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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
5
A historic ad touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as unmatched for cuts corns burns bruises sores scalds boils ulcers eczema salt rheum sore eyes cold sores and chapped hands. It claims supreme relief for piles and notes a price of 25 cents at G M Ramsey's drug store.
A cyclone and fire devastated Zephyr Texas fifteen miles southeast of Brownwood early yesterday, killing 28 and injuring 29 with 16 not expected to live. Destruction value estimated at 80 to 90 thousand dollars. Rescue aided by Santa Fe Railway with hospital and supplies. 23 moved to Temple, 6 more too ill for transfer.
Guthrie Ok June 1 Local dispensaries closed since December 4 will reopen under a gubernatorial proclamation in harmony with state enabling acts. Local officers will enforce the prohibition law with public sentiment guiding agency openings and maintenance. The state force will shrink to a small superintendent staff and a few inspectors.
County commissioners plan four new turnpikes using local materials. They assert roads will be well built with native resources and modest cement from Oklahoma Portland Cement company. Bonds for road and bridge construction will be issued soon.
Six men including former Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp and deputies were arraigned at the U S Supreme Court for contempt after the lynching of a Black man in the custody of the court. The court postponed sentence to allow petitions for a chea fing and the cases will go over to the next term with bonds posted.
Indignation runs high in Dover Oklahoma as Leslie Allen a popular merchant is killed by Edward Seals a black man. Seals is jailed in Kingfisher County but a mob forms arming for a possible lynching before dawn. Allen died after a quarrel over 25 cents and a knife wound.
Miss Annie Schaffer a friend of Mrs. Will Richey reportedly drank carbolic acid in her wedding dress after a quarrel with her fiancé. She left a note for Ada friend Mrs. Richey and died shortly after. The report appears in Saturday’s Daily. Judge Huffar’s eloquent jury speech for W J Hogue is noted as well.
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A wagon runaway on Townsend avenue endangering Mark Tatum and his three children left the father with jaw and hip injuries and two children with facial wounds. The baby suffered severe facial injuries while a bow in the wagon caused a brief peril before the team was halted on Main Street.
In Centerville a jury found John Junken guilty of murdering Clara Rosen, Ottumwa choir singer, on February 5. He was sentenced to death by Judge M A Roberts, to be hanged in July 1910. Junken is being held at Fort Madison pending execution.
Bert R Lean of Cheny Washington recounts a desperate lung trouble that resisted a Spokane specialist and a California attempt before using Dr King s New Discovery which cured him. It is promoted for lung trouble bronchitis coughs colds asthma croup and whooping cough with 50 cents and 1.00 pricing and a trial bottle offered by G M Ramsey.
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