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Newspaper
Oklahoma Ada News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
16
A collage of advertisements and quips touts Defiance Starch as the best value with 16 ounces for ten cents and plans a nationwide push. Other items promote Red Cross Ball Blue laundry powder, Piso’s Cure, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, and Dr Kline's nerve restorer with free bottle offers.
An old classified style notice mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 percent. It also advertises poultry goods from Javene Mfe Co Dept D Parsons with a casual reference to a medical student and a statement about shaking dice and dry bones.
Odd ad snippets compare products and lifestyles with humorous phrases. References include Defiance Starch claims and Red Cross Ball Blue laundry exhortations, plus a quip about boils implying lobster like yellowed clothes and lamb jokes embedded in a clipped retail page.
Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello and the company directors back their remedy with numerous testimonials. The statement praises Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a satisfactory cure for constipation indigestion dyspepsia liver and stomach troubles. Druggists sell it.
White convicts employed on the breakwater at Capetown send a loyal address to King Edward asking clemency on the occasion of the approaching coronation.
The writer notes Defiance Starch is superior to rivals and offers 16 oz per package at a higher price. The piece implies a businessman fears stock will sell out of 12 oz packages. A remark about a smile masking thoughts parallels paint masking a complexion.
An advertisement promotes Dr John L Short in Oklahoma City offering eye and ear care, urging readers to seek proper fitting and treatment locally.
Oklahoma City reports the Epworth University lot sale on Jane 11 will likely set a state real estate record. donations from Methodists and church leaders back a two-building start at $50,000 each, with $100,000 allocated to the university and a 50 acre campus, site one and a half miles from downtown. Excursion rates will be provided for buyers traveling to the sale.
The Frisco system chief engineer is ordered to conduct a rapid survey from this point to Lawton Oklahoma 140 miles away meeting the Oklahoma City and Western. Construction will start soon with dirt flying within a week the Lawton branch likely crossing the Santa Fe at Marietta.
A gusher struck at 1450 feet on the Indianola Oil Company property in Red Fork L T. The well is described as by far the best yet struck and expected to be a bonanza for owners. Red Fork lies 110 miles from here with a proposed pipeline to supply fuel gas.
In Wewoka the Seminole people elect Halsatta Micco chief over incumbent John F Brown by 340 to 173. Brown, half blood, completes his fourth term and is noted as influential in Indian Territory. The result signals possible end of the Seminole tribal government.
Charles Ross of Chicago was arrested at Talequah in Indian Territory on a charge of stealing a car load of cattle from Lewiston stock yards. He allegedly shipped the cattle to Chicago and kept the sale proceeds. Also known as Charles VanWinkle in Illinois, he may have traveled to set up a creamery plant.
Lawton town lots patents will be forwarded to land office officials in two or three days. Patents for Anadarko town lots will follow within two weeks and Hobart within three weeks.
An uprising by the Yaquis spreads across Sonora. 75 Mexican troops under Gen. Torres were ambushed near Mazatan mountains east of Hermosillo, with 30 killed. Mexican forces retreated as Yaquis reportedly killed about 50. Refuges report Yaqui hostilities, rail stations abandoned, telegraph crews fled. Torres reinforced by Lorenzo Torres with 200 riders. about 1,000 Yaquis massed in Mazatan foothills.
A report of a substitute measure to suppress train robbery outlines penalties for trespass on trains or cars with intent to commit violence or theft. It sets imprisonment up to twenty years or fines up to five thousand dollars, and declares aides as principals. The text then references Peruna advertising urging readers to insist on Peruna and seek Dr. Hartman’s free medical advice in Columbus Ohio.
Mrs. Judge McAllister of Minneapolis writes of suffering back pain for years and relief after seven weeks on Peruna claiming she is entirely cured. The piece warns of imitation catarrh remedies sold cheaper by druggists and urges Peruna’s uniform price and authenticity.
Apa. BP Gibbs sues the First National Bank of Ada for 500 seeking damages alleging he served as bank attorney and incurred expenses on a mortgage recovery trip to Arkansas and Texas. He claims bank officials accused him of misrepresenting his status and sought judgment for 25 000 plus court costs.
Mrs Nation released from county jail after Governor Stanley pardons and remits a 100 dollar fine. Oklahoma City & Southwestern rail stock sold for 7000 dollars to C G Jones representing Frisco, with construction to Coalgate to begin within ten days. Also Guthrie reports a counterfeit bill case as a man named Charley Smith denied guilt. Amanda Sebell Davis, longtime Creek Nation resident and guardian to thirteen orphans, dies at 87.
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