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Newspaper
The Tulsa Star
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1915
Page
5
In The Gurley Building at 112 North Greenwood West, MIDDLESON and E G HOWARD are proprietors overseeing the site and its offerings.
A fragmented account describes a custom in which a “Stranger Field” is prepared for arriving visitors. The king’s widow oversees gathering and storing food, with strict rules preventing touch by others. A stranger stays with the host, fed by the tribe, sometimes remaining for a month or longer, and may later become a tribe member. Indigent villagers may roam to distant villages seeking sustenance, then return claiming mining work.
Lieut. Col Cordon Wilson, killed near Ypres, once saved Queen Victoria in 1882 as a boy at Eton. Roderick MacJean tried to fire on the queen. Wilson used his umbrella to knock away the pistol and earned Royal thanks. His career later included a famous Melton steeplechase ride and service in the South African War. He was aide de camp to General Baden-Powell during Mafeking siege.
A compilation of notes on women’s labor and suffrage across regions. It cites New Mexico lacking a state suffrage group, low formal participation among young city women, 6200 women in Indiana garment factories, and 15 women per 100 men in Minneapolis. Additional facts cover inspectors in Yrauo and Austria, card filing expert Mrs. Clinton, Sweden’s female farm workers, New York’s potential extended franchise, and Missouri’s 60,000 women workers with about 10,000 living away from home. A second item notes crocodiles’ long lifespans, including a 165 year old in an embassy garden in Mutwal, Ceylon.
A humorous exchange about marriage and housekeeping from a New York Weekly item. The mother asks if the fiancée knows about keeping a home, the son jokes that he has no idea and doubts anyone will clean the house even once in ten years.
The Mt Zion Baptist Church forms the Progress literary society meeting Fridays to uplift the race. About thirty members join with Jaros Walton as president and Pattie Howes as secretary. The group aims to inspire higher ideals and community effort at Eas ton and Elgin corner.
An advertisement extols fruit growing as a highly profitable occupation in the United States. It urges families with any garden space to cultivate fruit, noting rising prices and growing demand. The pitch promotes Green's Fruit Grower as guidance and offers a magazine club deal at a reduced price, touting value and bulk subscriptions.
In the Superior Court of Tlas County Oklahoma case 2610 Hattie Mayor plaintiff v James Miller defendant. You must answer the petition by April 1915 or the court will grant a divorce and annul the marriage. Clerk Franks Ingraham signed February 26 1915 with Deputy Mattie Purdy and attorney HA Guess.
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