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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1921
Page
3
An editorial laments growing female student presence at the University of Pennsylvania and other colleges. It argues co education threatens male athletic and academic prestige, fuels resentment, and questions whether women should curb higher culture to preserve male superiority.
The Methodist Episcopal board of temperance and morals says major reform groups seek education on tobacco harms and laws to protect minors, not a national Sunday law or bans on adults. Reforms should be reasonable, non punitive, and avoid misrepresentations while groups like W C T U and National Reform Association are cited. Smokers and Sunday enjoyers rarely hear from reformers until they become a nuisance.
May Day program presented by Ada Normal students features Cinderella in Flowerland with a large cast including Gene Scales as Daisy and Alf Hardage as Prince Sunshine. Prologue sung by six fairies and a detailed cast list appear in the program.
The article notes major copper producers suspend operations amid vast unsold copper and uncertain future. It highlights the miners suffer losses, management sacrifices workers, and the duration depends on Europe’s chaotic settlement and the rise of oil. It urges diversifying toward new industries as oil arrives.
Newspaper roundup notes satire on prices and manners. Opinionaries urge kindness to animals and husbands while political endorsements and economic cautions shape public discourse in Oklahoma and beyond.
Ada Business College reports several students secured positions with firms in the city and beyond. Eva Bryant joined Melton and Lehr real estate. Pauline Tidwell and Frances Fazell work for Pontotoc County Abstract and Fred F Brydia Realty. Orlie Yancie joined Pontotoc County Abstract after completing a course. Clara Cooper and Sammie Winn visited and Ora McGuin is spending the weekend with relatives.
Miss Opal Truax withdraws for summer vacation and plans to return next fall. Miss Viola Satrin moves from Sulphur to enroll in the shorthand department at the business college. Miss Georgia Pollock, away due to her mother’s illness, expects to return. Miss Nora Abney takes a position with Abney & Massey real estate while attending school mornings and working afternoons. Miss Alice Dynee is out due to a family death but will return next week. Orvel Auten, away for a week, returns to his studies.
The city operates a paying water plant with a 440 foot well supplying water to a standpipe via compressed air. Mr. Fitzhugh has led the plant for six years, earning praise as an efficient superintendent. A fifty horsepower motor purchase saved the city about 750.
Allen May 1 The Allen light and water plant is being overhauled under John Fitzhugh water and light superintendent. The work will bring the system to first rate condition with pumps boilers and smokestacks repaired and concrete floors added. The plant is described as one of the best equipped small systems in Oklahoma.
The column returns to Mary Jane as she follows a clever fox near town. Readers meet the familiar character navigating a chilly day, with a new scene set to unfold in the next pages.
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