Local Holiday Visitors and News from Marshall
Local items note Joseph Leonard returning from West Point for Christmas and Francie Napton home from St Laie for the holidays. Various residents arrive from Shackelford Mackwater Slater Nelson and Hawk Point. others travel to visit families in Clinton Arlstrong and Salula. A reception tonight features Vawter's Orchestra under Maple Leaf Club. several people plan visits to Kansas City St. Louis Georgia and Florida.
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Vawter
Glasgow
Maple Leaf Club
Letter from niece reports successful appendicitis operation
J A Burgess in the county area receives a note from Mies Lela Speed Foss Okla stating her brother Homer Clinton Okla has undergone an appendicitis operation successfully. Four men near midnight Saturday fired shots at a hat and then at it causing five holes in Dr McKee's windows Bank of Marshall. Public Woodmen Circle officers to be installed Friday night Jan 1 1900 at Knights of Columbus Hall. A box party for Woodmen Circle benefit planned. Murphy Milla clothes popular though busy with customers after midnight.
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J. A. Burgess
Mies Lela Speed
Foss, Okia
Homer
Clinton, Okla
Dr. McKee
Bank of Marshall
Woodmen Circle
Woodmen of the Word
Knights of Columbus Hall
F. Leyhe
Murphy-Milla
Uncalled for Letters at Marshall Post Office Listings
A Dec 23 notice lists names of uncalled letters at the Marshall post office, with two weeks to claim before dead letter. Also an administrator’s notice records Ephraim G Witcher estate letters granted Dec 8 and requires heirs to file claims within one year or lose benefits.
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Marshall Post Office
Mies
F Long
Alice Littleton
M Smith
Willie Standard
S C Waller
Ellen Wheeler
Walter H Brown
Hadin Cook
Willie M Glosa
Frank Lyons
Jack Lockwood
Joe O Keefe
Leonard Patton
E N Ried
Fred Solomon
Formade Tweed
Russell Hamilton
M. T. Chastain
P. M
Ephraim
Saline County
Jerome Younger
Santa Claus Letters From Children Share Christmas Wishes
Childrens letters to Santa describe requests for dolls, candy, oranges, nuts, and small gifts. Multiple young writers aged 4 to 9 ask for dolls, doll carriages, a wagon, a dog, a sled, a toy train, a story book, and a post card album, mentioning family members and Oklahoma.
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Santa Claus
Gladys Healey
Tam
Clara
Myrtle Schuitameyer
Papa
Oklahoma
Harvard
Uncle Lon
Betty
Geneva Dysart
Hortense Ordway
Letters to Santa from Christmas wishes of children
A collection of handwritten Santa letters from multiple children. Each asks for gifts like dolls, toys, clothes, candy, oranges, and minor personal items. Names include Hortense Ordway, Helen P Ordway, Barnard Meyer, Edna Herrmann, Treva B Powell, and mentions of B F Powell and a Republican county committee meeting at the court house next Tuesday.
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Republican County Committee
Court House
Migratory Rain Belt Moves West Across Texas
D E Bryant of Sherman, a 55 year old Grayson County lawyer, recalls Texas climate change from dry lips of 1853 to today. He notes the rain belt shifted about 500 miles west in 55 years, with most movement in the last two decades, affecting tiling and drainage. He compares Texas and Kansas, describing rainfall patterns and agricultural implications.
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D. E. Bryant
Sherman
Tex
Grayson County
Texas
Kentucky
Kansas
Test, Taste and Testiness in Court
Amusing exchanges in the supreme court over word choice show how a witness saying he visited a shop could be read as frequent visits. A dispute over occasional versus a good many times arose as lawyers debated meaning with notes and dictionaries.
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Supreme Court
Sir Henry Berkeley
Slade
Sir Henry
Webster
Cheung Loong
One Too Many
Bernard Robbins of New York's court of appeals argues a charity helps the poor with marital trouble avoid lawsuits. He warns such work can dampen views on marriage, recalling a St Peter tale about a widower and a twice married man rejected for foolishness.
