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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
10
A speaker outlines persistent advertising aims to stimulate long term trade growth rather than temporary boosts. They emphasize steady pricing unless suppliers raise costs and say ads show consistent business practices to convince customers to trade regularly.
A catalog of tinware items includes heavy tin pudding pans in multiple quarts with prices from 5 to 8 cents, tin pie plates, perforated plates, jelly cake pans, jelly plates, lipped kettles, pot covers, stamped dish pans, a nutmeg grater, dairy pails in 10 and 12 quarts, bread boxes, galvanized pails, and a sales pitch promising bread savings to offset costs.
Judge Winn presides in Sulphur court. Various residents report health updates and visits, including births, illnesses, and travel to nearby towns. Notables such as W H Chapman, Miss Irene Eddlemen, and Oliver Snead appear among frequent social and business mentions as community life unfolds around Sulphur Springs.
Tuesday items show E L Steed in Tupelo and many residents shopping or visiting Sulphur Ardmore and Byers..J B Shirley's death and W H Chapman funeral parallel routine church meetings, picnics and county events.
Center area notes excellent crops with oats and corn prospects bright. W T Tarkington in town edging into the well business. School board elects Hugh Stephenson Q T Midlock and G L Burrows as trustees. Center touts strong school and communal harmony despite rail concerns. Rain boosts crop growth.
Special to the Evening News Center reports Dr. H. S. Holloway mistook carbolic acid for paragonic and ingested a dangerous dose. He survived, though with severe consequences and remains under Dr. Craig’s care.
A 19th century letter from F W Devore & Co argues paint savings in gallons and costs to paint. It cites Ezra Rathmell of Williamsport Pa and compares Devoe quality to cheaper paint, noting gallon pricing and application costs across cities New York Chicago and Kansas City.
Rice Brothers Commission Merchants at Kansas City Stock Yards offer a prompt to children to supply their papa's livestock shipment details for the year in exchange for a free dominoes set.
A terse listing of wooden ware and kitchen tools with individual prices: rolling pins 10c, potato mashers 5c, butter ladles 5c, butter moulds 5c, vegetable slicers 10c, clothes pins 3 dozen for 5c, tooth picks 3 packs 10c.
Fragments announce sale on china ware and dinner sets including cups and saucers 39c to 1.25 values. Highlights list 8 inch platters 10c each 7 inch oval meat dishes 10c each and white granite milk pitchers 29c to 44c.
A modest assortment of umbrellas for ladies and gentlemen priced 39c to 1.20 with durable service. Special sale includes Japanese folding fans at 10c.
Arm and Hammer brand soda four pound packages for 25 cents. K C baking powder two fifteen ounce cans for 25 cents. Rag Biteing two two ounce boxes five cents. Giant or Eagle Lye four cans for 25 cents. Silk Laundry soap eight cakes for 25 cents. Wire fly traps all metal fifteen cents. Tanglefoot fly paper two double sheets scissors jelly glasses with tie covers twenty four cents per dozen.
Miss Jessie Lanier of this city wed J A Lively of DeQueen Arkansas at noon Wednesday at the bride’s home with Rev Martin officiating. After dinner the couple left on the evening train. the groom is a bookkeeper for the Deirks Lumber & Coal Co. at DeQueen.
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