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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
9
In a plea from a town urging better equipped fire services, residents are asked to back the local company. The Empire Amusement Company will donate most door receipts next Friday night to the fire boys, promoting a high quality show at a nominal dime. Buy tickets for yourself and family to boost funds and safety.
A wealthy Rue Vaugirard resident ordered an extravagant funeral. Executors spent lavishly at St. Sulpice, but bills fell short. Black and silver drapery on the stairway led neighbors to sue for damages, risking higher taxes on the estate.
Practical guidance on building balanced cold lunches with thin bread sandwiches. Cookies mention meats, beans, eggs, nuts, raisins, dates, figs, puddings, puddings and cake, with prep tips and the need for simple easily digested foods for schoolchildren.
An advertisement extols Prickly Ash Bitters as a reliable remedy for kidney and liver issues, urging early use at first back pain digestion or urinary changes. It claims cost savings, broad efficacy in chronic cases, and warns against substitutes, urging genuine product with a red eight on the label.
In Atlantic City a 13 year old girl with a slate pencil embedded in the lower brain shows surprising vitality. Doctors hesitate on risky surgery as the child regains moments of consciousness and recognizes relatives. The condition remains life threatening as John Adams, who fired the pencil, stays in parental custody.
Halifax reporting that Alexander Graham Bell and his team tested a tetrahedral kite named Frost King at Beinn Bhreagh Cape Breton. The device lifted Neill Mac Dearmid, 165 pounds, to 30 feet and held him steady with a 288 pound load including lines ropes and a rope ladder.
Paris author Camille Flammarion argues in an interview that Mars offers many advantages for life. He notes Mars weather forecasts are predictable weeks in advance while Earth weather remains uncertain, and suggests Martians may be older, slimmer in weight, live longer, and enjoy better climate and intellectual potential.
A diner insists on buying sausages from a shop window. He is told none are in stock but demands the ones in the window. His wife later discovers the window sausages are plaster of paris painted, meant only for display.
In Logansport Indiana a drug store window sparks a quirky market as mice and cats are bought and sold to power a toy treadmill. Closson and Co uses a cheese baited plan to test an idea of cheap municipal power, attracting bids from small boys who supply mice and cats, turning the street into a makeshift market with prices and bear trends.
Ellsworth B Cregier a 15 year old boy seeks long trousers in place of knickerbockers. He gathers 50 signatures in Nordica building at 736 Fullerton avenue urging his parents to grant him long pants for his sixteenth birthday. He attends Lake View high school and faces ridicule for wearing short trousers. The petition leads to him obtaining long trousers.
Prof. Jaffa at the state university says hens can be made to lay eggs on a set schedule rather than natural moulting. He reports experiments indicating adjustment of moulting starting times to avoid seasonal price spikes and famine risks.
In 1885 H W Otis recalls meeting a young Theodore Roosevelt who joined a Bad Lands roundup. He rode a wild bronco, was repeatedly dumped, then returned with a victorious war whoop. The "dude outfit" of New Yorkers earned respect as Roosevelt earned ride mastery amid camp tensions.
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