Pontotoc County Free Fair Ends With Optimistic Outlook
The Pontotoc county annual free fair closed with optimism for next year as exhibitors and officials praised improvements. Plans include a field crop building educational building and livestock facilities, with space for 400 cattle and more field crops. The ten acres at Frances Wintersmith park near Ada supported by a city deed and a large tent for poultry marked the inaugural permanent-site fair.
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Pontotoc County
I. B. Hill
Hill
Pontotoc
Carl Solomon
The
Fair Association
Solomon
Jessie Morean
Lemna Maloney
Oklahoma City
Ada
Roff
Eclty Lake Park
Frances Wintersmith
Renewal of Feud Claims Two Lives in Manchester
In Manchester Kentucky gunfire from a courthouse sniping spree left Commonwealth Attorney Frank H Baker age 39 of London and John Brockman about 25 dead. Frank Youn 40 was seriously wounded as gunmen lurked in the Clay County courthouse and Wiley Baker 62 was nearby. Guards were posted after the outbreak linked to Civil War era feuding.
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Manchester
National Guard
Commonwealth
Frank H. Baker
London
John Brockman
Breathitt County
Indiana
Frank Youn
Clay County
Baker
Wiley Baker
Brockman
Ruby Laffoon
William Lewis
Alfred Neal
Aczre
Co. Pp. Stivers
Neal
Frank Baker
Fleeing Convicts Captured Near Prison in Oklahoma
McALESTER Sept 16 Two long termers who fled from a state penitentiary road gang under guard fire were captured three hours after the breakout a few miles from the prison One man was shot The escapees were Quincy Weaver serving 25 years for robbery with firearms from Creek county and L I White with a 15 year term from Pottawatomie county for the same offense
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McAlester
Penitentiary
Quincy Weaver
Creek County
Pottawatomie County
Carter Oil asks Supreme Court to disqualify unnamed justices
The Carter Oil Co asks Oklahoma's high court to remove unnamed members for failing to draft an opinion in the Nancy Eli Cherokee allotment case, a four year old appeal from Novata County. The dispute cites a Branson led revision and repeated conference without an opinion since 1928.
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Oklahoma City
Carter Oil Co
State Supreme Court
Novata County
Nancy Eli
Fred T. Branson
E. F. Lester
Colombians Demand War With Peru After Leticia Seizure
Tens of thousands in Bogota clamored for war with Peru after Peruvians seized Leticia on the Amazon. The senate approved a $10,000,000 defense credit as crowds donated jewels and funds to back the move. President Sanchez Cerro was the target of antiwar chants.
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Bogota
Colombia
Peru
Senate
Leticia
Amazon
Sanchez Cerro
Louis M. Sanchez Cerro
Arrests Halt Spread of Travelers Checks Scam
Four men were arrested in Joplin Missouri on a nationwide travelers checks racket. Ten suspects are held across Oklahoma City Texas Denver and Joplin as authorities trace a central producer using counterfeit plates. Checks worth ten dollars were passed in Oklahoma Arkansas and Kansas with eight Joplin merchants losing ten dollars each.
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Joplin
Oklahoma City
Texas
Denver
Tulsa
Vinita
Miami
Okla
Fort Smith
Little Rock
Ark
Coffeyville
Kans
Gandhi Begins Fast to Death Over Indian Elections
Poona reports Mahatma Gandhi, 62, starts a self imposed fast unto death at Yeroda jail to protest Ramsay MacDonald’s settlement of communal elections. Government bars lifted, visitors barred. Gandhi rejects release and seeks to end civil disobedience he leads with Madeline Slade among supporters.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Ramsay MacDonald
Yeroda
Mahatma
Gandhi
Madeline Slade
London Society
Bapu
Father
Doctor Opposed 18 Free Treatment
William C. Woodward of the American Medical Association testified before a House committee that federal government hospitalization for private citizens amounts to taxpayer funded free services for non duty related illnesses. He argued government medical competition undermines the medical profession and risks inadequate care in emergencies.
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Washington
William C. Woodward
American Medical Association
House
Madill Officers to File Murder Complaint
In Madill on September 16 officers filed a murder complaint against 17 year old W L Baker Jr after he shot his father in a rage over a horse. He surrendered yesterday and investigators say the youth first fired at his father as he rode away, then shot at the truck cab where the father rode to seek a doctor and fatally wounded him.
