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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
2
Public notice from Prescott Arkansas outlining ahead of delivery rates and postage charges as of April 15 1907, mentioning second class mailing status and advance payment benefits. The fragment references price details and rate adjustments.
Gordon A. L. Evered of Prescott accepted a teaching post at Keaton. Lillian Caldwell spent weekend with city friends. Rev. Steel visited Prescott to assume a new field and will move soon. Mayor Barham and John B. Corn did business in Prescott on Saturday with Marshal Marsh observing. Mrs. J. J. Rushing returned home from a visit in Chichester. Dee and Mrs. Laferty and T. T. Williams recently moved to Prescott for railroad work with P and N W. Conductor T. M. Wallace added a mammoth hornets nest to his curios collection. Mrs. P. D. Whatley leaves for Junction City to vacation with home folks. Whatley, longtime popular hotel hostess at the Commercial, quips she feels relieved to retire from hotel life.
The G and Ft. S railroad assigns Walter Keith to care for two engines at Wamble instead of one and to fill three tanks. He cannot come home during the week and may not visit friends, though the job is considered good. Amity Enterprise.
The dramatization Lena Rivers portrays Southern life with natural authenticity. A carefully selected company will present the production at the opera house next Thursday night, delivering refreshing atmosphere and sparkling humor.
The Clansman fourth season has drawn greater crowd enthusiasm than prior seasons as the team confirms continued play. Local boosters anticipate rising support and stronger attendance this year.
Crowded houses and long lines mark the opening of The Clansman at Greeson Opera House. The stage portrayal of Ku Klux Klan history provokes intense public interest, with tickets selling out and nights spent queued for morning sales.
Mr Mauney Waller Mauney is due this evening on important business linked to his diamond properties. He recently sold one of his nine gems for 20000 dollars to the Ozark Company and, after a year of practical diamond mining, has invented new machinery claimed to revolutionize the industry.
The text credits Mr. Mau ney with advancing the diamond movement at Pike County mines and hints at high offers from De Beers for African rights. It also notes the speaker’s pride in welcoming the “Farmer Boy” of Pike County to Prescott and situates him among notable scientists in the state.
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