Nine Mile Road Built in a Day by Sequoyah County Volunteers
In Sequoyah County 850 men seventy five teams and several hundred women built nine miles of road between Sallisaw and Vian in one day. Bankers joined laborers and local residents organized squads with captains supervising scrapers plows graders and road drags. All work was voluntary and most local businesses closed to support the effort. Three more miles are planned in a similar effort.
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Muskogee
Sequoyah County
Sallisaw
Vian
Southwest
Sequoyah
Mrs. E. W. Hardin Moves Family to Oklahoma City
Mrs. E. W. Hardin and her children left Wednesday afternoon for Oklahoma City where the family will reside in the future.
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E. W. Hardin
Oklahoma City
Jury WN Taylor Case Ends in Mistrial After 24 Hours
After near unity deadlock Judge McKeown discharged the jurors in the J B Taylor murder case filed over Clayton Copeland’s death two years ago at Tyrola. With three juries delivering the same result the case is likely to be dismissed at the next term.
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J. B. Taylor
Clayton Copeland
Tyrola
McKeown
Dr King’s New Discovery Praised by Rosville Druggist
C D Perkins of Rossville California praises Dr King’s New Discovery as the best throat and lung medicine, claiming it cured his wife of a severe bronchial cold after other remedies failed. The ad urges keeping a bottle for family use, noting prices at 50 cents and 1 dollar and a Ramsey Drug Company guarantee.
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C. D. Perkins
Rossville
California
Dr. King
Ramsey Drug Company
Clarence Evans Acquitted by Jury
Clarence Evans was tried in district court on a charge of cutting Henry Galbraith with a knife. The trial was brief and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Clarence Evans
Henry Galbraith
War Time Notes and Confederate Hope From 1863 Richmond News
A reader finds a 1863 Richmond News with Gen John B Hood portrait and writers like W Gilmore Sims and Henry Timrod. It reviews military moves from Hooker to Burnside and Pope, mocks Union generals, and notes rising subscription prices, Confederate prospects, and Lincoln Congress draft plans. It also advertises Dr Simmons Squaw Wine for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Wilson
Vaness
Trinity River
Texas
Trinity
Richmond News
John B. Hood
W. Gilmore Sims
Paul H. Hayne
John Esten Cooke
Henry Timrod
Glass Sand Beds Draw Capitalists To Roff Oklahoma
A group of capitalists examines glass sand deposits near Roff Oklahoma where several hundred acres lie atop a silica seam over 100 feet thick and 90 percent pure per analysis by the State Geological Department, with potential for a local factory or shipment to existing plants. Also notices a patent remedy HERBINE with claims to liver cleansing and overall health.
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Roff, Ok
Roff
State Geological Department
Pontotoc County Men Given Recognition
Governor Cruce appointed Ada resident A. L. Beck and G. W. Montgomery to prominent roles. Beck chosen to aid in the Anglo American exposition in London in October 1914. Montgomery named as a delegate to the American Good Roads congress in Detroit on September 29.
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Oklahoma
Cruce
London
A. L. Beck
Ada
American Good Roads Congress
Detroit
G. W. Montgomery
Will for Aged Spinsters Funds Home in York
Four hundred thousand dollars is set aside to build and maintain a home for aged and unmarried Pennsylvania women under the will of Miss Anna L. Gardner probated in York yesterday. Gardner was the last of three unmarried sisters who lived there.
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York
Pennsylvania
Anna L. Gardner
Cushing Drug Store Holdup Ends in Fatal Wound
In Cushing Oklahoma on July 24 a pair of robbers entered Edmond Diamond Drug Store, forced staff to surrender, and after a gun misfire, another employee fired. A cashier sustained a fatal chest wound and died within minutes as the bandits were subdued. The report also pitches Dr Lemmon liver medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cushing
Okla
Edmond Diamond
Tia’ Sae
Farm and Ranch Excerpt Highlights Local Cement Co Silos
A fragment from the Ada Normal consolidation movement praises a Farm and Ranch feature and includes an illustration of two silos belonging to the OK Cement Co. The piece showcases varied advertising aimed at promoting community projects.
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Ada Normal Con Silo
OK Cement Co
Ada grocery ad touts upgraded draghead and shuttle tech
An Ada Oklahoma notice lists W. C. Williams of Aldrich Grocery advertising a four installment plan dating 1913 to 1916 for an updated draghead with automatic tension release cushion and improved shuttle ejector.
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W. C. Williams
Aldrich Grocery
Ada, Oklahoma
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