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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
6
A brief political notice names J R Lawrence Carlton Weaver as a delegate candidate for the Constitutional Convention. The item records his candidacy and affirms the official designation without additional context or dates.
Style centers from the East declare trousers should be two inches shorter than current proper length. Ada residents welcome the change as it allows cutting fringe and leaving a respectable hem.
The 1904 Roosevelt campaign is linked to a $1 million pledge by Andrew Carnegie to the Republican fund. The piece argues tariff protection fosters Steel and Sugar Trusts, asserting such monopolies rely on tariff protection and criticizes Roosevelt's stance on trust control.
In Midland last week W H L Campbell of Ada, seeking delegate to the constitutional convention from the Eighty seventh district, accused local newspapers of a trust and high charges for announcements. Carlton Weaver contradicted him, calling the claims false. editors defend press independence and loyal partisan guidance.
The article accuses Republicans in Blaine and Logan counties of sending delegates to Southern states to recruit Black workers for Oklahoma. It claims plans to bring in African Americans to shift political power, alleging collusion with carpetbaggers and corporations to influence the constitutional convention election. It warns of election-law violations and urges Oklahomans to defend liberty.
The Mill Creek Times denounces a trumped up conspiracy charge leveled at Democratic papers in the district. The piece argues the move harms party institutions that labor for the people and the party’s principles, and asserts the accuser seeks political honors from the very party they insult.
A warning urges Oklahomans to scrutinize alleged deliberate importation of Black voters to affect the constitutional election. The note links tactics to both regions and calls for vigilance to prevent fraud, while a medicinal plug promotes Prickly Ash bitters and the White Swan brand via M. L. Walsh.
The Christian church sees rising interest with Mr. Trimble delivering a Thursday sermon urging listeners to choose Christ over sin. He cites Pilate and Barabbas, discusses miracles, and warns of rejection leading to despair, ending with a plug for Prickly Ash bitters as a bedtime tonic.
Ada society enjoyed a pre-nuptial reception for Miss Anna Carroll at Mrs. W S Thompson’s home. Guests painted rooms with roses and honeysuckles and shared fortune pies with future husband pictures. Candles determined who would marry first, ending with Amanda James Haynes’s plate.
Stetson Hats offered for one week at Nash's Tailor Shop with new hats for one dollar and derbies priced from fifty cents to a dollar twenty five. Panama cleaning advertised. Also promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for skin irritations and piles sold by F Z Holley and Crescent Drug Store.
In the United States Commissioner's Court in the Indian Territory Southern District at Ada J E Waddell sues Oolite Banking Co H E Swan and C N Gould The defendant Oolite Banking Co is warned to appear in thirty days and answer the complaint Witness U G Winn United States Commissioner September 8 1906 Crawford Bolen for plaintiff B C King for non resident defendant
The Ada City Council gathers electors to vote October 8 1906 on issuing Forty Thousand Dollars in Waterworks bonds. The measure funds additions to city waterworks with a twenty year repayment plan at five percent interest, with details in the September 3 1906 resolution and notice in Ada Weekly News.
Mrs. Mary H Walter of St Clair Street Columbus complains of stomach weakness from drugs and insomnia. She credits Electric Bitters with an immediate improvement and complete cure, calling it the best health tonic on earth. Sold by Holley and Ramsey at 50 cents with guarantee.
A reader from Luela I T dated Sept 11 describes inspecting crops near South McAlester and finding little cotton viable for market. The writer notes seeing mostly Bumble Bee Cotton and advises against going to McAlester, signing A B Brown.
The Dr. Mendenhall Chill and Fever Cure gains favor with drug trade. About 50 gross sold in ten months via Schuh Dru Co. Cairo Illinois. Sold on a signed guaranty by G. M. Ramsey, druggist.
Advertisement claims a watermelon piece by the bed will attract mosquitoes away from sleepers. Insects gather around the fruit and the reader is promised a good night’s rest.
Kendall of Philipsburg Kansas promotes Bucklin’s Arnica Salve as a quick cure for burns boils sores and wounds sold by F Z Holley and G M Ramsey druggists for 25 cents with a guarantee as presented in a 1900s style newspaper blurb.
Government analysis shows Tin-top contains 1.66 percent alcohol and 3.847 percent malt while Mistletoe contains 1.962 percent alcohol and 6.84 percent malt. Marshal Porter says dealers may handle these beverages. they’re the only two found under the two percent limit. The notice ends with an ad for Kohol digestion aid sold at Crescent Drug Store.
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