Oklahoma Plans Capitol Building Design Prize Proposal
A bill proposes a statewide architecture contest for Oklahoma's new state capitol. Architects must be Oklahoma residents with six months' practice, depots protect anonymity, and three judges from outside the state will evaluate. Four prizes total including 3000 and 1500 and 500 awards.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Senate
Harry K. Allen
Ardmore
State of
State Capitol Commission
Capitol Commission
United States
Legislative Committees
State Capitol
Senate Committee
World Wide Distribution of Goods Made in America
The article reviews how American products reach global markets, from cotton cloth and bacon to candles, brooms, peanuts, boots, windmills and more. It highlights exports valued at hundreds of millions, with raw cotton and meat leading, and notes that over 100 countries import American goods as part of a vast bilateral trade. The piece foreshadows reporting on what the world sends to the United States in the following week.
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United States
China
India
Philippines
South Africa
East
West Indies
Liberia
Portuguese Africa
French Oceania
Russia
British Guiana
Peru
Cuba
Central America
Europe
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Africa
Australia
Oceania
French Guiana
Ecuador
Brazil
Haiti
Costa Rica
British Honduras
Japan
Korea
Tasmania
Venezua
Dutch West Indies
Salvador
Turkey
Roumania
Malta
Azores Islands
Egypt
Pacific
Hong Kong
Santo Domingo
British India
Guianas
South America
Danish West Indies
Guatemala
Labrador
Bermuda
Hongkong
Siam
Java
Sumatra
Straits Settlements
New Zealand
Paraguay
Mexico
Canada
Canary Islands
Asia
French China
Switzerland
Greece
Greenland
Parks Takes Oath as County Judge in Oklahoma
Judge Parks was sworn in by former judge Frear in the court chamber. He appointed James McCullough as county court clerk and Stella Roberts as stenographer, with BE Brady retiring as county attorney and a probation officer named. The new court may hear motions tomorrow and criminal trials start January 23. Parks then swore in the new county commissioners R L Chamberlin, J M Simms, and George Costly, who elected Simms as chairman. The board began bond considerations. other officers await clerk bond approval so they can take oaths.
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Frear
Sam Parks
Offee
Parks
Board of County Commissioners
R. L. Chamberlin
Vinita
J. M. Simms
Welch
George Costly
Miles
R. F. Nix
Former Governor's Last Message Outlines Prohibition and Reform
The governor lauds the state's bank guaranty upheld by the Supreme Court and notes no depositor losses. He blames bank failures on concentrated control and national bankers, cites liquidation costs, and discusses prohibition policy and enforcement. He praises parole outcomes, commutations, and pardons, notes court difficulties with enforcing prohibition, and urges highway construction, sale of state school lands, and tax relief.
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Supreme Court
Guaranty Fund
Columbia Bank and Trust Company
Congress
Prohibition
Wanted To Rent Pasture Land In Muskogee OK
A notice seeks to rent about acres of grass land for pasture. Includes contact P O Box 572 Muskogee Oklahoma and Evelyn Craig with phone Black-479 2210. Stencils designed and cut to order.
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P.O
Muskogee
Oklahoma
Evelyn Craig
MelD Hie Color Weil Extracted Slur Dialogue
A New Orleans man recalls a street greeting exchange between two Black men. The mulatto comments on Joe’s color during hot weather, reflecting racial language used in the era. The piece appears as a satirical or ill-chosen quotation from Lippincott's magazine.
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New Orleans
Joe
The Celt In Mexico Exiles and Irish Mexican Ties
Prominent Irish families such as the Greens Lynches Lonergans OGormans Morans Murphys Braniffs Knights Whites Kellys O Reillys Hopes Wilsons are described as now deeply Mexican. The text notes descendants of an Emerald Isle exile colony who sailed from Cadiz toward the eighteenth century Mexican Herald.
