Oklahoma Farm Club Enrollment Reaches New Peak
Nearly 40 000 farm club members are in Oklahoma with 36 396 boys and girls in clubs across counties. Projects total 44 457 this year, up 8 219 from last year. members pursue dairy calf and pig clubs among others while girl clubs focus on sewing and canning. Sixty five county agents and 41 home demonstration agents supervise. nine counties have Black agents serving Black communities. exhibits are shown at county and state fairs.
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Stillwater
Oklahoma
W. D. Bentley
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
A. and M. College
Bentley
Oklahoma City Stock Yards Report October 6 1925
Oklahoma City stock yards report steady to higher prices across cattle hogs and calves. Grain fed cattle 11.00. good grassers 8.50 to 9.00. hog top 12.40. calves weak. Demand strong before noon with a larger run of plain grass stock and a noted shortage of hogs and cattle, signaling favorable prices for well fed cattle into winter. Oklahoma National Stock Yards Co.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Okla
National Stock Yards Co
Swat Kings Fall From Peak In Season Finale
In the season end game here September 28 Ada players posted strong totals with John Fain dropping from over .650 to a final 469. Jack Kelley raised his average to .323 as Lee Johnson and Waner declined yet stayed solid. Davis led Ada with a 200 mark, while several teammates posted sub-.300 totals in a mixed battering finish.
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Swat
John Fain
Fain
Jack Kelley
Lee
Johnson
Waner
Davis
Ada
Seine
Ohnson
Wadlington
Tees
RAS
Nye, i
President Coolidge Addresses Legion Convention in Omaha
President Coolidge visited Omaha to speak at the Seventh national American Legion convention and review a long parade of veterans. Rain dampened events as committees wrestled with convention details and policy proposals for presentation.
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Omana
Coolidge
Omaha
American Legion
Washington
France
Ohama
The
Legion
John J. Tigert
United States
United States Commissioner of Education
George Berry
Tennessee
Pressmen’s Union
American Federation of Labor
Coolidge urges toleration to avert world war danger
President Calvin Coolidge, addressing the American Legion in Omaba, called for demobilization of racial antagonisms and a universal attitude of toleration. He argued peace requires civil authority over military power and urged fiscal support for roads and schools over militarism, advocating selective service and unity in diversity at home and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaba
Neb
Coolidge
American Legion
America
Warrant Filed to Charge Prohibition Officer in Assault
A warrant charging Charles Buzzi, federal prohibition officer, with assaulting Owen Acton, local real estate man, will be mailed to Oklahoma City for service. Buzzi allegedly forced Acton from his car and roughened him during a liquor search. Reyes-Phillips Petroleum plans a $1,000,000 gasoline plant nearby. It took about 80 hours to cross the Atlantic by air.
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Guthrie
Charles Buzzi
Federal Prohibition
Owen Acton
Oklahoma City
Justice of the Peace
O. R. Fegan
Buzzi
Acton
Dr Pierce and His Golden Medical Discovery Story
A Western Pennsylvania farm lad becomes a district teacher and saves to attend medical college. After the Civil War he practices medicine in Pennsylvania oil regions then moves to Buffalo New York where his remedies gain fame. Dr. R V Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery becomes widely sold with over fifty million bottles shipped nationwide.
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Pennsylvania
New Oil
Buffal
N.Y
R. V. Pierce
U.S
Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
Okfuskee County Man Receives Seven Years for Maiming Wife
Okemah Oklahoma October 1 Preston Cook a Paden farmer was given the maximum seven year sentence in the state penitentiary after a quick guilty verdict on charges of maiming his wife by throwing lye on her face while she slept on June 8. The trial revealed shocking testimony including alleged gasoline on hair and an accidental acid incident. Cook claimed Ku Klux Klan men visited him in the Ox gains jail and hanged him from bars. The defense argued another person committed the crime.
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Okemah
Preston Cook
Paden
State Penitentiary
Cook
Oxmulgee
Weleetka Fair Plans Advance in Okfuskee County
Plans for the Okfuskee county fair at Weleetka are moving forward as preparations gather pace. Lawton Hanbury reports No. 1 Price well producing about 100 barrels daily from a 30 gravity oil field.
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Okfuskee
Lawton
Hanbury
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AOA
Shawnee
Roy Walker
Jee Foliey
Yale State Bank
New Mexico
Santa Rita
New Mex
Ada Weekly News
Roger Mills County
Roy Townsley
Reyes
Philips Petroleum Company
Blue
B. M. Bobbitt
Sea Island
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