The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-08-18
Ardmore, Friday, August 10, 1905.

Ardmore. Friday, August 1s' lsoo'
Booker Washington is in great dan
ger of losing his identity as great
and useful citizen and degenerating
into the loud coon" class.
M Witte is said TO have contracted
a had cold at Portsmouth. We are
not surprised The first thing you
know he will have "coughN
We do not believe the report that
nave Francis is a candidate for the
presidency, because there was 40 re
cent photograph accompanying it,
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A Turk with his three wives is ON
exhibition at New York and is attract
ing considerable attention. 1t Isl
doubtful If 8. man with only three
wives would be noticed in Utah.
A Kentucky woman who Is only 33
years of age has Just become engaged
TO her ninth prospective husband.
Now curios people will be wanting 10
know whether death or divorce took
along the first eight
The New Orleans saloons are giving
an arsenic pill with each drink to en-
able their customers to ward of the
yellow fever The Crescent city sa'
. looms do not intend to lose their Gus.
toners il they can help 1t.
Miss Tarben. having exhausted the
seamy side of John ID. Rocketellers
character, will now tell of his good
points. The public will welcome the
information since the lady, never hay-
ing been introduced to the gentleman,
knows all about him.
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The Japanese are called the yam
KEGS Of the East" the Frenchmen OF
the East" and the British of the
East" but as a matter of fact, they
are sui generis, and to say they are
the Japanese tells the story as could
never be told by comparisons.
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Women whose bathing skirts do not
repch their knees will not be permit
ted hereafter to go into the water al
Atlantic City. But do the women who
wear the short skirts want to go into
the water, asks the Chicago Herald
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Norway and Sweden AFFORD the
strongest argument possible for uni
yersal peace A resort to arms would
have been costly in men and money
and the result probably not been as
satisfactory as the result of the blood
less revolution, or rather secession.
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Indications are that the Portsmouth
conference will end in peace and thau
the Russian and japanese ENJOYS vii
return to their respective homes tC
tell how they outgeneraled and Skim
cd the other fellow. The terms viii
De DclltI lndu tlNnNI japan VI N"''''
expected, to hear them tell IT,
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Now they say that the busting OF
those Kansas banks was due to Tho
fact that the banks could not ho''
all the deposits thrust upon them
How Kansas is prospering these days
No wonder people like Jerry Simp
son and Mary Ellen Lease who coul
not be happy during prosperity. ha,
to leave the state.
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1t now begins to look as if Jhcr,
would be no special session. Las
winter President Roosevelt daily con
suited with congressman as to whetr
er he should call a special session q
revise the tariff At the end of tha
session he was insistent upon sucl
session. Later on he thought a spe
cial session necessary to give the in
terstate commerce commission more
power Now he does not think spo
cial session necessary Mr. Roosevelt
is losing none Of his character Of ar
pearlng strenuous but he Is losin'
character for tenacity