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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
2
A newspaper notice directs readers to address all correspondence to the News Publishing and Printing Company. It specifies the central office handling public notices and communications.
The article urges buying Liberty Bonds and War Stamps, praising financial support over talk. It notes Ada and Pontotec County progressing toward quotas, and lauds American unity, Foch and Joffre assessments, and the Roosevelt family’s wartime sacrifices while condemning partisan attacks on soldiers.
The State Insurance Board and politicians discuss wartime taxes framed by the president, rail rate reform, and industrial readjustment postwar. Oklahoma asserts progress, resolves tribal issues, and plans coal and asphalt land sales, with Congress authorizing $200 million farm loan bonds as Eastern Oklahoma farmers respond. A magazine piece urges resilience and thrift, praising moral fiber through hardship.
Government economy moves to consolidate Ada railway facilities with the Frisco handling passengers and the Katy freight about August 1, with Santa Fe likely added later. The division of work between Frisco and Katy crews is not yet announced.
A 1918 column describes making sugar beet syrup at low cost by boiling beets and reducing to concentrate. It also reports a German view of American manpower and includes a guardianship order in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, for the sale of a minor’s real estate with hearing set for Sept. 5.
Washington reports fifty thousand black registrants from forty one states and D C are slated to entrain August 1 to 5 for general military service. Congress is praised for the shipbuilding and airplane programs, Liberty motors, training and the new rehabilitation bill aiding disabled veterans.
George Wilson has provided notable educational service across Oklahoma. He advocates teaching production distribution and conservation as wartime aims and peacetime prosperity, and has spoken in every county. Vote for George Wilson to support proven educational leadership.
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