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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
2
The Vinita Chieftain reports on Kansas Republicans pressuring for excess appropriations, a Frisco train push raising travel in the area, and Vinita’s growth with new houses and rail links. It also covers court proceedings, public notices, and pace of municipal issues including street traffic, park rights, and governance amid holiday commerce.
Millionaire Cadahy, of the pork packing family, paid $25,000 to kidnappers who released his 15 year old son after they held him twenty four hours. Cadahy, seeking capture, consulted friends and officers and kept police pressure high while weighing risks to the boy. The Vinita trade week saw record volumes and a busy post office during Christmas. Marshal Ledbetter earned praise for effective, though unsuccessful, policing.
A fashionable audience at the opera house welcomed the Schubert Symphony club for an evening of refined music. Mr Dickerman drew mixed views in his first Chinese boy portrayal but impressed in a later appearance. The Indies quartet offered superb harmonies with The Old Oaken Bucket and Old Kentucky Home. Miss Ann Roscombe and Miss Kether Hogue earned praise for soprano and contralto solos. Violinist J. A. Lidy was the evening’s artistic highlight. Numerous local figures attended, including Mayor Keehan and many residents, sharing a festive social night.
A Vinita Christmas記 diary-like reminiscence recounts the town’s holiday joy on Christmas day 1900, noting reverent crowds at a football game, cross-generational cheer, and a peaceful mood with no crime reported. The piece recalls childhood memories, acts of kindness, and a sense of community spirit across ages.
Mr J 2 Briggs of Vinita weds Miss Dot Weems at the Weeme home near Newtonia Missouri. The bride is a charming daughter of a prominent southeast Missouri citizen. The couple will spend a week in St Louis before returning to Vinita to establish their home.
Friends of Jeff Davis, linked to the killing of barber Catking in Collinsville three weeks earlier, shouted he would surrender to the marshal and await a few days to settle business. Davis deceived them and left town selling all he owned and some mortgaged cattle to start anew, departing for unknown pastures.
Christmas service at J Johns church featured music and a Nativity themed sermon. The piece notes Beth town, Bethan and religious duties urging worship as essential to mortality and salvation in a Festive religious observance.
Pierce City youths arrived by train with ribboned fans and boasted of a win but Vinita's Inde crushed the home team 11 to 0 in the afternoon game. Notable players Renecks Mo-Gos for the visitors and Lige Henderson Fred Ratcliff Harry Bagby John Marre for Pierce. Referee Washington Adair officiated as crowds cheered and day continued with minor incidents and sport amid festive mood.
From Nome Alaska a four column eight page paper notes mining decline claims and distant machinery along the beach. It lists advertising rates and subscriptions while reporting the death of Mrs Prayser and Mrs B B Frayor with sparse funeral details.
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