The Porter Enterprise (Porter, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1905 Page: 2 of 10
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The Porter Enterprise
GEO L L EENTIEY
Editor and Publisher
PORTER IND TER
Never Is an automobile so dangerous
as when John Barleycorn Is acting as
chauffeur
A New York millionaire has eloped
with a waitress But If she can’t cook
what's the use?
Now is the time to buy real estate
on Wall street You can get an entire
square inch of It for (4
A Pennsylvania church pays Its rent
with a June rose It's lucky the rent
day doesn't fall In February
A Montana man has Invented a
vineless potato Now let some genius
get busy and Invent a dogless sausage
Naples Is Inclined to be disconsolate
because a scientist has predicted that
the volcano will go out of business be-
fore long
Desiring to know which nation Is
his truest friend the sultan of Moroc-
co will see which responds quickest
to a touch
Have patience with the new gradu
ate After bumping against the world
for a few weeks he will discover his
limitations
In order to be on the safe side May-
or Weaver of Philadelphia should hire
a trustworthy understudy to keep
watch at night
It Is announced that the postal defi-
cit this year will be about $15000000
The authors must be getting fewer
manuscripts back
One hundred automobiles were de-
stroyed by fire in New York a day or
two ago but you will not be able to
notice any 'difference
Having had so many other casual-
ties In actual experience It was no
novelty at all for the battleship Texas
to be sunk "theoretically”
According to a Russian In I-ondon
Admiral Rojestvensky's name Is pro-
nounced with the accent on the sec-
ond syllable Can you manage it?
Preparations are being made to ex-
terminate the mosquitoes but the odds
are that the news Isn't causing a boom
In mosquito life insurance circles
Twelve of America's famous men
wrote to an Iowa schoolboy that "the
secret of success is real hard work”
and eleven of the twelve were law-
yers !
King Alfonso made friends while he
was In London but there Is no au-
thority for the assertion that King
Edward now familiarly calls him
"Allie”
A preacher has been asked to re-
sign his pulpit because he uses an
automobile The dispatches do not
say whether he Inherited his money or
married It
A New York man was fined $20 the
other day for catching a trout that was
less than six inches long But the
judgo ought to have seen the one
that got away!
There are many forms of misfortune
In this world but none quite so pecu-
liar as that of the Chicago man who
brought suit for an Injunction to keep
his wife from talking
Mr Bonaparte of Baltimore says he
has no pse for the man who tries to
live on his grandfnther's reputation
Still it's quite a distinction sometimes
to have had a granduncle
A chair once owned by President
Washington has been sold to the
Mount Vernon association for $7500
lint a seat In New York's stock ex-
change costs a good deal more
"Choose a freckled girl for a wife”
says Dr Osier “Freckled girls are
Invariably more amiable" And they
never get old enough to be chloro-
formed the doctor might have said
A New York man has asked the po-
lice to help hint find his 16-year-old
niece who Is missing from her home
and ns she Is six feet tall the police
feel that they havo some prospect of
success
A Yonkers N Y alderman wants
$25000 damages because he was ac-
cused of soliciting a bribe An alder-
man who Is courageous enough to car-
ry his caso Into court ought to have
the money
Down In Massachusetts a man of 35
is engaged to bo married to a woman
who Is 84 years old We shall refrain
from congratulating him until we hear
thnt he hns eluded the lady's greatgrandchildren
CJH THOMAS JEFFERSON
Framer of the Declaration of Independence Spent One Anniversary
of Historic Event in Massachusetts City in 1784
In May 1784 the American con-
gress then In session at Annapolis
Maryland received the resignation of
John Jay of New York from the
American commercial commission
abroad Mr Jay being the colleague
of Benjamin Franklin and John
Adams and Mr Jefferson then a
member of the congress from Vir-
ginia was elected to the vacancy
It was at a time when Mr Jefferson
was emerging from the one great
sorrow of his life the loss of Mrs
Jefferson and the stricken statesman
gladly accepted a mission which
would take him away from his deso-
lated home and give him such en-
grossing public work as could not fall
to prove beneficial In the end So he
speedily arranged bis home matters
by correspondence drew a portion of
his $9000 salary In advance and with
his eldest daughter Martha Jefferson
then a young girl of ten years the
future president proceeded leisurely
eastward in quest of a ship that was
bound for a French port
From Annapolis to Philadelphia
then to New York and by easy stages
through Connecticut and Massachu-
setts to Boston in the month of June
was undoubtedly a very delightful
trip to a man who could derive so
much pleasure as Jefferson could
from nature's own unrivaled attract-
iveness at that season of the year
and the arrival of the distinguished
stranger In Boston was not heralded
Europe as a minister plenipotentiary
from the United States In the room of
