Successful Summer Race Meet At Oklahoma City State Fair
Officials of the Texas Thoroughbred Association report a highly successful first week of the Summer Race Meet at the State Fair grounds. Big crowds, several standout races, and Meadow winning the Derby style stake mark the meet with two major holidays upcoming for July third and fifth. Over 400 top thoroughbreds are stabled on site as two days of premier racing are anticipated.
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State Fairgrounds
Texas Thoroughbred Association
Oklahoma City
West
Meadow
New York
Pontotoc County Summer Normal closes with 70 enrolled
Pontotoc County closes its Summer Normal session on Friday June 24 with an enrollment of 70 from nearby counties. The Pontotoc County Teachers Association elected officers led by President A J Bowles and Vice President R P Quillin, and appointed a rules committee. They adjourned affirming support for the East Central Normal at Ada.
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Pontotoc County
R. P. Quillin
Asher
East Central Normal
Ada
Ada Prepares for Largest Fourth of July Celebration
Citizens and club members organize a big Ada Fourth of July with programs and sports. Barbecue will be abundant and the county seat invites all to spend Monday July 5th there.
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Ada
Ada resident Jesse Shands wed Fannie Rogers of Wandlen Mo
In Matrimony Jesse Shands longtime Ada resident married last Tuesday to Miss Fannie Rogers of Wandlen Missouri. They are visiting Shands' grandmother Mrs Stephenson. Shands is well known here with many friends hoping for a happy prosperous married life.
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Jesse Shands
Ada
Sen
Fannie Rogers
Wandlen
Shands
Stephenson
Jesse
State Bank Call for June 23 Bank Statements
Guthrie Oklahoma June 24 State Bank Commissioner Young issued a call to day for a statement of the condition of all State banks at the close of business June 23.
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Guthrie
Young
New Congress Faces Public Documents Distribution
The last session of the Sixtieth congress adopted a resolution giving members the right to distribute public documents and other perquisites through December. New members, lacking materials to hand out, struggle to explain the change to constituents while enduring criticism from voters who feel the policy favors incumbents. A farmer’s letter highlights confusion and disappointment over access to resources. Washington Star notes the sentiment among new and old members alike.
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Congress
Jim Blank
United States Capitol
Washington, D.C
Washington Star
NOW COLLEGE GIRL WILL SHAPE WHITE HOUSE CUSTOMS
Miss Helen Taft Bryn Mawr 1912 drama dominates Washington society as first president daughter to set tone. She blends bookish rigor with sport, fashion restraint and humor guiding four years in White House life.
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Washington Society
College
White House
Helen Taft
Bryn Mawr College For Women
United States
America
Washington
Bryn Mawr
Taft
Roosevelt
Helen
Miss Taft
Dignified Senator Fooled By Friendly Prank
A Washington senator, living near Franklin Park, received a romantic letter from a supposed young constituent. He dressed for a meeting, wandered the park for an hour, then returned to the hotel where fifty friends greeted him, making it a lighthearted prank.
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Senate
Franklin Park
Washington
Washington City
National Capital
Tucker
Cross
Plumb
Yelp of
Freedom
Beggar's Business Bargain Tests Retired Dealer
A prosperous wholesale grocer plans to leave for the West and sell his house. The next morning a beggar visits, accepts a dollar, then requests a price cut to twenty thousand dollars cash, claiming to buy the house.
Cannon Smokes Through Triumph Amidst House Raucousness
The piece portrays Speaker Cannon enjoying a dozen black Havanas between ten and noon on the day of a key vote. He remains relaxed at his desk after the Fitzgerald reform, mildly observing that the old guard still has fight left as congratulating fiends drift in.
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Speaker Cannon
Uncle Joe
Gemini
Cosmopolitan City Talk on Choir Pronunciation
A man leaving a New York church after a choral service notes four distinct ways the choir members pronounce the word mercy. He describes majority as mercy with light r sound and one instance as meercy with extended r, another as mercay with a French finish, and fears the choir master cannot unify the pronunciation.
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New York
Quaker Councilmen Led Through Maze To Exit
The Philadelphia Republican city committee members spent a winding tour of Washington as Congressman McCreary escorted them from Speaker Cannon’s room toward an outdoor exit. The group wandered corridors and elevators until an elevator boy guided them to the correct exit.
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Maze
Republican City Committee
Philadelphia
Speaker Cannon
Capitol
Washington
McCreary
Collar Button Defender
A Burlington railroad worker defends the collar button as a loyal companion for 28 years, claiming it never wanders or causes trouble. He says he treats it kindly, never swears at it, and believes mutual respect from humans will be returned by the button.
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Burlington Railroad
Not for Her A fairy offers youth but a woman refuses aging fashions
The fairy claims a wand can restore youth but the woman declines. She will accept youth at her current age if possible but refuses to regress through past fashion trends and habits. The exchange reads as a humorous Life magazine exchange about aging and changing styles.
One Dandy Boasts Good Looks At Country Station
A dandy brags about drawing attention at a country station while his friend shrugs it off. He says he attracted notice in a small place. The other recalls crowds at Grand Central shouting Hansom as he exits.
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Grand Central Station
Social function eyed to meet committee colleagues in Washington
Congressman Rodenberg recalls two strangers who met in Congress and shared a committee Railway and canals. The anecdote shows the size and bustle of the House and leads to calls for a social function to foster acquaintances among committee members before the session.
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House of Representatives
Rodenberg
Illinois
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Washington
National Magazine
Fresh Air Tablets Impress Paris Invention Of Oxygen Generators
A Paris invention of acethylene specialists provides oxygen releasing tablets that bubble in water to refresh air. The trend of needlework in high society continues as fashionable mothers promote school embroidery and doilies. Washington social leaders embrace needlecraft as a lasting tradition.
