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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1910
Page
8
This advertisement proclaims a Tuesday February 22 kickoff for the Big Sanders Wright Store annual rum mage sale running through Saturday March 5. It boasts 19 cent Mennen talcum and remaining lace curtains up to 3.50 per pair, touting heavy stock cleanout to make room for spring goods and urging bargain hunters for staples.
A rummage sale advertises twenty five dozen linen thread bought from the U S government at discard stock prices. Spools include one ounce of thread and guaranteed pure linen. Sanitol preparations priced at 15c each, with fifteen items in the family line during the sale.
Local sale lists Caleco and ginghams at fractions, calico and linen finish fabrics, and Canton flannel by the yard. Bleached muslin and ginghams discounted, pillow cases and table linen offered, plus ready made sheets and coats. Dresses, suits, and blankets priced to clear, with substantial reductions during the Rummage Sale.
The sale features a broad assortment including scrapers cleavers knives broilers dusters cork screws lunch boxes steak pounders clothes hangers talcum powder glycerine soap potato mashers butter paddles clothes brushes rubber balls jumping ropes camel hair brushes and related goods offered at discounted prices.
The eastern district of Oklahoma’s next term convenes in Vinita on the first Monday in March 1910. Indictments listed include Arthur Goad, Henry Trott, James Moore, Norman Kilgore, W. Kilgore, M. O. Funda, and W. M. Miles. Five smallpox cases aboard the cruiser Washington prompt quarantine in Port Townsend, with defendants required to attend in Vinita.
The legislative investigating committee will resume testimony on the charges against Governor Haswell in Guthrie, Oklahoma, after delaying for detective C A Lawler’s health. Lawler promised to testify Wednesday, as Missouri City officials report. Meanwhile a severe snowstorm blankets the region, dropping four inches and driving temps from eighteen above to near zero, with a forecast return to cold as the week ends.
A Vinita crowd debates a weather storm tale claiming a deceitful hoax by a round hog. The piece mocks forecasts that misled locals into spring garden preparations and Easter wardrobes as a heavy snow storm arrives with unusually low temperatures.
In a decision handed down here the Supreme Court took two children of B R Tillman Jr from their grandfather Senator Ben R Tillman and restored them to the custody of their mother.
Washington February 15 Cannon urges safeguards for a responsible majority and orderly procedure while discussing rivers and harbors funding. He recalls past votes and warns that a strong majority must move forward with proper oversight, referencing media criticism and the need for united support for public works.
Mrs J Harvey of Fairfield visits her daughter Mrs A P Ogier and family as a guest.
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