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Madill
W. L. Baker Jr
Baker
Gandhi death fast sparks Hindu temple clashes in India
Riots erupted in Ahmerabad as Gandhi began a death fast in Yerada jail Poona. Orthodox Jain protesters opposed opening temples to untouchables provoking police dispersal after they pulled down notices and blocked temple gates.
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Ahmerabad
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Yerada
Poona
Gandhi
Legislature To Take Up Lame Duck Measure In Oklahoma
Oklahoma lawmakers are expected to consider a federal constitutional amendment to abolish the lame duck session next January. Seventeen states have approved it. 38 are needed within seven years. The change would shift presidential inaugurations to January and align Congress sessions accordingly.
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Oklahoma City
Congress
Oklahoma
Murray
Secretary of State
First Woman Mayor in U S Lived Many Years in State
The piece recalls Susannah Salter of Carmen, editor J A Salter’s wife, as the first elected woman mayor in the United States when Argonia Kansas chose her in 1887. It notes her prohibition stance, two arrests during her term, and her later national fame and eight children. Her family moved to Oklahoma with the Cherokee Outlet opening, living in Carmen. one son, Leslie A. Salter, is an Oklahoma City attorney.
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Ponca City
Phoebe Lou Owenby
Broken Arrow
Oklahoma
United States
Susannah Salter
J. A. Salter
Oklahoma Territorial
Kansas
Laura M. Johns
Susan B. Anthony
France
Willard
Africa
Salters
Cherokee Strip
Carmen
Salter
Oklahoma City
Leslie A. Salter
January 3 Start for Newly Elected Congress Members
The text notes a January 3 start for newly elected congressmen to assume duties two months after election rather than 13 months. It also mentions the bill to submit the amendment to states passing in the last congressional session after already passing the Senate six times but failing in the House.
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Congress
Senate
House
Oklahoma City Livestock Market Report September Trade Notes
Cattle runs include 1100 calves and 600 other cattle with steady demand. good quality beef scarce. Prices show bulk fat cows 2.75 to 3.25, better calves 3.00 to 4.75, bulls 1.75 to 2.25, veals 4.50 to 5.00. hogs 1800 head, packer peak 3.65, outsiders to 3.75, sows 2.00 to 2.85. Sheep and lambs steady with native and Texas fat lambs quoted to 4.50 and yearlings 3.00 to 3.25.
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Oklahoma City
Texas
Market Report Kansas City Beef Pig Prices Sept 21
Cattle and hog markets show mixed moves with hogs 10 lower than Tuesday. Top hog price 3.95 per 100 lb for 180-220 lb. cattle steady to weak with steers 600-1500 lb 6.75-10.00. lambs up to 25 higher with Colorado lambs at 5.40 and natives around 5.00.
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Kansas City
Colorado
Poultry Trade Steady as 40 Trucks Roll Through Chicago
Poultry live market reports 40 trucks in Chicago on September 21 with steady activity and prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Butter and Egg Prices Steady in Chicago markets
Butter at 6 815 tons with 92 score creamery specials and 203 extras, about steady. Extra firsts 90-91 with 1832-193, firsts 88-89 17-18, seconds 86-87 15-16, standards 90 centralized car rots. Eggs at 3 665 firm with extra firsts cars 22, local 21, fresh graded first cars 20%, local 20, current receipts 15-19.
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Chicago
Potatoes Prices Mix in Chicago Trade News
Potatoes steady to slow in Chicago trading on Sept 21 with United States shipments at 484 and total on track 269. Wisconsin Cobblers 65-70, Minnesota Cobblers 70, Hollandale area varieties around 70, Idaho Russets 1.30-1.40, Minnesota Early Ohios 60-65.
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Chicago
U. S
Wisconsin Cobblers
Minnesota
Hollandale
Idaho
Wheat gains push prices above late week levels
Chicago market reports Wheat rising more than 3 cents a bushel amid strength in stocks and cotton. The advance occurred despite Winnipeg spread selling. Prices closed near session highs with Corn and Oats also firmer and Provisions steady.
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Chicago
Winnipeg
Cotton advances amid Liverpool cables and sharp stock rise
Cotton prices firmed in New York and New Orleans on Sept 21 as unfavorable cables and stock strength spurred buying. December rose to 7.83 in New York after 7.13 in New Orleans with mid session gains of 31 to 33 points from the prior close and exports at 33,615 bales.
