Indians Used Oil As Disease Cure, Early Medicine Man Tale
Archaeologists uncovered a 1792 Philadelphia ad showing Western Pennsylvania Indians gathering oil with feathers to stockpile for barter and healing cures. The find at Drake Well Museum ties oil's medicinal use to a broader history, contrasting Samuel Kier's 1850s promotion of oil as medicine with later lamp oil marketing.
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Titusville
America
United States
Pennsylvania
Library Company of
Philadelphia
Drake Well
Sue Ann Curtis
Oil City
Germany
Samuel Kier
Pittsburgh
Kier
Services Thursday For Claud A. McNew
Funeral services for Claud Aubrey McNew of White Oak set for Thursday at 10 am in Malcolm Stone Funeral Chapel with burial at Lakeview Memorial Park. The 71 year old, who died Monday in a Gladewater hospital after a short illness, was a native of Arkansas and a Cumberland Presbyterian Church member. He moved from Linden and belonged to Linden Masonic Lodge 192. Survived by wife Oma Addine, son Jim, two daughters Helen Higginbottom and Joyce Davis, one brother Joe McNew, two sisters Pearl Shaw and Jewel Wagner, and ten grandchildren.
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Claud Aubrey McNew
White Oak
Malcolm Stone
Lakeview Memorial Park
M. L. Drinkall
G. A. Stanfield
McNew
Gladewater
Linden
Truman’s 1948 Campaign Car Reborn as Ski Lodge Project
The Chesapeake & Ohio No. 902 car that carried Harry S Truman on tours in 1948 is bought by Wildwood Center Inc and slated to become part of a $3 million residential recreation complex in suburban North Hills. The car, in good condition, will be cleaned and installed with modern amenities as plans include ski, skating, and tobogganing facilities plus town houses and apartments.
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Pittsburgh
Harry 5S
Truman
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
North Hills
Roger Toey
Wildwood Center Inc
Thomas E. Dewey
Smith
Wildwood
Scenic North Park
Nixon Visit in Peking Aims at Smoother U S China Ties
Critics joke about the three hour dinner and potent toasts while suggesting the banquet was a calculated ploy to lull the president. The piece notes Chinese cultural showings and toys with the idea of a broader peace after Nixon’s Russia visit.
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Nixon
Peking
U.S
Peoples Republic of China
Chou
Random Thoughts by Fredalene Clark
A reflective piece in which the author muses on a travel idea splitting roads by speed, recalls yard work and a reclamation project by a creek, and humorously describes vines and rocks entangling daily tasks while praising outdoor work as relaxing. The column blends personal notes and light philosophy.
White Oak social notes celebrate births, visits and obituaries
Congratulations to Lester and Mrs. Thurman on the birth of Leslie Jay February 20 at Good Shepherd Hospital Longview weighing 5 pounds 9 ounces. Mrs. Ona McNew mourns loss of Claud Aubrey McNew. Mike Barber named top Roughneck scorer with 21.5 points per game. Band Boosters plan rummage sale Friday and Saturday on White Oak Road.
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Lester Thurman
Leslie Jay
Good Shepherd Hospital
Longview
C. L. Shoupe
L. E. Shoupe
Sillsbee
Texas
Buddy Shoupe
Kirbyville
Dick Wade
Gale
Melinda
Garland
White Oak
P. B. Hamrick
Gladewater Municipal Hospital
T. E. McAlister
Texarkana
W. A. Milam
Nancy
Steve Reynolds
Coy Hill
Dallas
Hill
American National Insurance
R. L. Williamson
A. L. Williamson
Terrell
Band Boosters Club
White Oak Road
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Sparta
Jcpenney
Claud A. McNew
Harry
Ray Smith
Tobe Drug Store
Jobe Drug Co
GHS
Gladewater High School
Holmes Webb
Jim Jones
Webb
John Tyler High School
Tyler
Texas Tech
Educational Travel Institute
Spokane
Washington
Doris
Lubbock
Jones
Kilgore College
Bennie
East Texas
Dewayne Blackmon
Bear Facts
Russia
Fu Manchu
Fredalene Clark
Phetus
Oxford
Penney
White Oak News
By Pamela Deroven
Aan
Mation
Gladewater Mirror
Gladewater Publishing Company
Glade Avenue
Dean Street
Gregg County
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