Elliott News from Eliott May 5 Highlights Local Happenings
Rains raise crop prospects with bumper wheat and oats as farmers plow corn plant cotton and feed stuff. Literary society draws large crowd with schoolchildren program. Three weeks of school remain and a summer play is planned after closing. Several locals visit Vernon to see the film The Vince of Pesce. Amos Bates returns from Electra for a few days. Gus Dames’s brother Gus reports arrival on the firing line in the United States. Thomas Dickens arrives home after an honorable discharge from Uncle Sam.
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Theaters Preview: Daughter of Mine and Courageous Coward
A Theaters feature notes Wednesday showings for Daughter of Mine a Goldwyn picture starring Madej Joennedy with witty dialogue and a morning oath joke. Also listed Tuesday appearance of Courageous Coward with Hayakawa in a Chinatown underworld romance involving murder and notorious Barbary Coast scenes.
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Shock Absorber Claims to Protect Springs on Cars
An advertisement for the S and S Absorber touts its frictionless design and water damped rebound to support springs and cushion rough roads. It promises easy demonstration and a money back offer after 380 days, with sales at Co. M. Ladd at Ladd's Place.
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Burk-Wacooner Tires and Tonic Ad Sparks Store Offers
An odd ad fragment touts Burk-Wacooner tires sold by Judd and Ady, plus United States Goodyear Ajax tires. It promotes Orgatone spring tonic from Fer son Drug Co, Schumacher feed guarantee, and a Brown's all grain ration claiming fat gain benefits and lower corn cost.
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Child Gets Cross Sick and Feverish When Constipated
An old domestic remedy advertises California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, thorough laxative to ease a constipated child. The copy links coated tongues and feverish infant distress to digestive issues and claims quick relief within hours, urging mothers to keep a bottle on hand.
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Wildcat News from Ringland and nearby towns
Marvin Nelson from Ringland Oklahoma visits G W Hildebrand family this week. School closed last Wednesday due to funds. Miss Jane McMahan returns home to Sader. Miss Minnie Turner takes job in Vernon for two months. Charlie Anderson visits Tone McMahan. Earl Cowell from Weston lists today to see wife and baby with Raper family. Bowden visit red Blatt and Crown. Allan Rusk of Burkharnett visits Chadwick family. Maggie Bolton of Red Blatt visits mother Will Nunn.
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Minnie Turner
Vernon
Charlie Anderson
Sadler
Tone McMahan
Earl Cowell
Weston
Raper
Fleischmann's Yeast for Home Baking Sale Ad
Live yeast advertised for home bakers. Fleischmann's yeast, the same used by pros, for sale at Brown's store in town.
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Brown's
Four More Enter Contest for Farm Journal Prize
Four more men joined the Farm Journal contest offering a 1000 prize. Farmers Valley entrants include R Marshal wheat J A Webster and J M Bell cotton and A Allison of Vernon wheat. Twenty one entries total with Wilharger county fielding wheat oats corn cotton and alfalfa.
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Pic nic at Watts farm marks thirty fifth annual gathering
Doans News from May 5 reports a large crowd attended the Watts farm picnic for the thirty fifth year with many locals and visitors present. Several families from Vernon Clarendon Mountain Park and Elmer Oklahoma joined relatives for the day long event. The narrative lists attendees and mentions social visits around the gathering, ending with local advertisements for Brown's seed and Magnolia Oil and Gas from Ladd's Place.
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W. H. Adams
White City
Lee Armstrong
Ray Godbey
Dollie Tucker
May Godbey
Elmer Dmla
Winnie Owen
Watts Farm
Hazel
Bertha Thompson
Ola Batman
Hall's Catarrh Remedy Promoted for Constitutional Cure
There is more catarrh in this region than other diseases, thought incurable by local doctors. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, is a constitutional remedy taken internally. A hundred dollar reward offered for any case it fails to cure. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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