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Newspaper

The Vinita Daily Chieftain

Location

Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1908

Page

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Will Open September 157 Superintendent Issues Incomplete List

On the first day of September thirty five boarding schools for Creek Cherokee and Chickasaw nations will open with pupil counts from 60 to 160 and average attendance near 80. Superintendent Benedict released an incomplete list of teachers for the thirty five boarding schools, detailing staff for Female Seminary at Tablequah Male Seminary at Tahlequah and the Orphan Asylum at Tablequah with principals, assistants, matrons, cooks, janitors and other positions.

Muskogee Benedict Cherokee Nation Tablequah Minta Foreman Ida V. Moaser Hattie B. Stuart Lola Garrett Belle Cunningham Janana Ballard Mary L.oxley Ellen McSpadden Susie Walking- Mick George Hanks Paden Banks M. J. Rigas Henry Tailor Ella Welch E. J. Haney Tahiequah Walter A. Thompson Wiliam T. Scott Wiliam T. Stuart A. J. Brown Cassie Iff Margaret Clark Janet Dottie E Robert Parker Cook Lyle Parker JM Steeley J. E. Welch Orphan Asylum Tabilequah Charles H. Ingligh Ethel C. Scales Laura Cooper Cors M. Wyly Zillphan Pieréy Frances E. Haney Lee Watkins Samuel Hendley

SPECIAL OFFICER BARNHILL STABBED ON TRAIN

Special Enforcement Officer Barnhill of Sapulpa was stabbed on a Frisco passenger train between Vinita and Tulsa. The assailant boarded at Vinita and quarrelled with Barnhill before slashing his thigh. Barnhill was treated and taken home to Sapulpa. the attacker was handed to police.

Tulsa Okio Barnhill Sapalpa B. J. Waugh Vinita Samar Adil Spo Chelsea Tarbis Hole Cheleen Burnhill Sapaalpa

Parker Plaza Named For Vinita Auditorium Builder

The Commercial Club of Vinita Oklahoma passes a resolution expressing deep gratitude to Loman F. Parker Jr for his zeal and sacrifice in conceiving planning promoting and building Vinita s Auditorium and park The park adjoining the building is named Parker Plaza in honor of its builder reflecting the city s pride and new movement toward a larger community.

Commercial Club of Vinita Oklahoma Loman F. Parker, Jr Parker Plaza

Replevin Action Over Beer Seizure In Oklahoma

The St. Louis and San Francisco railroad seeks replevin for two carloads of beer seized at Tulsa under a section of the Billups prohibition law. The liquor remains with the state dispensary as the case proceeds.

Guthrié St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Tulsa Stace

Powdered Alum Worth as a Belief Maker

A Nationad D Magazine fragment notes belief in alum powder value and a claim of royal remedy, suggesting a commerce or folk medicine idea. It presents a curiosity item about a supposed transformative property and public interest in such claims.

Roy Rhesqurey Nationad D Magazine

How It Happened In A Jumbled News Blast

Fragmentary notebook of quotes and snippets from various papers. The text includes stray lines about a physician, a rich bore, a transition from serious study to lighthearted mischief, and mentions of a sailor birth and a proposed substitute material for wood. It reads as a collage rather than a cohesive event.

Dallan News

How the Chieftain Regarded Abroad

The resurrected Vinita Chieftain, under editor Dave Marrs, emerges as a seasoned voice from the past. Marrs, a Democrat who resists machine influence, cautions that Oklahoma’s affairs are maneuvered by political pirates, a stance Tulsa World notes will soon influence state politics.

Vinita Dave Marrs Marrs Oklahoma Tulsa

Ute people urged to choose kindness over cruelty

A short excerpt from Success Magazine warns that each person’s thoughts affect others. It asks whether one will leave hope or despair in the Ute peoples by daily words and deeds, urging kindness to dispel shadows rather than deepen them.

Success Magazine

Women as Friends and the View of Women in Society

A reader letter argues that women are better than popular depictions in comics and novels suggest and that sane men would not tolerate a woman resembling those stereotypes. The writer claims women are best judged as friends and would have faced confinement otherwise.

What Practice Will Do

Uncle Timson Tabbalis, returning from a week in the city, proclaims in strong language how practice changes behavior. He notes people at a hotel using a fork, spilling food onto the tablecloth, illustrating practical effects.

Timson Tabbalis Hottel

Be All You Can Let Us Do All The Business We Can

A garbled quote urges effort and usefulness using a Dwight L. Moody sentiment. It questions purpose, suggesting if one cannot be a lighthouse they should be a candle, and notes the Dead Sea stays dead by receiving and never giving.

Mare Dead Sea Dwight L, Moody

Origins of the Sisters of Charity Highlighted

A quotation traces the order to Constance, daughter of Helens, mother of Constantine, whose devotion to kindness inspired Roman maidens to form the Sisters of Charity, as printed in the North American review.

Sisters of Charity Order of Sisters of Charity Constance Helens Constantine

Frank Smiley Aids Traveling Men To Centralia Run

Frank Smiley assists two traveling men to Centralia and back in a Ford Runabout covering forty four miles. A. E. Hicks of Ratcliff-Sanders Grovery Co and E. B. Woodward of Muskogee rode with him. They left at nine in the morning, reached Centralia after ten, left at four, and returned by five in the afternoon. Automobiles are replacing horses as Craig county roads improve.