the Hon John Jay Esq who Is about
to return to America Gov Jefferson
who has so eminently distinguished
himself In the late glorious revolu-
tion Is a gentleman of a very ami-
able character to which he has joined
the most extensive knowledge He Is
a mathematician and philosopher as
well as a civilian and politician and
the memorable declaration of Ameri-
can Independence is said to have been
penned by him”
The Independent Chronicle of July
1 has this brief allusion to the pres-
ence of Mr Jefferson In Boston:
"Since our Inst arrived in town
from the southward His Excellency
Thomas Jefferson Esq late governor
or Virginia and member of congress
now one of the commissioners for ne-
gotiating treaties with foreign pow-
ers” The Gazette did not condescend to
give Mr Jefferson any kind of notice
completely Ignored him and so far as
there is any record to the contrary
Gov John Hancock then a sick man
It Is fair to say did not extend any
official attention from the executive
department But Mr Jefferson him-
self has left on record some evidence
that he did receive a kindly greeting
at the hands of Boston's social set of
that day his Idler to his friend El-
brldge Gerry found below expressing
his grateful acknowledgments of this
the more pleasure as he was to go
himself In her
"The Intermediate time I have em-
ployed in a trip to Portsmouth la or-
der tojdther in that state as 1 had
endeairared to do In the others
through which I had passed such In-
formation as to their commerce and
other circumstances as might In some
degree enably me to answer the pur-
poses of my mission No small part
of the time too has been occupied
by the hospitality and civilities of this
place which I have experienced In
the highest degree These with the
preparation for my voyage have left
me scarcely a spare moment and re-
ceiving assurance from every quarter
that I might derive from Mr Tracy
the fullest Information as to the com-
merce of this state I have referred
much of the Inquiries I wished to
make to the vacant hours of our voy-
age “Pressed with the attentions neces-
sary for the winding up of my affairs
here and getting everything on board
this forenoon I have only time to bid
you an affectionate adieu to thank
you for the many civilities to which
you have assisted in Introducing to
me here to assure you of the pleas-
ure It will give me at all times to bear
from you leaving with Mrs Cotton
a token of my friendship for you
“From me you shall certainly re-
ceive frequent accounts of whatever 1
shall think worth your notice and
I THOMAS JEFFERSON 1
Author of the Declaration of Independence Third President of the United 8tatea Founder of Religious Liberty
In Virginia Founder of the University of Virginia Father of the Democratic Party
by the local press until seven days
after Mr Jefferson had reached tho
town and was traveling further east-
ward as far as Portsmouth N H
In fact the first record of Mr Jef-
ferson's presence in Boston on this
occasion appears in tho journal of the
house of representatives under date
of June 12 when tho following order
was passed:
“Ordered That a chair bo assigned
for uie Hon Thomas Jefferson Esq
late governor of Virginia and now
one of the ministers of tho United
States for negotiating commercial
treaties If he Is Inclined to attend the
debate of the house and that Mr Os-
good (Samuel Osgood of Andover)
Davis (Thomas Davis Junior of Ply-
mouth) and Swan (James Swan of
Dorchester) be a committee to wait
on the gentleman and Worm him of
this order who reported that they had
attended that service”
There Is no evidence In the record
of the subsequent proceedings of (he
house that Mr Jefferson accepted tho
Invitation
In hla Issue of July 8 1784 editor
Isaiah Thomas of the Worcester Spy
bad this reference to Mr Jefferson:
Boston July 1
"Friday last the Hon Thomas Jef-
ferson Esq Isle governor of Vir-
ginia arrived here by land from that
atatt He la shortly to embark for
pleasant feature of his Boston visit
“Boston July 2 1784
Dear Sir:— Being to sail from this
port to-morrow I cannot deny myself
tho pleasure of recalling myself to
your recollection for a moment I
have impatiently hoped your arrival
hero before I should depart but I bus-
pect that the belles of Philadelphia
have exercised their power over you
for It is here I understand you make
your principal delay When I arrived
here I found Mrs Adams within
thirty-six hours of sailing I had de-
termined to take my passage to
France in tho first Instance yet the
wish to nerompany Mrs Adams would
certainly havo Induced me to relin-
quish this could I within so short a
time havo prepared for embarkation
I was unable on this account to attend
her
"Hearing of no vessel going from
any eastern port to Franco I had In
eonlemplatlon to return to Now York
mid take passage In the French pack-
et which was to sail the 15th instant
litit it was suggested to me that I
could with certainty get ashore on
the coast of France somewhere from
any vessel bound for London and as
Mr Tracy had a vessel to sail from
honco tho third which would save
twelve days In the outset and prob-
ably as many more In' the run I en-
gaged my passage In her and with
