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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
6
The News reporter spends Sunday in Gotebo and Monday in Hobart, noting Gotebo as a small Oklahoma town with strong homes and hopeful oil and gas prospects. Hobart is larger, asphalted and a center of trade, welcoming Woodmen and their circle with banners and ample, affordable hospitality.
The marriage of Mr. Robert A. Nesbitt of Ada and Miss Robbie Rike of Farmersville Texas occurred Sunday at the bride's mother's home Mrs. Mattie Wright. They returned to Ada and were later entertained at a dinner by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moore with friends. Nesbitt is a senior employee at the First National Bank of Ada.
A civic gathering featured a mock fire drill as visitors mingled under a festive mood. A sudden blizzard hit Wednesday morning, the biggest snow of the winter, with Hobart denying any link to the entertainment. An anecdote recounts a Rheumatism cure with Chamberlin's Liniment, claimed by Lee Chapman of Mapleton Iowa.
Bold claims promote Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a gentle laxative for all ages and ailments. The ad touts energy boosting effects and relief from dizziness biliousness sick headache and malaria with safe use for children. Postcards offer free samples from Hot Springs Chemical Co Hot Springs Ark and Mad-Ox Drug Co Ada as agents.
One month into a plan giving Ada public school credit for home industrial work. Over three hundred students submit daily home work. Top performers include Chas Pennington Nina Mishler Maud Grady Bertha Smith Smoker Davis and Jack Davis. Contest ends May 1 with cash prizes for two pupils at each school.
E M Allen of Holdenville Oklahoma testifies he suffered kidney pain and rheumatic aches from disordered kidneys. He reports that Doan’s Kidney Pills gave him relief after other remedies failed and he was soon well. Sold by all dealers priced 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for US Remember the name Doan’s and take no other.
Estimates show 70 000 marooned in Dayton flood districts with 15 000 homes submerged and 25 million dollars in property losses. Indiana reports deadly wind and flood effects across multiple cities including Indianapolis and Terre Haute with dozens dead and hundreds missing while White and Wabash rivers rise, breaking levees and flooding vast lands.
Early reports from Texas indicate a severe fruit crop loss due to a Wednesday night freeze. Commissioner T L Peeler cited about 75 percent damage overall, with other crops less affected. Reports from Winnsboro Whitesboro Sulphur Springs and Pittsburg varied, some fruit saved but most damaged.
Advertisement claims Dr King’s Life Pills cure headaches and indigestion quickly. Billed as purifying the blood and renewing vigor with a dry pill, each box is guaranteed and priced at 25. Recommender listed as G. M. Ramsey.
F. L. Terrell a traveling representative for Williamson Hassell Frazier Grocery Co was in Ada and arranged to move his family to Ada securing apartments at the Colonnade.
Representatives from the U S Department of Agriculture and national agricultural experts attend the Southern States conference in New Orleans to form a permanent organization for promoting southern agriculture. Fifteen states including Texas Tennessee Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Mississippi Oklahoma Kentucky Florida Louisiana and Alabama are represented. Governor Hall and E O Bruner welcome visitors, with a tour planned of Louisiana’s agricultural districts and drainage projects after adjournment.
Wednesday evening about 6 o'clock Mrs. Correll of seven miles south of Ada took an overdose of chloroform nearly dying. Physicians rushed to her home and after an hour or two she revived and modern reports say she is improving with early recovery in sight. The notice also mentions Dr. Simmons Live Medicine and resettles local moving news about Charley Rinard family relocating to Roff and Rev Paul Garbet returning home from Homer to Leonard.
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery as the best remedy for coughs and colds for forty three years. It claims quick relief from the first dose and features a testimonial from C H Brown of Musidine Alabama about his wife's recovery from a severe cough. Price is 50 cents and 1.00.
George Thompson of Jesse visited Ada on Thursday afternoon to view a local event and meet residents.
The article argues beekeeping is a rising, profitable industry with broad benefits for pollination and fruit yields. It notes high honey production elsewhere, potential employment, and low required ground, urging local attention despite scarce current local response. It also cites optimistic reports from M. R. Chillicott on crop prospects in eastern Oklahoma.
The Duncan Weekly Eagle reports that at least fifteen new silos will be erected in Stephens County this year as farmers recognize the great value of silo storage for feed and protection.
A keepsake directory shows several Ada based professionals including Dr G A Akers at 110 East Main, Castleberry and Cummings at Aldrich Building, C A Galbraith attorney at law, Dr J W F Wimbish and Wimbish & Duncan attorneys, Ason and Roddie at Steed Building, Granger & Granger dentists, and Dr Wallis Hartman in Conn Building with various office and phone details.
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