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Newspaper
The Vinita Daily Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1908
Page
4
Auditorium schedule lists Thursday October 29 for the Ninth Annual Tour of the Beautiful Pastoral Drama. Event features a traveling troupe performing in a single venue with typical scenic design and period costumes. Reserved seating available through the theater office.
Quotations furnished by the Vinita Produce Company show wholesale shipping prices and prices paid by Vinita merchants for butter chickens potatoes and apples. Butter at 206 per pound hens and springy meat per pound and apples per bushel price listed at 1.25 dollars per bushel.
The Congregational Church and the Presbyterian Church announce sermons for tomorrow and next Sabbath. The Congregational service will focus on The Fatherhood of God with no evening service due to the Craig county Sunday School Convention. The Presbyterian Church invites all to hear Prof. L. H. Beeler of Henry Kendall College at 11 AM next Sabbath, with Sunday school at 10 AM and no evening service.
H. W. Shelton county superintendent and W. 2. Cowan of Vinita colored schools issued a call for teachers of colored schools in Craig and adjacent counties to meet in Vinita next Saturday night to form an organization to aid in the instruction of colored children.
The four masted schooner James B Drake sits at McPhee's shipyard Boston after a cyclonic storm twisted all four masts at their bases. Carpenters found no damage to the masts, which remained rigged to port, making the incident a unique tale in maritime history observed by harbor navigators and yard workers.
In Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill an amusing tale recounts a peer told his sister she had conceived affection for a humble but revered man of science. The suitor declares lineage from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, prompting the peer to admit their family has less illustrious blood and suggest the match if the sister approves.
A teacher uses the apple core under a slate as an illustration to explain circumstantial evidence to Tommy. He learns the concept and defines it as eating apples at school. The anecdote appears in Youth's Companion.
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