The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 300, Ed. 1 Monday, July 27, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME I
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1914
NUMBER 300
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Mid=Summer
Shirt Sale
LATE NEWS OF INTEREST. \Y \R SPIRIT AT BERLIN.
Prohibition and Prohibition Can- Crowds Gather and Sing Pat-
didates Lose in Texas—War
Imminent in Europe-
Notes.
A very strenuous primary
campaign came to an end in Tex-
as on Saturday with a decided
riotic Songs—"Down With
Russia," Is the Cry—
Germany-Austria
Alliance.
;! SPECIAL--SPECIAL—SPECIAL
TO-DAY ONLY AT
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July 26 —r.arlin is fill- ,4
1 tonight with cheering tu-14
victory for the anti-prohibition mu'tous crow' , cj.lging
forces. The issue was state-; continuous enthusiastic demon
wide prohibition vs. Leal option .
T!:e diversity Theatre
"Where The
Crowds Go"
August Thomas Presents,
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$1.00 and $I.5o Values at 75c.
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A ud.v ivian hoEtili-i T
■ strains of the German J
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ire heard from tii a to time
Cur place
must make
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IE NEW VH TUNS CD.
ana U-.-ise. The latter
won b,r sono 00® o"t of r1
to(f,l v:0 of more than 400,000.
Tho\ I! II was th? Democratic
candidate for governor on the bovo the cheers of the cr
prohibition side, with James S . i nnd the orchestra in the
Fergr -on of " plc, represent- >1 k t-
ing the "business" interests, riotic airs to crowded tables. 4.
The latter won by 10,000, carry- Newspaper extras, sent out in *f
ing with him nearly every anti- rapid succcsion, rre torn from T
prohibition candidate on his ti • hands of tiK distributors and i
ticket. the streets are carpeted with dis- j +
i : carded sheets. The enthusiasm i T
War is imminent in Europe— scarcely could be greater, if it X
more imminent that it has been were Germany's own war that! I
for many years. The basic was about to berin. f
trouble is between Austria and In the last two days, the news- j'
Servia, but Russia, Germany, papers have been preparing the ' j
France and England are bound public for this contingency and ..
to get into it if it starts. The !m .ft of the demonstrators ap- • •
moneyed interests of Europe (a parently realize that hostilities "
tremendous power) will endeav-! !>ng the Danube might be pre
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"ARIZONA"
6 Parts—210 Scenes
A'so £>? >hx& to-day, Al. E. Christie's great
Serial comeuy,
"Sophie Of The Films"
With
Victoria Ford, Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran
IMPORTANT: This is the first of this great
serial comedy. There will be three more and
e . jh c..e will be a scream. Don't miss a single
one of these.
7-Reeis To-Ni^ht 5c and iOc
or to secure and maintain peace, | iiminary to Russian and German
but it looks as even they cannot1 mobilizations in a few days,
do so. And it would seem as if A spontaneous demonstration
in every country involved -the; < •'curred in Wilhelmstrasse,
the ti- Pe°Ple are f°r war> f°r every ut-! through which thousands of
of his terance i" favor of war is being men marched singing
received by them with enthus-: Wacht Am Rhein."
"Die
—The Transcript has had but; ed that he will receive
little to say about the candidacy most unanimous vote
su^^o-ael! T?e c,„ert .
plorable condition of the masses meeting lor July 28, their watch-
Down with war."
were
by martial dem-
about "him; where he is so well I do not desire such a man at the eve" wai uei"K "lo"*ni ureter-: o„*uuuuaS, many who
Barbour, for the Democratic | he has warm friends, earnest
nomination for Lieut. Governor, friends, in every county in Okla- . 5 ^ , 1
known, so well liked, and his
qualifications so well recogniz-' tive governor.
bp. rl of the senate and nrosoec-'abIe to Prese,lt conditions. While h . dmr out anti-w r p/mphlels
nec.a 01 int suiaie aim piuspe^ 4.1, „
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EXTRA SPECIAL —The thirrl cutting of alfalfa,
SI.00 Muslin gowns 59c just completed, has turned out
Rl'CKER'S SMASHED PRICE very well considering the dry
SALE weather.
—Visit Rucker's tonight and
—H. P. Alden is in receipt of get a cool drink of Osco and
a letter from L J. Edwards tell- lemonade free, with lots of bar-
ing him that h feels much bet- gains to select from.
ter, but was certainly in bad —Mrs. H. E. Smythe got
.shape for a time; so bad that he away this afternoon for her old
felt sure he was bound "across home at Waukesha, Wis. She
' he river." , * will be gone until Sept. 1st.
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A Real 7unny Farce
Remember "The ALARM" it was' a
Keystone Komedy
" OF MEMORIES"
^ ware.
A Reliable thatys
a onderful picture.
different. A
Austria and Servia are the prin-: being mobbed.
cipals in this, t. ouble, it is The crowds in the center of
thought cert: n Russia will go th '<y ••■tcae'ly increased as the
to the rebel of Servia., and news penetrated the residential!
should this happen, Germany districts and suburbs, which!
will take a hand. 1 sent their quotas of men and j
I ! women, co'legians and h:,^h'
Mayor F. G. Coa :r of 7 la - • 1 you"- to . the .throng
gum has had Cy Williams and B. in Unter den L' ('.en and F: lad-,
V. Henson and two women, nil of 1 chstrasse. Pnr.r'i
. Ok'.-homsi City, a ;e-+ ■ 1 for wt. ■ ftrgri'nzed a id proceeded
eonspiiacy to "get him in bad." to the Auslria . -nn ' "V, the
Jt seems Mr. Horde - pposed any Foreign office and other points
further contract with the pres- of interest.
