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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
2
The school museum features a diverse collection including Indian exhibits, firearms, banners, and many relics. Displays cover local history, projects, and university ties while noting administration efforts and upcoming events.
An eccentric museum exhibit displays a mixture of specimens and artifacts. The scene includes varied nationalities and curious items, with visitors observing the odd collection and staff noting the public welcome and general atmosphere.
Durant college building destroyed by a damaging fire. Other details appear garbled with multiple transcription errors, but the core event notes a destructive blaze impacting campus facilities and leaving infrastructure uncertain. No clear casualty or response specifics are legible.
Fragmented OCR recounts a person attempting to inhale or misuse a cough drop or similar candy causing a dangerous, confused sequence of events. The piece hints at a higher risk behavior, a Friday to Saturday timeline, with a hospital or medical response and warnings about improper use of cough remedies.
Fragmentary report describes a German pilot who escaped to the United States via the St Lawrence River and was interned or questioned. The dispatch references authorities at Burg New York and mentions ongoing search and security concerns amid wartime tensions.
A late society names a Tulsa woman as head of the group. The report notes names and positions within the society and mentions a series of oblique references to members and leadership. The text is fragmentary but assigns the leadership role to a Tulsa resident.
In late summer 1906 The News ran a public poll on renaming Ada, Oklahoma. After many proposed titles, an unofficial vote showed Ada narrowly winning 161 votes to 267 against, risking a name change that would erase the founder’s legacy and alter local identity.
Promoter John McKeel of Alfa plans a major test well at the edge of Farmington near Maytimid in Kentucky. Cox Drilling Company of Owensboro holds the drilling contract with Barncon Rabes as superintendent. The project marks a milestone as the first oiling expected in the northwest Kentucky district between Cincinnati and New Orleans, amid a community celebration and local industrial growth.
Atoka Jam 27 fire damaged the State Subprison buildings housing machine shop, plumbing and carpentry. About 400 state convicts aided in preventing spread. no insurance covered the loss. Deputy Warden Ray and Fire Chief A. K. Tele praised the convicts for organizing bucket brigades and using extinguishers. Loss estimated at over 200,000 dollars.
A British official, Henry Drummond-Wolff, accepted Seminole's iron today as a wartime duty metal. The ceremony included remarks praising the material for England's war needs and potential postwar use, with Seminole's Fred McButt noting the project aims as non profit. British workers' association involvement and US manufacturers were cited as key in sending cast bars to England for armament use.
A man named Braff Bretooe Bim was arrested for breaking an automobile window during a snowball fight. A suspended sentence was recalled after he claimed he was wounded when Te told the judge he was being treated. Bill Daly recalled a remark about the army and Rat’s threat.
The American Red Cross sent garments worth about 4.09 each to Britain for children and families, with volunteers in Britain distributing them. Messages from mothers and foster parents praise the effort, while notes from soldiers describe camp life, mail from Ada and Coalgate, and planned entertainment as recreation officers organize hall activities and a Dixie Land Five concert.
Dramatic account describes King George V’s secret Atlantic voyage amid naval detours and Allied escort. US neutrality safeguards clash with reports of submarine danger as the battleship’s route stirs worldwide interest. The voyage aims to return to Britain, with contingents stationed off Halifax and potential isolation from enemy action.
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