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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
4
The piece extols Blue Valley as a fertile wealth generator while urging cultivation to boost prosperity. It also cites ridicule and satire, tax protests, and debt relief ideas, including Finland’s debt and farm loan bonds with four percent interest.
A farmer orders a well filled to bury an old blind horse but the animal climbs out as dirt is shoveled in. The tale mirrors how the very things meant to bury one can lift them toward light and resilience.
Narrative describes John the Baptist denying Messiah claims and pointing to Jesus as the Lamb of God. It follows Andrew Peter Philip Nathanael and others who believe after personal witness, forming Jesus’s early circle in Galilee and Capernaum. The piece highlights the power of personal outreach over general proclamation.
The National Emergency Council under Executive Director Frank C. Walker plans a planning session with 48 state directors to outline its authority and early use of power. Roosevelt influenced director choices, and the group aims to coordinate volunteer emergency agencies and provide recovery information while establishing regional offices.
J. W. Leeper aged 78 dies at home in Roff Wednesday night at 11. Funeral Thursday at 8 at the Methodist church in Roff with burial in East Hill cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include his widow a daughter Mrs Joe Heathman Holdenville and a son Homer Leeper Ross. The rest of the page covers policy debates on Philippine independence trade relations a 1940 independence plan and various federal government actions in the 1930s including NRA staffing and banking investigations.
Two year old James Raymond Oliver, son of Mr and Mrs M N Oliver, died at a local hospital Wednesday. Funeral services and burial were held at Black Rock cemetery Thursday afternoon with Criswell Funeral Home in charge.
Joe Roddy aged 60 a farmer living near Bebee died at his home at 7 p m Saturday Funeral services were held at Egypt Cemetery Monday afternoon followed by burial in that cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge
Robert Allison age 30 died at his Conway home Sunday morning at 1 10. Funeral services were at 3 00 Sunday at the home. Burial in the family cemetery with Criswell Funeral Home in charge. He is survived by his widow, his parents Mr and Mrs W H Allison, five sisters Mrs Judy Campbell Cloudy Okla Mrs Mae Alexander Ada Mrs Hilda Malone Allen Mrs Thelma Brumley Ada and Mrs Vadare Justice Allen, and three brothers Calvin Allison Maysville Cudahy and Cornish Allison of Allen.
John Wells died at a local hospital January 14 at age 72. Funeral services were held Monday at 3 30 p m at Byrds Mill cemetery with Rev Nettles officiating and Keith Funeral Chapel in charge. He is survived by his widow, Ida Wells.
Mrs. William Fox of Asher died in Sulphur on Monday. Funeral services will be held Wednesday in Oklahoma City with Keith Funeral Chapel in charge.
George Washington Dexter aged 71 died Tuesday afternoon. He was father to Mrs. D. C. Payne of 615 North Francis and survived by five daughters and a brother. Funeral services will be held Friday at the First Baptist church in St. James with interment in St. James cemetery. Keith Funeral chapel in charge.
The administration will not seek to prolong the Hawes-Cutting Philippine independence bill whose term ends today. It will instead express an opinion on the measure’s status and future.
Ada news reports Ray Chamberlain a senior in the school of commerce at Oklahoma A and M college has been elected correspondence secretary of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He is a Ada high school graduate and son of Mr and Mrs W E Chamberlain of 717 East Fourteenth.
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