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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1919
Page
6
An Ada newspaper editor pledges impartial coverage and fearless truth telling. He expresses faith in Ada's people, pride in wartime resolve, and a wish for communal prosperity as roosters lead and knockers follow.
A former Ada editor P. Byron Norrell announces he has purchased control of the Ada Evening and Weekly News and will return to publish. He plans an eight page seven column paper after June 1, maintains an independent editorial policy, and introduces improvements while continuing to support Ada and Pontotoc County.
The Muskogee Times Democrat argues for the road bond plan citing economic benefits and job creation while addressing anti government and Bolshevik sentiments. It honors Confederate veterans, notes dwindling memorial attendance, and predicts roads funding will ease car owners' repair costs amid growing automobile use. The piece also urges Oklahoma editors to attend the state press association meeting at Medicine Park.
The Republican opinion notes Luther Harrison a Democratic aligned columnist with poetry and pep hints a possible challenge to Senator Gore in a primary. It argues Harrison is too clean to defeat Gore and quips that beating the devil requires his imps. Waukomis Hornet.
The quarters of the German delegation to the peace conference are closely barricaded and guarded, with members denied freedom of the city. Allies, wary of Hun treachery, will not risk leniency and will keep tight control on the group.
Republican leaders order party underlings to keep quiet on the revised covenant until a conference of major figures sets course for the party. They warn against mistakes ahead of the upcoming national election as Frank Gould and wife plan to seek divorces after French proceedings, with possible U.S. returns for new attempts.
The Stuart Star, edited by H. M. Butler of Quinton, recalls Butler’s veteran role in Pontotoc county and Pryor Creek district representation. The piece notes Ferris’s voting record for soldiers, while touching on Lenine and Trotsky seeking refuge as Russia crisis looms.
The former German officer received a 30 day jail term for discourtesy to an American officer. A Oklahoma City daily boasted of ninety seven new residences under construction in the capital and state metropolises. A recent count shows over a hundred under construction in this contented small city.
A New York dated dispatch claims one in twenty five Gotham residents are drug addicts. The report undercuts the wets argument that prohibition creates dope fiends, noting New York is famously “wet.”
The Ada clerks and pressers announce reduced rates marking the first price cut since the armistice era. Public ownership faced criticism as Burleson states telephone and telegraph lines will revert to owners once Congress passes needed legislation. The plan aims to ease high rates while debates continue on government versus private control.
Marvin Brown completes a deal to acquire the stock of the News Publishing and Printing Co. and take control of the business. He assumes charge of the editorial department while current officers remain until the June 19 election of new directors and officers. Byron Norrell, W. D. Little, and Miles C. Grigsby sign the notice.
Oklahoma soldiers in France appeal to their homeland to address what they call an unfair delay. They say French and allied forces are demobilizing quickly while American troops remain for reconstruction with no guarantee of return date. The plea appears in daily newspapers.
A Budapest press dispatch mocks a soviet move to communize women. A lawmaker returns home to tell his wife and mother in law, sparking a domestic revolt that halts the measure as the two women outmaneuver the government. The piece ends with a string of mother in law jokes.
Solomon notes a solid name outweighs wealth in a credit driven era. Honesty builds a reliable backing while a deceitful figure may prosper temporarily but loses support when facing reckoning and need.
Otis Weaver sells the Shawnee Daily News Herald to H G Spaulding Ardmore and will keep a semi weekly. The paper gains AP leased wire service and grows under Spaulding. Stonewall forms a live commercial club and Ada is praised as a good place to live illustrating local civic progress.
The article notes it is premature to forecast the next Democratic national convention actions and suggests it is unlikely that Albert Sidney Burleson will be named the nominee.
A concise want ad line inviting readers to use classified ads to find goods or services. The note emphasizes easy access to purchasing or selling through the newspaper's listings.
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