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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
9
A bustling lead says Halloween plans are in full swing with shops offering grotesque, funny and pretty paper decorations in yellow and black. Home parties replace risky pranks, featuring lanterns, banners, place cards, candle shades, and paper tableware, plus games, dancing, fortune telling, and easy, inexpensive hostessing through paper festivities.
A McAdoo and Wickersham opinion for the American Association of Joint Stock Land Banks upholds the 1916 act creating federal land banks and joint stock land banks. It affirms tax exemptions for bonds and income, notes interest limits, loan terms, and bank deposit roles, and suggests strong chances for defense if the Kansas City case reaches the Supreme Court.
Washington reporting that on October 20 the Department of Justice notified refiners that pricing sugar above 10 cents per pound wholesale would violate the food control act. The United States Sugar Equalization Board has ruled 11 cents per pound fair for retail sugar.
Refiners were asked to telegraph agreement to raise supply immediately. The price to wholesalers climbs from 9 to 10 cents per pound, with retailers previously allowed 11 cents for control sugar. Justice Department and sugar board did not specify new retail prices, but expected increases to match the wholesale rise.
London report states Petrograd is virtually cut off as anti Bolshevik cavalry sever rail links to Moscow and Vologda. A Bolshevik division rushing to defend the city is largely wiped out at Krasnoye-Selo as General Yudenich captures the outpost. Serpent worship is cited as an ancient form of religion.
The ad touts warming closets with drop doors and no oven springs, supported by strong stake joints. It claims unbreakable malleable iron, rivet tight joints, double weight pipe, indestructible malleable iron fronts, ash pan and cup catches, paneled doors, and a burnished blue cooking top with nickel trim for easy cleaning.
In Chattanooga Tennessee on October 20 James Oliver, 20, is jailed as posses scour the Ooltewah area for Ed Martin, accused companion in the deputy sheriff McIntosh killing and Dixie Highway robbery. Oliver faced lynching threats before promising to name his partner. A Gordon setter is noted as bred in 1800 by the duke of Gordon.
In Manila a heated debate grows over whether the constitutional dry amendment applies to the Philippine Islands as a regular session opens October 16. Prohibition advocates led by Dr. D M Gandier raise funds and lobby through the Christian Service League and Philippine labor leaders push for a compromise on imported liquors while local experts cite health concerns of local distilleries. Legal opinion splits on applicability, with enforcement likely excluded by an expected council request, leaving the legislature to decide.
Ada investors report a Texas well drilling toward 1432 feet with production forecast over 200 barrels. Electra, Texas based letter to O E Lancaster notes Ada men sharing in the venture, with drilling to resume in a few days. The item also notes Mount Elias in Alaska is 3600 feet higher than Mont Blanc as a side fact.
Washington reports Senator Watson of Indiana charged that socialists Reds and other radicals are entrenched in government departments and that FTC investigators include men hostile to the government and American institutions He urged an Interstate Commerce Committee inquiry while denying defending the big meat packers.
The text asserts that the Willamette Valley in Oregon never experiences hag cyclones, presenting a curious regional claim about local weather phenomena.
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