Sweet Potatoes Seed Selection And Disease Alerts
The article advises Oklahoma growers on starting seed beds for sweet potatoes from March 15 to April 1 and emphasizes obtaining disease free seed. It details black rot and stem rot, how to recognize them, and notes disinfection with corrosive sublimate and hot-bed hygiene. It also cites 1922 Oklahoma county data on corn ground plowing dates and yields, plus notes on a girls club meeting in Rocky Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. C
M. Colege
Oklahoma
Agent Hill
Bermuda Onion Seedlings Gain Favor in State Gardens
Bermuda onion geedlings are becoming popular statewide, with many growers adopting the young plants for earlier greens and milder onions. Prepare rich well drained soil, plant seedlings shallow, space rows to about eight inches, and thin as needed for uniform bulbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermuda
D. C
A. and
A. College
Harry Pmbleton
Poultry Department
Oklahoma A. and M. College
Farmers trial Webber cotton on four acres in county
Sherwood Hill and E T Smith plan four acres of Webber cotton the big boll variety as an experimental test in the county. A few careful experiments can establish a crop's value better than theory and the class may extend the studies following last year's college agriculture department trials under Prof. McCormick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwood Hill
E. T. Smith
Webber
Clare
McCormick
Corn Club
Pickett District Club Promotes Community Welfare
The Pickett district organized a community club with citizens of all ages cooperating for local welfare. On Washington's Birthday older members presented a program featuring a Washington play. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday night March 21, with a largely musical program and plans to secure a band.
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Pickett
Washington
March 1 Crop Report for Oklahoma States Low Farm Stocks
Oklahoma City reports March 1 1923 crop figures for corn wheat oats and barley. Corn on farms 25 percent of 14 400 000 bushels with 83 percent merchantable quality. wheat on hand 2 500 000 bushels. oats 30 000 000 bushels with 18 percent on farms. barley 8 percent of last year on farms.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Pigs Favor Milo In Sorghum Grain Preference Test
The Kansas experiment station tested six grains milo yellow milo feterita darso black hull kafir red amber and Kansas orange cane seed. Six pigs given free access ate much more milo than others and preferred feterita next. When milo was removed kafir became preferred, then feterita. Removing kafir and feterita made darso the first choice. After removing top grains, pigs ate less of the remaining kinds and gained weight more slowly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Experiment Station
Kansas
Review of Produce Market in Chicago March report
The 1922 combined value of chickens raised and eggs produced is estimated at 854 million dollars by the U S Department of Agriculture. About 543 million chickens were raised on farms in 1922 with a farm value of 34.199 million dollars and egg production totaled 1 962356 million dozens valued at 500.008 million dollars. There were 412 million chickens on the farm January 1 1922, with smaller counts on January 1 1921 and January 1 1920 per census figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Oklahoma Houses End Ninth Legislature Adjourns Near Noon
Oklahoma City March 14 The joint legislative committee plans sine die adjournment at noon March 24. The committee agrees to move adjournment and the joint resolution will be introduced in the House by Representative Nance and in the Senate by Senator Lillard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Joint Legislative Committee
Rossiter
House
Representative Nance
Senate
Lillard
Legislature Names Special Committee for Sine Die Adjournment
The lower house appointed Representatives Disney Nance and Rossiter to confer with a Senate committee to set the sine die adjournment day and hour. Lieutenant Governor Trapp said the legislature will likely pass the supply bills by Saturday. Senator Johns proposed an amendment taxing total debts on mortgaged personal property. J J Gibson of the Southwest Livestock Association spoke to a joint session on livestock industry conditions amid the stock show sponsored by the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Disney, Nance and Rossiter
Senate
Trapp
Johns
J. J. Gibson
The
Southwest Livestock Association
House
Norman official questioned over $12,000 oil log funds
C. W. Shannon of Norman appeared before the senate committee investigating irregularities in the oil well log division. He was questioned about checks totaling $12,000 alleged to be drawn by him. Shannon denied any irregularities as the inquiry continues with a report due in two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
C. W. Shannon
Norman
State Geological Department
Senate
Shannon
Tragic Ada Child Dies From Bathroom Gas Fumes
Ila Mae Smith aged 9, of 609 West Fifth Street Ada, died Saturday morning from gas fumes from a bathroom heater. Her mother found the girl unconscious in the tub after she failed to respond to calls. physicians used a lung motor but could not revive her. Ila Mae was born in Ada in June 1909 and lived here her entire life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ila Mae Smith
Ila Mae
Lee Smith
West Fifth Street
Ada
Ruhr Miners Strike Over Occupied Coke Plant
Sixteen thousand coal miners in the Recklinghausen district Ruhr are on strike in protest against the occupation of the state coke plant near Westerholt. The plant was seized yesterday by engineers under a battalion of French infantry. French authorities expect the strike to last only a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essen
Reckliighausen
Ruhr
Westerhold
The Line in the Middle of the Bible
A fragment notes a specific scripture reference, quoting the line in the middle of the Bible as "2 Chronicles IV, 16." The remark underscores a textual marker or cross reference cited within a historical or religious context.