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Celt
Mexico
Hibernian
Greens
Lynches
Lonergans
O’gormans
Morans
Murphys
Braniffs
Knights
Whites
Kellys
O'Reillys
Hopes
Wilsons
Emerald Isle
Cadiz
Spain
Herald
Not a Musical Horse Causes Sudden Fatality
A Detroit boy playing The Girl I Left Behind Me on a mouth organ along the street caused a horse to rear and collapse dead. The animal, stunned by the music, died instantly, leaving locals astonished at the strange incident and the boy unharmed.
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Detroit
London Hippodrome’s overlooked orchestra seating issue
When the London Hippodrome was built it was hailed as the world's most complete structure of its kind but during dress rehearsal no provision existed for a large orchestra. Musicians sat on one side of the dress circle for over a year as boxes were altered to accommodate them.
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London Hippodrome
Dreas
Real Estate Gold Mines North of New York City
The New York Press predicts a dramatic rise in land value as small six room cottages with tiny gardens in distant suburbs become priceless investments. It contends that future scarcity will push prices to a thousand dollars per square foot, transforming humble holdings into princes' riches.
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New York City
New York
N. Y
Not In Haste in the North of Scotland Clergyman
A northern Scottish clergyman, in a homely address, chose a Psalm presage as his text. He notes his remark I said in my haste all men are hare. He adds with humor that if present he might have spoken it at leisure, addressing the audience as Davy.
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Scotland
Davi
What King Solomon was renowned for above all things
An elderly visitor asks what Solomon is renowned for. A fair-haired girl answers, noting he was related by marriage to more people than any other man that ever lived.
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Solomon
Hands Off Policy Quip From Uncle Jerry Rival
A humorous quip from a Success magazine piece contrasts a nephew's unruly nature with time and nature. Uncle Jerry retorts that time and nature crafted Limburger cheese, highlighting a wry, old fashioned humor about reform and character.
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Uncle Jerry
Success Magazine
To Keep Pearls Safe From Water Damage
Pearls should not be cleaned with water as it blacks them and spoils beauty. They lose luster if unworn, so store in a box with a piece of ashwood when not in use.
The Highest Gift and Daily Life Allegiance
A compact reflection on how true giving exceeds words and money, asserting that a person’s daily life and practice reveal when truth possesses them, with a quotation from James Russell Lowell as the hinge of the idea.
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James Russell Lowell
Get It Out of You Letter Advice
Rev Dr Frank Crane counsels Chicago Post readers to vent anger by writing harsh letters to the target and his ancestors, then burn the note as a cathartic act. The advice emphasizes piercing truth and emotional release over restraint.
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Frank Crane
Chicago Post
Deportation of Insane and Defective Aliens In New York Port
A monthly average of twenty three insane and defective aliens are deported from the port of New York. The measure yields an estimated annual saving to the state of about nine hundred eighty thousand dollars.
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New York
Taking Care of It
A humorous note from The Tatler warns Ikey to remove a goat glass eye and pocket it when not looking at neddings, illustrating comic advice on handling odd hazards. The quip blends playful caution with eccentric imagery typical of the periodical tone.
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Ikey
The
Tatler
Lengthening Her Stay in a Short Dialog
In a simple family exchange Little May asks for permission to depart and her mother consents with a request to linger a moment longer. May responds by offering to stay two whiles, illustrating a quaint domestic moment of hesitation and compliance.
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Little May
May
Mamma
Pel He Generally Does A Narrow-Minded Man Hats Wide
A humorous couplet notes that Pel favors standard behavior while a narrow minded man may wear a wide hat, implying social conventions and appearances. The line frames a contrast between open mindedness and narrow judgments without broader context.
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Capitol Building Fund
America
Simms
Pel
Kansas City Weekly Star
Weekly
STAR
Kansas City
Halsell Building
F. M. Gwinnup
Son Vinita, Oklahoma
Farmers State Bank Vinita
Okla
Cobb Hotel
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