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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
3
Notices announce the scheduled times and places for the county court terms in Craig County, Oklahoma, detailing session dates and locations for official court proceedings and related administrative actions.
An appeal targets boys and girls to recruit eight new subscribers for Kansas City Weekly Journal at 25 cents yearly. Upon sending eight names and two dollars, a 50 view magic lantern is promised by mail, plus usage directions. Subscriptions and payment by postal money order or draft.
A Kansas Gay Journal item reports a group of youths chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Bordenkircher traveled to Spavinaw on a Saturday outing. Participants included Mintes Edna Stutsman Henryetta Patten Flora Roberts Elizabeth Scott Miriam McGuffin and Messrs Pendell Joe Chambers Harry Darrougt Joe Hunt and Bob Hill. They stayed at a small hotel and spent the next day sightseeing and taking Kodak views.
Chas Taylor was thrown from a wagon near White Oak Saturday evening when his team ran away. His left leg broke in two places above the knee and was set by Dr. E H Miller and Dr. Louis Bagby. He is progressing well and is expected to recover. The Vinsta White Sox defeated Muskogee’s colored team 4 to 3 at Sportsman’s Park in a hot ninth inning game highlighted by notable plays.
A flurry of arrivals and departures grips Vinita as residents and visitors from Claremore Welch Spavinaw Chelsea and Muskogee mingle around the county seat. Notables include Joe Hunt Jr C T Roberts and J L Courtney while Amos Staalabarger and Alfred Guinn invest locally.
Harper's Magazine portrays the human brain as a complex machine with dedicated nerve pathways to muscles glands skin and senses. It can think in all languages or none and even conceive its own mortality, likening mental processes to vibra sona and a living moving picture of light and color.
A timid man explains a mysterious tenant named Evans who lives at the rear of a house. He notes a placard on the door and says she comes and goes at will, defying routine. The exchange reveals curious incidents involving the household and its cook, as described by the judge.
A New Albern? Prete report notes James Mr. Quateine filed a bill for bounty at 15 dollars per wolf. Some wolves died before the bounty, so only five dollars per head will be allowed on Macintyre’s account. February work backs a revised total near one dollar, while Indians along the coast reportedly hunt wolves to claim the higher bounty.
A fragmented excerpt notes a teacher lamenting the allure of spring greens and a dreary boarding house routine. It then cites the New York Board of Education reporting neurasthenia as the most common illness among teachers, with 345 cases over three years and 345 cases referenced alongside retirement figures of 10 women and 24 men under a new order.
The article reports Tennasate's Stingleet Man of Gallatin claiming to be the stingiest in Tennessee and perhaps the world, with a premium offered for his frugality. It mentions a marriage to a home girl, a bridal tour, and a wedding project involving nickel candy waved for children.
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