The Inefficient Minister in The Baptist Journal
The article critiques modern preacher wages and education under Roman Catholic church models, arguing that low admission standards and proliferation of sects weakens ministry. It notes many capable men leave the pulpit for law or medicine and calls for stronger training and standards to restore religious leadership.
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Baptist Journal
Pritchett
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Old Mother Church
Aked
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
New York
Vance
Miserab
Santa Fe Expands Work In Guthrie Area
Guthrie Oklahoma April 29 The Santa Fe is deploying 300 extra men to resurface the Denver Enid and Gulf road from here to Kiowa Kansas with ballasting to start before summer. Two hundred men labor on the Eastern Oklahoma roadbed along the Cimarron river and six hundred on the main line to Purcell. Improvements planned for Guthrie include remodeling depots and possibly building a new two story brick freight depot for nine roads.
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Guthrie
Santa Fe
Denver
Enid
Gulf
Kiowa
Kan
Oklahoma
Cimarron River
Here
Purcell
Depm
Vilas Street
Union Station
J. E. Hurley
Union
Ballard's Herbine offered for stomach and liver relief
A bolstered remedy ad touts Ballard's Herbine as mild yet effective for constipation and dyspepsia. It promises cures for many stomach and liver complaints. Available at M. Ramsey's store with price 50 cents per bottle. Also notes legal planks for sale at the News office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballard
M. Ramsey's
Ada to Host East Central Normal School Plans
Superintendent Chas W Briles, newly elected head of East Central Normal School Ada, announces plans for a six week summer session starting early June. Faculty will lead departments with focus on certificates, music, domestic science, and agriculture for Oklahoma and reciprocal state teachers.
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Chas. W. Briles
East Central Normal School
Board of Education
Normal School
Oklahoma
Ada
Cameron
County Meetings Call for Community School Associations
Guthrie Oklahoma April 28. At the request of the National Commission on Country Life Superintendent Cameron issues a call through county superintendents for county meetings on April 30 to perfect community organizations with schools as local centers. The plan, aligned with the Southwestern States country life convention next week, proposes topics from new schoolhouses to clubs and recreation facilities.
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Guthrie
National Commission On Country Life
Cameron
Department of Education
Country Life Convention
State Department
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promise Health Boost
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a superior laxative tonic. It claims to tone stomach liver and kidneys, purify blood, strengthen nerves and cure jaundice headache chills and malaria. Sold for 25c at G M Ramsey’s.
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Dr. King
G. M. Ramsey’s
Zemo Promises Cure for Skin and Scalp Ailments
The advertisement proclaims Zemo as a clean external liquid that permanently cures eczema pimples dandruff and other skin or scalp diseases. It notes that every druggist sells Zemo.
Deafness Claims Cure From Constitutional Remedies
Advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers $100 for any case of deafness caused by catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with circulars and Druggists selling for 75 cents, plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney &Co
Toledo
Correction over city hall bid favors J R Ross over N A McCurry
N A McCurry informs city council that his bid of 13000 was 478 under rival J R Ross after Mr Wynn did not provide figures for him but did for Ross. Nevada in Repetition section notes. Local talent play Nevada again at the opera house draws large crowd and may be the last performance by the little company.
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J. R. Ross
N. A. McCurry
Mr. Wynn
Wynn
Nevada
Opera House
Governor Haskell Town Lot Cases Reopened For Probe
Justice Campbell grants District Attorney Gregg a special grand jury of sixteen to reinvestigate town lots frauds in Muskogee involving Governor Haskell and six co defendants. Grand jury to convene May 10 in Tulsa with witness summoning to start immediately. Silvester Rush to join as government prosecutor.
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Tulsa
Campbel
Federal Court
Gregg
Haskell
Muskogee
Campbell
Indian Territory
Rush
Silvester R. Rush
Omaha
Pitched battle ends in deaths near Asher Oklahoma
In Shawnee Oklahoma on Thursday morning, the Ware and Brewer families clashed on a farm south of Asher. Stanley Ware was killed, Perry Brewer fatally wounded, and his son Jesse seriously hurt. Five men fought amid a long running rental dispute. Clyde Ware was struck twice, others jailed. The Brewer home had been shot up previously.
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Shawnee
Okla
Ware
Brewer
Asher
Stanley Ware
Perry Brewer
Jesse
Washington, D. C
Wares
Clyde Ware
Editorial Comments On Ada Lynching Echo Across Newspapers
Several editors condemn mob violence in Ada Oklahoma where four men accused of murder were hanged. Articles criticize delayed justice for the rich and poor alike, urge lawful punishment, and warn that lax laws foster mob justice and damage the state’s reputation.
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Ada
McAlester News-Capital
Oklahoma
Madill News
West
Bure Tell
Miller
Allen
Garvis
A. A. Bobbitt
Republic
Saltisaw Star-Gazette
Ardmore gambler given county court limit in Oklahoma
Ardmore Oklahoma April 29 for the first time in Ardmore a gambling house keeper was given the limit in County Court Abe Enloe charged with maintaining a gambling room was fined 5090 and given a jail sentence of three months He furnished an appeal bond of 1500 The county attorney and his assistants are prosecuting bootleggers joint keepers and other law violators with many convictions and the county road gang is being fast recruited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
Okla
Abe. Enloe
Michigan Going Dry Saloons Close Across State
Detroit tonight reports 585 saloons and ten breweries in 19 counties closed as Michigan votes turn dry. Thirty of 83 counties statewide are now dry following the last election.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
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Dr. Pritchet
Briles
Lexington
N. C
University of North Carolina
C. A. Skeen
Wapanucka
Stonewall Academy
Texas
Greenwood College
Wise County
Stephenville
Ladonia
Sherman
University of Texas
Western Association of Universe
United States
Marshall
Utah
Mr. Farmer
B. H. Mason
Ada, Okla
First National Bank
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