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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
8
Robbers entered W. S. Maupin’s hardware store at Slucjacker through a rear window after breaking the pane with a knife. The loot included two gold watches, a Colt revolver, a knife handle, razors, flags, six tassels, fifteen bows of fattridges, and three French harps, totaling a loss to Maupin.
A Cherupa Clipper report notes Dowugtt residents selling cream to the creamery earning about 20 in cream and 5 in butter this past month. The piece urges farmers to adopt modern cream separators and machinery to cut costs, boost profits, and cover yearly expenses twice over with improved milking and storage facilities in Vinita.
Report of a scam where women were persuaded to buy lithographed rose pictures sold as live plants for 50 cents each. Buyers paid up to twelve dollars. total takings around two hundred dollars before the fraud was uncovered when the roses bloomed as common cabbage roses worth about six cents. Mrs. C B West exposed the deceit after investing three dollars.
Secretary Coburn of the Kansas State board of agriculture is mocked as a humorist. The text parodies a recipe for alfalfa greens with bizarre steps and dangerous ingredients, framed as a late delicacy enjoyed in exclusive spots, yielding a satirical view of political satire in Washington and Tongue.
Dr A J Applegate of this city owned a mud stone famed in the eastern part of the state. Wager Renee revived the item for a bite wound near Tulsa. W H Stout, a railroad section foreman, woke the doctor at 2 am to apply the stone which did not adhere. The doctor paid 1200 for the stone, bought fifty years ago.
Harvey Smithy was bitten on the hand by a dog believed to be mad last Saturday. Dr. Sudduth treated him with a mad stone at Owl drug store and he recovered after about an hour and days of observation. The dog foamed at the mouth and caused concern for nearby residents at Port Gipson and Muskagee.
The fifteenth annual state convention of the Oklahoma Sunday School Association meets in Tulsa June 2 3 4, 1908. Delegates from every denomination are invited with up to ten official delegates per county. prominent speakers from Chicago Texas Louisiana Illinois and other states will lead sessions. Tulsa plans a grand welcome with two fifty-voice choruses and extensive arrangements to accommodate attendees and delegates.
Information directs readers to write to the state corresponding secretary in Oklahoma City. The piece notes large, massive buildings still standing and describes a boys month end fire station drill with trained horses from the Kansas City team Joe and Dan. Horses race back after a gong signal and return under harness as part of the display.
The Fort Gibson Post reports an old Port Guyon landmark torn down by Carroll Nash. The double log house stood west of the former Jeff Davis house and dated back about 70 years, once housing a subordinate officer before stone buildings rose on Gartison Hill, its chimneys remaining in memory.
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