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Bernard Robbins
New York
Court of Team
St. Peter
Kansas City Journal
Chinese Objection to Rail Roads Reveals Hongkong Line
An Americanized Chinaman Chin Gee Hee acts as projector president and engineer in chief of a Hongkong hinterland railway recently opened. Of six locomotives four were purchased in the United States and two from Germany. The chief obstacle cited is native opposition fearing smoke will ruin crops.
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Chin Gee Hee
Hongkong
United States
Germany
Quotable Thought On Wonder And Vision From Carlyle
The text presents a Carlyle quotation praising the power of wonder and imagination. It argues that a person who cannot wonder or worship, even if leading many societies and holding vast knowledge, is like spectacles without eyes. It uses a philosophical, slightly combative style to emphasize inner sight over titles.
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Hegel
Thomas Carlyle
How She Found Out
A fragmentary exchange shows a mother asking if the front stoop had fresh paint and a daughter Mamie confirming with a shy, evasive reply. The brief dialogue hints at a family moment and a playful, domestic mischief discovered by a parent.
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Mamie
Mami
Mary and Dick's engagement ends and rekindles hope
In a sentimental tale Mary breaks an engagement with Dick over his father figure and Mary’s duty to her ailing guardian. After a tense stand off a plan to force marriage is revealed, Mary travels to New York, but a staged ruse collapses. Dick rescues her at the station, confessing love, and they reunite with her father’s quiet approval.
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Mary
Tex
Cam
Pape
Lane
Mery
Mr. Arnold
Elas Howard
Papa
Pepa
Marian Howard
New York
Matty
Eltop
Union Station
Father Fx
Native Lumber For Sale Near Blackwater River Mill
Native lumber of all sizes and dimensions available from the Boots and Cooney bridge mill on the Blackwater river. Contact J. P. Jones, Napton Mu R.F.D.2. Peb 16.
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Boots and Cooney
Blackwater River
J. P. Jones
Napton
Dear Old Santa Letter Request for Gifts and Stocking Notes
A misspelled holiday plea asks Santa for overshoes a dress ribbons an autograph album and candy. The letter mentions two sisters Ada and Dora with stockings described as bottomsless and seeks the correct gifts for each sibling.
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Dora
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joseph Leonard
West Point
M. D. Maloney
Shackelfred
Francie Napton
St. Laie
The
Hoidays
Tom Horne
Mackwater
Marshall Tuenlay
M. A. Stone
W. L. Davenport
Slater
Thad Rarenferie
Clinton
G. Ww. Cowan
Chas. Conway
Nelson
Jas, D. Wellia
Hawk Pont
John T. Wells
J. T. Phelan
Frank Castle
Shackelford
Nathan Keirn
Guy Schuster
C. E. McBride
Kansas City
John Rose
Barbeele
East North St
Col. R. ©. Horne
Okmulgee Okla
Samuel Davis
St. Louis
Rh. E. Campbell
Columbia
St Ing
Minnie Camsbell
Gem. Althouse
Capt
Alex Denny
Arustrong
Elizabeth Allen
Laura Washburn
Mra
Spear
Nellie Page
Ron Godfrey
Montice.ro
C. G. Page
C. L. Johnson
Cretcher
Johnson
J. M. Holoway
Blue Lick
Marshall Rnd
Marahaiu
Eight Watch
W. T. Meyera O
Whittier
Cal
Des
Miami Wey
John VanWinkie
Norton
Keynokia
Geo. Campbell
Mise Fauale Taylor
Thts City
Georgia
Belved
Ban Franciswo
Sweet Springs
Uncle York
Santa Claue
Tom
Grandpa
Mama and Papa
Frankie Henry
Santa
Polly
Mamma
Helen P. Ordway
Barnard Meyer
Daliwa
Christos
Edna Herrmann
Dar Banta
B. F. Powell
May
Siser
Pirl
Treva B. Powell
Marshall
Swift & Co
Io Progr
Canda Kendo
Wal Deeks
Cory
Geetly Bee
Cecilia A. Loizeaux
C. H. Sutcliffe
Dr. Miles
Alex Gries
Arrow Rock
Wanamaker
W. A
Miley R
Native Lumber
Old Santa
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