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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
2
The Katy announces abolishing South McAlester name and renaming to McAlester on maps and time cards while old McAlester becomes North McAlester. Public sentiment blames elongated names for wasted time and suggests a legal simplification or intercity agreement to ease usage.
The Phoenix warns of a four story modern skyscraper rising in Muskogee and urges strict safety, structural steel use, and earthquake precautions. It calls for cleanliness, restricted vegetation, lime scattering, and pest control to ensure Ada remains neat and safe.
The article portrays the Aponos as savage and childish, detailing a ritual giant dance called ocuya on stilts with a wicker head and grass skirt. It depicts exoticism and fear while contrasting American children’s reactions with local acceptance.
A quirky exchange from the Newark News notes a remark about sparing salty odor when frying fat, followed by a joking line about running old man Hinkbones for the United States Senate. The joke focuses on the candidate's voice rather than achievements.
In a Novoe Vremya published letter, Admiral Rojestvensky says the British fleet stood ready to destroy the Russian squadron if Japan had failed at the Sea of Japan. He asserts British plans were secretly coordinated with Admiral Togo’s defeat and notes the minister of marine is probing the loss for possible court martial.
The article explains creating diamonds by dissolving carbon in molten metals to saturate, then cooling to trap iron globules in lead, forming carbon-rich crystals. A lead bath plus acid dissolution yields tiny diamonds, with crystals never exceeding about a fiftieth of an inch.
British thinkers push a blue ribbon for brains an interuniversity contest between thinkers and students for merit. Nine minds from each university may compete in unknown formats such as thinking tasks or essays to honor intellect over athletic prizes. The first champion thinker of Great Britain is sought.
The Cleveland Leader argues that despite czarist control, a new Russia emerges as the press asserts that revolts will recur if crushed, signaling a shift toward liberty and stronger demands for freedom across the country.
The American chameleon Anolis carolinensis inhabits the southern United States. It can rapidly and completely change color from brown to yellow or pale green. It feeds on insects and is harmless to higher life forms. Often kept as a pet, it has even been worn as an ornament. Its toes have adhesive pads enabling it to run on smooth vertical surfaces.
Two men bet a darky could stay all night in a famed haunted house. The hired man keeps awake as a friendly ghost appears at midnight. The man flees in fear while the ghost remarks on their brisk run, and the darky sighs that it was not enough to avoid trouble.
A chemistry professor prompts original questions in class and a freshman quips Lot’s wife underwent two changes in chemistry: first to rubber and then to a pillar of salt. The professor invites other theories.
In a witty exchange, Mrs Smiley is blamed for driving her husband to drink and Dryun laments his misfortune. The joke turns on an accidental proposal misdirection between Dryun and a companion, highlighting light society humor.
A pasted dialogue from the Chicago Record Herald shows a man seeking to cement a friendship but a woman mocks him saying he is self centered and beyond repair. The exchange highlights friction in a cultural moment.
A New York Times line quotes a veteran frontier fighter saying the Sioux once scalped him and could not do so again. The remark captures frontier bravado and lingering hostility in accounts of clashes with Native tribes.
A local sheriff posts a 50 cent reward for Roarin' Rube dead or alive with mock warning from Judge. Grizzly Pete jokes that Rube’s fate will be sealed by the reward.
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