Hitchcock Reports Postal Deficit Cut 10
The Associated Press reports Postmaster General Hitchcock announcing a $11,518,101 cumulative deficit reduction for the Post Office Department over the year, with expenditures over receipts narrowed to $5,548,506. He highlights extended service, new offices and routes, pay increases tied to efficiency, and plans for postal savings banks and parcel post growth.
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Associated Press
Washington, DC
Post Office Department
Sanual
Frank H. Hitchcock
Bscal
Hhirdhgcock
Hitchcock
Drove From Canada to Vinita in Wagons
Wood Stroud has returned to Vinita from Alberta Canada after a sixty day journey in two wagons with five horses. Mrs. Stroud suffers heart trouble and sought medical care after the trip. He plans to stay in Vinita and notes Oklahoma looks good. He describes a drought devastations from Montana through Wyoming and parts of Colorado with scarce living vegetation except irrigated areas.
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Wood
Stroud
Vinita
Alberta
Canada
Colorado
Wyoming
Deputy Finds Old Man Unconscious Then Released
Alexander Black, about sixty five and a former country school teacher, was found unconscious in a room on the east side and was taken to jail for safe keeping. He was brought before the police court and released on promise to leave town at once. He lies southwest of Big Cabin. Bud Gillis notified Deputy Sheehan about eleven oclock yesterday. A negro was found bending over the unconscious man but was released after an unsuccessful search for valuables. Dr Stough revived Black and determined morphine and whiskey had been mixed. Black said he had not been robbed and that the last memory is him being broke.
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Alexander Black
Turningle
Big Cabin
Bud Gillis
Sheehan
Bugsy
Dr. Stough
W. W. Kingle
Dickinson Endorses Use of Airplanes in the Army
Secretary Dickinson urges Congress to fund aeronautics for the Signal Corps and to expand coast defenses and fire control systems. He notes the US was early to recognize military aviation but remains under equipped with planes, balloons, and trained personnel. He also calls for larger fortification budgets, improved wreck work on the Maine, militia integration, and a volunteer army plan for wartime readiness.
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D. C
France
Dickinson
Congress
Signal Corps
United States
Fort Meyer
Wright
Signal Corps Leutenant
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic Sea
Cape Charles
Cape Henry
Long Island Sound
Panama Canal
Canal
Tropics
Alaska
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Phillippines
Philippines
Maine
Havana Harbor
Department
Feoast
Seaboard States
New Jersey
Delaware
Louisiana
War Department
Oklahoma City Capital Site Question Moves Forward
The Oklahoma Senate capital location committee reported that Oklahoma City businessmen proposed a satisfactory plan. A final report on the capital site is expected Monday, with two city propositions still active. House and senate members debated delays and alternative sites in a tense capital location dispute.
New capital bill to move state capitol to Oklahoma City
Twenty five citizens signed bonds of five thousand dollars each to back a plan for Oklahoma to have a free capitol built in Oklahoma City. The senate capital committee drafts a bill for immediate removal of the capitol to the northeast city limits and construction there. The measure likely will be reported this afternoon.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Senate Capital Committee
Peary Must Prove He Discovered North Pole
Representative Macon of Arkansas threatens trouble for Captain Robert Peary as a House floor debate considers a bill to promote him to rear admiral. Macon argues there is no proof Peary discovered the pole, like Cook failed to prove his claim, and vows to fight the measure.
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Washington, D. C
Macon
Arkansas
Robert B. Peary
Naval Affairs Committee
Peary
Cook
Exemption laws urged to be revised by Oklahoma hardware group
Muskogee Oklahoma December 10. Oklahoma Hardware and Implement Association closed its eighth annual convention with calls for a revised exemption law and stronger action against bad checks. President W B Poreh says the group will fight for a new exemption law and mentions hardships on farmers and wage earners. Officers elected include President Poreh and Secretary-Treasurer Lari more. next meeting site to be chosen by a special committee.
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Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Hardware and Implement Association
M. C. Hale
W. B. Poreh
Mustang
Howard O. McClure
Mulhall
W. D. Tinglepaugh
el Reno
World Wide Storms Reports Fatal Wrecks Across Seas
The November 28.4 storm overwhelmed a Japanese and Korean fishing fleet off Korea with 391 deaths. Seven Japanese and twelve Korean vessels were wrecked. Cherbourg reports a western Spain cyclone sinking ships at Corunna and Bilbao casualties.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
Korea
Cherbourg
France
Spain
Corunna
Bilbao
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Guthrie
North Pole
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Vinita, Okla
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