Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, CO - This Duchess Pug awoke at 8:43am to a couple of inches of wet snow that had fallen during the early morning hours. The photo on the left is looking towards County Road 500, in Bayfield, Colorado.

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Tuck's Wonder Store - Ingersoll, OK

Ingersoll, Oklahoma - We had an inquiry about Ingersoll, Oklahoma and Tuck's Wonder store this week. Does anyone know why Tuck kept the tools he sold on the floor of his Tuck's Wonder Store that set on the Northside of the highway, in Ingersoll, Oklahoma?

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1911 - Thirty Suffragettes Are Arrested In London Invasion

Was your grandmother or other female ancestry a member of the Suffragettes? Have you ever heard any stories of the Suffragettes?

Protestors are nothing new to the World! In The World Evening News, dated November 21, 1911, the following article concerning the suffragettes being arrested in London as their procession attempts to force police guard outside parliament. Here's the rest of the story below.

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100 Years Ago Today

America - One hundred years ago today, November 21, 1911, these are a few of the following front page headlines that appeared in The World, Evening edition in New York: "Hetty Green, 77 Today, Has the Spunk of 20 Men, And Is Growing Younger," "Willett Accused In Court Warrant As a Vote Buyer," "Woman Who Shot Three Runs Away From Matteawan," "30 Suffragettes Are Arrested In London Invasion," "Girl Victim Tells Jury Full Story of Tar Party."

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Native American Legends - An Acoma Legend

America - Have you ever heard of the Acoma Legend concerning the "Blue Corn Maiden and the coming of Winter?"

The Acoma, "people of the white rock, were one of many pueblo cultures of the southwest. The Acoma Pueblo is located in west central new Mexico and were multi-unit, multi-family dwellings made of adobe bricks, which were located at the top of a 350-foot steep mesa that was carved from a huge plateau thousands of years ago by fast moving river water, home otto the Acoma people for more than 800 years.

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Girl Victim Tells Jury full Story of "Tar Party" (1911)

Lincoln Centere, Kansas - Have you ever heard of the August 1911 "Tar Party" where Miss Mary Chamberlain gave details before a jury of a trap set by masked assailants where Miss Chamberlain was abducted and tarred by the mask men?

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, CO - I was organizing my iPhoto collection of old family photos and found the photo on the left of my Grandpa Bill McGill with his two sons, Gene M McGill and Robert Lee McGill. I wish they had written the date of the photo and what exactly they were doing back then. I can only assume. Anyway, I love this old photo of a father and his two sons posing with what looks like their homemade fishing poles.

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On This Day In History (November 21)

America - On this date in history, Nov. 21, 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. Go to article. On Nov. 21, 1904, Coleman Hawkins, the pioneering American jazz saxophonist, was born. Following his death on May 19, 1969, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary.

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