Ada News Appeals for Patronage Amid City Growth
A 1909 Ada Oklahoma piece urges local businessmen to boost advertising and subscriptions as the News touts its city-building role. It frames public attitude as a crisis and cites five-year daily publication history, promising value and direct results. Resolutions praise State Normal in Ada and commend lawmakers and Governor Haskell for education and progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Reuben M. Roddie
Senate
Democratic Party
Edgar S. Ratliff
Frank Huddleston
House of Representatives
Henry M. Furman
W. H. L. Campbell
Govercn
C. N. Haskell
Byron Norrell
Sec.v
Oklahoma Tax Study Reveals Local Tax Burdens Favor Township
State inspector Chas A Taylor drafts a statement showing taxes by level. It finds the state levy at one and one quarter mills, the lowest for state purposes, with most taxes supporting local and township needs. Farmers with $2000 assessed value pay $2.50 to the state and up to $16 to the township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Okla
Chas. A. Tayior
Oklahoma
Crushed to Death as Katy Work Train Derails
Yesterday near Tyrola a north bound Katy work train mishap crushed brakeman John Tipton after a rock fell from a car causing two cars to jump the rails. Tipton, about 32 and unmarried, was taken to Walters parlor and to be shipped to Oklahoma City for burial in Chandler tomorrow.
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John Tipton
Katy
Tyrola
Mr. Tipton
L. T. Walters
Oklahoma City
Tipton
Oklahoma charters granted as state bank and oil firms rise
Guthrie March 18 charters issued for Mount Zion Cemetery Association of Hennessey Weleetka Water Power Co of Oklahoma City Chattanooga Elevator Co of Chattanooga and three new state banks at Fort Gibson Minco and Lawton plus several oil and construction firms. Legislative acts include the Roddie Insurance Bill and funding for cyclone relief. State press association meeting set at Claremore. Anick vagrant case and Kansas return request noted.
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Guthrie
Okla
Mount Zion Cemetery Association
Hennessey
Weleetka Water Power Co
Oklahoma City
T. Blake
Hobart
S. T. Ambler
H. McGriffin
Chattanooga Elevator Co
Chattanooga
Citizens State Bank of
Ft. Gibson
H. Nakdimen
Saflisaw
C. B. Kagy
J. K. Blake
Lawton
Minco
W. V. Vickery
W. H. Wadsworth
Chickasha
F. A. Vickery
Renden cotton seed for sale in Wills Point Texas
Pure Renden cotton seed offered for sale at 75 cents per bushel in Wills Point Texas. Marketed as the best all around cotton for farmers. Reference First National Bank. Written by F Hill. 3 weeks time.
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Wills Point
Tex
First Nationalk
F. Hill
Mothers and Gambling Fever Among Women Warned
A religious press warning reports a surge of gambling among mothers, driven by bridge and whist. The Christian Advocate notes families disrupted, children exposed to gambling culture, and clerical wives joining bridge parties, with churches and colleges cited as touched by the craze.
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Christian Advocate
New York
United States
Addison
Pam
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Law and Order League
Oklahoma Railroads Appeal Commodity Tariffs to Supreme Court
The Oklahoma railroads appeal the corporation commission orders placing tariffs on grain and grain products oil and petroleum cement vegetables fruits canned goods cotton cotton seed and hides into effect. They also challenge the order requiring wire and mail accident reports and seek quicker appeals though a bill to limit appeals to sixty days failed.
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Guthrie
Supreme Court
Corporation Commission
Oklahoma
It Saved His Leg By Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
A Watertown Wisconsin man J A Swenson credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with curing ten years of eczema after 15 doctors failed. The ad claims the salve treats skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds cuts and piles and promotes purchase at G M Ramsey’s for 25 cents.
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J. A Swenson
Watertown
Bucklen
G. M. Ramseys
Oklahoma judge weighs foreign domicile law in Frisco charter case
Guthrie Oklahoma March 18 Judge John H Cotteral of the United States Circuit Court weighs the legality of an Oklahoma law aimed at cancelling a corporate charter when a company pleads foreign domicile to shift a case to federal courts. The judge notes no prior decisions upholding such laws elsewhere and sees the Oklahoma statute as cautiously drafted. The state seeks to cancel the Frisco railroad charter for alleged violations of the act.
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Volunteer Oil Co
Tulsa
A. P. McBride
Robert Jordan
A. P. McBride Jr
Mackintosh-Barbour Co
Oklahoma City
Western Ice Co
el Reno
J. T. Bradford
H. C. Bradford
W. H. Crilev
Ward Oil and Gas Co
Chelsea
Thomas J. Laney
Lama
Ohio
Harry C. Weibel
Coffeyville
Kansas
Charles T. Hart
Dewey
Arthur Oil Co
Guthrie
Okio
Criminal Court of Appeals
Doyle
Furman
Baker
John Hance
State of
Oklahoma
John H. Cotteral
United States Circuit Court
Judy Cotteral
Frisco Railroad
Unknown future held by mercy sails near shore
Poem lines speak of faith amid uncertainty as the speaker waits beside the sea and trusts in divine care. The speaker believes no harm can come, whether on ocean or land, under God’s mercy and protection. Palm fronds and distant islands are mentioned as imagery for hopeful horizons.
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Kansas City
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Rock Island
W. C. Crawford
Farmers Union
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Young
Farmers State Bank of
Comanche
Capital
Walter D. Caldwell
A. L. Davis
J. D. Chelf
Roddie
Haskell
Watonga
Department of Agriculture
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J. P. Connors
Charles F. Barrett
State Press Association
Claremore
Duffy
Secretary of the State
Hugh W. Anick
Wyandott County
Bartlesville
Anich
Kansas City Journal
County Court
Okmulgee County
Reeves
County Election Board
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Cimarron
Texas
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H. West
Geo. A. Harrison
Cotteral
Arizona
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