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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1903
Page
5
Ada residents and visitors are listed with various social notes, business trips, illness updates, and advertisements. Mentions include Joli Comi of Violet Springs visiting. W. C. Duncan's trips. families and illnesses. several merchants advertising drinks, bakeries, hardware, and wood. Also notices of stray horse, legal business trips, and Confederate Veteran Reunion plans.
Advertises sewing machine business by Lee Smith of Ada offering mail orders and repairs for 87 makes with satisfaction guaranteed. Sells White Sewing Machine products from the East Side South Broad Way opposite the post office, prices from $5.00.
C K Davenport and Mrs Davenport arrived back in Ada from Mt. Vernon where she had been recovering for months. They plan to move into their cottage on 13th Street immediately. The note also mentions two ready service bulls a Jersey and a Durham mixed from George Brashears in northeast Ada.
Despite slow demand, Davenport Jones & Co reports growing business each month as more customers learn where to buy groceries.
An assortment of retail pitches appears with Davenport Jones & Co offering framing and interior goods, W C Duncan & Co promoting screen doors, Collins & Wilson advertising lumber and general supplies, and Clark Drug Co selling DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Testimonials claim efficacy and the Old Reliable Lumbermen label endorses various products.
An advertisement claims many suffer kidney or bladder trowbies and asserts I vley's Kidney Care will cure if medical aid remains possible, urging readers to inquire and visit Clark Drug Co for treatment.
A. A. Herren of Finch Arkansas touts Foley’s Honey and Tar as the best cough cold remedy. He claims it cured consumption in its early stages, endorsing the product from Ark Drug Co.
In many neighborhoods deaths from colic or cholera morbus occur before medicine or a doctor can be procured. Namberian's Colic Cholera and Arrhoen Remedy is presented as a reliable, life saving home remedy available at Clark Drug Co.
Doctors scarce in Russia dominate the page with statistics on doctors per 163 000 inhabitants. Great Britain tops with 180 Denmark and Switzerland 52 Germany 30 Russia 8. To match Britain Russia would need 120 000 doctors. currently about 17 000 exist. Real Compliment Paid to Late Arch bishop of Canterbury recalls Arch bishop Temple’s fairness to a punished boy. A boy mistook Temple for a beast yet a just beast and was not expelled. Constant motion jars the kidneys and travelers suffer kidney issues. Foley's Kidney Cure advertised with a testimonial from Gen Hi Hansan of Limu Q noting relief from engine vibration.
Dr Bergin of Pana Sr s endorses Ballard’s Snow Liniment for burns and injuries on farms. The ad highlights its quick healing for cuts and burns and notes prices 25c 50c and 1.00 at Clark Drug Co. Night gowns and on site prices are mentioned.
Ladies frocks with muslins and pitticoats trimmed in lace are advertised on sale. Prices stated as lower than the actual material cost. Sale items include embroidered garments offered at significant discounts. Mirrored in a period sales notice format from a local shop.
Two Kansas City business men heard a receiver snap on a party line while discussing a business matter from home. They tried to identify the intruder as a cuckoo clock sound betrayed the caller, ending the interception with no apology offered.
George Washington Aller and Gertie Jarvis of Glassboro New Jersey married after traveling five miles through cold rain from Cross Keys to reach the Methodist parsonage. They walked because they had no conveyance and needed the ceremony to seal their lifelong romance.
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