every other possible proof of tho sin-
cere esteem with which I am deal
sir your affectionate friend and ser-
vant “Thomas Jefferson”
The anniversary of Independence
day In 1784 fell on Sunday and the
program of exercises In Boston at
usual was observed on Monday The
Old South church was the ecene ol
the observances which began at II
o'clock
Benjamin Hitchbourne an old-time
fervid orator delivered the address
salutes were fired on the common din-
ners were the order of the day
throughout the town the officials re-
galing themselves at Woart’s tavern
others at the American coffee house
while the order of Cincinnati com-
posed of the ex-ofllcere of the army
and the organization of which body
Jefferson opposed and won Washing-
ton to his way of thinking dined at
“MarBton’s”
The marine record shows high wet
er at Boston on July 5 1784 at I
o'clock and at about that hour when
all Boston was at the flood of it cele
bratlon of the day the ship Ceres
Capt St Barbs bound for Londoi
with Thomaa Jefferson the author ol
the Declaration of Independence
aboard was beating It way out of thi
harbor— Boston Globa
' UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT
Caused by Sores on Nook — MerclleM
Itching for Two Years Mgde
Him Wild— Another Cure
by Cutlcura
“For two years my neck was cov-
ered with sores tho humor spreading
to my hair which fell out leaving an
unsightly bald spot and the soreness
Inflammation and merciless Itching
made me wild Friends advised Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment and after a
few applications the torment subsided
to my great Joy The sores soon dis-
appeared and my hair grew again
as thick and healthy as ever I shall
always recommend Cutlcura (Signed!
H J Spalding 104 W 104th 8L Ne
York City”
It le a mighty poor excuse for a man
that can't convince some woman that
he is the wisest and best on earth
Mrs Window Soothing flm
For ehlMren ttetfetu often u run roAnet tw
faaunftUoo til? pu car w!a4 oollo ftonboM)
It Is easier to start a rumor than It
Is to to head It oft
Kra J H Olle Everett P fluff trod
ftsn with kldnsj and (Travel trouble Cured by Dr
tfevkl Kennedy's Favorite Remedy Roodout N Y llOfc
When a man can support his family
it la a sign he is no genius
DON'T FORGET
A Urge So package Red Crons Ball Blue only
ft oenta The lluaa Company South Bend Ini
Sometimes a woman wishes she
were a man so that she could break
the hearts of other women
Every housekeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold '
Water Starch for laundry use they
will cave not only time because It
never sticks to the Iron but because
each package contains 16 oz— one full
pound— while all other Cold Water
Starchee are put up In -pound pack-
ages and the price is the same 10
cents Then again because Defiance
Starch la free from all Injurious chem-
icals If your grocer tries to sell you a
12-oz package It is because he hae
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts In Defiance :
He knowe that Defiance Starch hae
printed on every package in large let-
ters and figures ”16 ozs” Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the typioyaueo of the Iron
sticking Defiance never sticks
MrJones: It certainly Is — anybody
who will stick a blind man Is no good
Little Fred: Then If a foolish mat
meaning of "fatuous?”
Farmers’ Wives
(hould read advertisement of Acety-
lene Apparatus Mfg Co In another
column of this paper
There are some places In Europe
where women regularly plow instead
of horses
Lydia £ Plnkham’a
Vagatable Oompound
is a positive cure for all those painful
ailments of women It will entirely
cure the worst forms of Female Com-
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mation and Ulceration Falling and
Displacements of the Womb and con-
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peon iarly adapted to the Cltangt o)
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Baokaoha
It has cured more cases of Leucor-
rh(Ba than any other remedy the world
has ever kuown It Is almost infallible
In such cases It dissolves and expels
Tumors from the Uterus in an early
stage of development That
Bearing-down Feeling
causing pain weight and headache is
Instantly relieved and permanently
cured by its use Under all circum-
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female systdtn It corrects
Irregularity
Suppressed or l'aiuful Menstruation
Weakness of the Stomach Indigestion
Bloating Flooding Nervous Prostra-
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Dlxxlneea Falntneae
Extreme Lassitude "don't-care" and
“ wanlrto-be-left-alono ’’ feeling excit-
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some derangement of tho Uterus For
Kidney Oomplalnts
and Backache of tilher tex the Vegeta-
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You can Write Mrs Pink ham about
yourself in strictest confidence
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Bentley, George L. L. The Porter Enterprise (Porter, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1905, newspaper, June 29, 1905; Porter, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2042081/m1/2/?q=Birth+of+a+Nation: accessed June 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.