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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
14
Pastor C C Morris urges strong attendance for the regular choir and the B Y P U rehearsals at 8 tonight at First Baptist Church to prepare songs for evening service.
Belgrade report states about one fifth of Serbia’s population, roughly 800000, died from all causes during the war. Typhus killed about 300000, with 700000 mobilized and 100000 interned in Bulgaria. about half of the internees are believed dead.
An advertisement suggests taking a small amount of HERBINE at night to aid digestion, purify the system, and restore health and energy. Sold by Bart Smith.
London reports burglary up eighty percent in a year. Insurance firms urge policyholders to upgrade from rim locks to mortised locks sunk in the door edge, claimed to be nearly burglar proof and harder to jimmy.
A. E. Bryant of Preston Bussett told a Buckingham labor meeting that intensive farming yields large profits. He rents 25 acres at $350 annually and earns $3,375 from wheat and beans, leaving a net profit of $2,575.
Cablin Atchavit of Walter Oklahoma earned the Distinguished Service Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre for capturing a German and killing another while wounded during the St Mihiel drive in September 1918. He served with Company A 357th Infantry 90th Division and was a selected service man from Comanche County. He entered the army from Lawton April 25 1918.
Advertisement notes Ballard’s Horehound Syrup to calm coughing irritations and soothe lungs for easier breathing, sold by Bart Smith. Mentions La Ca ine Sing Song event Sunday evening at the Methodist church with invitation to join.
Honolulu dispatch reports the Japanese rice embargo could drive many Japanese laborers from Hawaii, causing labor shortages on plantations. The Nippu Jiji editorial argues Hawaiian and California rice are inferior to Japanese rice and notes a rise in labor exodus since Hawaii became dry last year.
Advertisement claims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic purifies and enriches the blood to strengthen the whole system for summer heat. It promises strong, invigorating effects for feeble seniors and weak youths, with a price of 60 cents.
Palm Garden advertises ready equipment for serving hot lunches and high class chili. The note, dated 9-29, emphasizes dining options and equipment readiness.
Oklahoma City reports July through October license fee collections totaling 16754777 with over 7000 corporations delinquent. Officials say aggressive collection could push total receipts this year toward a quarter of a million dollars, compared with last year’s 203649.
A brief ad states neuralgia on the face, shoulder, hands, or feet needs a strong remedy that penetrates flesh. Ballard's Snow Liniment is advertised as that power, to be rubbed in at the pain site to relieve suffering and restore normal conditions. Sold by Bart.
Officials of seven shipbuilding crafts in Toledo called for a 25 percent wage rise for 2,500 workers at the Toledo Shipbuilding Company. Mechanics would move from 80 cents to $1 an hour, with proportional raises for helpers, tied to a large government contract for the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Paris reports that twenty thousand Alsatians and Lorrainers born in 1898 and 1899 will be conscripted to wear the French horizon blue starting next month. The move follows the region’s mobilization orders issued from Strasburg.
Lee Hargis is identified with N G H C Evans in a secretary role. The fragment lists Evans as the organization and Hargis as the secretary.
A religious order formed at Omsk named after St. Hermogenes aims to oppose Bolshevism. It plans a Crusaders detachment to volunteer for front service with cross insignia and strict discipline. Founders include priests professors politicians and scholars.
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