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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
2
Chicago reports show a drop in casualties as more cities ban sale and use of fireworks. Prohibitions yielded fewer injuries and zero deaths in Chicago. nationwide totals for 1912 show historical declines in deaths and accidents with stricter regulations.
A News reporter visited Fitzhugh area監 and observed backward cotton but prospects improving with time. Wheat and oats yield 20–40 and 40–60 bushels per acre respectively, corn looks excellent, and potato crop suffered from bugs.
If you are a housewife you cannot reasonably hope to be healthy or beautiful by washing dishes sweeping and doing housework all day and crawling into bed dead tired at night. You must get out into the open air and sunlight. If you do this every day and keep your stomach and bowels in good order by taking Chamberlain's Tablets when needed you should become both healthy and beautiful. For sale by all dealers.
Brownwood July reports show 23 000 jack rabbits slaughtered in Brown County funded by the commissioners court over four months. A 5 cent bounty on every scalp launched the eradication, funds exhausted, prompting a recall of the offer while officials plan to raise more money for continued campaign.
Oklahoma City reports a planned barrage by six robbers aboard the Kansas City to Oklahoma City run. They fired nine nitroglycerin charges at express safes, damaged the car, and fled after the chug of a motor car. M. F. Carr and E. D. McCormick served on the train crew, with sheriffs to pursue the culprits.
For soreness of the muscles whether from violent exercise or injury there is nothing better than Chamberlain's Liniment This liniment also relieves rheumatic pains For sale by all dealers.
Frisco plans to ballast the Red River division using Webster D crushed stone from Fitshugh and to replace curves with 85 pound steel rails. Officials have not confirmed the plan but the Hustler engine is expected to return to service this fall.
Ada sees Sam Brick rise as a leading bus dealer today. Local coverage highlights his sales momentum and community presence in the transportation business.
A Oklahoma City conference at the Skirvin Hotel launched the progressive movement with former Governor Frank Frantz presiding. A state convention is set for July 24 to name delegates to the national progressive convention in Chicago August 5. Delegates total about 1,100 and will be elected July 20 by county conventions. A provisional executive committee was named and Roosevelt movement veteran A E Perry attended.
Sallow complexion blamed on torpid liver. Dr M A Simmons Liver Medicine purifies and strengthens the liver, regulates the bowels, sweetens breath, and restores ruddy health to the cheeks. Price 25 cents per package. Sold by Gwin and Mays Drug Co.
About 150 Eastern Oklahoma attorneys met with Federal Judge Ralph Campbell in Muskogee to discuss disposition of 30 000 government land suits. The U S government can maintain suit and entries will follow Supreme Court rulings in Mullins Groat and other Choctaw Chickasaw Seminole cases. Cherokee Creek and others to answer next.
An advertisement notes that dysentery is serious but curable with Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It claims cure even in malignant and epidemic cases and states the product is for sale by all dealers.
Prof G H Priest travels to Cedar Grove near Francis to arrange Monday opening of a school and will teach the fall term there.
A writer recalls a hot Sunday walk from Fitzhugh to Ada with Will Meharg. He describes a three hour trek home on a sultry afternoon, a pause for water from Meharg’s well, and meeting M Z Nettles who gifted Mamie Ross peaches. He muses on walking endurance and hints at possible political ambitions.
The Directors of the Merchants and Planters State Bank submitted to the State Bank Commissioner a July 1 1912 financial statement showing Loans and Discounts 114352 05 Overdrafts 0 Furniture and Fixtures 0 Cash and Light Exchange 495 84 71 956 25 total assets 190993 20 Capital Stock 30000 00 Surplus and Undivided Profits less expenses paid Deposits 10345 26 150647 94 The signatories include C H Rives M B Donaghey R W Allen J W Davis F F Brydia H P Reich.
Senator Robert Echols of Elk City arrived in Ada and spent today meeting voters in his bid for congressman at large. He addressed a large crowd on the street and left a favorable impression, praised for sticking with Pontotoc county during the normal location fight.
Coffeyville Kansas July 12 search for the six bandits who held up the Missouri Kansas Texas passenger between Coffeyville and Bartlesville has been abandoned by the railroad and county authorities Bloodhounds failed to find the trail and repeated passes through the country yielded nothing Railroad officials say the matter rests with Parsons Kansas headquarters for the road Parsons officials have made no attempt to aid in the search
The D R Floyd wheat crop north of the city averaged 17 bushels per acre while oats reached 40 bushels per acre, indicating strong grain yields for the season.
This notice highlights electricity as a key home aid, reducing labor with benefits beyond lighting. It lists washing clothes, sewing, cooking, baking, heating, and ironing as tasks aided by electric power, promoting electricity as a necessity. ADA ELECTRIC & GAS CO promotes services from 78 South Broadway.
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