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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
8
Tracy's offers thirty days of bargains across all store items. Most goods discounted by more than half and an extra ten percent off non-marked-down articles. Summer wear including shirts and waists sold with clearance prices and heavy discounts on Gingham fabrics and embroidered undergarments.
The Aug meeting of the Excise Board discussed increased disbursements for delinquent taxes and allocated funds across the Sheriff, Treasurer, Clerk, and other offices. Notices to school districts and townships will be published in the Bearer Herald and Bear Democrat. The session adjourned to Aug 10 at 10 am. Other notes remark on Oklahoma newspapers and funding disputes.
County Superintendent Johor Swaim will hold the exam for White boys and girls fourteen and older at Beaver Oklahoma on August 14 for admission to State Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater. Exams and college papers will be exchanged with A M College prior to September 4. Tuition is free and common and high school diplomas admit without exam. The next session begins September 5. A Bevised note includes a local teacher spelling dispute and a drowning incident near Camp with funeral services held.
At the annual Texas Farmers Congress in College Station BF Yoakum, chairman of Friesen Lines, warned that farmers receive only about 40 cents of every dollar paid by consumers. He cited government data showing farmers keep roughly one third of products, with consumers paying over 13 billion dollars for what producers earn about 6 billion, implying seven billion spent on selling.
Eva Geronimo aged two wife of Fred Good-Lee-Ay and descendant of the famous Apache war chief Geronimo died of tuberculosis at Geronimo's village on the military reservation at Port Sill after fleeing Fort Sill three years ago.
Renewal and new subscriptions noted for Hemath readers in the past week including Cadwallader Hulona from Okla new sub Arthur J Stevens Gate new ju J Hodges Riverside new ash.
Homesteaders may abandon their claims with no forfeiture of rights until next April under a House bill. The Beaver County abstract office notes two rooms and kitchen at Maxew cottage with immediate possession. A report from Washington Aug 1 mentions Western states facing crop failures allowing claim abandonment. In Cheyenne Aug 3 a cedar vault worker unearthed a well preserved body believed to be Charles Morgan, hanged thirty years ago by vigilantes.
Governor Groce issued eighteen special commissions in Chickasha in response to a citizen plea for enforcing state prohibition laws. State Law Enforcement Officer McLamore has been in town for days overseeing the effort as residents report decrees keeping prohibition in force. A later note touts a liniment for quick healing and muscle soreness, advertised as Mur sale by all dealers.
An aging heirloom bound in leather and linsey woolen cloth traces a long lineage from great grandmothers weaving to Mrs. Geo W Robison. The fragile book, printed over twenty generations ago, remains legible despite the passage of time and a flood. Oklahoma City Governor Crace proposes appointing nonpaid joint keepers to aid prohibition efforts, while Colorado Springs hosts an Oklahoma contingent in a large automobile parade featuring a silver cup prize.
Golden Seal many gather in woodland summers for catarrh cures and tonics. In Tex as county a deadly lightning strike killed W C Groves and injured his wife during a storm. Community sympathy follows the Groves family of Doug as Avenue. Auction and sale notices advertise cattle, dairy equipment, and real estate near Beaver Oklahoma. Swanson county case moves toward dissolution per Lawton Constitution. Hall's Catarrh Cure touted as constitutional remedy with $100 offer for failures. Graphophones and records advertised at Beaver Hardware.
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