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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1914
Page
8
Agricultural notes urge fall plowing to build soil health and pest control. Advice covers sowing rye and oats, maintaining winter pasture for stock and poultry, and strengthening defenses against disease with green food. Includes local farm tips and a bank notice.
Paris reports Germans driven back along 150 miles east of Paris with French center repelling attacks and forcing German withdrawals. British and French forces take prisoners as battle continues with Maubeuge defense praised and Austrians and Italians moving in the broader theater.
Oklahoma A M College at Stillwater offers a twenty week School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy providing practical training for young men in farming and young women in home economics with no tuition. Subjects include farm machinery livestock soils public speaking and more while expenses cover only living costs. The program runs October 13 to March 13 with no entrance exams and age at least fifteen.
In Washington on September, Leader Underwood suggested possible inclusion of gasoline in war taxes. The proposed bill may reshape beer tax to 1.50 per barrel, raise income tax by 0.5 percent with a reduced exemption, and set wine tax at 0.20 per gallon. Cigarettes, playing cards, Pullman tickets, and freight shipments likely to be taxed. bill expected to take final form tomorrow.
On the first Monday in October 1914 Herman Linskey, sentenced to the penitentiary from Pontotoc county for grand larceny, will apply for a pardon.
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