Community Leaders and Slender Paths to Success
A long passage lists local officials and candidates for various posts including State and County offices. The piece then shifts to a reflective essay inspired by the ugly duckling tale, praising perseverance of lesser‑promising students who endure doubt and inequity, arguing steadiness trumps early brilliance. It emphasizes courage, effort, and self‑confidence as keys to eventual achievement.
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Anderson
Ewan
West Point
Stonewall Jackson
Lee
Grant
Endowment gaps in Southern colleges prompt reform
The author notes postwar devastation of Southern schools, praising revival efforts yet urging greater philanthropy. Endowments lag behind Northern institutions, with Rice Institute, University of Texas, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Peabody, Virginia, and Tuskegee cited as leaders. future wealth could render colleges independent of tuition. The piece critiques socialism theories via Prescott and reports political chatter on campaign funds and economic confidence.
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South
Rice Institute of Houston
Texas
W. M. Rice
A. T. Patrick
New York Penitentiary
University of Texas
Tulane
New Orleans
Vanderbilt
Peabody College
Nashville
University of Virginia
Booker Washington
Tuskegee
Alabama
Editors Get Rich Schemes and Local Tragedy Reflections
A Paxton Register item warns editors about false riches from ads and promotions while recounting a Kansas real estate scam and a North Dakota travel lure. A police court scene shows a grieving wife pleading for her jailed husband amid domestic hardship. The column ends with a comic misadventure chasing a thief who nabbed Sears Roebuck catalogs.
Subscriptions and local political clash flash in Oklahoma notices
A reader appeal urges prompt payment of subscription dues noting costs of printing and value received. The piece shifts to political firing at Republicans over Haskell and Oklahoma governance, plus local items from Sulphur court hearings and Stonewall becoming a dry town, highlighting civic debates and community changes.
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Sulphur
McMillan
Aidbert Rennie
Pauls Valley
Davis News
Marriage License List and Local Developments
The item lists multiple marriage license pairs including Ada and Roxie South, Fitzhugh and Wess Hains, and Ardmore names, noting several in Ada and surrounding towns. It also reports the Fitz Asphalt company of Roff with a $10,000 capital and incorporators Randolph Lawrence and others. The piece notes a Friday update from From Friday's Daily. A jury in the Reuncon damage suit awarded the plaintiff $350.
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Asphalt Company
Prom Macaday
Raily
Fitzi Asphalt Company
Roff
Capital
Randolph Lawrence
W. P. Caset
J. W. Mattox
Fitzhugh
W. M. Baugh
Man
Oklahoma City
Reuncon
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the Ada News
News Publishing and Printing Co
Weaver-Masonic Block
12Th and Broadway Streets
Otis B. Weaver
Mollie Jernigan
Sec-Treas
Byron Norrell
A. B. Yeager
Pee Pontotoc County
Ada
ADA Evening News
ADA Weekly News
Union T
J. J. McAlester
State Auditor
Leo Meyer
Ben Harrison
Robt. Dunlop
Chas. West
Chas. Taylor
R. H. Wilson
Kate Barnard
Ed Boyle
P. A. Ballard Corporation
G. A. Henshaw
Criminal Court of Appeals
H. M. Forman
James R. Armstrong Thomas H. Doyle
State Printer
Giles Farris
Supreme Court
W. H. L. Campbell
Pres. Board of Agriculture
Thos. Bryan
John O’brien
Tom D. McKeown
R. M. Rainey
Por
Reuben M. Roddie
Pontotoc
Seminole
J. S&s Barham
Conway O. Barton
Robert Wimbish
L. E
Lem) Mitcheill
W. S. Kerr
W. T. Cox
Co. C. Hargis
T. F. Pibrch
R. H
Rit) Gawin
Sherwood Hill
the Ugly Duckling
Southern Colleges
Prescott
Peru
Sheriff's Office
Oklahoma
Oty Times
Democratic Party
Haskell
Roosevelt
Oregon
Paxton
St. Louis
Register
Juntic
Kansan
North Dakota
Chicago
Quenemo
Eays
Sears-Roebuck
Mabdel
Frank E. Gillette
el Reno
Canadian
Oklahoma City Times
Republican Party of
Francis
Clark
Stonewall
Stonewall News
J. M. Stanfield
Rollow Building
Det. J
C. T. Nail, Ada
Roxie South
J. E. Fullingim
Artie Stewart
Wess Hains
Lewis Bryant
Francia
W. H. Kerbro
Ardmore
Bulahi Havlin
Walter Cochran
Cottonwood
Cassie Angelly
J.W. Price
Maud
Rosa Consert
Stein-Bloch
John B. Stetson
Edwin Clapp
Bostonian Shoes
C.R. Drummond
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