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Newspaper
Oklahoma Ada News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
13
A column contrasts a land hungry Indian figure with modern American vanity as settlers sell acreage for easy money. It notes railroads disfavoring older workers and churches complaining of aging preachers, prompting questions about age limits and vitality in society.
The piece narrates a coatless man with two hatless girls riding a horseless carriage, followed by a scene of carefree joy and a muted luncheon. It then notes Henry M. Furman urging Masons in Indian Territory to fund a Masonic Orphans Home, stressing free-will offerings. A disaster tally for 1902 totals 50,510 lives lost to natural calamities. Ardmore plans veteran gatherings in July. Hotel Maine opens with etiquette lessons for lodgers.
A Washington dispatch reports the senate committee on territories voted against fixing a time to consider the omnibus statehood bill admitting Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona into the Union. The piece notes public concern over meat prices and trust profits alongside the political move.
Sam offers a full stock of hardware stoves tinware and related items in a new brick store room one door south of the post office in Ada Oklahoma Territories. He invites customers to browse wire screening netting cream freezers bath tubs well tubing gutters and similar goods and thanks patrons for past support.
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