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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
3
Trucks laden with presents destined to all parts of the United States arrive at Ada railway stations. Express cars are jammed at both ends with packages as workers unload gifts for relatives and friends. The rush is expected to yield higher revenue than prior holidays.
New York financial committee of United States Steel votes to offer employees the chance to subscribe to its preferred stock at 125 a share. A $1,000,000 bonus in common and preferred stock will be distributed among employees. Each employee may take the bonus in common stock at 90 or in preferred at 124, in any proportion.
George D. Widener plans a $759,000 string of pearls for his wife Eleanor Elkins. The necklace, said to be the most expensive ever sold, was bought at a New York sale for a record price, and the gift is to be given this Christmas in Philadelphia.
Readers flood the Water Wagon Editor with letters seeking a berth on the proposed 1910 water wagon. Applicants describe past attempts at riding the wagon and request front or side seats, while others joke about tobacco clauses and the difficulty of staying aboard.
A Banner Springs night watchman suffered a severe cold that settled on his lungs after long exposure. He used Dr King’s New Discovery and reports returning to work "as well as ever" after one bottle. The ad touts relief for coughs croup and sore lungs with trial bottles free and guaranteed by G M Ramsey.
Judge Powers told an Evening News reporter that the week before Christmas sees unusually few arrests with none this week, contrasting with fourteen arrests one year ago as business remains slack.
Ingleside North Carolina man B F Ryscue spent fifteen years and $200 on doctor visits and medicines. After trying Dr King’s New Life Pills he reports total relief. Pills claim to ease constipation biliousness sick headache stomach liver and kidney troubles. 25 cents at G M Ramsey's.
Moberly Missouri reports Judge Wooden an auctioneer ate forty eggs in six minutes at a Centralia hotel to win a $100 wager. Scrambled eggs and crushed crackers capped the feat as witnesses only. Afterward he ate a large meal with friends, showing unusual appetite.
C. Sturdevant, long in St. Vincent sanitarium Sherman for illness and an upcoming operation, underwent the operation last Monday with satisfactory results. The News trusts he will soon return home fully recovered, and notes the Daily News items will fill part of his time during confinement.
Dr. W M Owen formerly of Ada and resident of Woodward has returned to the city to establish permanent residence and continue practice of osteopathy as a physician.
E G Scales of Dallas Texas emerges as a leading and daring figure in the cotton market. Alongside W P Brown James A Patten and Frank Hayne the group known as the Big Four earned about 15 million dollars this year as cotton prices rose and fell. Scales warned partners to sit tight and hold the line when others liquidated. He began as a drug clerk and built a fortune by forecasting scarce crops and leveraging cotton markets.
Washington telegram reports Dr. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, told visiting business leaders he would return for a U S visit in fifty years if not sooner. He mused on longevity, saying a person could live to two hundred if free from accidents and illness. A large group of local business men thanked him and urged a future return as China’s minister.
Charles Wake longtime associate of Dr Frederick A Cook Arctic explorer releases a 400 word statement detailing a conspiracy and Cook s escape under the name Frederick Hunter from New York to Europe. Wake recounts hotel contact Lisbon spy activity and a mustache shave before Cook s flight via Madison Avenue tunnel and subway to Philadelphia then departure toward Jersey City.
Frisco bound traveler Ebb K Higgins and family have been in Holdenville since last night and are expected to arrive by Christmas Day. The steady flow of holiday visitors shows strong seasonal travel demand through the Frisco line with Higgins family among those anticipated to reach their destination for the holidays.
The Ada National Bank opened July 23 1900 and has operated without interruption. It has accommodated more farmers than any bank in the county and aided more local enterprises than any other bank in the city. Citizens with unfinished business for 1909 are urged to attend to it promptly.
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