I will let the newspaper speak for itself in the following extracts. The photos are from other bloggers and Wiki Media Commons, you can click on each photo to get to the original page.
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| Oklahoma City, 1910 |
Ada, Oklahoma
A City Situated in the Midst of Unlimited Resources
A Brief Sketch of Most of the Leading Tradesmen
A Brief Sketch of Most of the Leading Tradesmen
Who Have Their Hand on the Pulse of Business-
Together With a History of Her Growth,
Together With a History of Her Growth,
In a Commercial Way Which is Scarce Surpassed
By the Industrial Annals of the Country
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| U.S, Department of the Interior ad 1910-1911 |
Pontotoc County
Encircled By the Brightest and Fairest Skies
A FERTILE REGION
In which crop failures are unknown,
A FERTILE REGION
In which crop failures are unknown,
and underneath whose soil lies untold wealth.
Orchards and cultivated meadows.
There are regions of the world with brighter skies,
Orchards and cultivated meadows.
There are regions of the world with brighter skies,
there is an island whose fields are greener,
and summer lands with fairer flowers,
and summer lands with fairer flowers,
but taken all in all there is no place more desirable
for habitation than Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.
for habitation than Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.
( not quite the picture of the American south-west in 1939)
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| Western Electric advertisement 1917 |
Singer Sewing Machine Company maintain
important branch sales office in Ada
Mr. W. C. Williams manager
Mr. Williams is a salesman of more than ordinary ability and during the short time he has had charge of this territory he has broken all previous sales records, having without any assistance sold more than one hundred and twenty-five machines. Mr. Williams is a man who is strictly reliable and has always made it a point in dealing with the public to use only honorable and legitimate methods in the conduct of his business.
We wish to impress upon the minds of the public that when they deal with Mr. Williams they are not only assured of getting the best and most durable machines procurable, but are also assured of getting a square deal.
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| One room school in Blanchard 1910 |
Rural schools in Pontotoc County
At statehood the only school houses in the rural districts were miserable makeshifts.
During the past six years, however, there has been a revolution. Over $80,000 has been spent on good, substantial buildings and the children are housed as comfortably as anywhere else. The schools are also well supported and most of the rural districts have terms of not less than eight or nine months. Under the influence of the East Central Normal at Ada and stringent state laws requiring a high grade of proficiency of teachers, the school system is rapidly developing in thoroughness and efficiency.
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| Subway ad 1910 |
Ada Coca Cola Bottling Company
Coca-Cola has been acknowledged the world over as being the most popular beverage yet discovered and is confessed by scientists everywhere to be simply incomparable and approached by no other soft drink on the market in deliciousness of taste and sparkling freshness. It is delightful to the taste, satisfying, bracing and full of health-giving properties.
The Ada Coca Cola Bottling Co., located at 300 East Main Street, occupy a fine brick structure with an excellent equipment of modern machinery and appliances. The purity of the products turned out by this plant has made them famous and wherever they have been introduced they meet with great favor and are called for in preference to products of other bottling works.
Send a copy of the Special Edition back to you old home.
It is a beautiful souvenir of Ada and Pontotoc County
and will be appreciated for the many advantages it points out.
Nice but they did not mention how many tornadoes pass through there each summer.
ReplyDeleteThe other invisible subject was women. It appears that the entire town success was due to men and masculine enterprise - no mention of any females in farming, business, schools and churches.
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