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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
4
Long list of residents, visits, and events from Vinita and nearby towns including travel, marriages, funerals, and business visits. Notables such as J. H. Myers, Polly Suvartt family, J. F. Warren, Nora Simpson, and Euma Dickson appear, alongside requests for correspondents and ads for remedies and goods. The item reads like a community column with miscellaneous updates and brief notices.
A jumble of 19th century ads highlights Hall’s Catarrh cure and Dr Simmons syrups, Beggs Blood Purifier, Cherry cough syrups, and medical claims. Notices include druggists endorsements, show-window praise, census work in Indian Territory, a new Vinita Plow warehouse, and a dancing school run by Mrs Gabbert, with customers touting cures for coughs, dyspepsia, and blood disorders. The tone is promotional and community focused with multiple named vendors and towns.
Fragmented ad style text touts Iron and Pierce medical tonics. Mentions shortness of breath sleeplessness and heart trouble. Claims ten bottles of Dr Pierce’s Medical Discovery and pellets invigorate stomach liver and bowels. Recommends using pills with the Discovery.
The Texas Cattle Raisers Association will hold its twenty fourth annual session in Fort Worth on the 13th and 14th. The association represents immense invested capital in cattle and ranches valued at over two hundred million dollars. The event draws cattlemen from Texas and livestock interests from several states with expected record attendance and extensive preparations. Fort Worth hotels will accommodate up to eight thousand visitors with a rooming committee led by W L Ligon arranging home accommodations. Visitors from New York, Chicago, Kansas City, St Louis, St Joe, Denver, Omaha, Wichita and Winita bring plans for private cars. The city will host a ball by the Mystic Knights of Bovinia, a smoker, and a Mardi Gras style parade on the 14th. City clubs will open their rooms for tours and entertainments.
Washington moves to ease emigration for five tribes in Indian Territory. A Wilson of Idaho bill directs the interior secretary to allocate proportional lands and funds, aid deeds and patents, and ensure payment or bonds to those who sell and move. The measure aims to protect tribal rights during the process.
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