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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1903
Page
8
A collage of notices and anecdotes references Lydia E Pinkham remedies for kidney and womb troubles, a Chinese vignette on frugality and fuel gathering, and a Pennypacker retort illustrating classic courtroom wit.
Byron W Holt argues that the Elkins anti-rebate bill was authored by A J Cassatt Paul Morton and E D Kenna with input from the White House and ICC. He contends the bills favor railroads and hurt consumers and urges stronger action by Attorney General Knox and President Roosevelt to curb trusts before the national convention.
A vintage promotional piece extols Gyrup of Figs as the leading laxative for the family across the world. It stresses its plant-based beneficial action, purity in manufacture by the California Fig Syrup Co., and the need to buy genuine packs labeled with the full company name.
A tangled reflection on suitors, pride, courage, charity, and marriage. an old bachelor notes that a dowry dulls bitterness, while the solitary man with few enemies gains little. The text blends aphorisms about cowardice, romance, and social norms.
C W Post donates 7500 to fund 735 cash prizes through July to boost family cookery. Women contestants vie to improve everyday dishes and general cookery with Postum and tea as motto. Prizes range from 200 to 6 dollars for 985 cooks.
A congressional review attacks tariffs as a burden on consumers. It cites Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Statistics and Republican letters claiming manufacturers’ materials comprised over half U S imports in February and duty averages around 15 percent, with projected yearly import value above 450 million dollars.
A brief line notes the threat from the ice trust with the declaration It s time for me to get busy now indicating imminent enforcement or action against the ice monopoly and its control of supplies.
Washington dispatch notes no new push to pass the ship subsidy though three quarters of House Republicans favor it. Curtis cites GOP northwestern defections aiding defeat as the Courier Journal argues the tactic masks continued attempts to raid treasury funds.
A Boston Globe critique notes Congress stressing that fines in anti trust laws are too weak. It argues Hoar and Elkins bills fail to deter violators and that forfeitures do little without repealing the underlying laws allowing trusts to form.
E M Shepard outlines a 1904 campaign program centered on equal rights and abolition of special privilege. He calls for tariff reform targeting monopolized goods, end to interstate commerce preferences, reduced administration costs, Philippine self government and independence, and fair banking practices.
Dr Calmette of Lille develops an anti venom serum by immunizing horses with cobra venom as the principal ingredient and reports reliability against cobra bites. The notice warns against mercury in catarrh remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. A skating anecdote closes with a Reading man failing at Crystal Lake.
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