Sunday School Leaders End Meet in Oklahoma
D T Meeks of Enid was elected president of the Oklahoma Sunday School Association at the thirtieth annual convention in Okmulgee. He succeeds C W Shannon of Norman, who led the organization for two years. Vice presidents include Dr A E Bonnell Muskogee O G Sculey Tulsa Miss Adeline Goddard Enid J C Hasler Norman Alex Johnson Oklahoma City. The group voted to move its base to the Oklahoma Council for Religious Education and Enid was chosen as the 1924 convention site. The convention closes today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okmulgee
D. T. Meeks
Enid
Oklahoma Sunday School Association
C. W. Shannon
Norman
A. E. Bonnell
Muskogee
Tulsa
Adeline Goddard
J. C. Hasler
Compress to Be Built Here Soon by Peoples Compress Co
Ada will host a new modern cotton compress after an announcement by J. H. Bellis and A. D. Stubblefield of the Peoples Compress Company. Construction starts in two to three weeks on Chamber of Commerce industrial site served by three railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
J. H. Bellis
A. D. Stubblefield
Peoples Compress Company
Cushing
Chamber of Commerce
C. E. Danning
Chamber
Messrs Bellis
Stubblefield
Interesting Dairy and Poultry Meeting Noted
The dairy meeting arranged by Rollow Hardware Co. Tuesday afternoon drew interest and instruction. D. E. Clymer C. H. Gray and Dick Stephens of American Harvester Co. spoke on cows poultry raising and tested milk samples.
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Rollow Hardware Co
D. E. Clymer
C. H. Gray
Dick Stephens
American Harvester Co
Mr. Clymer
Mr. Gray
Rum running fleet financed by German interests tied to Panama ships
Information from American quarters alleges a four to five ship Panama fleet financed by a prominent German. The fleet, mainly operated from the United States and led by a former Hamburg American liner captain, is commanded by a dubious national figure. Officials say vast liquor landings into the United States, mostly from Glasgow, are implied though not proven.
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London
Panama
United States
Glasgow
Oklahoma Livestock Industry Valued at 104 Million
Oklahoma City report says the live stock industry is worth about 104 million dollars. John A. Whitehurst, president of the state Board of Agriculture, notes the state ranks sixteenth nationwide in livestock value.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
John A. Whitehurst
State Board of Agriculture
United States
Central States Endure Severe Storms and Damage
A major storm battered the Central States with heavy snow and rain and high winds. Twenty people reported dead across Tennessee Chicago and surrounding areas as telegraph and telephone lines were restored slowly. Widespread damage halted traffic delayed reports from Iowa Missouri and Arkansas and forecasts warned of further gales and rain across the Mississippi River region.
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Chicago
Rialto
Iowa
Damaga
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Jackson
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Mississippi River
Lower
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Oklahoma City Weather and Jackson Storm Toll Report
Rain and cooler air sweep Oklahoma with heaviest totals in central and east regions. Muskogee 1.80 inches, El Reno 1.51, Oklahoma City 1.25. fruit crop unlikely harmed. In Jackson Tennessee a storm near Pinson kills 20 and injures 75. 50 houses wrecked and a freight train derailed. relief teams deployed.
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Oklahoma City
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Muskogee
el Reno
Jackson
Tenn
Pinson
Train collision delays in Pulaski Kentucky
High winds interrupted officials of the Southern railway as they assessed damage after a New Orleans to Pulaski collision with a rear end of a passenger train in Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Southern Railway
New Orleans
Pulaski
Kentucky
Cyclone Strikes Richmond Area Killing Two
A cyclone swept a small portion of Madison and Fayette counties last night in Kentucky. Two people were killed and three injured by the storm.
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Richmond
Madison
Fayette
Storm Kills James Bender in Greenville Destruction
Greenville Mississippi reports James Bender killed when a nighttime storm caused $100,000 in property damage. Two homes were struck and wrecked by falling trees in the city.
