in Chicken Production
Kay County Oklahoma tops national poultry, with 897 4th grade club members raising 28 000 purebred chickens this year. The county's poultry clubs credit its championship showing at the Blackwell state poultry show and local farm programs led by Col. Houston.
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Ponca City
Okla
Texas
United States
Iowa
Minnesota
Kansas
Kay County
Oklahoma
Washington
Col. Houston
Blackwell
Wet spell ends in St. Louis as injunction dies
United States Judge Faris dissolved the temporary injunction restraining the district attorney and the internal revenue collector from interfering with whiskey sales in the 64 counties plus St. Louis. Attorneys sought a one day grace but were denied. The sale was set to resume within an hour.
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ST. Louis
Collector of Internal Revenue
United States
Faris
Hensley
Internal Revenue
Moore
Editorials and a 1919 guardianship hearing note
The piece critiques editors as both benefactors and nuisances while highlighting editorial duty and public intrusion. It then records a county court order for a guardianship hearing in Pontotoc County Oklahoma with J A Cowling as guardian and a sale of wards real estate scheduled for January 8, 1920.
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State of Oklahoma
Pontotoc County
Frankie Cowling
Kelly Cowling
Loreta Cowling
J. A. Cowling
Guardian
Sas
Clana Eee
Edith Little
Charles H. Little
A. D
Tom Thurston
Hattie Thurston
A. R. Sugg
L. E. Franklin
E. S. Ratliff
Forest depletion fuels push for expanded public timber purchase
The U S Department of Agriculture report warns forest depletion outpaces growth in non firewood products, raising lumber costs. It urges broad government and state action to acquire forests and protect growth on private lands, coordinating public private efforts across states.
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Washington, D. C
Great Eastern
South
Forester
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Division of Forestry
Department of Agriculture
Labor leaders press for government operation of railroads
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor and railroad union representatives urged Interstate Commerce Committee Chairman Cummings to withdraw the Cum mings railroad bill and test government operation during peacetime for two years. They planned to lobby the White House to oppose the measure and seek federal control to evaluate 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
German General Compared to Xerxes in Wolff Essay
The Tageblatt critic Theodore Wolff compares General Ludendorff to Xerxes, accusing him of shifting blame for Germany’s revolution and noting the rise and fall of the En tente and Foch manoeuvre armies. The piece places Ludendorff amid military and political shifts as Americans arrive and German fortunes change.
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Xerxes
Associated Press
Berlin
Theodore Wolff
Tageblatt
Ludendorff
Vila
All Millionaire Apartment House Planned on Central Park West
A 16 story all millionaire apartment house costing 4 million dollars will be built soon in Central Park West. A syndicate of bankers secured a 21 year lease worth over 2 million dollars. Apartments will range from 17 to 29 rooms with seven to ten baths and a staffed service including a ground floor restaurant.
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Associated Press
New York
Central Park West
Wisconsin puts in Victor Berger in fifth district
Milwaukee December 20 Victor L Berger socialist was reelected representative for the fifth district defeating fusion candidate Henry H Robenstadt by a majority of 4806 in yesterday's special election.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Victor L. Berger
Henry H. Robenstadt
Too Many Congressmen Yet Many States to Increase
A Ford International Weekly estimate by Harold W. Roland predicts 69 additional House seats after the 1920 census, with New York eight and California four among states listed. The report notes the chamber is already unwieldy with 450 members.
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House of Representatives
House
Congress
Harold W. Roland
Ford
International Weekly
New York
Florida
Washington
Louisiana
Illinois
New Mexico
Michigan
S. Dakota
N. Carolina
W. Virginia
Texas
California
S. Carolina
Oklahoma
Colorado
Indiana
Alabama
Maryland
Ohio
Tennessee
Georgia
Hirota Oe
N. Dakota
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North Broadway
West Side Street
Guaranty State Bank
Bureau OF Crop Estimates
Ansroad
Fred F. Brydia Lands—Farm—Loans
Ada, Okla
First National Bank
Col
J. W. Davis Cries
Eperience
Ence
Any Electric
Uae
Denison-Sherman
Dallas-Waco-Corsicana
Ft. Worth
Halifax
Manxzman
Camperdown
British Isles
Nation
Miami News
Shawnee
Edith C. Johnson
O. Lawrence Hawthorne
Ada Mincehouser
Mexico
Orel Busby
Shawnee National Bank, A Corporation
District Court
Homa Okla Oil Co
Red Rose Lead & Zinc Mining Co
Tom D
McKeown
Reach
Merry Christmas
Byrd’s
Humphrey Colbert
Chas. W. Briles
R. E. Blanks
Ada, Oklahoma
Wisgonsin
Victor Berger
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