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Newspaper
Checotah Times
Location
Checotah, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1913
Page
2
A collage of quirky notes on society, technology, and politics. items include New York stepless cars, jokes about boxing, vodka gossip law, and chatter on oysters, goats, and fashion. references include Venezuela, Pomercian dogs, high prices, and a California township bid for privacy.
New Englanders seek John Greenleaf Whittier as their poet drawing from local legends and nature. Despite limited formal schooling, his verse mirrors New England life from Mayflower days to Civil War, with Snowbound commemorating his mother sister Elizabeth and Aunt Mercy.
An odd quotation notes the association of commerce estimates Chicago men spend six million dollars yearly on five million bats and humorously questions where such hats could be found. The line ends by suggesting the association judged by appearances.
A minister cites a long debated notion about wealth and faith, noting a concept discussed roughly eighteen centuries ago. The remark frames wealth as a shield against religious influence, linking historic debate to current thought on prosperity and piety.
The passage asks to guess the speaker's gender context from a fragmented quote about bonehead plays and beauty. It presents a historical style prompt, challenging whether the speaker was masculine, with the line indicating male perspective. The task requires determining if the speaker is masculine or not based on textual cues.
David Starr Jordan, former president of Stanford University, says the United States pays one million dollars daily for protection against enemies. He asserts that enemies would need to borrow from New York to sight America, illustrating the cost of defense.
Montclair New Jersey residents confront a large buzzing problem as bees swarm the First Congregational Church. Local authorities announce plans to address the hoard with an acid treatment to curb the infestation.
London. A brutal scene near Eton College as boys hunt hares with beagles. A hare drowns while pursued. Canon Lyttelton defends the practice, saying cruelty is not increasing, while critics, including Sir Philip Borne Jones and several old Etonians, denounce the reply and urge abolition.
New York reports Colonel Roosevelt plans a summer trip to Arizona to ride a horse, shed fat, and hunt for a lost tribe of Indians. Gossip from Oyster Bay says he will explore the Southwest and pursue a belt notch of fat to be shed.
A historical snapshot notes various Native groups in Arizona including Papagoes and Apaches led by the Navajoes. Mentions aboriginal shows for summer tourism, sheep herding, selling bright Massachusetts blankets, and mountain living as in ancestral times. Doctor Goddard remarks the Navajoes as the wildest group yet peaceful, with sparse reports from western tribes.
Columbia University refused to award Felix Metzger Rosenstock a degree unless he proved the ability to swim the gym pool length. Rosenstock, claiming a skin disease, obtained a physician’s note, but the physical director found no illness. The Latin explanation for the ailment failed to win leniency.
In New York, George Sichert finds Louise the park cat atop the hippo Caliph II. The cat clings with claws as Caliph buckles and tumbles, lions roar, Richert intervenes with a broom, and the cat narrowly escapes falling into the tank. Louise had escaped being eaten days earlier.
On the steamship Oru ba nearing Cartagena Colombia John George Cunningham of Southampton a first cabin passenger forced a Jamaican worker to stand ten yards away while he tried to shoot a cigarette from his mouth. Green intervened tripping Cunningham then four sailors bound him and took him to hospital where Dr Morton said he was insane from alcohol. He was put ashore at Colon in a strait jacket.
An excerpted clipping reports a brakeman struck by lightning while standing on a moving freight car. The incident notes the fatal shock near a railroad pole and mentions witness reactions and the dangerous conditions aboard the train.
Dr Askelon Mercer aged seventy five and Sarah Ll Calgrove aged sixty five performed their own marriage ceremony in Beaver Pennsylvania with witnesses present. Mercer declares all former ceremonies were conducted in the same manner.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a student group or club linked to feet and a class formation. Names, dates, and clear context are missing, leaving an unclear report on a possible school activity or social event.
An old Hot Springs advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as remedies for constipation, biliousness, dizziness, and headaches. It claims gentle, rapid effects and offers a free sample from Hot Springs Chemical Co. in Hot Springs Arkansas for 25 cents per box.
In the Barber's Chair Jones recalls being seated when the barber initiated talk about the weather and then drifted into French and German. He finally interrupted with a quip about being deaf and dumb and asked to be spoken to with his fingers.
Donald the beadle in a Highland kirk offers a wry critique of a minister's sermons. He admits the discs are broadly good but suggests the lengthy preface and tangential musings weaken the main message. He quips that the beginning drags on and the preacher should cut the extra cam in a tween.
A man slips on ice near his home and injures his ankle. His wife and son help him inside as a freckled boy suggests giving him black coffee, saying his mother does so when his father comes home injured.
A morning scene shows a large crowd around the perfumery in a department store. Observers note the scent area as the center of attraction while a bystander questions popularity and cites a man who knows the words to The Star Spangled Banner.
Beets Hot Weather Tonic Groves claims to enrich the blood and build up the system. It is advertised to greatly strengthen and fortify the body to withstand the depressing effects of the hot summer. Priced at 60c.
A concise reflection states that when a young man calls on a girl he might as well make love to her, as she perceives that to be his purpose in visiting, implying the social expectations of courtship.
An old advertisement notes Liquid blue is weak and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as the blue that is all blue. It also touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming to ease gum inflammation eye pain and wind colic. The piece cheekily comments on the meat trust anger over pork chops.
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