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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1922
Page
10
Local Ada notices list a flood of small ads and notices. Items include prices on strip felts and tires, shoe repairs and fashion hats, drugstore deliveries, and mentions of visitors like former mayor E S Ratliff. Addresses, shop names, and phone references guide residents to services and goods.
Eva Aldrich of Emporia recounts using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for menstrual pains from girlhood, noting relief and recommending the product to friends. The ad claims the medicine is a women's remedy made from carefully selected plants and aimed at easing troubling feminine symptoms.
Ardmore voters numbered 1,619 by 12:30 today with tabulations showing the Democratic ticket ahead in most precincts but no voting totals released.
Market notes from the U S Department of Agriculture covering fruit and vegetable prices in Fort Worth with quotes for apples oranges grapefruit pears onions cabbage and tomatoes plus livestock activity in Kansas City Chicago and National Stockyard markets listing bids weights and price ranges for hogs lambs and cattle.
Oklahoma City November 7 contracts for hard surfacing over 100 miles of the Postal highway from McAlester to Fort Smith will be let November 15. estimated cost ranges from 2 and a quarter to 3 million dollars with bids on gravel bituminous and concrete surfaces. most work to be in LeFlore Latimer and Pittsburg counties east of McAlester with some on the Jefferson highway near McAlester. funding split is half state and half federal aid. this will be the largest road contract to date and may be the last under current federal allotment.
Partial returns from Parsons six of ten precincts report Davis Democrat 317 and Morgan Republican 147 for governor. Elk City reports state commission orders lower electric rates to 15 cents per kilowatt hour for 100 hours then 7 cents beyond 1000 kWh. A petition to the house of lords gathered 78 105 signatures.
Mrs J C Sparks of 804 East Twelfth Street entertained in informally Saturday evening November 4 with a bridge party honoring Mrs Hamilton and Misses Hamilton Wade and Givens of Shawnee. High score by Miss Hamilton of Shawnee earned a prize. consolation went to Miss Nicholson who received narcissus bulbs.
The Junior Music Club gathered Monday afternoon with Mrs W A Hill. Members Roberta Braley Mildred Jeter Louise Spencer Paula Waits and others performed piano solos under instruction and memory work. Roberta Braley won first prize in a scale signatures contest and Mildred Jeter took second place.
The W C T U holds a regular meeting at Mrs John Bond's home on West Fifteenth street Wednesday at 3 00 PM All members are urged to attend following a strong program at the last gathering with an even better one planned for tomorrow Mrs Westbrook Secretary
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