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Washington
Connecticut Avenue
Paris
France
The
Pathfinder
Gotham
England
Plan to secure work for all proposed by Miss Eastman
Miss Eastman the secretary of the New York branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation says a plan must be devised to give men the right to work. She argues society should prevent able men from starving begging or stealing and believes the country can afford an eight hour day six days a week for everyone.
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Miss Eastman
New York
American Association For Labor Legislation
Countess Farrar to Build Home for Children of Criminals
Countess Boos Farrar, relative of Archdeacon Farrar, secures 75 acres at Spring Valley New York to house children of criminals and waifs while pursuing studies on inherited crime. She devotes her time to care for the sick and needy.
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Boos Farrar
Archdeacon Farrar
Spring Valley
N. Y
Mrs Roosevelt Collects Decade of Humorous Verses
Mrs. Roosevelt kept a private trove of nonsense verses gathered over ten years. Friends sent clippings from newspapers and magazines, and she sorted them into scrapbooks marked with her initials E. K. R. The collection fills more than a dozen scrapbooks and showcases witty quatrains and five-liners.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
His Magical Coat
A legendary tale features Jack the Giant Killer boasting about an invisible coat and declaring his wife cannot part with it, asserting control over a dismissive intruder.
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Jack
Bishop Hartzell Seeks Aid for Liberia Mission
Bishop J. C. Hartzell head of Methodist Africa missions met the president to discuss Liberian commission work. The panel included R. C. Ogden of New York who recently resigned Emmett J. Scott Booker T. Washington aide at Tuskegee and W Morgan Schuster of DC Booker T. Washington attended but did not propose a successor for Ogden's race.
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Hartzell
J. C. Hartzell
Methodist Church In
Africa
Liberian Commission
R. C. Ogden
New York
Emmett J. Scott
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
W. Morgan Schuster
District of Columbia
Senators Ride on Own Line in Washington Subway
The United States Senate Underground Transportation Company began service in Washington with a single open automobile running an airline underground between the senate basement and the new Senate office building. Every senator serves as a director, forming a 92-member roster, while House members, used to walking, react with indignation at the novelty. The short electric line is not yet equipped, and the car seats ten slim or eight stout senators.
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United States
United States Senate Underground Transportation Company
Washington
Senate
House
Librarian Boobar Manages Vast Congressional Index
John J. Boobar, librarian of the house of representatives, is compiling a card index of the Congressional Record. Indexing the speeches of the Fifty-ninth Congress alone required over 20,000 cards. He was appointed from Minnesota and brings high energy to the role, noting no attaches are more overworked than he is and that he keeps busy to stay productive.
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John J. Boobar
House of Representatives
Boobar
Minnesota
Congress
Site to Be Selected for Feeble Minded Home Near Enid
Guthrie June 25 The site for the feeble minded home authorized by the second legislature will be chosen soon. James Steen, temporary chairman of the board, will call a meeting this week. The institution is likely to be on section 33 of school land near Enid which may be sold under the school land bill. Legislation appropriated 25000 for construction and 10000 for maintenance.
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Guthrie
Oklo
Enid
James Steen
Prisoner Newton Youngblood Dies After Escape Attempt
Newton Youngblood a life prisoner from Oklahoma county died this morning after a June 14 escape attempt at the McAlester penitentiary. He was wounded when a guard fired during his leap for freedom after being convicted two years ago for killing his uncle at Edmond.
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McAlester
Okla
Newton Youngblood
Oklahoma County
Youngblood
Edmond
Tanner Leaves for Galveston Health Trip
Carthal Tanner of the Ada Democrat and former News employee leaves this afternoon for Galveston Texas seeking a healthier climate. He has been unable to attend duties recently and the Ada typographical frater nity regrets his departure as he was their financial and corresponding secretary and well liked.
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Carthal Tanner
The
Ada Democrat
the News
Galveston
Texas
South Texas
Farewell Dinner for Miss Lucy Pore Honors Lewistown Visitor
Mrs J R Thompson hosted a farewell dinner Friday evening at six for Miss Lucy Pore who departs Tuesday. Pore, from Lewistown Idaho, has visited her sister Mrs J J Chapman in Sunrise for several weeks. Guests praised Mrs Thompson as a charming hostess.
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J. R. Thompson
Lucy Pore
Miss Pore
Lewistown
Idaho
J. J. Chapman
Mrs. Thompson
District Court Adijourn and Judge Stephenstown
Judge Robert M. Rainey dismissed court at this place yesterday and left for Coalgate. Judge West, who is holding at that place and who has been sworn off the bench in a murder case will return here Monday and resume disposition of the civil docket. It is likely that the term here will be closed within the next ten days.
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Robert M. Rainey
Coalgate
West
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments Warns Public
An 19th century health note cautions against mercury containing catarrh ointments as dangerous to smell and overall health. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective when taken orally. Also recommends Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo D
Toledo
Ohio
Durant Man Guilty of Wife Murder in Tent Shooting
W A Foncree was found guilty of murdering his wife in a tent near Bennington on February 4, 1908. He received a life sentence in the penitentiary. The defense cited family troubles as the motive.
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Durant
Okla
Foncree
Bennington
Ada Officials Attend Pig Celebration Event
From Guthrie to Ada, Judge Furman Swamp Campbell and Howard Parker state officers will join Adaites on the 5th for the pig celebration. C. Patton, former Ada state officer, also slated to attend.
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Judge Furman
Swamp” Campbell
Howard Parker
Ada
C. Patton
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