Remembering Jane Addams and Echoes of Public Life
Obituary and reflective columns honor Jane Addams for five decades of charity in Chicago slums and moral leadership. The piece also ranges across soil conservation, Oklahoma tax receipts, rail traffic plans, Stalin’s modernization, a western plan for a new state, and a Sunday School lesson on true worship.
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Jane Addams
Chicago
Job
Miss Addams
Scoffers
Carpenter
Nazareth
Christ
Jacob’s Well
Jesus
God
Jerusalem
Mt. Gerizim
Linscheid Re-elected at East Central State Teachers College
Longstanding leader Dr. A Linscheid earns a renewed presidency at Ada based East Central State Teachers College after 15 years of steady administration. The state board’s decision is praised as merit based and marks the college’s 26th year with minimal turmoil.
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East Central
A. Linscheid
East Central State Teachers College
Ada
State Board of Education
Linscheid
Frederick Leader
Robertson
J. M. Gordon
University of Tulsa
Walton
Trapp
Johnston
Holloway
Murray
Marland
Commissioners Consider Plan For Mausoleum
Ada city commissioners weighed a plan by the Dill Mausoleum Co of Augusta Kansas to build a marble and stone mausoleum at Rosedale cemetery costing 85 000 to 100 000. The city would provide land only with crypts sold to fund construction and a local bank would act as trustee receiving payments as crypts are sold. The project would require inspection approvals and a 10 percent city endowment from crypt sale proceeds. Construction start would have a set time limit.
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City of
Ada
Rosedale
Dill Mausoleum Company
Augusta
Kans
Rosedale Cemetery
Cemetery Association
City Health Committee
State Health Department
The
Mrs. Klein Named Special Commissioner in Barnett Estate Case
In Muskogee Oklahoma Mrs Louise Klein a former state bank department employee was appointed by Federal Judge R L Williams as special commissioner to hear over 200 Barnett claimants seeking a share of Jackson Barnetts 2 million oil estate. The case signals a lengthy fight with 10 plus attorneys present from the US Canada and Mexico.
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Muskogee
Williams
United States
Canada
Mexico
Fort Smith Druggist Sentenced in Car Theft Case
Sam Rustam a 36 year old Fort Smith Arkansas druggist was sentenced to two years in the federal reformatory at El Reno for riding in a stolen car from Fort Smith to Idabel Oklahoma. The sentence was handed down by Federal Judge R L Williams.
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Sam Rustam
Fort Smith
Ark
Federal Reformatory
el Reno
Idabel
Oklo
R. L. Williams
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News Publishing and Printing Co
Ada Weekly Democrat
Pontotoc County Enterprise
Ada Star-Democrat
ADA Evening News
ADA Weekly News
Eas
Okla
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Naeemama Armanannatias Thames Nmi
Tugwell
Midwest
New Orleans
Seattle
Stalin
Russia
Texas Panhandle
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Supreme Court
NRA
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France
Pontotoc County
Massachusetts
Robert E. Lee
Arlington
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New England
South Carolina
South
Luther Harrison
Walter Ferguson
Abe Lincoln
Poteau News
Pontotoc
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Panhandle
Jim McClintic
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Kansas Company
Wedesday's Daily
Mrs. Klein
Barnett
Cardus
Cole Young
Leesville
Mississippi Valley
First National Bank
G. J. Morton
R. W. Simpson
8. K. Grant
F. C. Norris
Cashia
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