Oklahoma Army Encampment at Camp Robertson Proves Productive
Oklahoma City reports 2300 soldiers from the Second and Third Infantry returned from a fifteen day training at Camp Robertson Lawton. General Barrett praises progress, high spirits, and practical drills with two days on the rifle range and 200000 rounds fired. No serious accidents or deaths occurred.
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Special
Oklahoma City
National Guard
Oklahoma
Camp Robertson
Lawton
Charles F. Barrett
Barrett
Fort Sill
Socialists Back Soviet Russia as Party Forms in Chicago
In Chicago, a socialist declaration endorses the Soviet Republic of Russia and the international socialist movement while condemning the League of Nations. A new Communist Party is organized, modeled on Soviet Russia, aiming to educate workers and spread propaganda through newspapers and colleges in major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Socialist Party
International Socialist Movement
League of Nations
Soviet Republic of Russia
Russia
Communist Party
Communist Labor Party of America
Socialist Party
New Party
Rose Pastor Stokes
Radical Party
Labor Section
Henry M. Tichner
St. Louis
Mississippians Want Negroes to Return Home
The Associated Press reports Mississippi plans a movement to bring back hundreds of Negro families who left north in recent years. Offices would open in Chicago and St Louis to coordinate labor for a huge cotton crop. A 14 million bale crop needs about 2 million pickers over a 90 to 109 day season, with planters offering transportation back south.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Dixie
Chicago
St. Louis
South
Jefferson Davis signature added to Oklahoma History Society collection
Jefferson Davis signature appears on an 1863 reply to six tribes in Oklahoma Territory about protection and supplies. The letter, countersigned by adjutant Washington Curtis Lee, formerly owned by William Penn Adair, joins the society’s Civil War era holdings.
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Okla
Historical Society
Jeff Davis
Oklahoma City
Jefferson Davis
Oklahoma Historical Society
William Penn Adair
Oklahoma Territory
Washington Curtis Lee
Robert E. Lee
Recreation valued for adults and children alike
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip states that recreation is essential for grown people as much as for children, emphasizing its importance across all ages.
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Frank A. Vanderlip
Foreclosure Notice in Pontotoc District Court
The First State Bank of Blanchard sues C. C. Chapman and Dovie Chapman for mortgage foreclosure on February 25, 1918, with $90 loan, 10 percent interest from November 1, 1918, $25 attorney fee, and costs. Respond by October 9, 1919, or judgment will foreclose and sell land in Section 23 Township 3 North Range 6 East Pontotoc County.
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Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
A. D
A. R. Sugg
L. E. Franklin
C. F. Green
Milwaukee rail workers form Badger Cooperative to open storehouses
Railroad employes in Milwaukee organize the Badger Cooperative association to run wholesale and retail stores across Wisconsin. The plan includes seven car loads of winter potatoes under 50 cents per peck, chickens at 23 to 25 cents per pound, 18 cent canned goods at 10 cents, and a first floor butcher shop. The second floor houses a tailor and direct textile purchases. next year a coal yard is planned with a $45 000 capitalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Badger Cooperative Association
Junction Points
Wisconsin
New Butler
North Dakota
A Peach Treat From W P Weston Near City
W P Weston living one mile northeast of the city treated the force with a peck of peaches yesterday. He has permission to return anytime the spirit moves him to do so.
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W. P. Weston
Bernard Shaw Attacks Medical Profession In Speech
London report says George Bernard Shaw ridicules physicians and vivisectionists and urges medical study of life as a biological organism. He calls doctors who treat the body as mere chemicals or machinery idiots and says surgeons should study anatomy in a life context. He spoke at a meeting to abolish vivisection.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Oklahoma Fall Opens With Hopeful Harvest Outlook
The author notes fall arrives after a mild spring and a good summer in Oklahoma. The changing season brings cooler air, ripening crops, and advancing frost warning, with pleasant prospects for crops and flowers. It ends with a confident, optimistic view of the season.
Jews Appeal for Aid for War Sufferers and Israel
The American Jewish Relief Committee seeks funds to aid persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe, requesting 35 million dollars from both Jews and non Jews in the United States to provide money, food, clothing and medical supplies. Notable backers include Henry Morgenthau Oscar Straus Jacob Schiff Julius Rosenwald Felix Warburg and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Jewish Relief Committee
United States
America
Europe
Oscar
Nathan Strauss
Jacob H. Schiff
New York
Julius Rosenwald
Sears-Roebuck Co
Felix Warburg
Julian W. Mack
Jacob D. Litt
Goodrich backs highway funding as starting point for road development
The B. F. Goodrich Rubber company argues that highway appropriations, while large to the public, represent a starting push toward long delayed improvements and better roads.
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America
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Muskogee man calls for ransom payment in aviator case
A Muskogee man declares the United States is bound to hand over $7,500 more ransom for two American aviators held by Mexican bandits. The critic Louis Mann mocks the request, urging better acting than past eras.
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England
France
America
Congress
United States
Pittsburg County
Muskogee
Louis Mann
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Medford
Price Tieker Box
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Gwin & Mays Drug CO
Ada
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey
Yi Zoo
Pi Lel
ITI
Performan
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Andes P.M
Bart Smith’s Drug Store
West Main ST
Arthur L. Bowles and
W. £. Mooney
First National Bank
Ada, Oklahoma
State of Oklahoma
Arthur Ll. Bowles
W. E. Mooney
Cardus
Dana
Mary J. Irvin
Cullen, Va
Bernard Shaw
Denison-Sherman
Dallas-Waco-Corsicana
KK. P. Chrisman
Paducah
James E. Webb
Gwin & Mays
Rexall
Gwin Mays Drug CO
Israel
Jerusalem
Austria-Hungary
Children of Israel
England-France
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