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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
6
Pamela Thornton and Robert Randolph rehearse a meeting in Randolphs sitting room and fall into a dramatic kiss as Tomlinson frets. A playful caper spirals into romance with a cab idea, a mock chaperoned taxi plan, and a final vow as a horn sounds. The piece ends with a hopeful, if vague, farewell.
Washington reports indicate the Chilean and Peruvian delegations are nearing a breakdown as the Chilean ambassador Mathieu met with Secretary Hughes. The State Department seeks a new method to reconcile the dispute while discussions on informal Latin American participation continue with Argentine Ambassador Lebreton.
Gedet Dennis M. Moore son of Mr and Mrs Robert S Moore of 925 East Ninth street has just returned home from West Point to spend his furlough He received his appointment to the United States Military Academy from Gen Robert L Bullard of Governors Island New York in November 1919 He later attended the National Preparatory Academy in Cornwall NC until the entrance examinations the following year He entered July 1 1920 with 660 other candidates seeking a career in the army Moore will return to the Point late in August and will remain until graduation He plans to go to Europe with several classmates upon his return He will enter field artillery later
Prof. B A Pratt head of farm will work in the state says Oklahoma ranks first in enrollment in boys and girls clubs. Membership this year exceeds wartime levels as efforts to promote club work continue. Pratt is visiting teachers colleges across the state to advance club activities.
A long piece recounts Ellis, a sightless man, claiming a simple regimen of pure water and air, regular habits, and exercise as the secret to longevity. He narrates encounters with President Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt in dreamlike episodes, details his past as a boilermaker, and notes relatives in Greenland while living in Pontotoc County.
Statistics compiled from registrar information cards show East Central college attracting students from half the counties in Oklahoma and eight states. Pontotoc County leads with 22 students, followed by Pottawatomie 88 Hughes 82 Johnson 81 and other counties. Texas tops interstate totals with 190 students, Arkansas 14, Illinois 2, and several states one each. Additional cards later added hundreds more counts, shifting county tallies.
Charles Wesley Ellis, five miles north of Ada, Oklahoma, claims to be the state's patriarch at 118. Born in 1803 in Alaska, he recalls Jackson's 1815 New Orleans British engagement and says he has witnessed nearly every U S conflict, save the Revolutionary War, amid travels across almost every state. He recounts meeting Abraham Lincoln, sharing moments with Ulysses S. Grant, and shaving Grant in the barber tent during the Civil War, while living blind for 40 years yet keeping sharp hearing and memory.
Pictures flashed from Italian to American battleships in a coastal test off Italy. The Italian navy has purchased the inventor's method and transmission apparatus and plans to install machines on navy vessels.
Ardmore reports that personal property values in Carter county will increase by more than one million dollars compared with last year, per county assessor John T. Spears who is conducting a comprehensive check of all properties.
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