Centralia Frank Smiley A. E. Hicks Ratcliff-Sanders Groevy Company E. B. Woodward Muskogee Hicks Woodward Siuiley Centralin Central Craig County

Greatness of Small Things Reflects on Unity

A concise reflection cites that a mountain is built from countless atoms and friendship from small acts. If the atoms do not bind, the mountain collapses into dust, echoing Tupper's line about harmony in minuteness and bonds.

A New York Discovery Roils Crumberland Church

A bus stop near Crumberland Maryland amid a water famine draws attention to church life and music. The Evening News notes community response and questions whether church services reflect broader shortages and disruptions.

New York Crumberland Tuffa Jo Evening News

Aim of Eloquence Inspires Passion and Interest

A concise excerpt highlighting Joseph Roux’s view that eloquence should stir passions and engage interests, urging the reader to witness the thin line between rhetoric and impact. The text centers on the aims of eloquence and its effect on audiences and concerns.

Joseph Roux

Contrarian meat opinions on cold potatoes and ice cream

A quirky note describes certain meats as contrary, likening them to cold potatoes and sloppy ice cream in an offbeat, opinionated snippet.

Tie Ties All the World as Gallery Sage

Fragmentary OCR note references a proverb about life as a gallery and perception. The snippet mentions pity and ties, with a Chicago Journal flavor implied by the source. Content is incomplete and lacks clear events or names.

Chicago

Nature's Supremacy and the Devil's Tailor in verse

A compact literary note references Coleman and Shakespeare in a stylistic pairing. The line about nature extinguishing argument by a torch appears alongside a quip about the Devil as a tailor and a vague allusion to Om. The excerpt evokes dramatic imagery without presenting a narrative.

Coleman

Poole Versus Kuhn Case Still In Court

The district court continues the Poole vs Kuhn case after noon with Judge W J Kuhn presiding. Poole sues for Kuhn share of brick wall costs claiming nonpayment. Kuhn says the account was paid. Jury remains in session awaiting a verdict expected later this afternoon.

Poole District Court C. W. Poole W. J. Kuhn Kuhn

Plausible Cure Advice Creates Local Stir

An eccentric doctor in a rural district advised a mother to place a bag around her coughing boy to treat whooping cough. The next day the midwife answered questions with a cryptic remark about rocks and mice, reflecting the era’s odd medical anecdotes.

Joe Agi Wag Dundee Weekly News

Oldest Known Treaty From Ancient Egypt and Hittites

The earliest surviving real treaty is between Rameses I of Egypt and the prince of Kheta. It embodies a permanent offensive and defensive alliance with provisions for extraditing emigrants and criminals. Dated to the fourteenth century BC, it stands as the oldest international transaction on record.

Rameses I Meypt Kheta

Remedies for Minor Accidents Explain Foot Wounds Healing

The passage discusses barefoot accidents in children and describes treating a cut with a rusty nail and fat salt meat. It asserts the wound heals in hours and warns against armature or other instruments, claiming no cure is as safe as avoiding such applications.

League Aids Effort to Stop Oklahoma School Lands Sale

Oklahoma citizens rally to the Oklahoma School Land Preservation league to defeat a state bill and referendum plan to sell 30 million dollars worth of school lands. The group campaigns for delayed disposition, citing future value and the need for informed public judgment amid party pledges supporting immediate sale.

Guthrie Okla Oklahoma Oklahoma School Land Preservation League

A Seam of Divinity From a Humble Lifespan

A garbled excerpt discusses virtue amid adversity. It references a fearless man in Cangera, untainted by lusts, smiling through tumult, and notes riches at birth as not proof against pain. It frames poverty as a test and bread earned in struggle as worthy.

Glee Clubs Questioned by Cleveland Leader Poet

The Cleveland Leader quotes a satirist asking why glee clubs are named despite their sad worldliness. The remark frames a playful critique of the term and its incongruity with melancholy themes.

Cleveland

North Carolina suitor driven away by gun at musie

In North Carolina a mother kept her daughter from marrying a man by firing a pistol. The incident troubled the community as young men weighed their choices about love and courtship amid the sensational tale reported by the Toledo Blade.

North Carolina

Speed. The Americus GlobeTraver sketch on trains

A brief humorous sketch notes that in America trains go fast at eighty, requiring one person to announce arrival and another to announce departure. The piece captures travel discourse with a playful line about two people describing the trains as they pass.

Americus GlobeTraver America

Johnny shines speaking at school exhibition

Mrs Lapaling reports Johnny made a splendid impression while presenting the piece at the school exhibition Friday afternoon. The remark highlights his confident delivery and overall appeal during the event.

Monopoly Mra. Lapaling All

Aviator Nomenclature Sparks Confusion in Early Writing

A fragment describes the term aviator for a navigator of sincers and notes that when a storm spills kin out, fragments are gathered and called Dechie-Pee adena Star. The passage mixes odd spellings with unclear references, suggesting a linguistic puzzle or miscellaneous notes in a historic text.

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