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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1903
Page
6
Mrs Josie Irwin testifies to the medical marvel Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound in nationwide demand. She invites women to write Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice with no charge.
Great Britain spends $112,500,000 annually on supporting the poor. This figure excludes private charities.
The Howard Courant records a grave dispatch from Grenola about Bob Logsdon who attempted suicide by morphine after a broken romance. Doctors saved him by pumping the poison from his system. The paper quips that the cigars are on Bob.
An Atchison woman, famed for burnt wood work, has developed a compulsion after marriage that leads her to burn items she touches, causing concern for her housekeeping duties. The article notes her remarkable skill and the unintended consequences on daily life.
Fragmentary lines mention a bottle of Dr Pepper and pricing from a St. Louis Post Dispatch item. The text references Servia and tangles in a cryptic way, noting 75 cent pricing and beverage availability in bars, cafes, and fountains.
A nostalgic ad claims Defiance starch offers 16 oz for 10 cents and promises top quality. The note humorously recalls a three year old learning scrambled eggs and calling it doodle-doo-hash after his first exposure.
Sealed ballots remain unopened as a committee on elections is to examine them after its naming. Supporters claim hundreds of double marking ballots favor Cross, while Dudley cites fraud in Democratic areas that could widen McGuire’s lead. canvassing board totals still show McGuire ahead by about three hundred votes.
In Shawnee a pile of charred letters and checks found east of town by Calvin Arthur may link to a multi year robbery. Authorities believe the robbers searched a pasture then a wild area, took money and valuables before burning the rest and burying it.
Miss Martha Morrow, daughter of a miner, was fatally struck by an excursion train near South McAlester while walking on a trestle with friends. The returning train began backing toward Haileyville yards and the victim could not escape, dying instantly as the wheels passed.
From Viola in southwestern Oklahoma comes word of the wanton murder of James Earl a Texas resident and prominent railroad contractor. He held contracts to construct parts of the Missouri Kansas Texas extension between Coalgate and Oklahoma City and was killed by one of his employees during a general camp quarrel. Three men have surrendered voluntarily and been removed to Wewoka.
A Missouri Kansas Texas train wreck two miles north of Muskogee injured four men and halted traffic for fifteen hours. Twenty two freight cars derailed after rails spread. a carload of horses died. Injured are A C Cossatt Parsons W H Bush Hot Springs John Kelly and Charles Black. Cossatt is near death. Two excursion trains returning from Kansas City were delayed ten hours.
Andrew Shave files a $3000 damage suit against Rock Island Railway Co over flood losses to his crops along Crutch Creek caused by railway embankment. He alleges inundation and devastation from recent floods in the area.
R. R. Honisch, father-in-law of Tom Queenan convicted of murdering his wife, asks Governor Ferguson to refuse commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment. He vows to fight the interference and petitions are filed.
An old style fragment references Defiance Starch promising white outcomes at ten cents for a theatrical audience. It also notes fashion cycles in hair dressing after childbirth and a Dr. Pepper slogan about farewells at soda fountains. The passage ends with a reflection on business efficiency and action.
Advertising copy claims Defiance Starch should be in every household and offers 4 ounces more for 10 cents than any other cold water starch brand.
A collage of brief notices and advertisements. An Atchison girl plans to marry after meeting a young man at a soda fountain. Various ads promote Dr. Purdy’s remedies, medical syringes and bottles, Red Cross Ball Blue, Defiance starch, Piso’s Cure, Bromo Quinine, and Chicago waiters’ strike jokes. Local gossip flits with product pitches and odd observations.
Some grocers refrain from stocking Defiance Starch due to current 12 oz stock from other brands. Defiance offers 16 oz for the same price and requires no cooking, inviting customers to choose the larger size.
Sherman Iron Works in Sherman Texas has increased facilities and workforce to handle iron work for buildings drilling machinery cotton seed cleaners oil mills and mills equipment. They stock pipes valves and fittings and offer repair services.
Austria adopts a new military pastime chasing balloons with automobiles. A veteran balloonist, Archduke Leopold Salvator, was pursued by six cars but escaped by landing on an island in the Danube.
Lafayette County farmers in Missouri pursue pipe cob corn as a specialty claiming yields and revenue on par with standard corn while using cobs as an additional marketable byproduct.
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