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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
4
Red Cross committee rosters list multiple branch chairs and secretaries across Knowles Lakemp Riverside Clear Lake and more. Names include Frances Mocinn J A Hopkin Cindia Reid Georgia Checkley Nettiy Foster and Jennie Boothe among others.
MOCANE Earl Daily and family visited relatives then drove to Wichita Kansas. L T Dally and Rube Canaday took trips to Forgan and Knowles earlier and later in the week. Mrs Everett Evans and J Eubank made late week trips. Mrs Shanon and L D Cravens conducted business in Kansas City. Mildred Nicholson teaching in district 61 faced train delays from Woodward due to cold spell. The cold and zero weather strained coal supplies and farmers hope for a good crop as snow boosts wheat prospects.
An incomplete 19th century style notice promotes LAX FOS laxative by Pars Med manufacturers and hints at recovering local news soon. The fragment references indigestion and biliousness remedies, a pie supper at Colerville/Bight, and a tentative return to gathering local news in a week or so.
On a test trip to Kansas we concluded Oklahoma should hire competent reformers to craft a state constitution rather than pursue anti corporation or anti Negro measures. We judged Kansas as controlled by business interests, not voter will, and criticized a Texas professor’s history textbook in schools. We referenced Major Betts and Col. Bingham directing sides in a mock Civil War event and noted proceeds for Red Cross from a fund-raising chant.
Clear Lake social notes report Miss Laura Curfman of Clearlake visiting Wichita and Kansas City Missouri while Ed Eckels daughter Loraine travels with the Ridgeways. Harry Dunn returns from camp for Christmas enjoying improving health after mumps. Red Cross sewing HQ planned at Mrs Jessie Caldwell home with an unnamed donor horse. Tsang Curfman moves store room to barn on his farm. Mrs E F Maer of Rowley Colorado visits sister Mrs L M Toben. Mr and Mrs Frank Layton return from Oklahoma. Groom Gaffer Goodman and Stanton on extended Santine trip for three months. Local school gains seven new scholars after holidays. Mr and Mrs W L Reid transact county business. Miss Hergert returns home, LT Toben enjoys his repaired Cadillac.
Mrs. Nancy Miller of Cloris New Mexico visited her sister near Riverside. Guy Martin was ill but improving. Harve Bullin and Mrs. Bullin visited Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Coberier. The local wolf drive failed again. hopeful efforts will resume. Bessie Bennett was on the mend. G. W. Coberier bought a new car. M. J. Richardson returned from Iowa. Beaver Cemetery has been purchased and platted by The Pioneer Cemetery Association and is issuing lots. All users of burial plots should contact Secretary Mrs. BE. L. Pickel for title arrangements.
An old advertisement listing stock market services and a phone number, with a bold but cryptic pitch likely from a bygone era. The fragment references a market and a contact number, implying a classified or promotional notice. The content is concise and lacks broader context.
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