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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
4
An excerpt from George Washington's 1787 letter describes severe financial strain. He notes demands for over 500 pounds, lack of crops for two years, inability to pay debts, high living costs from family and visitors, and the need to sell land to avoid debt.
A collage of opinions notes tribal restraint and Protestant church politics under Nazi pressure. It laments inconsistent US pension laws and praises a strong securities act. It warns against graft, stresses moral conduct for public servants, touts cherries as reliable crops, and questions Oklahoma’s fair funding and boosters.
The June Sunday School lesson situates Jesus at the last Passover with His disciples, detailing Judas’s betrayal, Peter’s denial, and the new meaning of the bread and wine as symbols of Jesus’s body and blood. It reflects on courage, mercy, and the move from earthly to spiritual deliverance, linking to later reflections on society and history.
Washington report on a treasury backed bill to cancel gold clauses in bonds and mortgages. The measure would allow any legal currency for payment, aiming to quell challenges to the end of the gold standard. Debate and expected passage followed, with Glass opposing.
A collage of Ada area notes includes Gen John J Pershing inspection in France with Jim Huff recalling a muddy battalion. Local assessor work on personal property, Mrs Jessie Morgan’s ankle setback, a child’s fireman quip, a clerk’s old safe, a waterhaul for moonshine rumors, and Charley Shockley recalling thin TB patients in Albuquerque.
United States crude oil production declined by 122 049 barrels daily to 2 807 082 in the past week as Oklahoma and Texas led the drop amid protests over low prices. Texas fell to 1 565 269 barrels daily and East Texas slowed after a month of higher output. Kansas and California also showed reductions.
In a San Francisco nights scene at 2 a m Max Gilstrap, a ranger, awoke to a phone call seeking a whistle from the Yosemite campfire program host. He agreed to whistle for the caller who said she was lonely and continued the exchange.
Miami Oklahoma May 31 authorities identified Wilbur Underhill as the head of four men who robbed a filling station operator of a few dollars and gasoline and kidnapped him to Narcis sa after dawn. Weatherby reported shotguns and pistols in the car and officers guarded possible hideouts around Picher while tracking the fugitives toward the Spavinaw hills.
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