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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
5
Nickel Store advertises a low profit, one price policy with quick sales on lamps and chimney parts. It promotes Honest value lamp assortment including various burner sizes chimneys and brass burners with prices from 5c to 50c and a kitchen bracket lamp kit for 25c.
A price note lists values from 50 units to 1.65 per set with remarks about butcher BS on 10c 15e 20e and 25. The fragment hints at pricing and a jest about a butcher.
A local ad promotes tinware glassware queensware and stoneware crocks plus a new line of men's gloves from 10c cloth gloves to 145c gauntlets. A October sale offers 35c muleskin gloves for 23c and the shop positions itself as a safe place for children to trade with value from shrewd shopping.
Ada briefly records residents and visitors from Sulphur to Shawnee with court appearances and traveling relatives. Numerous names and places appear including Sulphur Tupelo Coalgate McCarey Mt Vernon Denison Okla. The item closes with a health notice for Prickly Ash Bitters as a household remedy.
Advertisement for Dr Mendenhall's Chill and Fever Cure as a general tonic replacing quinine. States satisfaction guaranteed with refund by G M Ramsey if not pleased. Promotes sale through G M Ramsey.
Bud Couch is reported quite sick. Little Mary Alice Cox is sick today. Miss Sue Parish is very ill. Zeb McCoy was up from Stonewall. Mary Lovett is ill. T. P. Holt went to Tupelo today. W. M. Riddle was over from Stonewall today. E. L. Steed went to Tupelo on business today. Charlie Ross of Konawa visited Idus Harris today.
A 1906 letter to I Harris of Ada Oklahoma explains a thief repaying fifty cents for gloves stolen years earlier. The note, unsigned, dated Sept 27 1906, asks forgiveness and mentions a desire to reform. The envelope includes religious tracts and a distant advertisement for Prickly Bitters kidney tonic.
E D Hinkle cast the first vote in Beebe's first democratic primary. The virgin vote went to Rotenberry. C Estes aged 73, carried to the polls, cast what may be his last ballot for Carlton Weaver.
Ada prepares for a grand carnival in late October organized by the Ada band boys and Cole Younger Nichols Amusement Co. Fifteen high class moral shows will be staged along with three big free attractions including balloon ascensions and high dives.
W H Skinner a local druggist reports after seven years of selling Shilcross Dr Mendenhall's Chill and Fever cure that 24 of 25 former users no longer seek other remedies. G M Ramsey also offers the medicine in town as a trusted supplier.
Noah Collins was released on $500 bond on Tuesday to await his October term court appearance for grand larceny. The ad copy promotes Prickley Ash Bitters claiming it cleanses the liver and bowels and regulates the system to create energy.
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