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New York
Liverpool
New Orleans
Assicini Assues
Septa
I.f
Mrs Laura Cross Dies at 65 in Lula Area
Mrs Laura E Cross wife of J H Cross died at home near Lula Wednesday evening at 6 30 o clock aged 65 Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at o clock in Centrahoma Burial in Centrahoma cemetery Survived by Mr Cross Lee William and Fred Cross
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Laura KK. Cross
Laura E. Cross
J. H. Cross
Lula
Centrahoma
Cross
Lee
William
Fred Cross
Mrs LaVice White of Rosedale Dies at 75
Mrs LaVice Louise White of Rosedale Oklahoma died September 1 1942 at age 75. Funeral services were held at the home with burial in Rosedale cemetery. She is survived by her husband and five children including Andy W White of Ada. The Whites moved to Pontotoc county from Tennessee in 1903.
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India
South Africa
London
Buddha
Mahomed
Gandhi
Round Table
LaVice Louise White
Rosedale
Okla
Andy W. White
Ada
Pontotoc County
Tennessee
Stone infant dies. services held in Criswell Funeral Home area
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Edward Stone of 569 West Main died Saturday afternoon at 4 o clock. Funeral services were conducted at the family home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial in Rosedale Cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge.
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Edward Stone
W. Main
Rosedale Cemetery
Criswell Funeral Home
Price Statler Dies at Ada Home at 71
Price Statler age 71, brother of Gale Statley of Ada, died Saturday evening at 7 30 at Gale Statley's home 1220 8S Stockton. Funeral held Sunday at 4 in Denison Texas with burial in Sherman cemetery Criswell's in charge.
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Price Statler
Gale Statley
Ada
Stockton
Denison
Texas
Sherman Cemetery
Criswell
Death of John Christeson at 72 9th Street
John Christeson 41 died at his home 727 W Ninth Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Monday at 4 p m from Criswell Funeral Home chapel with Rev W L Blackburn officiating. Burial in Rosedale cemetery. Survived by widow and one son.
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John Christeson
Criswell Funeral Home
W. L. Blackburn
Rosedale
Mr. Christeson
Death of Woodrow Wricht Wilson at home near Stonewall
Woodrow Wricht Wilson aged 5 died Sunday afternoon at his home near Stonewall. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 PM from the home. Burial will follow in Steadman Cemetery, Criswell's officiating at Criswell's Cemetery facility.
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Woodrow Wricht Wilson
Stonewall
Steadman Cemetery
Criswell
The Perfect Circle Exists as a Detour
A terse philosophical note asserts that the ideal circular path is found not by direct route but via a detour. The idea frames the detour as the true form of the perfect circle.
Farm board clash fuels farm policy debate at convention
Peter B. Carey president of the Chicago Board of Trade denounces the farm board and its chairman James C. Stone at the Grain and Feed Dealers National Association meeting in French Lick Indiana. He calls for Stone removal from the government payroll and accuses him of misconduct and agit prop aiming to depress prices.
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French Lick
Ind
Peter B. Carey
Chicago Board of Trade
Farm Board
James C. Stone
Grain and Feed Dealers National Association
Europe
Stone
Carey
Central World Grain Market
Farmers’ Market
Ada Independents Top Antlers in Close Summer Tilt
In a thrilling openers of a two game set, Ada Independents edged the Antlers Mountaineers 7 to 5 with late scoring in the eighth inning. Cy Blanton spun strong via seven safe hits for the Antlers while Ada backed him with 13 singles and a key one handed catch by Prather.
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Ada Independents
Antlers Mountaineers
Cy Blanton
W. A. Hurler
Antlers
Ada
Lobaugh
Prather
Johnson
Patton
Young
Independents
Ted
Homer Blankenship
Mountaineers
Railroads Cut Livestock Rates Across State
Oklahoma City dispatch reports the corporation commission granted intrastate railroads authority to slash livestock transport rates within 225 miles of Oklahoma City. The reductions, requested to counter truck competition, apply when one or two railroads handle a shipment and vary by haul length.
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Oklahoma City
Corporation Commission
C. B. Bee
Commission
Wetumka Plans Municipal Utilities Network
Wetumka aims to own all utilities under a city council plan. The council voted to seek a 350000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to build a city ice plant and gas distribution system. The project would create winter jobs, with the city already owning water and light but buying gas at 38 cents per thousand cubic feet.
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Wetiumka
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Wetumka
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