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Greenville
Miss
James Bender
Wind Storm Causes South N Train Crash Injuring Two
Two men were injured early today in a rear end collision on the Southern railway at Pulaski Tennessee. The wreck was attributed to the wind storm, according to railroad officials in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Southern Railway
Pulaski
Tennessee
National guard inspections under way in Oklahoma
Inspections of national guard units across Oklahoma are being conducted by federal and state officers. Major Charles W. Daley of Tulsa and Captain Floyd Moore, U S army inspector, recently inspected two companies at Okmulgee.
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Oklahoma City
National Guard
Charles W. Daleyf
Tulsa
Floyd Moore
U. S. Army
Okmul
Fred Dennis Sought on Additional Bank Fraud Charge
Warrants issued by Okla county judge Brown Moore for Fred Dennis L Martin and J C Galloway in a Yale state bank fraud case seeking $22 500 misappropriated funds. Galloway signed a $22 500 note. Martin and Dennis allegedly shared the proceeds. Yale state bank closed August 1921.
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Stillwater
Okla
Fred Dennis
L. Martin
Yale State Bank
J. C. Galloway
Oklahoma City
Brown Moore
Yale
Galloway
Martin
Yale Bank
Freq Dennis
Rural school closures loom as state aid stalls
A. Floyd, Pontotoc county superintendent, warns three more rural schools will shut Friday as state assistance remains delayed. Four had closed earlier after funds were exhausted, with Center school among the larger closures. If aid does not arrive, ten months terms may shrink to eight and more closures may follow as legislature debates rural school financing.
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A. Floyd
Pontotoc County
Bebee
Steedman
Owl Creek
Homer
Center
Floyd
Senate
House
April Trades Day to be Largest in History of Ada County
The Retail Merchants Association will award cash prizes on April 2 as part of a big double header. The event, framed as a banner Ada County day, aims to draw interest from across the county and neighboring regions.
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Retail Merchants Association
Ada
New Surgical Instrument Invented At Washington University
Washington St Louis March 14 Announcement of a heart operation instrument aimed at treating mitral stenosis was made at Washington University. Surgical history notes only one prior successful case. The device has been tested on animals and not yet used on humans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Washington, University
Brooklyn Woman Becomes New York's Youngest Lawyer
Miss Roberta Levy of Brooklyn is New York's youngest woman lawyer. She graduated at 19 but waited two years to be admitted to the bar.
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Roberta Levy
Brooklyn
New York
Michigan Communist Trial Opens With Foster Charged
William Z. Foster goes on trial in St Joseph Michigan accused of writing and advocating crimes to advance industrial and political reform. He is among 32 defendants arrested in a raid on a national communist convention in the sand dunes near Bridgeman Michigan on August 22 1922.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
William Z. Foster
Berlin
Foster
Communists Party
Michigan
George Bridgeman
Department of Justice
Lake Michigan
Bridgeman
Communist Party of America
Third Internationale
Moscow
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Congress
Charles E. Ruthenberg
Worker’s Party
Communist Organization
William F. Dunne
Worker’s’ Party
Last Fail
Max Lerner
Seattle
Zeth Nordling
Portland
Ore
Northwest
Norman H. Tailentire
Canada
Thomas O’flahherty
Charles Erickson
Cyril Lambkin
Detroit
J. Michelic
St. Louis
Alex Bail
Philadelphia
William Reynolds
Elmer MacMillin
Thomas R. Sullivan
Charles Krumbein
Eugene Bachtold
Caleb Harrison
Grand Rapids
Earl Browder
Philip Aronberg
Joseph Zsak
A. V. Severeno
Thaddeo Como
Alex E. Georgian
Browder
Aronberg
Zsa
Docket Shrinks by 70 Cases in Bolen Hearing
In district court Judge J W Bolens session motions lead to dismissal of about 70 cases due to county attorney failure to docket before two terms. Court will set roughly 130 cases for trial on April 2 with eight murder charges. Civil motions start Tuesday followed by two days of nonjury hearings.
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J. W. Bolen
Tuttle in Coma Prognosis After Illness
Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle 86 presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States lies in a coma at his home in St. Louis. Doctors warn death could come any hour as grippe illness kept him under care for over two weeks. He is described as the oldest active Anglican bishop in the world.
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ST. Louis
Daniel S. Tuttle
Episcopal Church
United States
Wgea
Grippe
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Byron Norrell
State Geology Department
Central States
South
State
Tuttle
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