Prairie homesteaders begin life on new land
Fourteen and Twenty-Two tracts are filed as Jack and Frank begin building shacks and a stable on the prairie gully. The group purchases oxen cow and gear through Jake as they camp, rough it, and learn the freedoms and tensions of settling Regina 1904. Jean and Marjorie grow closer as distant police intrigue and rivalries surface.
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Jake
Jack
Regina
Prairie
1904
Buck
Bright
Jean
Marjorie
Giris
Mounted Police
Harold Brook
Marjori
Josh
Widal
Wasell
Frank
Little
Fidger
Muarfjorié
Pursuit of Jake Continues in Hotel Lounge
The scene shows Jake bursting into the lounge as the group lists hotel necessities. He claims to have been chasing the men across the city, revealing his unique ongoing pursuit related to their guide's business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake
Couple marks sixtieth wedding anniversary
Ada Oklahoma notices Ada friends celebrate sixty years of marriage for a couple who spent their anniversary in Boulder Colorado with their daughter and two daughters in law. The message notes the couple began life after the Confederate army service and have spent six decades together through trials and joys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder
Colo
G. 8S. Murphy
Sherman, Tex
Will Neathry
Ada
Okla
W. T. Cox
Cox
Prairie settlement and early building on the homestead
The narrator and friends establish a farm on the prairie. They plant a garden, dig a cellar and build a one story shack with tar paper walls. They plan an adjacent shelter for Jack and Jean and prepare for a cattle and oxen driven life while eyeing future work with farmers. A mounted policeman appears on the trail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean
Prairie
Jake
Jack
Marjorie
Marriage proves a successful union amid doubt and pressure
The article argues that marriage can endure challenging scrutiny and be effective if partners commit. It references long standing beliefs, urges effort to make marriage work, and cites a curious historical note on territory purchases and wildlife laws as background context.
Ada High to join East Central Conference for 1930 season
Ada High School becomes a charter member of the East Central athletic conference alongside Wewoka Holdenville Weleetka Okemah Seminole Wetumka and Henryetta. Conference officers include Garrison Holdenville president Frazier Wewoka VP Carver Holdenville secretary treasurer and a board of control with Cowart Hefley Estell. Henryetta withdraws from East Oklahoma to join. Schedule shows Ada games with Sulphur Holdenville Webeeetka Shawnee Wewoka and Henryetta plus open dates.
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Ada High School
East Central Athletic Conference
Albert Hacker
Conference Association
Holdenville
Wewoka
Weleetka
Okemah
Seminole
Wetumka
Henryetta
Garrison
East Oklahoma
Coffey defends Mayo hotel raid on VFW encampment
W L Coffey assistant U S district attorney said he bears no apology for the Mayo hotel raid, HQ for the VFW encampment. Seventeen veterans were arrested and liquor seized as Coffey acknowledged issuing the search warrant and vowed enforcement of prohibition without fear or favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Federal Army
United States
Henry Beard
T. E. Sprents
Oklahoma
Ned Gritts
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Detroit
Lewis Kratzen
Detroit, Mich
Roach
Kennamer
Gratzen
Coffey
Brents
W. L. Coffey
U.S
Mayo Hotel
Foster Elected Leader of Workers Party in Chicago
William 2 Foster was elected head of the Workers party the American branch of the communists at a three day convention in Chicago with 63 delegates. He opposed C E Ruthenberg.
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Foster
Chicago
William 2. Foster
The
Workers Party
Communists
C. E. Ruthenberg
Usury in Ancient Mesopotamia Described in 1950 B C
A 1950 B C Mesopotamia practice shows farmers with no seed owed grain lenders thirty percent of their crop. The system tied peasant survival to moneylenders and dictated crop share as repayment.
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Mesopotamia
B.C
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Hobart Stead
Prairies
Chapter
Ada Evening News
Ada, Okla
Try ‘ News
Tewlté
Russia
ON High Schooln New Conference
East Central
Webeetka
Webeet
Shawnee
Ovek
Hum
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