City Briefs and Local Notices Snapshot
Community Choral Club Concert tickets on sale at McSwain with reserved seats at $1.00 and balcony 50c. event 8 o clock night. Mrs Albert Bow to have appendicitis operation at local hospital. Thompson's Drug Store offers home delivery. W D Little publisher Ada News in Oklahoma City on business. Exide Batteries advertised. Eight door grocery refrigerator for sale at Rains Grocery. Congressman Tom D McKeown visits Oklahoma City for business. Local meat options available at Rains Grocery. Chickens wanted by Ada Poultry & Egg Co. Mrs M Chilcutt travels to Crowley Texas for illness of her mother Mrs W W Wilson.
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Community Choral Club
McSwain
M. Chilcutt
Crowley
Texas
W .W. Wilson
McCarty Bros Fixes Old Tire or Tube
McCarty Bros advertise tire and tube repair with new location at 116-18 S Townsend and phone 855. Also note Melton & farm loans with phone 108 for city loans. Mrs Mattie Briwih left for Oklahoma City after visiting relatives. Rains Grocery offers fresh lamb and home killed meats. The Fashion advertises Brown Satin slippers at 5.75 with store at 118 W Main.
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Rains Grocery
McCarty Bros
S. Townsend
Imo
W. Main
Reverend Morris attends Baptist school directors meeting in New Orleans
Reverend C C Morris pastor of the First Baptist church attends a directors meeting of a Baptist school in New Orleans. Advertises shoe repairs with men half soles at one dollar and ladies half soles at seventy five cents from Mistletoe Shoe Shop.
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C.C. Morris
First Baptist Church
New Orleans
Mistletoe Shoe Shop
Local Business Conference Attendees Return from St Louis
Eight door cocery refrigerator Lowrey Harréfil and Austin Gat lin report back from an O and O Fuel company conference in St Louis. Pork sausage 15 cents pork chops and steak 20 cents black chilli 15 cents stew meat 32 lbs 26 cents Johns and Seawell 107 West 12th Phone 309. Have your car washed and polished at The Square Deal Service Station. Knights of Pythias members from Okmulgee visit Ada for initiation tonight.
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Lowrey Harréfil
Austin Gatlin
O. & O. Fuel Company
St. Louis
Johns and Seawell
West 12Th
Square Deal
New Slip-Pers Line by The Fashion at 118 W Main
A new shipment of ladies slip pers in grey black white and the new Otter with the new Spanish heel arrives at The Fashion located at 118 West Main. The notice lists colors and style change for the season.
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W. Main
Thompson's Drug Store offers best price 5 per gallon
Thompson's Drug Store advertises gasoline at 5 per gallon pricing and urges customers to bring prescriptions. Other local notices include hospital release for Hugh Lee Wyatt now home on East Eighth Street and doing nicely.
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Thompson
Thompson’s Drug Store
Hugh Lee Wyatt
East Eighth Street
College Baseball Team Heads to Chilocco for Two Games
The college baseball squad left this morning for Chilocco Indian School to play there today and tomorrow. A large number of players were taken along as the team plans to face the Stillwater Aggies on the 12th and 13th.
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Chilocco Indian School
Stillwater Aggies
Ambitious operetta staged by training school students
The training school presented its most ambitious operetta yet on Friday night. The packed auditorium enjoyed a high quality performance by about one hundred pupils aided by eight college girls.
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The
Normal
Sahara Desert as Garden of Eden Claim by Scientist
London April 10 Professor Sir Arthur Keith told the Royal Society that in ancient times a vast desert region including Sahara Arabia and Mongolia was a blooming Garden of Eden. He argued humanity spread from that land driven by a scorching sun and that Egypt Babylonia were only remnants of older civilizations.
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London
Garden of Eden
Arthur Keith
Royal Society
Gahara
Arabia
Mongolia
Abraham
Tuba Cain
Egypt
Babylonia
Card of Thanks for Wells Family
The Wells family expresses gratitude for beautiful flowers and hospital kindness during the illness and death of their son and brother William Austin Wells. They thank Washington school, the nurses and doctors, and wish God’s blessings on the supporters. Signed by Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Wells, Dorothy Wells, Arvo Wells.
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William Austin Wells
Washington School
A. A. Wells
Dorothy Wells
Arvo Wells
Funeral Services for Morris Leader at Local Home
Morris Leader aged 60 had funeral services yesterday at his relatives home with interment at High Hill cemetery. He died at his brother in law's home, where the body was kept before services.
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Morris Leader
High Hill
Detained German Couple Arrives in Dortmund
Hugo Stinnes and his wife reached Dortmund today after being detained by French railroad guards during travel. They were taken from their train berths and released following a baggage search conducted by officers.
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Dortmund
Germany
Hugo Stinnes
Fertilizer Trials and Silage Plans For Oklahoma Cattle
Farmers weigh fertilizer use on cotton, with S. L. Roberson of Ahloso applying 160 to 200 pounds per acre and others cautiously adopting the practice. A. and M. College experts urge silage for cows, recommending kafir, cane or corn to boost winter feed, with silos seen as a sound investment and guidance available on silo sizes and types.