ent local electric light plant of - Later angry crowds assem-
|Mangum, and the two men, it is bled ontside the Ru.-s'an ambas-
< harged, conceived a scheme to sy with continuous shouts of
have him withdraw his opposi- "Down With Russia!" "Down
tion. Mr. Border is a physician, With Servia!" "Hurrah for
and one of the women called on War."
him with a proposition that he The impression in diplomatic j
Lake $400 for a criminal opera- circles here is that the Euro-
tion upon her. She made an ap- pean situation is the gravest
pointment to meet her in a room since 1870. All eyes are turned (
at a hotel, and installed a die- to St. Petersburg, and even
tagraph therein to take down the among the most optimistic there!
| conversation. In some manner is no confidence that war will be1 todav for the first time for three *
Mr. Border got onto their averted. French residents who ^IV HrharbPPn serionslv * NORMAN TRANSFER &
scheme and had them arrested, are in close touch with the em- .. , , ' i* STORAGE COMPANY
bassy are making preparations S:ck- Wlth asthma and lung ♦
any day and every day is the day to get
your cash coupon tickets on the silver-
We sell fresh fruits, vegetables,
and all seasonable groceries, but we
don't keep them==long at a time.
Mansur & Brewer Gro.
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-W. H. Atkerson was in town
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King's soldiers fired into a to return to France for possible trouble, much of the time being! ♦ Special attention given to *
mob of Dublinites in that city on service. ■ compelled to sit up in a chair. ♦ storage and shipment of *
Sunday, killing four and wound- Reports from Hamburg tell He expects to go to Colorado or • household goods. ♦
iing a number. The trouble was the same story of patriotic dem- Western Texas as soon as he;* ♦
caused by the Home Rule agita- onstrations. Information re- gets a little stronger. His num- ♦ j. M. Thompson, Prop. •
tion which has been sweeping ceived late tonight from a quar- erous Iriends trust he will soon ; ♦ ♦
Ireland Nationalists (home ter in the confidence of the Ger- recover. « ♦«««« «<««««<«
rulers) had smuggled 10,000 man embassy at St. Petersburg -- - 1 -
'< rifles and many rounds of am- declares that the first desire to , , , ,
munition into the country with settle the controversy through
The Good Samaritan.
Ed Mays found a little boy
crying at tho depot one night
last week at midnight, having
been put off the train because
he was without money to pay his
fare. Mr. Mays took him to his
home and kept him until Sunday,
when he took up a collection and
sent him on his way home in
Texas.
Jas. M. Gresham for Congress.
Ian idea of usng them ugains; diplomatic means is giving
the Ui-'terites. The soldiers were place to a decided war spirit and!
| trying to get nossession t !h- insistence that Servia be sup-
|arms when they were fired upon ported in every way.
'and returned the fire. More
I trouble is expected, for the relig- Registration Closes in Norman.
! ious fervor of both Protestants When registration of voters
and Catholics is aroused to boil-' closed in Norman last Saturday
j ing point and a religious war is night almost all were in, but1
I am a candidate for the Re-1 inuninent. The fact that the some who put it off until the !
publican nomination for mem- j s°hhers who fired are Scotch 'leventh hour were left out.
ber of congress from the Fifth' P^ estants (the ^cotch ru- There will be another registra-
Congressional district of Okla-!?. ^as enilamed the Dub- tion in October for those who
homa, subject to the decision of populace. were absent from town during
. 7— | this registration, but those here
Richard's Confectionery. and failed to get their name on
the list are disfranchised for
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the voters of that party at the
primary of August 4, 1914.
JAS. M. GRESIIAM.
Norman, Okla., July 14, 1914.
..Cataloupes..
Stock is fine and couldn't be better. Plums, ap-
ricots, pears, peaches, lemons, oranges, and ba-
nanas.
..Lettuce and Celery..
Green beans, cucumbers and cabbage.
Texas Alberta Peaches Tomorrow
Barbour's Sanitary Grocery
Charlie Richards now has the two years.
linoleum down in his confection-! As the Transcrint gets the
; ery and ice cream parlor, and in- figures the following is the
vites the ladies to call—feeling number of voters:
certain if he can get the ladies to First ward—188 men and thir-
come he will have no trouble ty women; about thirty-five Re-
with the men. He has made it publicans.
an inviting abfe, cool and pleas-1' Second ward—134 men, 33 wo-
ant, with plWiy of electric fans, men—about forty Republicans
and with delightful music. Wed- and four Socialists.
jnesday and Friday nights he. Third ward—270 men and 95
wants to maks special "Ladies' women—probably fifty Republi-
i Nights," and will then endeavor j cans, four or five "Progressive
j to make it especially pleasing. ! Republicans,■, and four or five j
Remember—"Best Goods and | "Independents."
I Best
J place.
Service" — a delightful
—J. B. Dudley, John Lindsay
l and Henry Meyer went to thie
| oil fields near Newkirk 011 Sun-
| day to look after a good lease
they own, and found the pros-
pect very fine.
Fourth ward—150 Democrats, i
30 Republicans, 2 Progressives |
and 6 Socialists. Thirty-six wo- j
men.
Numerous persons of other j
politics registered as Democrats, |
and the above is by no means j
the Vote that will be cast by the.
parties in November.
FREE!
Tuesday is the last day to
vet a set of water glasses
free with $S. GO Pur-
chases.
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Burke, J. J. The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 300, Ed. 1 Monday, July 27, 1914, newspaper, July 27, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112761/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.