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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
5
An advertisement proclaims that if people knew what the Nickel Store sells and how cheap, business would double. It stresses value over mere lowest price, claiming the best value at the given price.
English white semi porcelain cups and saucers 50c set regular dinner plates 45c set bakers dishes bowls platters oatmeal covered dishes and pitchers also decorated dinnerware in great variety offers broad selection for kitchen and tableware shoppers.
The advertisement promotes table knives and forks priced from 50 cents to $1.50 per set. Special tea spoons are 9 cents per set and tablespoons 15 cents. The goods are described as good serviceable spoons.
Hardware corner offers deals on coffee mills priced 25c to 45c while odds and ends such as outcher knives 10c to 50c curry combs 5c and 15c lamp burners 5c and 10c shoe nails 1¢ to 4c boxes 4c stove shovels 5c and 10c heavy tire shovels 18c fry pans 7c to 24c and corn poppers 10c.
Catalogue listing shows Starch Faultless 8c blueins Red Cross brand 2 boxes 5c laundry soap Silk 3eakes 10c Rub no more 1c, 6 for 25c Rub no more washing powder 40 lye Eagle or Giant 7c 4 for 25c.
Advertisement notes various school supplies including regular 5c pencils 2 for 5c pane's safety bottle writing ink 5c rubber tipped lead pencils 2 for 5c and pencil holders 5c. Prices shown as shop sale values with emphasis on value for students.
Advertises chocolates and confections including caramels cocoa bon bons and taffy lumps priced at 12e per pound roughly half the usual cost.
A large hosiery sale features Groves offering stockings support and socks for ladies men Misses boys and children. The event highlights broad selection and affordable prices in a family friendly shopping rush.
Monday residents and visitors are listed including L I Cotts visiting Madill, Mrs J R Ingram traveling to Sulphur, and families from Ada visiting relatives in Oklahoma and Texas. Notes cover shopping trips, travel to Francis and Lehigh, and various short trips by residents and visitors. A medical update mentions Mrs Bone Hardin improving slightly, and Evelyn Kyser ill with pneumonia. The piece also reports cement plant survey progress and local civil notices.
Wednesday's items note Mrs. H Woodard ill and L F Rhoades visiting Center. Marvin Brown and E L Steed show illness and business trips to Sasakwa and Oklahoma City. Dr Craig and family from Center call in Ada. Edith Davis heads home to Oklahoma City. W L Reed returns from Shawnee. Attendees at the Shawnee Baptist convention include Mrs T D McKeown J K Garr J M Foster and Rev Harrell.
Sorosis met with Miss Timberlake on Friday November 2. Ten members answered roll call with quotations from Hans Christian Andersen. The club voted to award a prize to the member with the best attendance and duties fulfilled this year. A meeting was set for Friday November 16 at 2 pm to finish business and hear delegate reports from Tulsa. Mrs. McMillan led Hamlet reading and a paper on Andersen by the president. Refreshments followed served by Miss Timberlake and family.
Judge C O Barton returns home after a week speaking for the 86th district under state democratic headquarters. He vows to mobilize white voters angered by gerrymandered boundaries to drive in wagonloads to vote the democratic ticket.
Logan Whitehead, a Missouri resident, lies in Ardmore hospital with a pistol wound to the thigh and leg after being shot and robbed by a Negro while traveling in the Territory near Red River early Sunday. He is reported in serious condition. A separate notice offers a housework job with good wages at the News office on West 14th Street.
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