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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
7
The Normal Seniors repeated their play The Peacemaker Saturday night. Attendance was lower than last year but the presentation by the class was well received by the audience.
An old advertisement urges readers to buy Chamberlain's Liniment a twenty five cent bottle to ease rheumatic pains quickly. Sold by all dealers. Adv.
Capt Dan Kendall of Sulphur reports the Ghattanooga reunion drew the largest attendance he has ever seen. He also praises Ada’s last year reunion as among the best he has attended, noting only a few general reunions surpass it.
At the twenty third annual United Confederate Veterans reunion in Chattanooga Tennessee three aging soldiers died during the event. Robert Nolen of Houston Texas fell with a broken neck on auditorium steps. D F Moore of Fuqua Texas died after a fall and G W Mullenix of Londale Georgia collapsed after the parade. Several veterans were exhausted but no more deaths were reported by nightfall.
In Oklahoma Oklahoma A and M College outlines agriculture in schools with practical lessons on outdoor work in school hotbeds and indoor experiments. The piece also recounts a Confederate reunion parade led by General Bennett H. Young with veterans, spectators, and a mix of flags and mascots showcasing postwar memory.
Report from Saturday at the normal notes 60 to 62 percent of current enrollment pursue credit work toward a diploma. Max Brents, a top graduate, serves as physics assistant this summer. Visitor H G Coffey of Vaness praises the school and backing growth with a two page daily bulletin for crowd coordination.
A local ad touts WHITHg CREAM VERMIFUGE as a remedy for pale sickly children affected by worms. It claims prompt expulsion of worms prevents fatal disease and offers the product at 25 cents per bottle through Ramsey Drug Company.
A recipe for outside whitewash is published by Charles K. Francis from Oklahoma A and M College Experiment Station. The method uses one bushel quick lime with twelve gallons hot water to make a lime slurry. A second mix of two pounds salt and one pound zinc sulfate in two gallons boiling water is added, then two gallons skim milk is stirred in to produce a weatherproof durable paint for buildings and fences.
A dairy expert from Oklahoma State College advises that slage and cotton seed meal with kafir or corn chops form a cheap ration. He suggests selling some corn to buy cotton seed meal and wheat bran, and notes alfalfa hay may be cheaper per ton than cotton seed meal. For more milk, use a mix of corn chops and cotton seed meal. heavily milking cows may need wheat bran or alfalfa as a substitute.
McAlester mayor B A Enloe has been named United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. He was endorsed by senators Gore and Owen and a majority of the House members.
A fragment notes Mrs A D Cowling of a piewiti was in the city. The snippet provides little context or outcome and reads as a stray local item with limited readable details.
The Shawnee Chamber of Commerce announced the Pottawatomie county fair will start the week of September 16, just before the state fair. The fair is seen as valuable for advertising regional resources.
A dark brown pony about six years old with A mark on the left shoulder and X on the left hip is claimed by owner at a location two miles south and four miles west of Ada Oklahoma near Knox. Separately a car load of beer wine and whisky labeled lumber was seized by the U S marshal at Muskogee after tracing paperwork from Ft Smith showing no lumber shipment to Tulsa.
A large Commercial Club meeting at W C Dun Can's office Friday afternoon unanimously approved a resolution backing the legislature's plan to modify Section 9 Article 9 of the state constitution. The group argues current rules hinder railroad construction and that the proposed change protects public interests during consolidations.
A playful poem mocks age gap concerns in marriage. It contrasts a bachelor delaying until sixty with a young wife of twenty two and a maid waiting for a twenty eight year old, then dismisses public fuss over such disparities.
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