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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
4
A list of local and national offices including Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall as presidential and vice presidential candidates, with names for U S Senate and House seats. The piece mixes a party ticket with editorial commentary on the tariff policy, third term talk, and a critique of the touting by third term advocates. It references recalls of the straw polling and business circulars asking for campaign contributions.
The piece rails at Oklahoma Taft electors and party fights while condemning the governor over sending homeless boys to Pauls Valley prison. It notes an orphan home at Pryor Creek and urges frank emphasis on industry and self reliance as key to character and succession.
A playful verse rails at political rhetoric and reform promises. The speaker vows to preach plain hard work over grand platforms, urging readers to save from weekly wages and invest in a stable bank rather than chasing grand political schemes. The tone mocks politicians and emphasizes earnest labor over speeches.
A long, disjointed column blends a florid critique of a beauty-obsessed figure with political debate over Oklahoma City as state capital. It contrasts personal vanity with public corruption and chronicles the Guthrie versus Oklahoma City capital fight, plus notes on an upcoming boxing event.
The article portrays the Wilson family life, praising Mrs. Wilson as gentle, charming, and artistically distinguished. It compares her potential enduring legacy to Dolly Madison, notes the governor’s fondness for children, and recalls a wartime inauguration parade memory highlighting a red-haired boy saluting with a flag, reflecting presidential admiration and memory.
A local writer cites cracked brick work at Vintia and questions workmanship. An editor counters that criticisms are absurd, while a longtime informant questions integrity, calling it a felt betrayal. the piece notes the possibility of misperception.
The article extols electric devices as modern household aids from cooking to cooling. It compares electric appliances with old servant labor, argues for efficiency, and concludes with a moral on sowing and reaping following Al Boyce’s death in Amarillo, Texas.
In the August Inland Printer O L Hobart raises pointed questions about publishing subscription payments. He asks if detailing small paid sums demeans newspapers, whether readers tolerate such notices, and if subscribers resent public acknowledgment of modest payments or delinquent balances from local merchants and printers.
An aphoristic note excerpts Maurice Maeterlinck urging that beauty should be shared and purified along life’s road. He argues that high thoughts, once cast into the world, endure like a diamond until someone is moved to heed them, never hesitating to lift others toward greater goodness.
Kansas City Stock Yards reports week ended with a small net gain for heifers cales and stockers as heavy buying of stock and feeding cattle supported prices. Total shipments of stockers and feeders reached 20,340 head while runs from dry areas slowed. Cattle prices across classes edged higher with stockers up about half a dollar, prime cattle scarce, and hogs and lambs selling at steady to modest gains.
A verse laments mothers leaving home for politics and suffrage campaigning. It humorously imagines chaos at home from skipped chores and misbehaving children while a mother attends conventions. The poem mocks female political fervor and imagines a post victory home life.
A.C. Calloway returns from Missouri while Ray Gambill of J A Dobkins Co visits Big Cabin and comments on a likely fall cotton and corn carnival due to dry weather. The moving picture show drew crowds, and a farm sale prompts a Colorado relocation for the Poelave family. Local visits include Prof. L S Warden and wife in Big Cabin, Mrs. Gayuga Reed traveling to Tulsa, and Mrs. S F Griffith shopping in Vinita. Wm Coleman of Foyil considers trading goods for land east of town.
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