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S. L. Roberson
Ahloso
Hardy Dial
Oklahoma
E. C. Baer
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
A. and M. College
Forum Literary Society Installs New Officers
The Forum Literary Society installed new officers at Monday evening’s meeting. Debates between two girl teams representing the College were highlighted, with Opal Bennett and Ruby Andrews for the affirmative and Mrs. J. E. Wales and Eileen King for the negative. The group urged regular attendance and town interest in literary activity. The Blue and Gold class at the Baptist church begins a 7:30 tour of the United States and international stops. Sorosis club meetings postponed to Friday night. hostess Mrs. Cora McKeel.
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Forum Literary Society
Forum
Baptist University of Shawnee
Oklahoma College
Opal Bennett
Ruby Andrews
J. E. Wales
Eileen King
the Baptist Church
United States
China
France
Mexico
Cotton Club Scholarship Offered by Oklahoma Association
The Oklahoma Cotton Growers Association offers a $200 scholarship at the A and M college for the best performer in cotton club work in 1923. The prize is limited to children of Cotton Growers Association members.
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Oklahoma Cotton Growers Association
A. and M. College
Irl
Cotton Growers Association
Migratory Labor Favorites Sought Again in New York
In New York on April 10 the usual roadside soliciting by employment agencies serving Order of Casual and Migratory Laborers resumes. Barkers tout long jobs with big pay across regions as migrants seek winter savings and word spreads of rising demand for railroad laborers and farmhands with similar wages to last year.
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New York
Vermont Secretary of State Killed At Wells Run Station
Harry A. Black secretary of state of Vermont was killed instantly at Wells Run station when struck by a second train as he stepped from the first. He was 43 years old.
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Wells Run
Harry A. Black
Vermont
Market summary from cotton exchange and Ada produce
Cotton futures listed with open high low and close figures for New York and New Orleans areas. Grain prices for wheat corn oats and futures shown with May for corn and oats. Ada Produce section lists prices for turkeys hens fryers roosters broilers ducks geese hides and eggs with per pound or per dozen rates.
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New York
York
New Orleans
Orleans
ADA
Ada Hide Produce Co
Stranded Auto Party Missing Near Everglades Route
Miami April 10 No word had been received by noon from the Ft. Myer automobile party that attempted the crossing of the Everglades on the Tamiami Miami trail line. Officials blamed communication demoralization between Miami and the timbered waste area east of the west coast for the silence.
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Miami
Fla
Ft. Myer
Everglades
Tamiami
May Try Lengthy Flight by U S non rigid dirigible
Bellville Illinois April 10 The TC-1 the largest non rigid dirigible in the United States air service which last night completed the 500 mile trial trip from Akron Ohio to Scott Field may soon undertake a transcontinental trip her officers announced
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Bellville
Ill
United States Air Service
Akron
Ohio
Scott Field
New York Financier Dies at Bank Entrance
New York financier Stuyvesant Fish, banker and former president of the Illinois Central Railroad, died suddenly today after collapsing while entering a bank for a directors’ meeting. He died almost instantly of heart failure.
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New York
Associated Press
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Jane Novak Triumphs Again in Thelma Masterpiece
Jane Novak stars in Thelma based on Marie Corelli with Chester Bennett as producer. The romantic drama follows a Norwegian girl who marries a nobleman and silences society’s scoffers with beauty and charm. Shown for the last time at the American Theatre today.
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Jane Novak
Thelma
Marie Corelli
Chester Bennett
Onions Strong Shipment Arrives for Seasonal Sale
New shipment of Genuine Crystal White Wax Bermuda onions arrives and is described as the best this season. Sold by R. J. Raines Grocery at 412 West 10th Street or by contact B. F. Stegall with phone 767.
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West 10Th St
R. J. Rains Grocery
B. F. Stegall
Bermuda
R. J. Raines
B. F Stegall
American Exports to Turkey Jump After World War I
Trade records show American exports to Turkey rising from 3.3 million dollars in 1913 to 42.2 million dollars in 1920, reflecting postwar economic expansion and shifting markets.
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Turkey
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Gwin’ Mays
Albert Bow
Thompson's
Russell Battery’ Co
Willard Service and Sales
W. D. Little
Ada News
Oklahoma City
Exide
Tom D. McKeown
Ity
Ada Poultry & Egg Co
Melton
Mattie Briwih
Knights of Psrthias of
Okmulgee
Shelton Furniture Co
R. A L. Rose
Wosencraft’s
Hom of Personal Service
Teempere Shelton
Shelton Furniture Ce
Soda Service
Supreme
Wosencraft
Ma Hye
Birs
Stella M. Lewis
Ray G. Piper
Cincinnati
College
Sahara Desert
Stinnes
Dallas and
Fort Worth
Byron Norrell
Sorosis Club
Cora McKeel
East Tenth Street
C. F. Avery Cotton Exchange M. & P. Bank
Chen
Nev
W. W. McDonough
Shaw Bldg
the Playhouse of Character
Comedy and Pathe News
Shirley Mason
Pathe News
Norma Talmadge
Richard Barthelmess
Sonny
Wrigley’s
Lim J
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