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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
6
A flood of short notes covers Vinita social and business activity. Local residents and travelers, including Spencee, Freaste, Brown, Davenport, and many more, arrive from Claremore, Oklahoma City, Pryor Creek, and Tulsa with a mix of errands, visits, and engagements. The piece notes river high water diverting trains, upcoming political rallies, sheriff activity, and a church chicken pie dinner, painting a bustling snapshot of daily life.
From Saturdays Daily C Caskey returned from Catale. Kidd Garson arrived from Enid. Neat week will be Carnival week. Dr Oliver Bagby visiting Bartlesville. Ella Marnott in from Asia. George Kapp took a business trip to Miami. Mortie Knight headed to Tutu on business. Ratcliff departed Tule on a business trip. Russell Elliott was ill yesterday and last night.
Fridays Daily Mere reports numerous business visitors in Pryor Creek and nearby towns. Names include Bebout from Gal Harrison Pawns, Kornegay from Tulsa, Graham from Welch, Bland from Afton, Lynch from Talala, Spencer from Chouteau, Conant from Tulsa, Walker from Stilwell, Garrete among Pryor Creek crowd, James from Sapulpa, Maloney from Blue Jacket, Portner from Springfield, Liggett from Muskogee, and Eddy from Welch.
A wind blown encounter unfolds when a stranger on a bicycle asks for a good meal. A local man directs him to a restaurant, but the stranger later returns saying the meal was the worst ever. The wit reveals a joke about misdirection and shared misfortune as a miner’s mine-y humor echoes the tale.
A Boston physician recalls a tale of a young patient whose sick list was kept with a medicine chart. The father left a bottle with the mother who kept the chart but forgot to mark doses. The mother explains she trained Tom to skip doses by warning him an hour before each time.
A Philadelphia Telegraph excerpt contrasts a young cash custodian’s temptations with envy over pay, status, romance, and allure of wealth. It suggests social pressures drive his impulses toward forbidden pursuits and ostentatious display.
A Philadelphia letter questions the Betsy Ross cherry tree tale and the Weems narrative. It argues family tradition alone cannot prove historical events and calls for more authoritative evidence before erecting monuments.
An irritable man mocks misuse of apostrophes and quotation marks. He notes autos as a plural error and questions signs like "Keys" with "agent." He also flags the overuse of kindly in signs and the Brooklyn gents sign as pretentious.
The Chemical Society of Great Britain splits on admitting women as full members. Only 22 of 3,400 papers by women in 95 years. presently, Mlle Curle is the sole woman member as an honorary fellow without voting rights or council eligibility.
Senator LaFollette likened the currency bill passage to a delicate trancheing problem. He compared it to a newly married man in mourning whose sister in law is now his wife, recounting a Niagara restaurant encounter where a friend asked whom he mourned for in a crude joke.
In a whisper BI and the farmer's boy note Jim has washed his face twice and dressed in a new shirt with a blown collar. Lanky brother teases that visitors are arriving and guesses a picnic. A joking hint about Bill's possible courtship follows as chatter turns playful.
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