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  • Vol 27 Issue 1,359 February 16, 2023

    The Daily Ardmoreite, September 9, 1920 City’s Water Bill Against The County Is In Controversy   At a meeting of the board of county commissioners Wednesday afternoon Joe T. Taylor, chairman, gave a few figures relative to the city’s bill presented for approval and payment, for 4 million gallons of water used during the month of…

  • Vol 27 Issue 1,358 February 9, 2023

    This beautiful old building known as Bloomfield seminary at Ardmore no longer exist. Built in 1917 when the federal government purchased land 2 miles north of downtown Ardmore where Hargrove College had been moved in 1908, this new building housed the Bloomfield Academy for girls, which had previously operated near Durant. The school was later…

  • Vol 27 Issue 1,357 February 2, 2023

    Whitmarsh M. Anderson (1867-1954) opened the first veterinarian hospital in southern Oklahoma. It was located about #8 East Broadway and opened in September 1915, just about the time of the Great Explosion. Anderson advertised himself as a veterinarian surgeon. His facility was the most modern of any veterinarian hospital between Oklahoma City and Dallas, Texas.…

  • Vol 27 Issue 1,356 January 26, 2023

    This early day barber shop has a gas heating stove in the center and gas lights. Natural gas was piped into Ardmore first from the Wheeler Field northeast of the city. W. A. Ledbetter established the Ardmore Heat and Light Company in 1907. This supply of natural gas was used up after 3 years. Healdton’s…

  • Vol 27 Issue 1,355 January 19, 2023

    A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST The Daily PressArdmore, OklahomaSunday, March 29, 1925 STROMAN WORKS FOR BIGGER AND BETTER ARDMORE Only Dealer in Auto Replacement Supplies in This Section of State The Stroman Motors Supply Co., located at 224 West Main street, Ardmore, is the only jobber of automobile replacement supplies in Southern Oklahoma. The business…

  • Vol 27 Issue 1,354 January 12, 2023

    The Daily ArdmoreiteArdmore, OklahomaMonday, May 28, 1906 HISTORICAL MURDER CASE Final Chapter Being EnactedMurder Committed in 1902 Guthrie, Okla., May 27, 1906 – Sheriff Elliott, who recently went to British Columbia, has wired here that the prisoner under arrest there is Sam Green, one of the men under indictment for murdering Sheriff Bullard and Deputy…

  • Vol 27 Issue 1,353 January 5, 2023

    The building below in the northeast corner of Main Street and North Washington was the City Drug Store back in the 1940s-1960s. In later years, it was used for used furniture and antiques. WHen it burned, it was not replaced but was razed. There is a parking lot located on that spot now. What’s interesting…

  • Vol 26 Issue 1,352 December 29, 2022

    Below is a sketch of the Whittington Hotel built in 1891 in Ardmore. It was a wooden structure, probably made of cottonwood, which was popular building material at that time. It was built by Wiley Frederick (W.F.) Whittington. He had come to Ardmore from Dexter Texas, and had been a captain in the Confederate army.…

  • Vol 26 Issue 1,351 December 22, 2022

    Unidentified gentlemen pose in the famous Dew Drop Inn located in the basement of a drugstore on the northwest corner of Main and Caddo Streets. According to legend, the Dew Drop Inn was connected by tunnel to the California Cafe (old Stolfa Hardware Store) to the west and to the Whittington Hotel across Main Street.…

  • Vol 26 Issue 1,350 December 15, 2022

    The Daily ArdmoreiteSunday, October 19, 1930 TEMPLE TO BE OPENEDSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA CITIZENS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND Ardmore Masons Have Realized Dreamof Many Years in Building HomeThat Will Make Ardmore theMasonic Center of Southern Oklahoma For 30 years Masons have lived in hopes that some day the fraternity in Southern Oklahoma, particularly in Ardmore, would have…